Show california skidoo news tom fagin and charlie martin have now commenced to drift on the gold bird ledge the values are as good as ever free gold showing in nearly every piece they have a quantity of high grade ore bagged for shipments as soon as transportation por tation arrangements can be made skidoo news al goucher came into camp on monday with a bag of fine specimens which he had taken from a big ledge on the valley view property this ledge which traverses the property has been prospected before but has always proved barren the pay shoot which judging from the bannings pann ings is a rich one was discovered within afew a few feet of the camp this new find enhances the value of the valley view group considerably making it one of the best in the district skidoo news work on the osborne lease is going faster than before on wednesday this week ore was raised that is conservatively ively estimated to be worth about 1000 the shaft is now down about feet and will not be sunk any deeper for the present all energies bellig being directed to drifting A new drift has been run to the east from the bottom level it is all in high grade ore W J patten one of the locators of this lease has returned to camp from a pleasure trip of some months he is very pleased with the progress of the work nevada city miner transcript the mcpherson group of claims in the washington mining district is to be worked by a new company which has been organized for the purpose the directors of the new company are F L mcpherson J R newman J C rhoades M C lane and F R broan the officers of the company are C C morehouse president F L mcpherson superintendent in the latter has returned from san francisco and will go to washington monday to start work on the property the mines which are to be worked under tinder the name of the magnet mine have produced some good ore in the past considerable development work has been done and those acquainted with the property assert that it is has a splendid future ahead of it san diego news somewhere to the north of san diego and not so very far distant there has recently been found a large deposit of asbestos samples of which were shown to the news sunday the samples are bf the very best quality being snow white and of tough flexible fibre fabre the man who found the deposit reported the ledge to be four feet wide but san diego parties who have since visited the discovery say that it is six feet wide actual measurement and is traceable for nearly a half mile on the surface the railroad is only two miles distant and the product can be transported to the line by gravity A san diego business man who makes a specialty of financing large propositions dispatched an expert tuesday to examine the property if his report is favorable there will be something doing immediately which may also include the establishment of a plant for the manufacture of various asbestos articles |