Show MILL FR r STTELNE The Popkee Plant to Be Used For Custom Work SHOWING IN THE AGGIE D TO WORK T f rEPEDENCE I PIKES DIGGINGS I + lg In Nevada Hobble Creek flirhIe Etr Juiders Well lead With This th Produc tonNorer Light ActiveThe Afternoon CalNev Exchange Thomas Martn of Statelne who Is I n the city talks most interestingly regarding re-garding thIs promIsIng gold and SiC campad Its outlook for the future and he says that there is now more activity there than for months past and that quite a number of sales of minng properly have been recorded in that section of late I beIng more easy than of yore for the Irosector md caimholder and the investor to get to geter in the mater of prices and terms In consequence of whIch more men of means are becoming l enlied with the camp and more extenSive and systematic development wI is the order of the day Mr Martin Is the gentleman In whom the ownership of the Poplees mill was latelY vested the plant being taken I him on execution and as urciously alnounced In the e columns the mm was recently purchased by P Dooley of Dc Lamar who accor1Ilg t 11 Martin intends to add to the erluip 1ent of the plant putting In conctmr tors I requited with the intention of dbng custom work for the mines of the distrIct besIdes which the ore from the Little Johnnie a producer In the par vicinity In whih il is Interested nl be tre te1 jlr Martin beIng of the oulnlon that the running or a custom mill in the camp 1 heIll very matrlal In bringing the merits of that seetlon to thc attention of the secton pining world generally I To begin with a test run Is soon to be maxle on gold 1C f10ll the Utica mae Lft Hand nine a short IHtan up rmyon above the mmsi while ex lerhnentl runs will also be made on I sold rock from other lropelle > and it will not be long befre the plant vII have iIl I It can do front all Indications In splaldn or the mines If the camp I Martn stated that a survey was being made of the Ophir In whIch line bodies of shipping and mlln ore are blocked out and that It was the inten tion oC the owners or this rosDtcthe bonanza to resume work R1 an ear date In Us extensive operation At the ltah Spur In the same locality Warner and Hoots of Provo are push lag work In the driving of a crosscut t11lel for thc purpose of < utint the 1ege at a considerable depth and it is beJreed that the de ire connection vili soon be made and so ingulne are these itnlemen as to what the result or thll exploitation I be that already they have mae arrangements to have their ore treated at the Dooley mill At thc alentne on RIcf Hill the Thee brothers have extended their working tunnel Into the mountain a distance of 20 feet with splendid indications to go C whUe at the Aggie D mine between be-tween Uight Hand and Left Had gulches the fft foot shaft shows a 1lvefoot ledge of quartz which carries ceent values In the yellow metal This ground Is being workej bv Mc 1 lrne and Erickson on a bond and case and It Is evidently the making of a mine mne In Pikes Diggings according to Mr Jlrtn the out1001r Is most flattering and considerable development is in progres thee the Independence In 11 company of which L P Iarix Is Jrsidcnt having just let a contract for JOO feet of sinking and 100 leet of drif lug to Geore Blaree or the llaiteley group which Is showIng up In a host gratifying manner with development wcrk 11 Martin stating that the Cfe group has just been secured by Dr Harvey ot this city on a bond and ka5e In Deer Lodge work is progressing icely in the deepening of the HorseShoe Horse-Shoe shaft on a fine body of ore while u force of ten men is at work in the lFvelopment of the Buck Besides gOld StateUnl I likely to b iime lamed for Its copper mines as 11 Marin says that before ieaving the cmp for Salt Lake some fine samlps of copper are were brought ta Statehine by prospectors from the same range at r rolnt about fourteen miles distant to the nOrtheast |