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Show - SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES. The Alines and mils of the Lower Country Sending- Cp Good : Keports. Star district still booms. Doc Wenceslau will begin work upon his mines in Preuss district, next week. Last Tuesday, Judge Boreman visited his December, Dunderberg and Missing Link mining properties in Lincoln district. dis-trict. These mines all have good ore in sight and shipments to the smelter have netted $100 gold and silver per ton. The Creole, in the same district7 is opening up in fine shape c Nothing of importance is yet . reported from Horn Silver headquarters. It is known that the drift on the 900 level, j tapped the ledge" several days ago, but no connection has been made, so far as the public knows, with the old workings. There have been raised, in St. George, Santa Clara and Price, during the present year 18,000 bushels of grain, which is considered a very good showing for Dixie. The Washington Field Canal Company is making preparations for constructing a spile dam in the Rio Virgin during the present winter. The outbreaks of the past few montfis have had much to do with he project. In the early days of the Reef, Bill Kes-sell Kes-sell located- a piece of ground about a mile and a quarter south-east of town, which he sold for several hundred dollars." dol-lars." The purchaser did the assessment work on the claim for a couple of years and then abandoned it. Bill returned to the Reef last Spring, "after several years absence, and re-located the property. prop-erty. " He started in to chloride on the ground a few months ago, and now has the prospect of a mine in sight. He has a thirty-five foot incline sunk on the ledge, which is six feet in width. An eighteen-inch streak on the hanging sampled $75 per ton. He has between eighty and ninety sacks of first-class, and ten tons of second-class ore piled up on his dump. All assay returns from the Stormont Company will hereafter be given in ounces instead of dollars and cents. Heretofore, assays were calculated according accord-ing to the old standard of silver 1.29.29, and occasioned much unnecessary figuring figur-ing in order to get at the market value of silver. This system should be adopted throughout the camp, as it is more simple and will give better satisfaction to the chlorider. It does away with bullion discount, dis-count, and when a man gets his returns in Ounces he knows what his ore is worth without going through a difficult process of. cyphering.. |