Show LATEST FROM SKULL VALLEY Favorable Reports Krom the New District From all appearances there is going to be a sort of a boom in the Skull valley district Prospectors who come in from day to day declare that l indications are to the effect that there is a whole lot of good ore there and that the ground Is being taken up very rapidly Captain PIts who has been on the ground for some time has thirtysix locations and is preparing togo I to-go back within the next two or three I days and develop them He has made I arrangements for 0 cabin 18x14 which I i will be large enough to accommodate the force which he will employ until I spring and on one claim perhaps two or three will prosecute work diligent ly until the snow which Is coming in fast has disappeared Webb Gamble and Fred Dennis have some good claims out there and the former Is going out In a day or two and will remain until after the first of the year The two men will develop a lot of claims which they will work until the very cold weather sets in The country north ot Lookout Pass is aid to be coming up Some disco eries have been made in that directionS direction-S which a said to be very good That I is In the Immediate neighborhood Asa As-a matter of fact all the recent discoveries discov-eries which have been made there were north but several miles north Now I it is stated that a few miles from the I old Rockwell ranch some properties g have been opened which bid fair to I rank with the best Captain PlUs was showing some ore yesterday which he clam d ran 675 to the ton and which W taken from no very great depth Captain MIddlemiss and J C Taylor have some claims hr the neighborhood which show assays from 413 to 30 There Is going to be a little fight in that country over the organization of S a district I appears that a few days ago when MIddlemiss and Taylor were I In that country they organized a district dis-trict and named a young man named I Orr as nt en recorder of the aen Now those who were in the his at the time propose to disregard this action go to work and advertise and organize a district dis-trict of their own What the outcome of this will b time al ne will tell From all accounts the veins In the section referred to are onjLive westside ol the main range among the foothills In a formation somewhat similar to the formation at Mercur and are found on both sides of the smaller upheavals I generally joining and forming dykes I Unlike the formation father south the I dip Is southeast The ore snown yesterday terday was somewhat of the nature of decomposed quartz but can be easily worked by the leaching process Some of the veins a reported osbelng from I three to ten feet thick between eIl dee walls and 1 the stories told by those who have bee thee be true the country Is a good prospect This paper recites these stories as they are told and doee not advise any man to go there unless he is satisfied of the truth of the same |