Show THE RUBY WONDER news fairview nev an active campaign has been started to develop the rich resources of the billy the kid property one of the most promising groups of claims in the district the property was sold late last month by 0 0 higgins to marvin arsh E B knickerbocker and others of goldfield and has been organized under the name of the ruby wonder mining company several men have been put on the de work this week they have been engaged in establishing a camp and in tracing the vein on the surface the recent assays essays have run as high as 1150 to ton and by a conservative estimate average a ton the original location was made by morgan corby who sold the property at a low figure to mr higgins without prospecting it with any thoroughness higgins sung a shaft forty feet did some drifting and obtained the assays essays which demonstrated the high value of his holding at this level he developed a vein seven feet wide with a pay streak twelve inches wide the as says showed values of a ton it was furthermore discovered that the rock from which one of the monuments was built ran to the ton mr higgins sacked the ore he had taken out in prospecting and sold the property to mr ish and his associates for in cash and shares of stock eight claims were included in the deal an english expert W W collings inspected the property late in the summer and said sc ad that in all his experience he had never seen a better prospect and that all the conditions were right for its development into a big mine at that time the group consisted of eleven claims on the west is the marie group of three claims which mr higgins acquired in the early days of the camp he recently sold a three quarters interest in the marie group for and shares in the marie wonder company experts have little doubt that the billy the kid vein extends through the marie group and its took stock is also in demand |