| Show 4L I I 1HE BURNING MOSCOW I I Contest Between Cullen and Barratt for Title 1 QUEEN OF SHEBA READY Production Gold Amalgam to Begin Be-gin Within Ten Days Con = Mercur l i Buys Tour Hundred Tons Cyanide of Potassium Centennial Eurekas J I Ivccord Fitch and Wilson ctn I lease and Bond on tho Hay Boll High Hopes of the BullionBock I 1 Stock Week GoodNotes 1 J j H I II iL The scrap between Matt Cullen and 11 a crowd headed by Mattle BoTtatt over lit the Burning Moscow groii irr Bliver I lead and copper claims bIy Jmfotd has just been scheduled IltCl pittbo hf JP before Judge Higgins at Beaver ran II September 30th and promises to bo a most exciting if not a stubborn ones I one-s Hon Allan G Campbell has traveled trav-eled all the way from eouthem California 1 Cali-fornia to appear In behalfof t air Cullen ii Cul-len I I was last FebrUjfir j lliat news Il came from the smtJotbaVa most important ill im-portant strike had oeen made in the iil Moscow Mr Cullen learning of it ii through The Tribune hastened to I camp and met James Barratt who iji I according to the allegations recited In Ill the complaint has been foreman of the IiI mine and drawn his pay from Cullen for twelve years On his arrival Cullon 9 was informed Barratt that he the former had no rights In the property I but that on the contrary he Barratt I had i in 1SSS located the claim in the v name of tho lattcrs wIfe This culminated In blows In which t Barratt was dispossessed and Cullen took charge of the property At the I same time according to the complaint tme I I he found four sets oC lessees on the f I ground and tracing a lot of ore that I had been sent to the smelter stopped I the payment on It All this was fol Jowed by an action In ejectment by Mr Cullen in which he Is represented by W C Hal and Fred McGurrin while I the respondents retained the services of Samuel Thurman Thomas Marlon aux and W F Knox In the meantime the Burning Moscow has developed rapidly Into a very valuable valu-able proposition capable of producing J I much ore and with the title established steady shipments may be relied on Mining circles generally will await the F result with keenest Interest as they have known all the while that Mr Cullen Cul-len has regarded the property as one of greatest possibilities I Queen of Sheba After an absence of ten days or more at the Queen ot Sheba In tho Deep Creek country Jack Rooklldge returned Cleel counl Jac Rooleldge retulcc to town yesterday and says that within with-in the next ten days the turning out of gold amalgum concentrates and gold dust will have begun To that end the owners of the property with Clarence Rooklldge directing afiairs are removing remov-ing 1 mill which was formerly In use at Aurum Nov to n new and convenient con-venient site at the Sheba while as many n thirtyfive men arc now underground i un-derground upon the ores that show an average of 510 gold or better To reinforce rein-force the stamps it has been decided to put Jn Wllfley tables from which a concentrate will be derived while the tailings will then be passed Into a cyanide plant which should enable the company to obtain a very high percentage per-centage In the saving The mill will start up with ten stamps this season with ten more to be installed next spring Mr Rooklldge Is much pleased with the outlook at the property and with neW equipment has no doubt of Its future Four Hundred Tons of Cyanide Tho management of the Con Mercur Mining company yesterday contracted with an Eastern chemical company through its personal representative F who Is now In town for 400000 pounds 01 cyanide of potassium to be used 10 the leaching of the formers ores at 4 Mercur I Is tho largest contract of the kind ever placed in thIs country and yet the consolidated company Is now consuming as much as 60000 pounds of the chemical per month With his signature affixed to the contract con-tract Kartvdg A Cohen president and I manager of the consolidated company boarded the train for California where lie will inspect the progress of work at Capt De La Mars Bully Hill group In Shasta county and the Gold Mountain group in Sal Bernardino county At the former the structural material which Is being supplied by Trent Coo Co-o this city is beginning to arrive while at Gold Mountain forty stamps are already dropping on ore with the Jlrct regular cleanup to take place during Mr Cohens presence In California fornia The May Boll Group The May Bell group at Stockton has been secured on n lease and bond by Hon Thomas Pitch and W H Wilson and while they have been In possession but a short time the toping of ore for the market has already begun Mr Wilson who has long been connected with the mines of the State came Jn from Stockton yesterday and says he has no doubt whatever of his ability to place the May Bell among the most active of the old camps producers the present reason A tunnel was put into the group over 800 feet by the original owners consisting of St Louis parties I and while the mine yielded ores of the Value of HOG from upper levels It has been long neglected At the CCO foot station In the tunnel Mr Wilson began upraising on a streak of ore that Hhows as much as 43 per cent lead with 8 ounces silver while below the tunnel ho Is going down with a winze upon fifteen Inches of ore of similar quality sImiar alt In addition to this a large amount of milling ore has been exposed and means for the handling o this are promised next season e Mr WIlson reports n great deal of ac tivity at the camp and says it will be 1 one of the most productive In the State next season The Cygnet 8eis V company eorpam owning the Hercules Is handling an ex cellent quality of ore that occurs In oCQU considerable quantity while the West Argent Is preparing for a prepnrinS n campaign of production that will compare with many in the West In a short time wih BullionBeck Expectations I Yesterdays reports from the Bullion Beck at Tintlc all point to most Import ant IC not senSational developments i at the property and not n few of those who recognized as close friends of the management were seeking the com panys shares during the day at 4 Ac companied by Col W A Parish the veliknown mItf K expert and Fred rt u Ired Mitchell who has charge of the New Pass Nev gold mines Mr Farns Fa1l worth left for the lef mine yesterday morn m0l ing and is expected In town again this morning According to the unofQcIal reports the nc w ore body In the north drift from the shaft at 100 feet has opened up very rapidly since It was encountered I few days ago and the utrlke now promises to develop into one of the most Important in the Ha tory of the mine Another report came that the new chute of ore had been reached with the crosscut off the 500 foot level from Beck workings proper but this la not cretIted wOlklngs Manager I Farnsworth when last Been thought It would be nccefcsary to run forty eet further to reach the point V |
