Show NORTH TINTIC l Operations in the Locality With Encouraging En-couraging Results North Tintlc during the year has attracted at-tracted the attention of not a few mining mi-ning men and uhlle the doveloiimcnts there I have been on a conservative basis ba-sis thcv have been wIth encouraging results at not a few pointa No sensational sensa-tional strikes have been recorded although al-though highgrade ores have been encountered en-countered at intervals and not a few believe that with SAatemullo work the northern porllon of the lime zone Avill be made as productive as that upon the jjoulh Among others who have long been 1 rovoribJv Impressed are Judge Bennett and Mr YM Bradley who have not only acquired si mall empire pf ground but who have secured patents pat-ents upon most of It The Hot Stuff which Is controlled by UTieni has been under development for some time with encouraging results and while tionje ore of good quality hay been exposed the haul to transportation has been an ugly one and for this reason no attempt at-tempt has been made to shin In the Tlernan group at which Newt Dunyon former superintendent of the Centennial Centen-nial Eureka Is directing the wOrk Home very highgrade gold ore was recently re-cently encountered Avhile W W Old formerly of the Dixie copper mine In the southern country has secured a I foothold and promises to take rn oe lIve part in the campaign the present 1 of I reason Superintendent Dpnnelly the Grand Central and Charlie Blanch I I nrd have boon Interested the locality fur pgvernl 1 years and iiromhu consid d rable development In 1901 while Capt Hugo Deprezln is directing1 operations at the Klondike group which has given very good account of Itself thus far With these and many others testifying to the merits of the north country the year 1901 oAer there should be an ac tie One At the Gold Blossom the management I manage-ment Is taking out a lead carbonate Jome of which yields as much as 225 I ounces silver with from 4S to GO percent I per-cent copper while on the Selma owned I by J Jj Peterson and others four men are engaged upon the driving of a tunnel tun-nel by which the vein will be tapped at a depth of 400 feet Upon the Nellie Shea group owned by Patrick Shea a tunnel has been driven into the hill a distance of 225 feet and a winze stink to a depth of GO feet upon a quartz I ledge carrying aluCsln silver lead and gold I At the Grand View a tunnel has now been driven Into the group for 200 feet I From Its level a Avlnze was unk to a depth Of 75 feet on the vein and In the mineral encountered Avhlch shows 7 ounces silver and 3 per cent lead with as much as S2 1n gold The Grand View Is owned by Capt George Bridges Upon the R G W companys property prop-erty of whIch Mr R G Wilson Is the t manager developments ha elrogre ocd o-cd throughout the year and while the long sought ore body has not I been encountered the management expects ex-pects to shoot Into It on any shift From the tunnel a drift is now being I run on the contact between the blue I and white lime and conditions for sometime some-time have been highly mineralized At I the midnight group near the double i loop on the Rio Grande Western rail I Way a tunnel Is being driven at a I depth of 200 feet while several others are engaged upon the prospecting of the country toward which a rush Is not unlikely the present year The East Ridge Upon this portion of Tintlc district but little work was undertaken the past year except by the Lily crowd which has marketed several lots of highgrade lead ore carrying some silver sil-ver and by which work Avill continue steadily the present year In December another body of highgrade lead ore was encountered and the owners enter the new year very much encouraged In the same locality John Leatham and others are developing the Mineral Hill group on which they have sunk to a depth of 125 feet and at which point they have opened up a streak of quartz carrying gold and silver Several others promise lo resume as soon as the snows have departed |