| Show From Neighboring States 1 Los Ancqlcs capitalists have organized a prospncUiiRT party to search for minerals on the border of Jnyo county and In the Provldcnco mountains of southwestern Nevada A drcdRlnp plant valued at JiOOOO with a working rapacity of 2000 yards per day Is lo bo put In operation wJihln three miles oC Hlackfoot tin anon ns lie inn chlnory can be put together San Francisco Post It Is reported from Tteddhip that M C Pock has secured an option on the old Highland mine near French gulch Shasta county and will soon opiin thc property which was formerly for-merly a valuable one Mr Peck has been Iddntlilcd with nil Limo larger mines of that county He wits Interested at one time In the Iron Mountain mine and later In the Afterthought Virginia Chronicler It was rumored last ovenfnfr that a rich discovery had neon mode In lie Burning Moscow workings The ore body Is large and Is of high grade Thc Ophlr company has been extracting ex-tracting a considerable quantity of ore from these workings Inquiry wasmade of Superintendent Rosa lost night In regard re-gard to the discovery Ha admitted that there was an clement of truth In the rUmor rU-mor Reno Gazette Frank Golden has returned re-turned from the new mining cjunp of Tonopah He IB very enthusiastic over the prospects Ho tolls us that ho never saw so much ore in sight In a new camp yet A payment was made last week by parties who have agreed to buy thc camp for 330000 The ledges vary In width from eighteen Inches to five feet and all converge to a common center like the ribs of n fnn Seven or eight teams pro haulIng haul-Ing ore for shipment and returns arc Just coming In from the smelters In California It Is estimated that 12000 or XI5000 went Into the camp from this source last week No ore Is shipped out that assays less than J100 per ton and much of It goes 300 and 40 The Grants Pans Or1 Journal mentioning men-tioning the rich strike of George Dour and T P Johnson at Josephine creek a Slsklyou tributary of Illinois river In Josephine Jo-sephine county says the rock found was literally seamed with gold and gold projected pro-jected out In plain sight One specimen ns large as a saucer contained about tO worth of gold Not only Is tho rock seamed with gold but thc face of tho bluff about twenty foot high and one hundred and fifty up stream all contained gold Thc work on the ledge for five days realized fronu50CO to COO One piece of the rock weighing a pound wont 517 and another of six pounds yielded 557 Thc width of the ledge IB about fc feet as far as can be Judged This mine Is not far from the California boundary line of Slsklyou county In tho Slsklyou mountain foothills |
