Show DEATH CANYON Some years ago discoveries were made In Death canyon lying about llfty miles west of Silver City and twenty miles from West Tintic Be u cause of the arid condiiion or inc coun I try 11 is not a camp for one to visit for pleasure water being scarce and heat Intense in the summer 301x011 Because of 5is isolation etc thc ledges there have been developed to but small ux tent and It has boon three or four years since we have had favorable reports l from Ihere During the past fall there was more activity in the district than over before and there IB IL promise of it yet becoming a good camp If the ledges phould turn out as anticipated the camp can be supplied with water by piping In and other features can mako It a fit place for people to llvo and mine The Eulonla is the best developed and Is showing up remarkably well Last April Its owners an incorporated company com-pany started work in earnest An incline in-cline was run down SOO feet and at the bottom a winze went thirtythree feet farther and a vertical shaft 100 feet deep was also cut There are two veins slmllars but about twentyfive feet apart frjth being contact veins tho walls being lime shale and quarUlle The veins have a pitch of 23 degrees Into the hill while the strike of the vein has a pitch of 20 degrees and they I arc located In a coneshaped mountain moun-tain These veins are three and I four and onc halt feet thick at the surface A peculiar feature Is that of a fissure almost vertical two feet wide crosscuttIng the two veins at angles and illlcd with galena ore right There are five places on the mountain where galena la exposed In outcropping the com the summer veins 4 Daring extracted and shipped six oars pany of running B2 per cent lead nineteen ore ounces silver and between 53 and teen in eighty feet ft In gold A tunnel now and COO feet below the upper working on the dip of the veins has tapped a very large body of fine milling ore and which suggests the building of a con centrator next spring The company has three buildings and will pipe In wa ter terWalker Walker Walker and the Free Bros own the Prospect group of live claims on uhlch they have been drifting When in abo f twelve foot the lodge was six Inches thick but in the next eighteen feet it upcricd out to four and kilOi half feet of the same class of ore aa that of Iho Utonia and assaying CO per cent lead and ten ounces silver The formation of the country Ir quarizlte lime and shale and much oC the ore so far developed has been found In blowouts Quite a number of prospectors pros-pectors have been at work in the dls Inn the past few months their work chiefly being confined to representing their claims and those who have been there have much hope In the future of the camp |