Show california crackerjack news L F flormann and ben gar the veteran montana mining man have a force of men at work on their bonanza mountain property south of the bonanza companas comp anys ground and have a good showing A shaft is being sunk on the ground and when sufficient depth is attained crosscutting cross cutting will be begun redding free press the unity mine in the minersville Miners ville mining district which has been closed for some time has recently commenced operations superintendent frank locket who has had charge of the property previous to this is again in charge of the mine ten men are employed at the present time in cleaning out the ditch and getting ready for the winters work w wl will commence with the first rains redding mineral wealth A new strike wac recently made disclosing a rich prospect on tanners peak near sawyers bar the find was made by dumphy and vincent the vein is small on the surface showing a width of from eight to twelve inches but the values run very high ant and it is stated that the ore being taken out will average per ton the owners are working vor king their find and taking out ore irom froin surface openings crackerjack news sacking ore from the grassroots grass roots down that is tite record of the rose lease the first granted by the bonanza company on the arizona claim the leasers leaders began their work ten days ago and the first two days work resulted in in i a respectable showing of sacked ore below the main company workings the general average of the ore taken out so tar and sacked is a ton which will pay the leas ers handsomely for their work skidoo news H E clewell and albert S hoffman arrived from rhyolite yesterday to look over the property of the skidoo contact company of bf which they are both stockholders mr clewell being a director of th the company company they were delighted with the re suit of the summers work on the property and consider that the showing is such as to warrant the immediate increase e of development operations to quite extensive proportions mr clewell says the camp has grown so much since his last visit here that he could hardly believe it to lie be the same place nevada city miner transcript some samples of ore from the string of five quartz claims that have been located on the southeast bank of bowman dam thirty five miles northeast of nevada city by A D mcmillan A D keller and emil allison were shown at the county seat last night by mr mcmillan Iian who will return to the claims next saturday they were viewed with intense interest by a number of the local mining men for the reason that they showed extraordinary values returns of 60 per cent in galena and a in galena and gold one piece gave assays essays ton in gold besides traces of silver san bernardino index that the most pressing requirement of the mansfield copper mine is an adequate mill is indicated by the quantities of good milling 11 ore now in evidence on the dumps and workings in the several claims of the property As for shipping ore the following recent assay from the second level of the black cap mine is affording no small amount of satisfaction to the mansfield management ounces silver six dollars in gold and per cent copper or a total of about 2000 to the ton according to the prevailing prices in the metal markets the shipping ore in the black cap cal is being taken out at four differ 4 ent eni points frequent shipments are going forward to the el paso smelter and a number of tons have been sent to denver tor for concentration cent ration test more ore is being sacked and will be shipped as fast as ready the sweet shaft is going down steadily the work being in the hands of contractors who are now approaching the foot level besides a mill a omeler is also included in the plans of the company as large quantities of the mansfield ores aro arc self fluxing flexing |