Show IX AXD AROUND STOCkTON Activity In MIninsr Matters in This Old Camp Joe Erickson of Stockton was in the city yesterday attending to some important im-portant mining business I Mr ErIckson with Dennis Leary Frank Wall and James al ame Clark are now I working the old Argent mine oS a lease and Mr Erickson states that mining matters in Stockton just now are on the qui vive and that besides what is being done on the Argent and Honorine mines the No You Dont is being worked by C B Markland who is employing from eight to ten men and making regular Shipments of fair grade ore Hans Peterson who has a lease on part of the Wade Hampton mine has good ore in the mine but at present is doing considerable dead work Mr Erickson says that considerable prospecting 5s being done in the west tern foothills where the Mercur ore belt bas > been found and on the whole Stockton is feeling the beneficent in felng benefcent I I fluences of the Mercur boom inI I |