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Show Hj' STRUCK RICH ORE IN H ! 1 GOLDEN FLEECE GROUP 'I'CV ''! ,..'!'' Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, Nev., June 23. L. White, TV. H. Newman and "Doc" Law- 'I'; lcr of San Francisco passed through H. . ' i camp today en route to Moapa. They ' ,1 i ai'e interested In a group of gold-copper i 'A properties twenty miles north from the . ' Muddy and have had a working lease ' and bond on same for the past five I monllis. Their representative at the H, j mines, George Fischer, reports having ' ':, struck rich ore In the Cupid, one of thu H"' , ' i, 1 : claims of the Golden Fleece group, and t i ,,as taken out twelve tons of high-grade j, ore from a thirty-foot drift at the bot- ( ,t lorn of an eighty-foot shaft, which was '! sunk at an angle of 52 degrees on the . hanging wall of a ten-foot lodge. Their Hi ' . 1 ic ports on this ore show values of from ' if 516 gold and 23 per cent copper to $72 ' gold and 11 per cent copper, the latter u j .1 I almost at grass roots. V " The values in gold decrease with 1 wjf depth and those in copper increase. The Bi , $ ledge, wlilch was but three feet wide I i 1 "' at top of shaft, Is now ten feet four i "n ; inches wide at a depth of eighty feet. 1 if. The hanging wall Is granite and tho , , ix footw'all at surface is granite with a , vein of brown talc lying between it and I. the vein proper. The ledge has not . , ;f been crosscut at dcptli, but a drift has ( ij, . been run sixty feet northeasterly and , I I ' , i forty feet southwesterly, and the ledge H,1 J '' ? crops out through four claims of the j j group. The remaining four claims ly- I ' i hi lng parallel with these carry a ledge of 1 ' t j gold ore showing but small valuations , i ! in copper, but the leasers believe that I ' with depth the values will all run to ' , (' 'A copper as in the parallel claims. The ' i,i , ledge In the second row of claims dips 1 r I; toward the gold-copper ledge at an an- iH j , i gle of about 30 degrees, so that the leas- ; V crs believe that at depth the two ledges i! ' k will form a contact and merge into one 1 i i immense ledge. There are two other in 1 i i similar groups lying northeast from the (' i Golden Fleece, which these gentlemen ' ''it will examine on this trip, with a view hl. , !! to bonding. i I )' ij, ' There are now 'eleven prospectors Ij !j f working on claims within a radius of I'l ij five miles of Callente and all report en- M " i j couraglng prospects In their claims. , Jj u i Alexander and Palmer on the Louisiana ' ' ' l) ; , Ptrchase group; Fred Foster on the St. j I r, R Iouls Group; Buckley and White work- H; 'U '.j, lng the Mastadon group; McKay and fij; j , , Fitch on the Southern Cross group, the ( I Pambergcr-Fetterman contractors on H' tl hlt' f tno Fetterman tunnel; Objon, Lee and l'( M Farrow, owners of the Japan lode, have j, V', nil taken very promising ore, going well ' . ' ! ln ard sliver from their prospects , I I and with development all of these prop- H, ij! ' ertles give good promise of being ship- .1 fi'V pers within the present year. Palmer h i p J ! sold two of his claims to the Alexander j 1 ; boys Monday and they are doing devcl- i d ' ' opment work on their claims, running a M; . ' tunnel in on the ledge In both claims. " i I Charles Thomas, a miner, recently ar- rived here from Butte. MonL, brought In some samples of steel galena ore, taken ta-ken from a claim which ho located last Saturday- north of camp. He says that he has stripped the ledge thirty feet and found It averaging four feet in width and lying in a lime formation, the galena carried In llmo and spar formation. for-mation. From the presence of considerable consid-erable decomposed quartz honeycombed honey-combed and filled with Iron oxide, with some hematite, Mr- Thomas believes that gold values will also be found in his ore. Charles Flick, a Cripple Creek mining and mill man, passed through camp today to-day en route to Los Vegas ranch. From there he will go north twenty miles for the purpose -of examining a group of claims known as the Buena Vista group, with a view to bonding and working the same. He says that he has been through this country before and considers the mineral outlook equal to anything In Colorado for surface showings. show-ings. He Is employed by a number of Denver and Cripple Creek capitalists to look over this property and pick up any other groups which In his opinion will prove pay investments along the line of the San Pedro road. James Hunter of Boston, accompanied accom-panied by B. N. Morris, a prospector for years in Nevada and Utah, passed through camp today and will examine a group of silver properties near Klor-nan's Klor-nan's ranch with a view to bonding and developing same. t John F.- Buxton of Butte, Montana, representing the Boston & Montana Mining Mi-ning company, and incidentally the Amalgamated, passed through camp today to-day from the front en route to Butte, where ho will report on a group of copper cop-per claims which he and his associates have located near SL Thomas, pn the upper Colorado river, about twenty miles south of the San Pedro right of way between Moapa and Los Vegas ranch. Mr. Buxton says that lucre are some of the finest showings in the district dis-trict which he has visited of any in the West for copper. He says that there are a score of mines along the Colorado river which in early days were worked profitably for free gold, which at a Blight depth have gone to copper, and that all of these properties will pay to work for copper by the erection of a smelter which can readily be accomplished accom-plished near the" group which ho has been examining on the river. Ho had some very rich samples of copper ore taken from the claims, going from 17 to GO per cent in copper with a small percentage per-centage of gold and sliver. He states that there are several ledges running northeasterly and southwesterly through the district which give every indication of developing Into pay properties prop-erties with depth and will so report to his people ln Butte. |