Show GKEAT FLOW OF WATER Valuable Discovery Made on the Cannon Group WHAT CAMP FLOYft I NEEDED fAY IlEVOIUTIOXIZE THINGS PROVIDED PRO-VIDED IT HOLDS OUT All of the BullionItecU Maeliinetfy I Hsi Uooit Delivered Vein of tlie Midas and Lucky 3Iay Groan Still Not Ciic < vvcic < I Operations Arc Being Vlisavauily Erosccnted lion cvcr General FurnsTrortli Will Look In on Bear Lalce Again DalyOutarlo Electric 1ijjlit Plant in Oneration General Min lug ewH Although to date they have not cut the ore body which will undoubtedly be found at a depth varying from 200 to 400 feet the Cannons have something some-thing almost as good as a gold mine on one of their Camp Floyd district properties and that is a great flow of water a flow which according to the measurements and tests just made gives 1 daily production of 28000 gallons gal-lons of pure mountain water daily Such a flow is more than sufficient to operate a mill and It Is highly probable that the owners will decide not to take any steps of 1 radical nature for some little time to come The water is found in both the old and the new shafts although the tests were jmade with the formei1 President Cannon of the Cannon Gold Mining and Milling company upon whose properties the now of water has been discovered came in from the camp yesterday morning and brought with him the welcome intelligence intelli-gence that the measurements made by him on the night before had shown that the spring in the old shaft would produce water at the rate of about 1200 gallons per homo and probably considerably more This strike of water was made some time last year and the shaft was abandoned when I had reached a depth of sixty fet Now there are twentyfive feet of water in the shaft and for the purpose of testing the flow a steam pump was alien out to the property and placed in full operation For fortyfive minutes it threw the water out of the shaft and tha measurement showed that 1500 gallons had been raised while the depth of the water il the shaft was but one foot lower and the old mark was soon reached again when the machine discontinued operations Just what will be the course of the company regarding this most valuable strike Is of course for the future alone to say but it is anticipated that it will be held In the background until the settled proposition to erect a mill has been |