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Show MINE OWNED BY OGDEN MEN VERY RICH IN GOLD Few people in southern Utah realize the wonderful wealth of Bull valley, the new- gold mining district being developed In Washington county. Free gold ore is beinc mined there that makes the stories of Cape Nome and the palmy days of California fade away as effete and obscure vision of a prosy past, according to the account given by Will C. Macfarlane, who recently re-cently came up from the working, says the Cedar Record He had jam Dies of free eolri rock over which tht yellow metal was plastered in gener OU8 flakes, and he stated that these were commonplace when compared with some of the high grade sample; taken out by the Bull Valley Golo Mines company. The upper work ings in the HamberR claim, owned by this company and consisting o! a tunnel tun-nel 500 feet long, from which a winze torn feet deep has been sunk, are so rich that they are constantly guard ed and only trusted employes are permitted per-mitted to enter Some almosc puri gold nuggets are found. The upper workings are all in ore, which assays, according to various samplings, from $80 to $25)0 per ton The fissure vein in which the values are found varies in thickness from a few inches to more than fifteen feet in thickness As soon as sufficient ore is blocked out to justify the property prop-erty will be equipped with a free mil! ing plant, the ores being subject to this form of treatment. In addition to the holdings of the Bull Valley Cold Mines company there are many other good properties in Bull valley. In face, practically tho entire country has been located and one would require a horse to get beyond be-yond the stakes In all about fort men are working or prospecting in the valley. R. G. McQuame, one of the pioneers in the district and a stockholder in the B V. G. M. company, alsc has some valuable properties of his own. which he is developing independently Among others his Le Var claim baa an excellent showing. A number of other properties are developing in splendid shape and the indications are that Bull valley may prove to be one of the richest articles on the continent. Bull valley is situated about twenty miles south from Enterprise, in Washington Wash-ington county, and is most easiiy accessible ac-cessible from that point. |
