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Show LOCATED A LEDGE OF BISMUTH 23 FEET WIDE Siieclal to The Tribune. CALIENTI-:, Nov., July 1C George Bostwiek came In from tho front today and brought with him sonio samples of free gold ore, taken from the Hlghliio claim, which ho located la:it March and on which he and Frank Burns, his partner, part-ner, have run a ISO-foot tunnel on a ledgo two feet threo Inches wide, assaying In free gold $12 to tho ton. They also located a ledge In which bismuth Is the principal deposit and which, they say. is twenty-three twenty-three foot wide, They are going lo Denver. Den-ver. Colo., to consult with Davis & Flick, brokers, who grubstaked them this Hurim- and who arc associated with thcin In their find. - Mark Langlpy and Pete Chllvors. who have been prospecting north of Moapa. Icr tho past three months, brought somo samples sam-ples of freo sold ore, in white honeycombed honey-combed quartz, and somo gold-coppc-r oro In which native copper was plnlnlv visible. They say tlioy havo located tho Ohio group, or four froe-gold claims, on which they have a lodge four foel wide Kolng well in freo Kold. Thev have not yot had assays taken from this ore. but- It pans big In coarse cold and they Judo It will go S'tS to tho ton. They havo had assavs from their pold-coppcr ktouj). the Red Light group, going $17 gold and 3S per cont copper per ton. They havo bonded both these groups to Salt Lake people, whoso names they refuso to plvo. and are en route to that city to consult with them as to the future of the mine. Dick Baker and Mike Donahue, in company com-pany with F. R. .Incise of Cripple Creek, passed through camp todav. on route to the Upper Colorado river, where the (wo former parties located four free-gold claims In January, lids year, and sunk a sixty-foot shaft, ran a 130-foot tunnel, and at tho breast of the tunnel sunk a seventy-foot winze on a three-foot ledge of freo gold. They say that on the footwall there Is a three-inch strip of quarts fairly allvo with free gold, going over 431 lo the ton. while the remainder of tho ledge averages ?62 per ton throughout and Is free milling. Tho ledge dtps southeast at an angle of about 42 degrees and llos between llmo and nornhvrv walls, jl nnrmw iriri f llmo sopurating the walls from the ore nn either sldo They have brought their aesoclato with thorn to make a thorough examination of the claims, with a view to extenslvo development. They aro but seventeen miles from Loh Vegas ranch and have a good ore road all the way, with but two miles of sand, which Is passablo at all times of tho year. They expect, however, to erect a small mill for tho treatment of their ore, having ground out- nearly 5110O with an old Mexican arasta on tho side of the river. Thev say they havo been offered S1C.C0O for "their two-thirds Interest In thene claims, but would not tako twice that sum. i Siemens and Forbes, prospectors who havo been working two claims south of Moapa for live months past, are In camp and will go to Ogdcn In a day or two to have samples or 010 examined and assayed, as-sayed, and If the returns arc satisfactory will return to their claims arid dovclon (hem extensively. They havo struck a ledge four feet wide at tho grass roots which shows free gold plainly, and another an-other which runs high values in gold and silver. |
