Show GOLD BUTTE NOTES special correspondence gold butte dark clark co nev june 20 UW U W earl of bunkerville Bun kerville will reach etere early in july to commence work upon his contract in the crosscut tunnel of the southern nevada copper company work is progressing steadily in the nevada gold butte companas comp anys long tunnel progress is slow ho however wever as the face is still in the tight belt encountered some time ago W L brooks inheres in interested teres ed with chas cox in the yankee boy at willow bend on the colorado river was in camp for supplies on the ath dinst he reports everything at the mine as satisfactory the local mail contract fl from flom om st tho thomas mas to this place will change hands july 1st ast wm win E hutchings of st thomas taking it from martin A bunker mr bunker has been on the run for four years and has given general satisfaction louis kuehne owning ground in cedar basin and a copper proposition near the grand gulch mines writes from tonopah that he and a partner will outfit from that point and return to this camp when the summer i is a little farther advanced it is reported that work is to be resumed soon upon the gold property at cat al act springs belonging to robt and arthur fairbanks and associates of seattle wash this company owns some promising ground at fall spring also fairbanks are large stockholders in the utah construction co B G ward owner or ol the smuggler and dakota groups at peak ana jafs partner frank getchel Get chei who is interested with ward in ground at twin spring spent a few days in camp early in the month they were on their way to manhattan to investigate a pla cering ering proposition there ward and getchel expect to return to this district in the fall your representative visited the deposits of the american mica company early in the present month these lie about two mi miles es to the eastward of here and are quite extensive the property is idle at present and apparently no effort has ever been made the develop the deposits in ill more than a superficial manner the deepest work done is not more than fifteen feet from the surface and yet flakes of the product eight inches square are common and quite a lot has been saved that averages better tha than n four li inches the holding company is compo composed sed of syracuse N Y people |