Show INYO COUNTY WILL FINANCE ROAD p TO HELP california prospectors ft bishop calif march 12 the board of supervisors ol of a inyo county have voted to expend in the building of an 11 mile road to make accessible to prospectors and mining operators the mineral resources of saline valley ini J mediately east of owens lake just beyond the inyo range of mountains bids are to be received and the contract contract lY awarded by the supervisors at their next meeting on ap aprils 11 JA 6 the proposed road will connect with the keeler darwin road important de deposits of ore yielding gold silver and I 1 other metals have been discovered in the mountains contiguous to saline valley but their development has thus far been impractical by reason of the fact that at present only rugged and forbidding trails lead into the region the floor 0 of t valley includes a salt deposit approximately 18 by 8 miles in in area analyses have shown the salt to be per cent pure J 11 official announcement is made of the recent shipment of a 40 ton carload of silver lead ore from the christmas christina gift mine three miles north of darwin to the midvale utah smelter it was made up of ore extracted 1 from a a threefoot three foot being followed on the 50 foot level leve loj 0 the portland shaft of the property which is now down aw feet two feet of the ore body give returns of per to while the 75 it ia lc entire face as broken down averages stated drifting operations on the foot level of the pete fee smith mine five miles east of keeler are disclosing tw feet of ore averaging 75 a ton in lead and silver and half na of which is solid galena according to the management c A 40 ton shipment of ore is soon to be made to t the h midvale mia P utah smelter it will bring shipments thus far this year y UP to tons A hoist was recently installed on the pr erty and sinking has been resumed in the main shaft to OP P up the ore bodies at greater depth it the co combetti Com ametti metti mines company a close co r port 1 1 tion owned by james gibson boston mass furniture binau t fac and associates associate s will shortly start its milling P plant onous from fram its property about abou t ls 13 kiil es of biga Bi alg gP i in fi tle the foothills alls of the sierra a ne nevada v a j a mo mountains buntai ns A at ta a v ning nin al i depth of about feet two gold ore bodies are being ached ined one 28 inches wide vide gives average returns of 38 act ton and the other 24 inches 16 according to the manro a gement ry P excellent results are being obtained by george W mi n nicholson icholson superintendent of the yellow aster mine at hall landsburg ands burg in the operation under an option of purchase of he cleveland mine adjoining the combetti Com metti mine in a short ort raise above a foot tunnel an 18 inch ledge assaying inq ng per ton toil in gold has been exposed according to chit oseph joseph mears the owner the property is equipped with a krysl small mill walter wick and james E welsh of los esa angeles are associated with mr nicholson in the enterprise |