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Show IRON BLOSSOM IS IN COLORADO ORE Saturday Night Shift Drives Short Upraise Up-raise Into Very Rich Values. Provo. Feb. 14. The Iron Blossom struck the ore Saturday night. Thus are settled several Important questions, ques-tions, principally that of which way does the famous Colorado-Sioux ore body go after leaving the Sioux territory? ter-ritory? a question which has agitated agitat-ed Utah for months. It demonstrates demon-strates also that Jesse Knight knew what he was saying when the "Wizard "Wiz-ard of Tlntic" asserted all along that this would be the outcome. It demonstrates dem-onstrates that he has brought into being be-ing one more mining success in Tin-tic, Tin-tic, possibly an early dividend-payer, like the Beck Tunnel or Colorado; and It shows, also, that the Colorado ore body is not only one of the richest, rich-est, but most extensive and remarkable avenues of mineral wealth ever brought to daylight In any mining camp of the west. The ore was found Saturday night In the east drift from the north shaft, on the 385-foot level. An upraise or ten feet on the low-grade ore encountered encoun-tered late during the week exposed the ore, and It 13 rich rock. Characteristic Character-istic in every grain of the sort of dividend-making material the Colorado and Sioux managements are now sending to the market. Naturally, the extent and value of the ore must remain unknown until further development, devel-opment, but Mr. Knight stated Sunday evening that It looked big and strong, and he naturally feels very well pleased at this culmination of a remarkable re-markable campaign of development work. |