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Show BIG GOLD STRIKE IN GARFIELD COUNTY A wonderful showing of placer gold wai recently discovered In Garfield county on the east slope of the Henry mountains and about eighteen miles from the Colorado river. A large tract of this land was located and a company known as the Crescent Placer Mining company formed to develop the property. This company was recently incorporated under, the laws of this state and permitted by the state securities commission to sell stock for the purpose of raising: fund with which to install machinery necessary to work the property on an extensive scale. Heber Leonard, one of the directors and an old resfient of that section, who, by the Way, Is one of the locators lo-cators of the property and had worked it in a crude way for a time prior to the organization of the company, com-pany, came to Bingham some weeks ago for the purpose of Interesting local capital in his enterprise and ae- cordingly a number of mining men were fascinated with Mr. . Leonard'! representation to the extent that a number of them went down in the country last week to see for them selves. In fact, there were a number num-ber from different parts of the state who went down at the solicitation of the company to make investigations, among the party being Warren Myers, engineer of Salt Lake. City; Wm. Nidman and George N. Doren-son, Doren-son, Mendon; Edward Edward,. La- gan; Jos. Blix, Gunnison; Georga Caldwell, Walter Christensen and. Tad. Burns, Bingham Canyon. ... . The Bingham men have just . returned re-turned from their visit to the property prop-erty and express themselves aa be . tng highly elated with ' what they found. One of the gentlemen- re- . ported to the news that he warn'' only highly enthused overthe poasf- bilities of the concern but said ,Mr. Leonard had been very conservative-".' in his representation of his offering. to the public. The new company plans to be in operation soon. Work is progressing rapidly on machinery which is being purchased in Salt Lake City and a 10-inch 10-inch pipe line is being constructed at the workings to be used in hy- . draulic operation. -.-. |