Show california A report from taft t is to the effect that tile the no 31 well of the kern trading oil 01 11 company on section 7 0 32 12 1224 24 midway came in early in ill the month and is producing at the rate of barrels a day the drill ers lost control but the oil is being saved and conveyed into a sump hole good progress is reported iby by james hugh and robert dugan and E pugh who are driving tile the tunnel at the orient mine at camptonville Campt onville under contract they report feet of drifting and timbering completed in eighteen days and expect to finish the entire feet early in july J R walker a director direct ur of the walker mining company stated last week that the company had 1000 tons of concentrates from the new mill ready for shipment from the property located near portola it is estimated that the ore is worth an aggregate of more than SO the plant pant is handling eighty tons a day with a saving above 90 per cent superintendent cooper shapley of the round valley tungsten company reports the opening of a vein of tungsten ore in the lower tunnel of the companas comp anys property at bishop the vein is three feet wide and the ore is a she elite picked samples are said to carry 50 per cent worth about 1000 a ton and the strike is regarded as the most important ever made in the district the railroad commission has authorizer authorized the amargosa amargoso valley railroad company to issue in common stock to the salt gypsum company to pay for constructing sixteen miles of railroad to the companas comp anys holdings at tile the southern end of death valley engineers state that the deposits of salt and gypsum on the acres owned by tile the company are practically unlimited it is baid aid that on the surface there are tons of rock salt and tons of gypsum |