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Show TEN-INCH STREAK STRUCK. Oro on Free Gold Clnim3 Pans Hundreds Hun-dreds of Dollars For Ton. Special to Tho Tribune. ', CALIENTE, Nov., Sept. 8. Martin Langlcy and J. Fuller, owners of tho Hidden Treasure free gold clnlms on Virgin river, passed through camp today, to-day, on route to Buffalo. N. Y where they will consult with their associates, Morton & Drossier, real oBtnto and mining mi-ning brokers, who arc backing them. They have Just struck a ten-Inch streak of ore which pans several hundreds of dollars a ton, and wlUeh they will drift on northerly and southerly. The ore is white, brlttlo and honeycombed. Jones nnd 'fully, owners of tho Victor group of gold-copper claims, north of Moupa, on which thqy have done more than COO feet of development -work, have Just completed 'a 200-foot tunnol run to crosscut a vein of ore twenty-four twenty-four Inches wide at cropplngs averaging averag-ing $4G per ton. At the crosscut tho vein lias wiaened to thirty-eight Inches and looks richer than did the surface ore. They arc negotiating with Boston men to bond tho group, and J. R. Morrow, Mor-row, expert for the Eastern mon, will visit and examine tho mines about September Sep-tember 15. e Trilby group, reports striking a four-tcen-lnch vein of ore In his tunnol. samples of which show values- of 56 ounces silver and 312.50 gold per ton. Tho claims aro located southeast of Moapa. Frank Campbell, a Colorado mining man, has taken an option. In company with G. W. Way. president of tho Iron Horse Mining company of Gila county. Colorado, on the April Fool group of old-3llvor claims, north of Los Vegas. They will put eight men at work at ence. They have also taken a lease and bond on the Bob Leo gold-coppor group, lying twelve- miles east of the April Fool, on which group Is an abundant supply of water from the Cool springs; owned by the locators of tho Bob Leo group. Burko and Tyndall. Tho oro Is gold-bearing, contained In an Iron matrix, making It fine for fluxing. flux-ing. The voin Is more than twenty feet wide and of high grade. George C. Fetterman, president of tho Callento Gold Mining company, who has boon starting up new work on his company's rich free-gold claims here for the past week, returned to Do Lamar today. Max Franks and Joe Duffy, ownera of tho Southern Cross groun north of Moapa, have struck and crosscut a twenty-six-foot blind lead of siliceous ore, containing oxidized silver sulphide, silver chloride and black oxide of manganese. man-ganese. Tho values are In gold and silver, averaging J17.S0 per ton In gold and SO ounces silver at a depth of sev-onty-flve feet A streak of free-gold oro lying along the footwall of the Old Ironsides claim, belonging to II. I. Blake, on Virgin river, was struck on Monday, going rich In coarse gold. The ledgo went 42S.40 per ton and was four feet wide, but this four-Inch vein will raise the aver-ngo aver-ngo value to more than $1000 per ton. Tho contact Is quartzlte and tho rich streak Is frozen to tho footwall. Tho Mexico group of mines, south of Los Vegas, near the upper Colorado river, owned by Flick and Martin and connected with the Vegas ranch and San Pedro line by a twenty-mile wagon wag-on road, la attracting considerable attention at-tention from Montana men. H. R. Smith, a Helnze expert, and Lloyd Palmer, an Anaconda City mining man, are now examining the grqup. There Is about 000 feet of work done on tho mines and the ores are Copper-Iron pyrites, carrying, gold and occurring" In wide zones at contact of porphyry and lime. An average value of the ores Is $21. They are self-fluxing and stringers string-ers of high-grade ehalcopyrlto oro, averaging 30 per cent copper and $3.20 gold, have boon tapped. Tho Keystone mine, south of Goode Springs, has boon sold to Lawrence W. Burko of Loa Angeles for $3000 cash. It contains a high-grade sulphide body of ore going 'way up In gold and was sold to Its owner and locator. Barney Williams, Wil-liams, who owns two other claims on tho same load, to raise money to develop de-velop his Nero and Black Bear claims. W. LI. Barker, president of tho So-nora So-nora Bonanza Mining company of So-nora, So-nora, Mexico, part owner In the Iiid-Iden Iiid-Iden Treasure group of free-gold claims on tho Virgin river, has sent hl3 expert, R. T. Foley, up hero to make a careful examination of the group of fourteen claims, with a view to buying out L. S. Wilcox, his partner, a prospector whom ho grubstaked six months ago and who located the inlncs. e 1 Hans OIboh, merchant and mine owner own-er of Caliento, returned from Ploche today. |