Show california keeler post dan mcleod left keeler at the latter end of last week to superintend the completion ef cf the new house and buildings on the columbia mine at darwin mr mcleod has taken over the property on lease which he will work in addition to the christmas gift shipments on the latter have been suspended pending the blowing in of the keeler smelter hart enterprise east and west cross cuts which have been run from the north drift on the oro belle shows the ledge to be thirty five feet wide at a point about feet from the main tunnel superintendent J C hartness stated this week that the entire width of the ore body exposed by the cross cuts is of a good commercial grade two feet in the east lateral averages 60 a ton and eighteen feet averages close to 10 a ton keeler post jeff grundy and miles sargent have been sending down some showy specimens from their property in wild rose this property was purchased and incorporated some months ago by capitalists in british columbia who intend to operate on a large scale it is expected that a shipment will be made to the keeler smelter within a few weeks if the haul is found to be profitable regular shipments will be made the values are about equal in n silver and gold bodle miner B X dawson a successful m mining ining man of schurz nevada spent last sunday in bridgeport while there he stated that in december he spent a few days in sweetwater mountains took some samples that were vei very y satisfying and it is his intention to spend the coming comia summer in the patterson mining district it is the general impression that he secured an option on the sweetwater mines and mill if so this will give him an opportunity to thoroughly test the district and mill any ore he may extract nevada city transcript the completed survey of the underground workings of the idaho maryland mine in and levels is very encouraging to say the least and every indication points to an entirely new mine that is to be made out of this famous and historic property pio perty for several days engineer F M miller has been at work in these levels ind and he has worked hard and carefully to get the data absolutely correct fo for r the map he has completed the developments show that the rich ore that was encountered in the east and in the east is not a portion of the old ledge that made the mine famous but that it is a new shoot of ore that has well defined walls of its own and it has never been prospected |