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Show Mining Mention Tales of the Toilers in County Camps The King of the Hills has just shipped ils second tare of ore. The fifty-foot level of the Lucky' I Boy, Lincoln district la yielding J20 ore. The Clipper mine of the Lincoln dia trict, has shipped a car cf copper-silver copper-silver ore of good quality. The first car of high grade silver ore has lieeQ shipped from the Vicksburg, Star Mining district. The Fortuna Gold Queen is preparing prepar-ing to erect a hoist. Good commercial ore has been found at the sixty-foot level. Col. John B. Taylor, the well known mineralogist of Salt Lake, was in Boaver county a few days since, inspecting in-specting local mining conditions and prospects. D. P. Van Fleet, superintendent of the South Utah minus, was in Mil-ford Mil-ford ou Tuesday and stated that his company is busily working over their dump and about two cars of concentrates concen-trates a week, valued a $2,500 each, are being shipped. A special meeting of the stockholders stock-holders of the Cedar-Extension Company Com-pany is called for June 9th, to be held in bait Lake City. It is said that the principal purpose of the meeting is to consider the disposal of the company '8 properties and dissolution of the corporation. cor-poration. This property lies between the Leonora aud Cedar-Talisman, both of which are fine producers. No reason for the dissolution is obtainable at this writing. (superintendent D. A. McLease oi the Antelope Star, came in from the mine Friday evening, with several large samples of ore Irom astiike just made by his compauy, which sampler, show close to 7U' lead, with about five .to seven ounces of silver. The tunuel is iu about forty feet and the vein appearB to be about four feet in width. The outcropping seems to indicate in-dicate almost unlimited possibilities in the way of rich galena. Mr. McLe. se is enthusiastic over the indications there and has taken a personal least on an adjoining property and cot far from the Old Ciater mines. Word comes Black Reck of the discovery dis-covery of the "mother lode" of the gold outcroppings known for man years to exist in the Saw Tooth range, about thirty miles west of Black Rock and lorty miles south-west of Oasis. Culmtrand Lloyd Cropper of Deseret, are the reputed discoverers of the "lode."' Ore taken from the vicinity is said to assay about a third gold, or ch.se to $200,000.00 per ton. Local mining men, when asked their opinion on the reliability of the report, expressed ex-pressed .more or less skepticism, although al-though admitting-the presence of considerable con-siderable surface gnld iu that locality. |