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Show MORNING STAR GRGUP SHOWS GOOD VALUER CALIENTE, Nev., June 22. Wallace T. Bralnard, a Spokane mining man and broker, who operated extensively In Republic, Wash., and Rossland, B. C, passed through camp Tuesday en route to Moapa. He will go from the front across the desert to Amber mountain moun-tain west of Los Vegas ranch and from there north about fifteen miles to Good Springs, near which point he has an option for 510,000 on a group of six claims, known as the Morning Star group, gold-copper and silver, and upon which he has had two men working for the past six months. He showed The Tribune letters from his men In which they report having run a fifty-foot tunnel tun-nel on a six-foot ledge of ore going $12.50 In gold, forty ounces silver and 16 per cent copper. The copper values are in black oxide and native copper and one piece which Mr. Bralnard showed parties here had been spilt In the center and hung together with fine wires of native copper. They have plenty of water for the treatment of their ore and If the amount In sight warrants It the gentlemen gen-tlemen represented by Mr. Bralnard will put up a large capacity 3melter at the Springs and handle the ore right at the mines. They have also sunk a ninety-foot shaft all in ore, showing with a drift at the bottom of shaft a ledge width of eighteen feet. This ledge assays $7.S0 gold, thirty-eight ounces silver and 0 per cent copper throughout Its full width. The formation Is a decomposed de-composed quartz between granite walls. The Fetterman tunnel Is now In 200 feet, and it is anticipated that the ledge will be cross-cut within the next twenty twen-ty feet. They have already broken into several very fine veins of free gold showing the yellow metal In pay quantities quan-tities In the quartz. Work will be continued con-tinued on the property until the ledge is cut and then drifting will be commenced com-menced both north and south. This property Is one of the claims of the Callente Gold Mining company, and lies but a few feet from tho north side of the camp, and Is one of the most promising prom-ising claims ever opened up In this district. dis-trict. a Frank Palmer, owner of the Horse-shoo Horse-shoo group of free gold claims four miles east of camp, will leave for Salt Lake soon to buy a supply of goods and mining equipment necessary for pursuing pur-suing work on his valuable properties. Fred Foster struck a rich ledge of lead carbonates on his St. Louis claim four and a half miles east of Calient, yesterday, and la stripping the ledge preparatory to sinking. There has been considerable excitement excite-ment aroused at Moapa with the report of an unusually rich - strike in gold-copper gold-copper about twenty-three miles south of that point. There Is a copper belt running through Lincoln countj' northeast north-east and southwest which cuts through the district lying south of Moapa and Is nearly four miles wide .at that point. Until recently, within the past eight weeks, no high values havo been struck along the trend of the belt, but ore Is now coming In from all along the strike i of the ledges traversing the county, going go-ing into hundreds of dollars. The formation for-mation of the country is not favorable for opening up the bodies except in two or three places, as the capping Is a heavy formation of lime and sandstone, sand-stone, with a sub-strata of porphyry varying In thickness- from twenty to a hundred fe6t. Underlying this is tho granits which carries the ore. At the point where the recent discoveries have been made a ledge has been stripped at a depth of about fifty feet showing great strength and high values, in places the ledge is more than eighty tcet wide and carries gold 5G.47 and copper 32 per cent, while In other places the ledge narrows down in its 'cropplngs to ten and fifteen feet carrying car-rying values of $9.40 In gold and 30 to 65 per cent copper. The copper is found in a- black oxide and azurlte, with occasional oc-casional deposits of shot copper going into sens'atlonal values. It Is understood under-stood that a group of these claims have already been taken up on a $50,000 bond by Salt Lake people, and a large number num-ber of recent locations have been made In consequence In tho vicinity of tho strike. There Is a fine road all the way t from the mines to the San Pedro road, and conditions are favorable for the early development of that section of the country. That there aro Immense deposits of mineral all along the line of the road is now admitted, and capital i is beginning to turn this way for in- I vestment. ' |