Show california san diego news A new strike which looks very promising was made about two weeks ago at a point about three miles north of valley center and adjoining the surprise mine the vein is between eight and nine feet wide and samples taken from the middle of the ledge and about three feet below the surface cropping gave an assay value of 41 to the ton the values being in gold silver lead and zinc this promising prospect is owned by swale ralph todd of los angeles geo of san diego and J D bail of valley center 1 1 nevada city transcript superintendent A P wilson of the prudential mine formerly the perrin returned this morning from san francisco where he went to interview president bennetts of the company and the other officials in relation to carri carrying out his ideas in regard to the future of the property mr wilson ran into a good ledge a short time ago and since then has been anxious to sink and take out ore he did not have the funds at his disposal to do this and the san francisco owners were not willing to put up any large sum unless they hai had some assurance it would be worth while it was the purpose of his visit to induce them to take this step nevada city transcript superintendent frank evans of the Ous tomah mine was in a happy frame of mind yesterday evening when he called at this office and told of the splendid chute of ore that had been intersected earlier in the day the chute is entirely different from what has been worked at the Ous tomah under his regime and that adds to the interest of the discovery As an evidence of the truth of his statements he brought to town with him two fine specimens of the ore that had just been encountered they were largely in mineralized containing large masses or galena so characteristic of the district and encouraging to the mine manager besides liberal quantities of free gold that co could uld plainly be seen from a distance with the naked eye the specimens are now on exhibition hibi tion at the assay office of emil ott bishop herald the strike at burgess just across the mountains from mt whitney station on the narrow guage above keeler which was first announced annun ced in the herald of last week is typically of inyo rich beyond compare and as quiet as a church wedding twenty thousand dollar rock has brought many men to burgess seeking leases from A W wells the owner of the bonanza but no leases are being let no townsite has been laid out no respectable spec table camp has even been located there yet the family possessing this wonderful find is quietly mortaring out a fortune last week stated mrs wells to attorney A H swallow at independence they took out with their crude apparatus in two hours and they have done even better than that they are taking out enough by this means to pay all of their expenses all of their obligations and laying away a snug nest egg the wells were ranchers before they began prospecting for gold |