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Show few DevelopmenJs in Caliente Caoip District Undergoing1 a Thorough Exploitation Ex-ploitation Oporators Waiting for Brnnch Railroad. Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, Nov., Oct. 2C The Call-ento Call-ento Gold Mining company is running a drift on a 1-foot ledge of soft, decomposed, decom-posed, free gold ore, going $32.50 per ton. Thoy have run In 210 feet, crossouttlng the ledgo nt a distance of 123 feet from the mouth of tho tunnol for the purpose of thoroughly prospecting their claim. They then run a drift, now In 135 feet on tho ledgo. which Is the entire width of tho drift, tho hanging and foot walls forming the sides of the drift They expect ex-pect to Install a mill for treatment of their ore early next- year. C. II. Ross and M T. Breck of Toronto. Toron-to. Ont.. have just purchased tho Chessman Chess-man group of gold-silver claims, fourteen four-teen In numbor. from Beck and Linton, who located them Inst spring. The claims are located forty-two miles northwest of Caliente nnd have over 1000 feet of work In shafts, tunnels and drifts now completed. com-pleted. Tho oro averages $12 In gold and 110 ounces In silver per "ton. The lcdiro is four feet wido at grass roots and widens to live and a half feet at a depth of 210 feet. George Barton, half owner of the Princess Prin-cess group of sliver claims, northwest of Caliente fifty-two mllos, has bought out 1 Jim Leroy, his partnor; for $2000 cash. They liavo about SO0 tons of $10.20 oro on tholr dumps and 120 feet of work completed com-pleted in two tunnols, both of which crosscut six-foot ledges, ono at a depth of eighty nnd tho othwr at 210 feet. Tho ore Is black Jack and bromide of silver and Increases in value with depth. Morton nnd Sanders of Lendvllle, Colo., have purchased tho Three Graces group of eighteen gold-copper claims, near Las Vegas for $10,000. paymont on ono year's Ume. The locators, Jim Ferry and J. D. Lusk, state thoy havo ovor $20,000 worth of rich ore on tho dumps and blocked out. John Harrison, owner of the Truo BIuo claim on Virgin river, struck a three-foot three-foot ledco of freo milling oro yesterday, going 20 per ton in gold. Watson and Brlerly. owners of the Bull Dog groups of sliver-lead claims In the Chief mining district, north of Caliente. have struck SW-ounce ore in a seven-foot vein at a depth of 210 foot, and aro now taking out and sacking this high-grade ore. They have 750 feet of development work completed and will continue sinking sink-ing on tho recent strike. Ruby sliver has como in with tho new strike in considerable consid-erable quantities. Mlno owners all along tho old Osh right-of-way from Caliente to Plocho arc anxious to see tho San Pedro line begin buildlnir their branch from hero to Pa-naca Pa-naca and Ploche, as hundreds of mine?, have tons of 010 which would pay woll to ship were It not ho long a wagon haul to reach tho railroad at Caliente. m Dubois. Wallace and Slmmls, owners of the Black Rock groups of sixteen gold-sllver-lcad claims in the Pennsylvania mining district, twenty-six miles from Caliente. havo Just struck a four-foot ledge of oro going $5S0 In all values, and are about making a sample shipment to Salt Lake City for treatment. |