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Show M MINING WILL INCREASE H OUR PROSPERITY. H New discovories have, been made H near Promontorj' Point, 24 miles west H of Ogden, where raining operations H are opening up what bids fair to be H the most extensive and richest depos- its of zinc in the United States. Miners arriving from the scene of the new strike are predicting Ogden is to have tributary a mining camp of size and great productivity, and Utah as a result is to take a prominent promi-nent place in the zinc output of tho world. Thirteen cars of ore, running from 40 to 50 per cent zinc, have been shipped from open cuts, and over a distance of two-thirds of a mile the ore occurs in bold outcrops In one excavation, crystallized zinc, resembling resem-bling sand, is being shoveled into the ore wagons that are hauling tho product prod-uct to tho railroad nearby. To depend wholly on mining is to build on an uncertainty, but when to the great agricultural and other industrial in-dustrial resources of a city like Ogden, Og-den, are added the life and stimulus of a mining community, the effect is remarkable, the benefits lasting and far reaching. With the building of a big camp at Promontory Point. Ogden would have a new market for its farm and orchard products, and if a city of considerable con-siderable population were to be established, estab-lished, electric railway service would come and with it a bathing resort on the beach where the Great Salt Lake rolls over the sands of the shore near Promontory Point station. Those well informed on the developments devel-opments In this new zinc field predict a mining excitement before fall which will hold the attention of the mining world. |