Show Y PLANS Manager Leaves for East and Gos Gossips Gossips Gossips sips Tongue Begins to Wag George E s Gunn general manager of the tho proper properties properties properties ties left for New York yesterday ex expecting expecting to be gOne fjone I ne three or four tour weeks For the tho past two weeks Mr Gunn has hM been busy sizing up conditions not only at the but at the proper properties properties properties ties of the Mason Valley VaHey Copper com corn company company pany papy out of as us well wel It is believed that business bu having to do with both propositions is what is taking him east at this time Those who ought to know claim that plans are now boing baing matured for tor the forming of or closer relationships between the and the Nevada Con Consolidated Consolidated Consolidated and the popular view is that a q consolidation gr ar r merger will be he affected ted The basis on whIch this tI may be bo accomplished accomplished plinked is what is keeping the talent guessing as to what should be done with withholdings withholdIngs withholdings holdings in the Cumberland company compan Some of ot them ars ara prone to think that if a merger IB In arranged Cumberland shares might be sold now to advantage as it would woud likely ly be possible to get stock In tho the combined company on a basis basin that would be cheaper than what the market price of tho the two stocks is today Others believe that Cumberland owing to the strong foothold that the tle Guggenheims helms heims have In ii the company already is j apt to bo be taken in on a a better bettor basis than t than an what is represented by tIe tle market value of the tho two stocks today or about one share of Nevada Consolidated for two shares of o At any rate there is all kinds of or talk flying about concerning what is likely Uk IY to happen and no one apparently seems scorns to doubt doub thit th t the two companies companie will be combined on some sort of or a footing Mr Gunns Guns de do departure departure I was the signal ignal during tho the after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon for tor declaration that the present month would see the closed There is also n a well grounded belief that Mr Gunn intends during this trip to lay the wires that will start the ball rolling in the deal involving t e Mason lIason Valley Copper property The development Of f the property has been under the direction of ot Mr Gunn for some months past and during His recent trip I to camp he is reported to have expressed I himself as more than pleased with what I was accomplished |