Show california W F copeland and associates operating the bald MO mountain buntain property at forest have opened a promising quartz ledge there which prospects well in free gold the vein occurs in a schist but at last advices advises had not been developed enough to determine its importance john F cowan a director of the walker mining company states that the property located near portola is in splendid condition and is mining and milling to ns of ore a day with the new equipment now being installed the property promises to continue heavy production for many years the ore shoot on the level has been opened for a distance of more than feet and is still going strong this company is a subsidiary of the international smelting smelling Sm elting company and is under the general manage ment of V A hart A dispatch from los angeles says samples and reports just brought in from A the new washington mining district in the east end of san bernardino county indicate that a new and promising gold field has been discovered there while some big M mines i 11 es h have t v e operated in this field for years and some mills have taken out hundreds of thousands of dollars it has been only recently t that bat the new field of lodes has been dis covered 0 W roach came in with twenty pounds of high grade specimen ore and also some free gold which he found in a rich ledge t several parties of prospectors have left for this field since reports of new strikes came in it is located within twelve hours run by auto from this city |