Show OUNCE GOLD ORE OREIN OREIN OREIN IN THE MAMMOTH Another big gold story was sprung on the Mammoth company yesterday and while President Samuel McIntyre was not inclined to give much detail concerning a astrike astrike astrike strike reported to have been made he said enough to make it certain that sen sensational sensational gold rock Is being mined for fer ship shipment shipment shipment ment The report had it that the Mam Mammoth Mammoth Mammoth moth company was loading a car that would bring that a pocket of ot ore had been struck that carried from ninety ounces oun es In gold per ton up Mr McIntyre did not deny that a rich strike had been made but he said It ought not to be talked about as there might not be a pound of It left I ft In a day Ho He added that rich strike stories had been printed before that the papers had had armed guards coming in with shipments and all such nonsense He deprecated depre that kind of talk first because It was not backed by truth and second because It was likely to mislead folks If It we get a carload of rich ore I will tell you about it when It comes In and the assayers have decided what it car carries carries carries ries said Mr fr McIntyre but In the meantime I cannot say how the ore will run nor how bow much of it there will be Of Ot course I cannot stop the tongue of ot gossip and you are at liberty to say anything you ou like but not as coming from me Asked if it had been decided to pay a dividend this month President Pr McIntyre said Enid it had not though action might be betaken betaken betaken taken by the tho directors during the next few days The company has a large treas treasury treasury treasury ury reserve but with the litigation that thatIs Is pending with the Grand Central com corn company pany the management Is not disposed to impair it Not that President McIntyre expects to ever pay a Judgment to that company but because as he puts It It might bo be required to use In furnishing bonds pending appeals Let me say a word about the fight with the Grand Central company said Mr McIntyre In closing the interview The mining laws of the United States give the tho owner of ot claims the right to mine minea a vein found In his ground If It he holds the apex We have hae proved repeatedly repeated that we own the ground and the apex of ot the lode of some of ot the ores which the Grand Central sets up claim to and for the th ex extraction extraction extraction traction of ot which by the Mammoth com corn company company pany it wants damages of ot The Grand Central company has never claimed the tho ore or the ledge by right of apex and andI I dont propose to ever pay the company a cent If I can help it until it Is shown that our contention of ownership of the lode and the apex is not true |