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Show Mm IE Claims Near Hormoa Mountain. - Assays Show $2040 and $1700 in Yellow and White Metal. I Now Field Is About Thirty Miles Southwest From Calientes, Novada. ' ' ' Special to Tho Tribune. CALIENTES, Nev., April 30. Prospector Pros-pector Dana, who 'passed through Callentes en route jLo his recently located claims , at Mormon mountain, moun-tain, showed assays made by Salt Lake assayers, going $2040.76 nnd 51700.41' In' gold and silver, the gold predominating. predominat-ing. Ho also had a cube oil tellurium weighing about five or six ounces, taken from the samo mine.. He said that his partner and self had eight claims located, and on one hnd opened up a slxtecn-inch vein at grars rooty, which carried tho ore assaying 52040.75, and the leaser assay was of a black quartz taken from a eight and a half-Inch vein iit uie uus oi a mty-ioot lecge cropping crop-ping out at. the foot of a mountain. Both these claims He about one and a half miles from Mormon mountain, which In between twenty-fiva and thirty mile9 southwest from Callenteo and five miles from the line of the San Pedro railway. Richest Striko STade. Mr. Dana went south Thursday- and says Ids partner and self will open up both veins at once, and hope to make an early shipment of this, rich ore to Salt Lake City for treatment This is the richest strike made in this portion of Lincoln county, although al-though Callentes has Its "lost mine" story, In common with all old. camps, and some of the old-tlracra here are authority for the statement that thirty years ago an old prospector named David Da-vid Re!che,,who was driven out of the mountains southerly from Callentes by Indians, brought into Calic-ntea two Email canvas sacks of ore showing nuggets nug-gets from the size of a plnhead to that of a pea scattered freely ( through a black, soft quartz, and siald that he had found it about thirty miles south of CallenteB in a canyon running close to Mormon mountain. - All Trace of Mine Lost. ' Reiche went' to Salt Lake, and from there to Denver, -and all trace" of his whereabouts since then are unknown. Local prospectors who tried to Hnd the claims he had located wero unable to do so, and finally they were forgotten. They place considerable credence in Dana's sloryi as the locality he mentions men-tions coincidea with that mentioned by Reiche. Several railroad men are going to the scene of the reported strike. There Is no doubt that Lincoln county Is thoroughly mineralized, nnd many rich samples of free gold, black Jack and nzurite have been brought into camp recently by prospectors and locators lo-cators An expert Butte mining man who is now in camp says that the ore taken from nearby properties Is Identical Identi-cal in appearance with thut which he-has he-has found in the Mountain View and St Lawrence mines In Butte when they were first opened. |