Show ACTIVITY IN WEDEKIND DISTRCT important disclosures in promising section a few miles from reno according to advices advises from reno a renewal of activity is noticeable in wedekind district not far from that place and recent discoveries there and especially so in the property of the nevada united mines company have attracted a great deal of attention to this once famous section the gazette of reno in commenting on mining operations in the wedekind district says out on the slopes of wedekind houstain mo ustain near where george wedekind made a fortune and governor john sparks sunk one out where only a short time ago ed arkell and a few other prospectors dug around in the hillside looking for a ledge that would make them rich all is now activity and bustle where only a few weeks ago there were only a few prospect holes in the hillside there are now several shafts with whims or gasoline hoists over them and where only a few men were working with pick and shovel less than two months ago there are now scores of men working with drills and powder and they are going after the ore that ed arkell opened up in the united mines companas comp anys shaft there is now a hoist over the shaft of the 4 united mines company and much rich ore is being taken out and sacked and then stored away in the slopes only saturday afternoon rich rosin zinc was encountered in quantity and this is now being mined this shaft is now down test feet and the miners are now drifting two ways on the ledge and still have not encountered its boundaries at least a dozen leasers leaders have whims over their shafts and are going after the big ledge encountered in the mother mine and there are about twenty more leasers leaders who are preparing to secure hoists but have not found it necessary yet the whole slope of the mountain from quite a distance west of the akell mine to the peaks far to the east leasers leaders are at work on the arkell property and north of the arkell line and to the east many claim owners are working their properties and also leasing A number of men have secured leases down in the meadows below the hill and are now preparing to commence digging it looks odd to see men looking for gold silver and other precious metals down in a meadow where the farmers are still digging diggin potatoes but this is just what they are doing over three hundred people visited the wedekind lVe dekind district yesterday and took in the leases and the big strike on the united mines property they found much activity and also found the very air permeated with optimistic waves there was not a discouraged person in the crowd and there was no one ona as optimistic and enthusiastic as the leasers leaders who are putting their coin into the ground to find the rich ore already uncovered on the original discovery claim driving from reno in autos rigs on bicycles and on horseback hundreds ot Ren Renol oites tes yesterday made their way to the wedekind district they first passed the old workings of the sparks mines and there they saw renewed activity although this is quite a distance west of the arkell strike going from this once active camp which promises to again forge Z to the che rout front f they came to the arkell camp here there was much activity from many leases could be heard the muffled sound of blasts as the miners dug nearer to the hidden ledge and from several leases they could hear the ring of hammers upon drills as the men drilled for the purpose of placing blasts all over the hillsides hill sides men were at work some were just beginning their shafts but most of them had sunk deep enough to require at least a windlass to bring the ors ora to the surface |