Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-08-24
SOUTHERN UTAH NOTES.
a He'd Hot Summer-What the WINES
fnthe Southern County are
Doing.

Fruit is very plentiful in Dixie this
season.
Large quantities of ore continue to be
shipped from Star.
Owing to the intense heat at Silver
Reef the flies have nearly all disap-
peared.
It is common thing to see Dixie
peaches that weigh over half a pound
each sold on the streets.
Mrs. II. w. Morse, accompanied by her
daughters Lena and Oracle, is the guest
of Mrs. P. Ryan at Pine Grove ranch.
The oldest inhabitant of Silver Reef
says that the present has been the hottest
and dryest summer season that has been
experienced there since the camp was
settled by white men.
J.R. Lindsay and Matt Cullen backed
RS brown mare againt Billy Rudkin' s
Flying Jesus the other day at Milford !;
the latter flew the track and the mare
took the $50 'kettle."
Dan Kelliher, John Fitzgerald, Steve
Kelley, Jimmie Gleason, Hy. Clements
and Mike Fitzgerald left Frisco for the
gold fields of eastern Utah last week. lis
to be hoped that they will strike it big In
the new Eldorado.
Jack Gilmer and wife and party, were
| in Frisco Thursday on their way north
from Phoebe. The stage firm of 6. 5. &
Co., has sold out its band of 1,500 horses
and stage equipment in Montana, to Jot
Travis and Daniel Morris.
Silver Reef, with at least $50 men
at work steadily, has the appearance OF a
| silent hamlet situated away off in some
sequestered nook in Sleepy Hollow. Il
variety is the spice of life, a man could
| live here long time without becoming
sick from ar overdose of condiment.
Charlie Fennetti, while dumping car
load of waste at the New Shaft, Silver
Reef, slipped, when the car tipped over
and they rolled to tue bottom OF the
dump together. Ii the car, which missed
him by an ace, had struck him, the soft
sun of his Italian home would never
shine on him again AS it was, he re-
ceived a pretty severe bruising. He says
that an untamed cayuse is not half sc
dangerous as a bucking dump-car.
The Savage mine OF the Stormont com
pany is furnishing an average of forty
tons of ore per day to the river mill. Al
uprise, close to the south end of the fifth
level is opening up an ore body, which
from present indications, will be as strong
as that between the 800 and 400 levels
The ore is of superior grade-specimens
can be picked out at random covered
with native and horn silver. The slopes
in the other parts of the mine are looking
well.
On Tuesday last, the Morrison Borthers
assisted by three miners, six in all, began
to make things hum in Copper Gulch,
near Frisco. Steam was turned on by
Chief Engineer Kyre and the hosting OF
ore was begun at once from the thirty
foot ledge that was passed through il
1888 and from which 5000 ore was
shipped to Denver by the Comet Mining
Company. For more than year, this
around and rewarding faithful agents
with promises, until patience must have
ceased to be virtue. The Morrisons
know they have paying property ii
properly worked and they are sick OF
! SlIllIlS dTOuuu Wuen Iuey can JuSC as
well be digging dollars out of the
ground.
The work of opening up the three lower
levels of the Horn Silver mine is pro-
crossing slowly but surely. The drift on
900 is now in as far as the old shaft or
about seventy-fve feet from the ledge,
but the ground is so hard and dove-tailed
that it is next to impossible for the con-
tractors to make any showing; the other
night forty drills were dulled in a four
inch hole and until recently, when picked
men only were put on, but three inches
were made in twenty-four hours; ten
inches are now being run in that time.
The blower lately put in does splendid
work and forces fresh air down in good
shape, but Notwithstanding, the heat is
intense and the miners work naked. The
drift on ten is being pushed more rapidly
| because easier to work. LOO is at a
temporary standstill. Horn stock has
dropped again to $2.10.
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