Show IN THE JUNCTION CIA boring for gas will begin this afternoon confidence NOW HOLDS SWAY the tin strike Is the subject of much discussion twenty years ago similar ore showed no tin A tifrit was paid to agdens gas well yesterday afternoon the workmen the details preparatory to beginning work the borleis and engine are connected and were running yester yesterday dav all that was necessary was to complete the ten foot toot conductor box and hang bang the tools tois that work will be completed early this morning about 1 the first stroke will drop its weight in the soft ground from that time wark wi will ill not cease day and night until the rock has been ps passed seed through provided the escaping gas will permit the uee use of lights or no accad accidents ants occur work will be prosecuted with a jerk line for the first to feet after which the roda rods will be connected with the great beam which is to aid in tap tapping ping the gas wells mr luckenbach is confident and happy though the work baa has not been commenced as early as be he would have liked he hag has the satisfaction that every thing is now in readiness BO so that when a flow of gait ga worth keeping iq N secured be will be able to control it those who wish to see the commencement of what will prove one of the greatest boons for ogden should this effort prove successful are invited to visit vidt the well today to day THAT TIN FIND will it prove to be all that Is claimed for it last evening a STANDARD reporter bad a chat with mr james gribbin the miner who is said to h hive ve made the great tin strike in the mountains east of this city mr BIT gribbin said that belvas an experienced miner miller and knew what tin ore is and he was confident that he bad had found the article sore sure enough 11 lie ile has sent samples away for assay and as soon as a the returns are made the public shall be made a aware ware of the facts while he wai wait confident that be had found a valuable tin claim be he care to bay say much about it in yesterdays report a typographical error occurred which made the article far from what it was intended to be a correct statement of the reports the Z figures 95 per cent should have been 1195 0 O 0 o 11 the following letter may be of same interest A ot ok TUB OBJECT CODES OGDEN cm CITY march 3 1892 EDITOR THE STAN STANDARD DARm 1 I have read i with much inte interest rost the account of the tin strike aa as it appeared in the coli dumns of THE STANDARD and tribune and willi will with your permission add some farther further information on the subject some twenty years ago when ogden was nothing but a village a tin di discovery a was made in ia the weber district and in the same locality where a mr gribben claims to have discovered mineral the excitement waa was intense holes were sunk in every direction and every foot of ground was staked out for miles I 1 bad four claims an accommodating assayer who was by trade a blacksmith got tin oat out of every piece of of rock brought to him or assay by addin adding 9 a flux bax the component parts of which be he alone lone possessed the secret oneff these mines waa was bonded to some omaha capitalists for a large earn scra and of the ore were sent seat to assayers aayers as and analytical chemists east west north and south GO so that they might compass something the returns were in every instance no tin in it eo so the bubble burst and the poet of the day celebrated the occasion by remarking that for ores that were dark and for flexing la in wain the ogden tin ores were pecullar and the lame same he WAS fife to dainta 1 two decades passed and last fall some prospectors brought in some of this so called tin ore tor for the inspection of some gentlemen who are interested in the real welfare of ogden city and are opposed from previous experience to raising a mining excitement without a basis of fact samples of this ore oro were cent to Chi chicago caZo philadelphia washington new york and balee city the returns were in each instance the same ne A in the certificates of acsay can be seen by the curious in conclusion allow me to suggest to mr gribben that chilel in no do way question bis his inte integrity grit or bis belief that bo he has discovered discovers something valuable that still there in i attached to and part of the chamber of commerce of ogden city a committee on mines and minerals and that should he make any valuable discovery in future he had better interview some of 0 t the he members thore thereof of when he will have hla samples assayed free of cost and be ad verti sed much more e extensively than he be could possibly seibly po expect by privately interviewing a newspaper Lews paper reporter A J president weber mining district |