Show WILL THE TALISMAN milford times the famous old talisman in the star district is to be brought to the front by P B mckeon the present owner this is one of the most noted properties in this section and was formerly owned by the late W S martin it is related that mr martin used the talisman as a sort of a bank whenever he be was in need of a little money he would get out a shipment and it take much of it to provide a stake rock running as high t as 1000 ounces in silver was shipped during the days when silver was worth an ounce mr martin sold the property for to some seattle parties who allowed it to remain idle for some unknown reason and it finally fell into the hands of P B mckeon costino costing him at the time ilme it was sold to the seattle syndicate two experts reported that there was in sight and as nothing of consequence has been taken out sincel since this ore is still in sight all of the workings are in in ore and a shipment of high grade sil ver lead rock could be made at any time A force of men has been put to work on the incline which will be sent straight down to the the mine has been opened to the but the incline has never bv been en sent down to that depth when it reaches that point connection will be made with the old workings for ventilation a and n d a steam hoist will be installed mr mckeon will then carry out a plan of development that he is quite confident will result in the opening up of a very large body of high grade ore development is all that is needed to make a great mine out of the talisman as it shows a big strong vein and there is an abundance of ore exposed eight different samples taken at random from the work workings ings showed all the way from 25 to 68 per cent lead and 7 to 66 ounces silver with gold values running froin frog a trace to 7 mr mckeon visited the property monday and brought down some beautiful samples amples sa the talisman group consists cansis ts of the talisman and stalwart patented claims and the san juan the patented claims cover the whole of the vein it is mr me mc geons intention to make a steady producer of the talisman and that it will be a rich one its past record gives as assurance asseran suran e |