Show MADE THE FIRST PAYMEXT V TwentyFive Thousand Dollars on the California 3Iiiies The first payment on the Mountain Lion and Onio properties in Sisklyou oounty Cal just purchased by Messrs rn Heimrich Airis and Brown of the Mercur Gold Mining and Milling c Jmi any was made yesterday in San Franosec through Wells Fargo company It was a 25OOO payment and the money was sent out from this city through the medium of the bank Mr Brown carrying all papers connected with the deal For the present at least Mr Brown will have the management of the properties prop-erties which are to be thoroughly developed de-veloped under his supervision A car of the ore will be made up from general samplings of the vein and shipped to this city Here it will be treated in the tfrge Crawford mill at tne Eagle foundry and upon the result of the wholesale test will depend the equipment equip-ment of the properties The run made LOfl a 500pound sample of the ore gave Asplendid returns the mill saving 99 per ent of the gold It is anticipated that the test about to be made will be quite as satisfactory and should this prove to be the case it is more than likely that a battery of from eight to twelve rawfords will be purchased and installed in-stalled Mr Heimrich on Tuesday wit liesed the workings of the mill at the founrdy and expressed his satisfaction with the good work being done |