Show GOLD BUTTE NOTES special correspondence gold butte nev may 10 prospectors are beginning to move northward and scarcely a night passes that there is not at least one outfit camped at gold butte jar bidge seems to be the magnet that is drawing most of them H miller was in camp early in the month he has finished the necessary assessment ses work upon the gentry and miller groups in the peak district belonging to himself and harry gentry of st thomas and was on his way to his home in the latter place there are no new developments to report at the nevada gold butte property J B ireland contractor in the long crosscut states that the face is still in a hard blue granite making progress slow and that the country is so tight that he looks for nothing new for the present E G ward owner of the smuggler and dakota groups at peak last week brought in samples from a new lead he has discovered near twin springs which lie between his property and this camp he states that the ledge averages about eight feet in width and is well defined for some distance also that his field test showed the presence of copper assay returns have not yet been received the assessment work upon the quartz king group a mile north of this camp has been finished and the contractor J A cox has left for his home in bunkerville Bun kerville this group shows a big iron cropping and considerable sid erable high grade copper at the summit of the mountain where former owners have gop hered a great deal the present owners J W earl and associates of bunker ville are developing the ground with a crosscut tunnel from the south which should cut their vein at a depth of perhaps 10 feet |