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Show Mining Mention Weekly Survey Creole is averaging three cars of 6co copper ore per week. The Beaver Copper is down sixty feet, wiih good ore in night. The Horn Silver is working about 125 men at present, and everything is booming. Sam Jones of the Cedar-Talisman was in Milford on business in the middle of the week. A good strike of silver and lead ore, with fair gold values is reported from tho North America, thin county The fissure encountered at the Leonora, it is said, is now seven feet wide and shows a scattering of lead, William Vivian of the Beaver Lake district, spent a day or two in Milford this week, stopping at the Milford. A 35 ton shipment from the Cedar-Talisman, Cedar-Talisman, a few days ago showed 29.5 zinc and yielded, net, over $1200.00. Allen English, until recently yard clerk ot the local railroad, has removed his family to Frisco and is Dow employed em-ployed at the Caldo Mill. It is expected that equipment is soon to be installed at the North America. Recent samples of ore are said to have shown 146 ounces silver, over TOfo lead and 60 cents gold. Beaver County mines, especially those iu .'vicinity of Milford, are just now attracting the attention of mining mon and investors all over, the Stale, and uul of it. Experts say we have wonderlul mineral wealth here. According to the Record, (Cedar Oitj), J. F. O'Neil, discoverer of the big potash deposits near Cedar, has V gone to New York to endeaver to in terest eastern capitalists in the organization organ-ization of a development company. The Old Crater company is the name of the corporation just formed to take over a number of good claims near the Beaver Copper holdings. Machinery Machin-ery will be installed at once and a force of men is already at work. Tintic and Provo men are the principal stockholders. A NEWS representative visited Beaver this week, and while there was shown samples of ore taken from workings iu that vicinity. These indicate in-dicate rich depos.ts of minerals of numerous kinds. Because of distance from railroad, this territory has been somewhat slow of development. The Beaver Lake Metals is the latest local property to be listed on the Stock Exchange. The company has twelve claims in the Beaver Lake Mining District. Edward Bardsley is President, E. D. R. Thompson, Secretary, Sec-retary, Arthur Davies, Treasurer and Lewis Merriman, Manager. E. McGurrin, the prominent Salt Lake attorney, accompanied by his stenographer, W. L. Cook, and by Patrick and D. W. Ryan, owners of the St. Mary'B mine, weie iu Milford Mil-ford this week on business connected with the above named mine. Plans are being completed whereby this mine can again be put in operation. A commute from the Milford Business Bus-iness Men's Association is to make a "round-up" of Beaver County's mining territory and prepare data for publication public-ation in the big special edition of the Arrowhead, the official magazine of Salt Lake Route, Mining men will be asked to subscribe for copies at 25 cents each; 600,000 of these copies will then be given to the homeseekers and investors coming west. A new vertical working Bhaft is to be sunk at the Cedar-Talisman. The shaft, whK'h is to be of three compartments com-partments will be sunk about live hundred feet south of the old incline in-cline A new ore-bin of a capacity of 200 tons is also being erected on this property. A vein of from four to six feet of high grade ziuc ore, 28ro to 407o is bring worke d, about fifty to sixty tons a clay being hoisted. Word from the King David shows considerable activity in that quarter. A southerly drift is being made, to connect with the Clayton channel in the Horn Silver. The new south driftshould strike the Grampion fissure in about 200 feet, from whence it will be continued southeasterly to a junction with the Clayton east-west fissure, where it is expected, an important im-portant ore body will be met with. It is expected to still further extend the the dritt to the west. |