Show NEVADA manhattan mail work is progressing satisfactorily on the mineral hill property the ledge maintains its uniform width of 0 about seven feet which carries streaks of high values the general average of the vein is however of a good milling grade it has been determined to erect a power hoist on this property and sink to a greater depth goldfield review H P taylor has secured leases on two of the most desirable blocks of ground on the florence territory one block is on the east end of the ground at present held by the little florence and the other adjoins the florence annex on the south both the little florence and the florence annex have opened up some remarkably mar kably rich ore and made several fortunes for their owners and there is no apparent reason why with the same ground to work taylor should not do equally as well mr taylor will take posses possession slon of the two blocks of ground at the expiration of the little florence and florence annex leases which will be in the latter part of april reno gazette that the masonic mining district is coming to the front steadily is shown by the fact that last night a bar of bullion valued at over the results of a ten day run at the brougher mill on the pittsburg property was exhibited in reno this property was once under lease to nixon and wingfield the bullion was brought in by bryan and phillips Fhil lips who are among the principal owners of the property and who are the original discoverers of the camp preparations for a big year of development are being made by masonic and already several properties including th eMyrtle and julia the home view and others are starting operations masonic is going to be one of the big camps of this part of the country beatty miner the diamond queen at present is the biggest pebble on the bullfrog beach from a leasing point of view the leasers leaders are daily besieged with visitors mining men from los angeles tonopah To san francisco and eastern cities and others merely inspecting the mining camps and districts of nevada for knowledge one of the latter recently declared the queen superior to anything in rawhide the leasers leaders continue sacking and are rapidly getting the second shipment in shape A new ore body showing free gold in addition to the regular base content has been discovered at a point feet above the shaft and all along the course of the vein high grade ore has been opened fred has been granted a lease on a portion of the queen estate and will begin operations upon his return from tonopah To round mountain nugget the mills of the round mountain reduction company and the sphinx mining company will be of reducing ore the mill of the reduction company is practically completed all that is now required is the laying of about feet of pipe As this will be laid along the surface for the present it can be set in I 1 1 place just as soon as it arrives it is now f ILI trans transit it and is expected every day john L weber superintendent at the sphinx has J his ig frame set up the machinery huntington and boiler all set and is now enclosing the entire structure with corrugated iron the tank is all set on the side of the hill the c pipe laid and the water in reaid ness nen to turn on an approximate water pressure of sixty pounds to the square inch is obtain able and will afford ample fire protection as well rawhide rustler thomas kearns never leaves town but what he brings back a pocketful of good propositions for rawhide ide of especial interest to the community his latest projects are of bif vast importance to the district as kearns is a man who accomplishes things and he has perfected the plans whereby a reduction plant will be im mediately erected having a daily capacity of tons in view of the fact that rawhide is unable to obtain fair treatment from the smelters shelters sm elters kearns determined to interest the necessary capital himself to begin the cows construction of the th e plant mr kearns has also arranged for the installation of his water system which however will take some little time owing to the fact that the necessary machinery will have to be ordered from machinery houses in different parts of the country the storage tanks of the water system have a capacity of gallons and will be manufactured by the pacific tank company of san francisco |