Show california H A hall and S V halstead of los ed the holdings of john angeles have optioned option mansfield near sierra city this is a quartz property of promise terms of the option were not given out the most important gravel strike made for the past quarter century in western sierra county has been made by william edgar at little grass valley according to reports reaching oroville says the oroville register A large body of gravel carrying gold values has been uncovered and so thoroughly prospected that the owners of the mine are satisfied that it will develop into a big paying proposition W S bliss and associates who have taken over the liberty hill and little york hydraulic mines eighteen miles from nevada city now have a force of about fifty men employed A reinforced concrete dam across bear river is being constructed flumes blumes and ditches are being r repaired and new equipment is to be installed the properties are old time producers but have never been opened on a large scale before the west end consolidated mining company a big dividend payer of tonopah To nevada recently sent senta a letter to stockholders in which the following paragraph re refers fers to h operations now under way in this state funds will be required during the nex next t year to develop valuable properties at searles lake california recently acquired by the company on lease from the united states government on exceedingly favorable terms the development of the searles lake properties is now going on it is anticipated returns will be forthcoming within a year when potash a very essential product in the prosecution of the war as well as in normal times will be placed on the market the international smelting smelling Sm elting interests have completed purchase of control of the walker mining companas Comp anys holdings holding so located near portola by the pay payment in e n t of making a total of or 1 a share the recent meeting of stockholders held in salt lake elected JR walker president 0 M kucks vice president james B whitehill secretary and C A walker and B R howell additional directors the company pan has called another meet meeting i 11 for october to be held at phoe phoenix ix arizona relative to new ore development at the mine the management has issued the following statement the principal work under way right now is proving up the remarkable extent of the mineral zone the work on the to has proven the ore 1200 feet alon along the strike new surface prospect holes put in still further north have added another 1500 feet to this making the ore zone 2700 feet one of these holes struck the ore at feet and passed through it at the hole was at a 65 degree pitch bitch there are five oi of these holes others will be drilled still further north the ore penetrated it as rich if 11 not at richer than that to the south |