Show 0 V W T A T 0 in adjoining states NEVADA winnemucca silver state F J button has returned from a ten days dayse prospecting trip mr button says that while he was out he saw some very fine copper and during the tramping over the hills he drifted across the country east of golconda where he run onto some ore about the same as that of the adelaide the property of the glasgow western company mr button located ten claims in that section he says he believes that he has got the extension of the adelaide and has located everything around him so go as not to have anyone jumping in alongside of him to cause trouble over the title to this land L F dunn came down from golconda the other night he will remain in winnemucca for ten days davs regarding the granite creek mines he says the management is working them steadily there being nothing new out of the ordinary development mr chapman who came recently from leadville colorado is acting 11 as foreman while either morton lindley or W A king are there but during their absence he acts as superintendent speaking of the copper in humboldt county mr dunn says that no one really knows how much there is that there are places in the county where the section is practically although having an abundance of high grade copper ore just now the country in the vicinity of golconda is attracting cona considerable sid erable attention in the copper world but before long there will spring into prominence enc e many other sections which it is quite possible have as rich copper deposits as have the prospects at golconda OREGON baker city democrat mr william griffin arrived in this city yesterday from sumpter and last evening gave some interesting information to toa a democrat representative regarding a tour he has just made in the gold fields especially of a visit to the famous elk creek placer mines owned by the badger mining company and by sloan haskell of this city where the latter is investing gold unearthed from baker cites gold fields in the erection of substantial and costly brick business structures while at elk creek mr griffin saw a sample pan of earth washed out which yielded 85 worth of gold nuggets he also saw one nugget unearthed which is worth 60 the above yellow good stuff was taken right out of a bank in which drifting is being prosecuted this ground which it would appear is literally sown with chunks of pure gold was reserved deserved by sloan haskell when they sold the badger mining company the old placers which have yielded many thousands of dollars and are probably the very richest diggins dig gins in ia the west the rich reserved ground is being vigorously opened up and gives promise of being even richer than the old placers the perry 5 stamp mill one half a mile east of this city is now operating steadily on ore from the wilson mine five miles from here the wilson mine mine an extension of gordon is owned by the drown crown gold mining com company p any the able superintendent of the wilson is J W bradbury the perry mill which is operated by steam power handles 10 tons of ore daily IDAHO IDAH 0 1 1 I 1 I 1 silver city avalanche J G watts and frederic irwin makes a trip to the blue bird mines in pixley basin the first of the week the group of six claims is orned ov ned by watts J W miller and john kane district clerk ballard also owns a one fourth interest in one of the claims considerable work has been done on the blue bird mine a crosscut cross cut feet long dong about feet of drifting on the ledge and some another crosscut cross cut tunnel to tap the ledge at greater depth is now in about feet with about 70 feet to run to reach the vein A small shipment of ore made last fall to the smelters shelters sm elters gave ret returns of about ounces of silver per ton they now have sacks of ounce ore ready for shipment and about 60 tons of ounce ore on the dump we understand der stand that mr irwin who is superintendent of the black jack property and an experienced mining man thinks ver very ly favorably of the blue bird property and considers it an exceptionally good prospect the mines are admirably situated for winter work with plenty of water and timber close by |