Show From Neighboring States John Hays Hammond says In his report re-port on Strattons Independence mine I think I may safely state that the present total gross value of the ore reserves re-serves In the mine Is about 2500000 Boise Statesman The Elmore mining property In the Neal district has been bonded by an Eastern syndicate This property Is owned by Enebo Gary and from It they last fall took out a nice run of ore which milled above 125 per ton White l Jnc News J G Marx has resigned re-signed his position as superintendent of the Ely Mining and Mlllng company com-pany and will leave Ely as soon as his successor arrives Mr Marx has been an able and faithful workman and both the company and the town will miss him Laramlo Times Superintendent Baker Ba-ker of the Iconoclast came In this week with new samples of ore superior to those assayed last week and which brought the value of the vein up to 90 per ton The vein has widened out to four feet and nov the owners hope that the party who has an option for 10000 on the property will not materialize mate-rialize Spokane Chronicle A deal is now pending for the sale of one of the ufcsU known of the eastern Oregon mining properties the Cougar group of mining claims situated three miles from Granite Gran-ite Or and owned by John Larkin and D Evans both of Spokane and the deal pending concerning It will result In a sale of the property for the sum of 2000000 White Pine News Mr J C Davenport Daven-port a mining and smclterman from Seattle Wash arrived on Thursday and in company with P II Cannon and John B McGee has Inspected the copper properties at Butte Valley While in Cherry he will examine some valuable mines Mr Davenport represents repre-sents large capltaj and we hope he may find Inducements to invest White Pine News George E Blair of Salt Lake who has largely Interested himself lately in Placer mining district came out last week to look over his nev domain He returned home highly elated after Investigating This la i a valuable property from which many thousands of dollars have bean taken of late years Nuggets ranging from fine dust to 100 valuation have come from this gold field which Is miles In extent Gold is found In all Its gulches and bars It has a wonderful promise ahead of it T P Watkins extracted 1200 from a small piece of ground In one of these gulches which hecleared off with ten days water lastysummer The year before he had twenty days water and cleaned up 2100 Mr Blair willreturn shortly to prepare for simmer sim-mer action < < |