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Show SOUTHERN UTAH JOTTINGS. mines and Miscellaneous Mention Itcportcd Gold Strike South of the Reef. Jim Lindsay and Ward Christian have gone to the southern gold fields. The Stormont Company produced $18,300 worth of silver bullion last month. Spuds are numberless in Beaver this year. One man raised something like 1,500 bushels. Business continues to improve at Silver Reef, mining matters are looming up, and lively times are expected there this Winter. It is said that $50,000 will not repair the damage done to dams and ditches in the St. George country by "the freshets in August last. The Buchanan-Hooke mining property, in Beaver Lake district, is opening up splendidly, and the indications are favorable favor-able for a big mine. The A. O. U. W. Lodge will make the 27th a general holiday in Frisco. Horse-racing, Horse-racing, foot-racing, etc., during the day, and a nrnnrl K ill in f ha airanin. ti, will be a big time. There is a report of a big gold discovery, discov-ery, made within fifty miles of the Reef. Mike Fitzgerald, Mike Monahan and Ward Christian have just returned from there, and report favorably of the outlook. out-look. There have been several hundred tons of ore piled up on the California dump since the mill shut down. Within the past week an important ' strike was made in that mine. In running the drift north on the ledge, from the winze below the fifth level, the ore streak opened out to a width of five feet, a sample of which assayed as-sayed 141 ounces per ton. The drift that cuts this ore body is 117 feet lower than the deepest working on the Buckeye Reef, and speaks well for the permanency of the Silver Reef mines. |