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Show I SELL TO CALIFORNIANS. Oil Properties Located in Lincoln County, Nev., Change Hands. Special to Tho Tribune. CALIENT E, Nov . March 10.-Gcorge C. Fetterman of Callento, owner of nearly all of the stock of tho Callento Gold Mining company's properties, which llo adjoining tho townslto of CaJlontc, closed u deal this week whereby ho transfers to D. R. Kllbournc, C. H. Kllbourno and J. J. Ehvood of California and George A. Paxman of Silver City, X. M.. his cntiro holdings in theso valuable propertlos. which consist of thp Sunset, Three A and Blue Rock frco gold claims. Nearly &0C0 worth of work has been done on these ralms In tunnels and shafts, and a largo i amount of high-grade oro has been extracted ex-tracted and blocked out ready for extraction extrac-tion The consideration for thcfle properties proper-ties runB Into live figures, and they would not have been disposed of at this prlco had Mr. Fcttcrman" boon able to handle, and operate thorn without neglecting his commercial Interests In this town and De Lamar. F. O. Wilkinson, superintendent of the Green Monster mines in tho Yellow Pino T ' district. In western Nevada, one of tho " Hearst' properties, and owner of tho ...Phoebe UearHt mine In tho same district, j"-,- ti'ccdmpanlcd by W. J. Smith, spent sev-St sev-St '-rnl days In Callento this week. These gentlemen have been traveling through t- ou thorn Nevada, looking up oil propcr-, propcr-, tjes for the Hearst people, and brought In several samples of oil shale which, they stale, they found" In place within a few miles of Callento. They havo with them 3. retort and have several bottles of oil which they retorted from tho ?hale. Thev have located a group of theso oil rli!mn. and left for Loo Angeles, via tho Salt Lake Route, to submit their recent dlscovorloR lo their principals. Messrs. Wilkinson and Smith have spent many yens In quartz mining and oil fields, and arc thoroughly convcrsnnt with n conditions which should exist to mako proptrths worth investment, and they rtale Uini they havo dropped on a big , thing in oil near enough to tho line of the Salt Lake Route to make developer develop-er mcnl assured. |