Show MINTO N NOTES float rich in gold la is found throughout the gulches near mob moab in ilage lay pieces A large pile of rock on the dump at the succor mine in silver city nev kev is in dicing hauled to the mill things at Otate catelino hat elino line are winning i business aspect now sampling claims and exporting exper ting seems to occupy the attention of capitalist and prospector A great deal deal of work is being done don by claim owners at state line and the tha more the claims clakins are developed the bet ter is the showing everything indi cates that the veins are permanent john dern who has haa been looking in to the ground on lion hill mercur says that no locality has haa impressed him more favorably and that there is n more activity there at this time at anytime since development was on nn der cler taken the election of a mining recorder for camp floyd district was held irk in mercur racen aly there was evidently not many who wanted the job and but little interest was taken J F con nor was the only nominee and he waa w declared elected thomas thomas arrived in baker city recently bringing with him live big gold nuggets the largest valued at between and GOO which he be had obtained from the gordon Thom escil and allan placers at Gimlet Tille grant county oregon altogether the tha nuggets weighed about seventy ounces the Anne anaconda onla copper mining corn coin pany has male made a report to the county assessor that its net proceeds of mines in were and the grosu gross the working expenses expense were it is said the output is the largest of any mine in the world its net proceeds the year before were Sl attorney general bishop lias has served notice on the register of the land office and on C V wheeler claimant of the kingley lode at tintic that he ha will protest the application for patent on the ground that it was school laud land belonging to the state and that in the tha grant to the state congress had not reserved the right to locate mineral land for the prospector considerable development and prospecting work is being done in snake creek district in summit county the present season in times past ore fabulously rich in the precious metals has been extracted from some of its mines notably the southern tier work on 1 that property was abandoned because the vein had faulted lower down the stratification appears to be in ia place ill ace and it is from this point that big things are expected the present season A rich gold strike has been made at a point six bit miles southeast of xeal neal district idaho of which the ore is very rich but the extent unknown the tha discovery was made by E M X brown i and andaman a man named stanton who took a hample to boise and had an assay made which showed a value of the result of the assay justified the tha discoverers in thinking they had a bonanza and they went back and marked out a claim which they hall had not done before owing to the probability of the tha ore proving of small value Th The eveln vein is four or five fire feet wide ide and well defined the black pine is the name of X mine in black pine district in idaho twenty five miles north of kelton which it is believed will eventually make a record equal to that of the great bullion beck at eureka surface indications are excellent and john beck of bullion beck fame is backlog backing it the shaft on this property has hai been sunk to a depth ot of feet all ia the way in shipping g ore and at the tha bottom there is a body of miner mineral ai that will carry average values of 40 to ounces silver 5 to 30 per cent lead sad and from 83 to 10 in gold to the ton the new gold camp of wyoming encampment continues continues to give every promise of future greatness A claim cl ii owner brought to carbon several pieces of spar as large as a nian man s thumb that were studded with gold and one nugget of pure wire gold an inch lorg and half an all inch in thickness besides these specimens lie had bad a three ounce bottle nearly full of nuggets that had been picked out of tile spar that ere III all the way iu in size sie from a grain ot of wheat to a pea the so specimens are ara the finest and richest yet seen in in this thi country and demonstrates beyond the question of a doubt that the precious metals are there in abundance these thesa specimens came from less than four feet from the surface of the ground there is three feet of this ledge matter which is fleur spar and about eighteen inches of it yields nuggets ot of this character tb though oil gh all of the entire lead pans gold the daly west at park city has abc W combed to heaped upon it byi by the cost in marketing its ores and ills disi missed all save a very few men who will be employed on exploratory work manager dily daly said that lie he bad been unable to make what ho he regarded as a s favorable contract with the smelters shelters sm elters in that they had advanced the treatment charges and that until better figure was presented lie he would make no effort to do more than devel work |