Show TEIIcI1As111 r MORK iis t SisMyou Gold Development Company Com-pany Is Branching Out NOV OWNS THE KING CLAIM NEW COMPANY WILL DEVELOP LITTLE LIT-TLE COTTOXWOOD PROPERTIES Known as the Cottonwood Gold Mining and Milling Company and Capitalized at a 3Iillion Copycr Plant Continuance Profoalilr the Forerunner of t Settlement Quiet esotintions Are Now onPlans For the Sioux Concentrator Being Prepare Leaehincr at tIle 3Iercur Mill to Commence Monday or Tnesilny General Mining News I Already the Slskiyou Gold Development Develop-ment company is branching out In very earnest its latest turn being the purchase of the King one of the most valuable claims in the group of sold properties now held by the principal stockholders of the Mercur Gold Mining and Milling company and the Siskiyou locate in Siskiyou county Cal The King is on the extension of the Mountain Moun-tain Lion and Ohio the two properties recently purchased by the Mercur people peo-ple and this gives the Siskiyou company com-pany 4500 feet directly on the vein I The news of the purchase was yesterday I yester-day received at the offices af theeom pany in this city from D P Tarpey i one of the incorporates who for sometime I some-time past has been in California ne I gotiating for the property Immediately upon the receipt of the news for which he had been waiting for some days Captain Middlemiss packed his grip and took the afternoon train for Chicago where he will work in the interest iof the company for some time to come These mines are situated within about four miles from itha Southern Pacific railway station at Hornbrook and about three hundred yards trom the Klcimath river in the Cottonwood min ing district in Siskiyou county Cai fornia They comprise three full claims 1500 feet each in length making a total length of 450D feet on the great god belt by 600 feet in width j The claims were located in December 1893 and ofter running two tunnels and making seVeral open cuts upon the vein to determine its continuity no further work was done as they were immediate bonded to the representative representa-tive of the present owner by whom they will toe activelY worked as soon as the spring season opens and a mill can be freighted into that country On account of the heavy snow fall this winter it would be about imposst to haul heavy loads to the mines but light supplies can be conveyed to the mines at any season of the year Is a true fissure vein with parfestly defined walls and varying in width from thirtytwo to sixtyeight feet from wall to wall I The ore is free milling decomposed gold bearing quartz on the surface and continuing for a depth of about twentytwo feet when the ore gives place to a harder character of quartz of greater value The value of the ore from ithe surface tunnels and open cuts is shown by mill tests to run from 9 to 1325 per ton in quantities quanti-ties from fifteen Jo twent tons for each oj the three Separate tests from this same vein |