Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-11-24
FRISCO AND SILVER REEF.
The Horn silver Camp Hather
0uiet-sandstone Leads showing
Up well, Hut No Miners Arc
wanted.

The Christy Company's mill worked
between forty-two and forty-five tons OF
company ore every day during the past
week.
Chloriders are beginning again to
flock round the old honeycomb. on
Tecumseh Hill, to look for hidden
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
term of 100 days.
The Stormont mill is constantly rum
ming ten pans, and worked during last
week an average of forty-three tons per
day. The ore, while it is fair grade in
quality, is not quite as rich in silver as
that worked in October, so that the bull
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 considerable force
upon the ground and push ahead vigor-
ously.
In North 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, fore
man in charge. A. g. Campbell's group
of mines, the Shenandoah, Adelia, Hick-
DRY and Oklahoma are yielding regular
daily output of chloride ore. The Okla
homa is u claim recently opened, and its
outlook is more than flattering. The
closing of the Campbell Reduction Works
for the winter will be quite disappoint.
mcnt to many, although it was not in
tended to operate the mill during the cold
season.
Ed. Powers was accidentally killed in
one of the Christy Company's mines al
Powers in company with miner named
Ode, 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 Q
windlass handle. Ode was also knocked
down, but escaped serious injury. The
victim fingered half an hour in uncon
seriousness before death came. Edward
Powers, better known rs Broncho Pat
was native Of Ireland, but had resided
on this coast since boyhood. Powers was
popular man, of a happy-go-lucky dis
position.
With the past few weeks Silver Rec
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 winters job. Many
Of these poor fellows will meet with dis
appointment, as the companies working
here are full-handed and very few changes
are occurring among the working forces
Many of the Silver Reef miners are mar
ried, and, as class, are as steady lo
of men as can be found in any camp or
the coast. The mines are healthy, and
when man is lucky enough to get work
as general thing he freezes to his Job, sc
that there is but slim chance to catch
on at present. There is 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 dc
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 out
side claims are owned by poor men who
are working their own ground and piline
the low-grade ore on the dumps, hoping
to realize a profit from it as soon as the
new Teaching Works are in operation
Now, while the camp is in a prosperous
condition and i'm fair way to take a
boom, we do not desire to mislead the
miner and cause him TO stage it or pack
ms blankets 100 miles from nowhere in Il
vain search for employment.