Show california R W morse is now t taking aking out good gravel from his mugginsville Muggins ville group near downieville Downie ville after timbering re his main tunnel it is in a distance of more than 1300 feet largely in swelling ground which is hard to hold mr morse has done this heavy timbering alone and deserves the good returns which now promise to come from his holdings mine manager haines gridley of the stockholders mining company operating near hodson announces that good progress is being made in the development work now under way with values in the shaft showing steady improvement the companas comp anys milling plant is running steadily handling about thirty tons daily and turning out concentrates cen averaging around 50 a ton in value mr gridley states that the tailings average only about 40 cents attention is now being directed to the old mount patterson district located on the boundary line between mono county this state and mineral county nevada it lies about half way between pine grove and masonic and was an important shipper before silver was demonetized de it is said that only five properties in the district were developed but that all made good however they have been idle for years and the district is said to present a rare chance for the advent of capital A B carstensen of salt lake secretary treasurer of the montana wyoming oil company has the following to say regarding developments at the companas comp anys holdings in the midway field of california no 2 well there is now on the beam and the production is astonishing when the fact is considered that we are short feet of tubing from reaching the oil sands production will be given t by the state according to law at an early date the stream now flowing is a big one and should continue announcement is made that underground development has commenced in the property of the gray eagle copper company near happy camp this is a subsidiary of the mason valley mines company of nevada which took over the holdings in 1916 last year was spent in systematically drilling i the ground in installing equipment and in ar T property it is said acquiring nearby that PD yn at the time of the transfer in 1916 the gray p eagle had proven tons of ore assay af pf f ing per cent copper tons assay p ing 5 per cent and showing per cent the work is under the direction of i s A J mcnab general manager for the mason valley company |