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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES. IHining and miscellaneous Items from Camps of the Sunny South. Dancing, foot-racing, scrub horse racing rac-ing and tooth-pulling were the principal sports of Frisco last week. There is now an almost certain prospect pros-pect of an immediate resumption of work upon the Comet property, near Frisco. If the Frenchmen only knew it, thev have a valuable mine lying idle. On the principle that all flesh is grass, some of the Frisco girls will be seedy old bales of hay if they don't hook up, pretty soon. The bachelors may as well take this hint, too. So says the Times. : : . ' . The gold' excitement which struck Southern Utah a little while ago has entirely en-tirely petered. The ledge, which is situated situ-ated near the Pine Valley mountains, is immense in size and lousy with pyrites of iron. The Rebel is opening up splendidly down on the lower levels. A fine body of heavy galena ore is being taken out of the drift at the end of the long tunnel, and a larger force of miners will be put on by Matt Cullen. The Milford concentrating mill is reported re-ported to be running nicely, and ores going go-ing six per cent lead and four ounces silver sil-ver were concentrated . to fifty per cent lead and thirty-four ounces silver, which is as satisfactory a showing as is made by any mill in America. A train composed of eleven teams hauled the new tanks for the.Silver Reef leaching works into camp last Monday. The tanks were made in San Francisco, of California redwood. All the material is now on the ground, and the work of putting the apparatus together has been started and will be pushed forward to completion as soon as possible. . Kimple & Lewis, lessees of the once-famous once-famous Leeds mine at the Reef, are drifting drift-ing on a six-foot vein of ore. Since they started to drift, a few weeks ago, they have broken over a hundred tons of ore. They say the ore samples between twenty-five twenty-five and thirty ounces per ton, and that they will begin to ship as soon as the leaching works are in operation. - The hoisting of two tanks, or about 200 gallons of water per hour, continues at the Horn Silver mine, with no sign of abatement. This water is so strongly impregnated with copper,- that it stains everything it touches, while its consistency consist-ency is that of a thin syrup. It undoubtedly undoubt-edly comes through a big ore body on the lower levels of the mine, and nw raonifx . maybe looked for as soon as communication communica-tion is reopened between the old and new workings. .' ': . - - A strike of great importance to Frisco, is that made by Richard Grace, in his property adjoing the Horn Silver on the southwest corner. A large body of low-grade low-grade ore and ledge matter, similiar in character to that found in its famous namesake, has been, encountered at no great depth, and it is the opinion of experienced ex-perienced miners, that Dick has found the continuation of . the Horn Silver. Difficulty is experienced in working the claim, owing to the noxious vaponfthat escape from the underground fissures. ! Mr. Grace is an indefatigable pros- ' I Pector, knows a good thing when he I finds it, and hangs to it like a puppy to f a root. I |