Show IRCUR fERCUY NOTES Items of Interest Concerning Cnmp Floyd Developments A L Simondi of the Virginius group Is looking after his mining interests here this week Manager Jensen of the Gold Dust came out on Tuesday and spent a couple of days in camp Jerry Anson returned from his trip to Salt Lake Monday While there he gave a bond on his properties on Lion HillCheaner Chesner and Halloran came into our midst during the week and let a contract con-tract for 200 feet of work on their Lion Hill property There has been two new drifts made on the Arab shaft of the Brickyard properties one north and one south both having a good body of rre The Marion has a new vein which is quite rich it lies immediately on top of the silver vein and about 200 feet below the gold vein and crops out very near the mill Colonel E A Wall came out from the city on Monday and since then has been looking after his many mining interests in ear The work on the Black Quartz group being done by L R Mayne was completed com-pleted this week and proof of labor made on same The Geyser has as good a showing of ore as can be found in the camp in their new drift which is quite encouraging en-couraging io the owners Contractors for increasing the capacity capac-ity of the Sacramento mill went to work Tuesday morning Let the good work g on The shaft of the Mercur Deep Mining Milling company 100 feet north of Main street under the management of Ben Olsen is making rapid progress and the steam hoist will soon be in place The drill working at the East Golden Gate is now down about 350 or 100 feet II Owing to the breakage of the drill during dur-ing the week the work has been slow They are now in a dark limestone formation for-mation No values worthy of mention have yet been found Mr Steele one of the oldtimers of this camp but who is now living at his ranch on the Provo river will soon start on a prospecting trip through Wyoming The old gentleman still has the mining fever and states that he will orospect until he reaches that city paved with I cold I I Is the talk among the directors of the Overland at Sunshine that it will in the near future be the possessor of a 150 ton mill which they intend to I erect in such a manner that the capac ity may be enlarged as the increase of ore requires it The ore at this property now ha a value of 8 to the ton and is steadily increasing as they proceed on the vein Mr and Mrs Carter and Mrs Graham Gra-ham are each wearing a very broad smile since they received word from the Populist mine in Nevada Thursday saying very rich ore was being produced in milling quantities D G Graham and Frank Barber have been faithfully I I digging away for the past two months and feel that they will soon be abundantly dantly recompensed for their labor There is a mill near by that will soon begin to treat the ore begn ore |