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Show ! FRISCO AND SILTER REEF. ! The Horn Silver Camp, Bather ' Quiet Sandstone JLeads Showing- Cp Well, But No miners Are ; Wanted. : The Christy Company's mill worked j between forty-two and forty-five tons of i company ore every day during the past j week. " K Chloriders are beginning again , to i flock 'round the . old .honeycomb on ! Tecumseh Hill, to look for hidden I treasures. . At the Horn . Silver mine the regular development work continues, but the long-looked-for ore shipments are still in the future. Richard Severe, alias Black Dick, was caught dead to rights selling whisky to Indians in Silver Reef last week," by Deputy Sheriff Russ Scott. He was tried before the local justice, and sent to Sam Judd's boarding house at St. George for a term of 100 davs. The Stormont mill is constantly running run-ning ten pans, and worked during last week an average of forty-three tons per day. The ore, while it is fair gradein quality, is not quite as rich in silver as that worked in October, so that the bullion bul-lion shipment will probably be less than last month. On the North Horn Silver ground some very favorable showings have been made by Surveyor Buettner, who has taken charge of and resumed work upon the property. If good results can be shown near the surface it is quite likely that his company will put a considerable force npon the ground and push ahead vigorously. in - JNorth Star District, the several mines are more than holding their own. The lower drifts in the Rebel are cutting through fine bodies of ore. At present, Matt Cullen is personally directing the underground work, with Dan Dacey, foreman fore-man in charge. A. G. Campbell's group of mines, the Shenandoah, Adelia, Hickory Hick-ory and Oklahoma are yielding a regular daily output of chloride ore. The Oklahoma Okla-homa is a claim recently opened, and its outlook is more than flattering. The closing of the Campbell Reduction Works for the winter will be quite a disappointment disappoint-ment to many, . although : it was not intended in-tended to operate the mill during the cold season. - Ed. Powers was accidentally killed in one of the Christy Company's mines at Silver Reef last week. It seems that Powers in company with a miner named Olde, was shifting a car loaded with ore to the shaft, when one of the wheels came off and the car overturned, knocked Powers down and pinned his head to a windlass handle. Olde was also knocked down, but escaped serious injury. The victim lingered half an hour in unconsciousness uncon-sciousness before death came. Edward Powers, better known as Broncho Pat, was a native of Ireland, but had resided on this coast since boyhood. Powers was a popular man, of a happy-go-lucky disposition. dis-position. With the past few weeks Silver Reef has been filling up with strangers, says the Southern Utah Times, most, of whom are miners coming down from the north in hopes of finding a winter's job. Many of these poor fellows will meet with disappointment, dis-appointment, as the companies working nere are iuii-nanded and very few changes are occurring among the working forces. Many of the Silver Reef miners are married, mar-ried, and, as a class, are as steady a lot of men as can be found in any camp on the coast. The mines are healthy, and when a man is lucky enough, to get work, as a general thing he freezes to his job, so that there is but a slim chance to catch on at present. . There is a fair show here for chloriders, but it requires some time to become familiar with this peculiar formation. The Christy and Stormont groups never looked as well as they do now. Dozens of claims have been opened up since last summer that are no doubt ! as good as the mines that are being worked by the companies, but these outside out-side claims are owned by poor men who are working their own ground and piling the low-grade ore on the dumps, hoping to realize a profit from ita3 soon as the new Leaching Works re in operation. Now, while the camp is in a prosperous condition and in a fair way to take a boom, we do not desire to mislead the miner and cause him to stage it or pack his blankets 100 miles from nowhere in a ' vain search for employment. |