Show I THOSE COTTONWOOD GOLD MINES Amusing Clnim Set Up By n Sel1m I portunt Sheet The Heralds morning contemporary has been guilty of many shabby tricks but yesterday it even outdid itself in its claim of exclusiveness in the 1 is excusiveness announcement an-nouncement of the mining developments develop-ments between the Cottonwoods That paper devoted its first column first page t a great review ofwhat A matter with which the readers of The Herald were perfectly acquainted He1ald perfoty by reason of the repeated reports given last summer and fall by this papas pap-as the work on the gold properties progressed I pro-gressed On Sunday it also contained fully as many particulars of the patcula te propertIes pertles a did the clainvall journal across the street which 01 that day for the first time in its existence had anything to say on the subject Of course the readers of The Herald who saw the Tribs calmly presented claim that We gave the news of that strike i exclusively enjoyed i quiet laugh at I I the expense of the over zealous sheet Tfoey were on t the fact that the whole thing was simply e summing up of past accounts but probably the public was not aware of the fat that both the accounts in the Trib and in The Herald were held back five days before they were published The only I I raal new item to Herald readers was I that which gave the account of the resumption re-sumption of the development work Tee is no question a to the importance im-portance of the strikes which have ben made in the new district and considerable con-siderable attention haS been diverted there by reason of the announcements In addition to the New State Gold Mining Min-ing and Milling company several other corporations have for months past been working quietly away in the same region Among them is the Gold Dollar Mining and Milling Which lining ad = IUng company Vhich has also made some very rich discov cries < tfhe assays going about as high as those secured by the New State Some work has also been done on the extension of the properties of Chess two companies and still more extensive operations are to be inaugurated inaugur-ated eat once Several local mining operators oper-ators shave gone down to the district and if things are as good as reported they Will make some investments As stated by The Herald General Manager Dalton of the New State on Saturday put a force of men at work in the tunnel on the Gold Hill and crosscutting for the vein which ha been uncovered on the surface for 50 feet has already commenced It should not require many feet of driving to cut the ore body The local offices of the company were nearly all of yesterday thronged with mining men anxious to examine the samples from the proper proper ties and all were much surprised that such splendid gold ores were found within eighteen miles of this city l is highly probable that the rush to the new district will set in early and b very heavy 4 The Gold Dollar people will this week let a contract for the extension of their tunnel workings |