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Show PROPERTIES OWNED BY SALT LAKE CAPITALISTS Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, Nov.. July 31. George C. Feltcrmnu of DC La Mar and Salt Lake, president, of tho Callento Gold Mining company, whoso properties are located adjoining tho townslto here, and whose associates arc Simon Rombergor and other Salt Lake capitalists In tho Calleatc Gold mines, spent two days hero recently, leaving leav-ing today for Salt Lake City. He went over to the tunnel claim on which the company has two' men at work driving a tunnel to cross-cut an Immenso porphyry and quartz ledge twenty feet wide. Thov are now In 170 feet and are coming Into quart, and as tho fed go dips tuvurd th tunnel it Is anticipated that within tho next week they will be able to eioys-eut. When this Is accomplished they will drift northwest on thh ledge and as they will have a dupth of 120 foot at breast of. tunnel when the cross-cut Is made. After going 150 feet on the drift thoy will rals, and thus block out an Immense bod" of oro for sloping. They Have had assays in freo gold from $32 .to hundreds of dollars per ton o Tom 1'avldson and Pete Werters came In vesteidav from the Vlrcln river where they have located four claims, close to tho river !n Coyote gulch, where In a little lit-tle crek they found a little placer gold on bed rock In the eddies Although tney prospected to creek thjroughly they newr found alluvial gold In pay quantities, but near the llttlfi spring which Is the head of the crook, thuy located a line ledge of decomposed yellow quartz which contained con-tained coarse Cree gold In pay uuantltk'S. They took out about ten ton of this ore with an open cut and tunnel and built an arasta rn the creek and started In grinding out gold Reside what they havo paid out or grub and clothes they say they have cleaned up $2300 In gold. They are riow In thlrty-nve feet In the tunnel, but the Icilge has widened to three feet two Indies and has well defined walls of shale and talc next to the foot wall, 0 Henry Harney and Joseph Bulchard. the former a prospnLtor, the latter of Wllklns & Bulchard. mining engineers, Denver, passed through cump today en route to' Los Voga ranch, whence they will go to a point twenty-eight miles north to examine ex-amine a group of gold-copper claims lo- cared last fall by Harney, and on which he has done about SO0 feet of work. He claims $20 gold and 51 per cent copper In a live foot four Inch ledge at a depth of 110 feet at breast of a 2S0 foot tunnel, o . Tom Davis and W. J. McCain came In today to purchase a new stock of supplies wherewith to continue development work on their Greon Mountain group of freo gold claims In the district lying twenty-three twenty-three miles southeast from Moapa. They say they have taken out over twenty tons of very high grade free gold ore. Their ledges are to feet and three feet two I Inches and four feet wide. The first two ledges are free gold and tho last named gold-sliver ore from which they had an asasy of ?G2 gold and ISC ounces sliver and this ore they will ship as soon as about two mlles of mountain road on which they are now working, s completed com-pleted and ready for lieavj hauling. They have eight claims In their group and thev are now under bond to Goodbodv, Glenn & Dow. of Colorado Springs, for about ?2o.0C0. ' r O ) ' Flick and Wilson came In from their claims about twenty miles in" the road near Arden. and brought some fine looking look-ing free gold ore taken from tljelr shaft which Is now1 down eighty feet on a four foot ledge. The ore doeH not look at all like gold bearing quartz; It Is a gray granite looking substance with while, chalky looklngspecks and would not be picked up as noat by any prospector, but there 1b the free gold, yellow ond convincing. |