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Show WORK ON RAILROAD PROGRESSING VERY FAST Special to Tho Tribune. CALIENTES, New, April 23. The heavy rock cut southwest of Muddy river, about eighty miles from Call-entes, Call-entes, will be completed within the next three weeks, and the construction gangs will rush track-laying on toward the Las Vegas ranch, forty-five miles from the Muddy, as fast as the Utah Construction company's graders get the roadbed ready for tic laying. "With the present cool weather the advance work Is progressing rapidly, and It now looks us though the road would be completed to the Los Vegas ranch before July 1st. Twelve miles of rock cut southwest of tho Los Vegas ranch forms the only impediment to the completion of tho road to Daggct before tho close of tho present year, and the prospects are good, with ordinary diligence and no unexpected bad luck, that the line will be completed to Dagget by January 1st. Twelve gold-silver claims were located lo-cated about twenty miles south of Call-entes Call-entes within a mllo of the line of the San Pedro railroad last week. Location work has been completed and recorded on the San Pedro and Venus gold mining claims, one and a half miles south of Callentes. Tho tunnel on the Bamberger and Fetterman claim, half a mile west of camp, is now in 100 feet, and will continue con-tinue under Its present contract 300 feet northerly, crosscuttlng two fine ledges of free gold in porphyry formation. forma-tion. General Foreman McDermott returned re-turned Thursday from the front, where lie has been inspecting the rock work of the line. His track motor Is a fast goer. "Stake-pulling" has been indulged in during the past week on recently located lo-cated mining claims, and local owners are laying for tho offenders. w Several offers have been made during the past week for divided interests In mining claims in districts adjoining Callentes, but ns yet no sales are reported. re-ported. Local owners are encouraged by good assays from many samples of ore taken from surrounding claims, and are holding and developing properties with the intention of . making eacly shipments. a Two gangs of brldgemen have been put on between Callentes and the Muddy Mud-dy river, strengthening their supports and covering with fireproof paper. Sevcnty-flve-pound steel rails are being be-ing laid throughout the entire advance work of tho San Pedro, making the road equal, In safety and stability, to any of the great transcontinental lines Fine samples of gold-silver ore are being brought into camp from the nine Grand View claims located southwest from Callentes. There Is a good opening for an as-sayer as-sayer in Callentes. as samDlos sonr some of the assayers in Salt Lake bring very unsatisfactory reports. Two samples recently sent to a Salt Lake assay firm brought back a report "trace of gold and silver," while the piece of ore from which the samples were broken showed free gold and silver sil-ver in the horn, as well as In the quartz before panning. Another shipment of high-grade gold-silver gold-silver ore from Ploche mines is promised prom-ised this week for treatment at Salt Lake. A carload of high-grade silver ore just extracted from mines twenty-five miles south of Callentes. will go to Salt Lake next week. i Mrs. Smith, wife of the chief clerk In tho superintendent's office at Salt Lake is visiting Mrs. Brannen In this camp! The right of way along the line of the San Pedro road has been fenced to a point twenty-five miles south of Callentes. Call-entes. Hans Olson returned today from Salt Lake, where he has been for the past week laying in a supply of "wet goods" for hlB business house here. |