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Show OPENING FOR A CUSTOM STAMP MILL IN CALIENTE Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, New, May 21. Inside of the next six months there will be a fine opening here for the Installation of a custom stamp mill In Callente, which will treat free milling ores now opened up along the line of the San Pedro railroad rail-road around Callente and along the line south of this camp. There are now upward of fifty claims under process of development Avithin a radius of nventy miles of Calicnte, and prospectjors are constantly bringing rich sanjples into camp from new locations loca-tions between here and the. Muddy river. riv-er. There are also a number of properties proper-ties betAveen here and Panaca Avhich would be steady producers If the product prod-uct could be treated at or near Callente. They are not yet shipping propositions but at least a score of them could be opened up and Avorked Avlth profit If a custom mill were to be installed here for treatment or these low grade ores. Free gold properties are numerous, carrying car-rying values of from $3 to $25 per ton In pay quantities and owners of these properties are anxious to see such a mill installed in this vicinity. There Avould be no scarcity of Avaler. as a Avell sunk anywheik in the valley at or near Callente strikes Avaler at a depth of from twenty to thirty feet from the surface in quantity sufficient to supply a twenty-stamp mill and concentrator con-centrator Avlth sulliclent water for use In boiler and treatment of ores. Henry Blanchard. who passed through camp yesterday from his recent re-cent locations near Coalville. Avhich lies about tAVenty miles east from Las Ve gas ranch, on the Colorado rh-er. had a sack of free gold, and gold-copper samples sam-ples which he Is taking to Sail Lake for assay. He has eight claims located and some Avork completed and says that a number of prospectors have located claims near his properties and are making ma-king money with Mexican orastaa on their free gold claims. H. M, McCartney, first assistant engineer engi-neer for the San Pedro, arrived. In camp today Avlth checly? for company employees em-ployees for the month of April. 10 General Foreman "William McDermott went to the front today on his motor car to look o'er the adAancc tracklay-lng tracklay-lng beyond the Muddy river. Some fine samples of free gold ore have been, taken from the Fetterman tunnel close to camp, shoAvlng considerable consid-erable free gold and going $LS0 a ton. The, tunnel" Is to crosscut a fourteen-foot fourteen-foot ledge but has already crosscut aov- i eral small veins trending toward the ! main ledge. Large amounts of copper sumples are brought into camp from districts lying south of Callento alon the right of Avay of the San Pedro line and quite a number of prospectors report finding pay ledges of the red metal betAveen this camp and Moapa. "William Burgetl. formerly of Creede, Colo., passed through camp today with a prospecting outfit, en route to the Colorado river via .Moapa, where his partndr Is now vorkJji some free gold claims which he located In February of this j'ear, and reports yielding pay ore. The bridge gangs are- rushing Avork toward the front and are close behind the Utah Construction company graders grad-ers putting in bridges across cuts to permit tracklaying trains to continue the advance work southAvestwaj;d. V. S. Hlllyer of Ishpcming. Mich.. Avho I Interested In mining there, spent several days on the lino 'between Callento Cal-lento and .Moapa. looking over the building situation here. Prominent claims haA'e boon opt nod U In this vkinlty showing suiUclcnt, ore deposits and A'alue to encourage the expenditures of time and money in making them shipping propositions. With a mill In this locality many of thei;e properties Arould now warrant constant dcA'clopment by considerable forces of miners. There are now Ihlrty-fieven Ihlrty-fieven properties AA-ithln a radius of ten mllea from Callento Avhich Avould pay a fair profit on treatment charges if they could be treated In camp and some of them Avould pay to ship to Salt Lake within the next ninety days if properly deA'elopod. Willis Foreman of Helena, Mont., an old Montana prospector and mining ex-pcrtTwho ex-pcrtTwho iaH heen In Trail, B. C, for the past Avlnter, passed through Callente Cal-lente today en route to Muddy peak, which lies tAvclve miles east of the San Pedro right of way and about twenty miles northwest frcm Las Vegas ranch. Mr. Foreman goes to that district to join lils partner. Miles Blake, avIio Is now developing scAcral free gold properties prop-erties Afhleh lie located last Februarw a There are no bigger hearted men on earth than- the railroad men of this country. One of their number, Richard Reinhardt. a brakeman on Uhe Sun Pedro, has a Avlfe in the hospital at Salt Lake City, and a family of five lit-.tle lit-.tle one's dependent on his efforts for .support. He avhs down to about the' hist cent yesterday and more cash Avas" needed to keep the Avlfe In the hospital and some of the boys in the yard -and on the trains running south from Callente Cal-lente quietly started a subscription .list and succeeded In a few hours In raising rais-ing dmong their number nearly -T100,? with Avhich to help out their less fortunate fortu-nate fellow laborer and forced Its acceptance ac-ceptance by their associate, who was thus enabled to give his wife and family fam-ily the needed aid In their distress. AO Chief Clerk Draper went lo the front yesterday Avltii pay checks for the -San Pedro laborers at that point. ... It is now anticipated that the U. C. Co., will complete the grading, between Moapa a.nd Las Vegas ranch by July 15, ready for track laying. If nothing'un-foreseen nothing'un-foreseen occurs to Interfere with the Avork. . . . , A rich strike of free gold fs reported near Charleston peak, thirty-five miles west of Las Vegao ranch.' The report was received from Nels Johnson, a prospector Avho passed through camp today to-day en route to Salt Lake, where he states he Is going to haA'c some assays .made of ore taken from claims ho has located, and to purchase grub and material ma-terial to prosecute hie work. |