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Show .CH GOLD ORc SHOWN F.iOM LOUISIANA PURCil. S CALTKNTE. N'ev . Jnn. O.-Snms fin M.-impIes of rich gold ore were brought Into Callento this week by Mr. MapCB, a conductor on the Suit Lake ftoute and Frnnk Palmer, president of the Louisiana Louisi-ana Purchaee Mining & Milling coriv pany in company with thr. i local parties went down to tho scene of tho find and located several claims The ore Is an Iron oxyde, honeycombed and e:irrinK good valuee In free gold. The cropping ;irc over fifty feet wide and extend for nearly two miles across the country. The claims are about forty miles west of Callento and closo to the line of tin- Bait 1 nk'- loud. Jack Ptirton, an old timer In Nevada, came in from Iienlh Y.illev tlilH w i with somo very rich samples of free gold ore. obtained from cropplngs of wl Ite o,uartz about nlxty miles HltO te desert land. He haa located four claims, and the ore brought In will go fully J'JOO per ton He stnii m th.lt the Vein shOttl up at gTans roots about thre feet wide and ho has traced ii for over three miles northweat-erly northweat-erly from his claims. They are about fifty miles from water but with a good trail leading direct to the locations e e e wniis & Needh.im of Kanaas City have taken an option on the Blue B 1! gold group consisting of eleven claims south of the Virgin river for 90,000 Thero are Z feet of deoloptm-nt work done on the claims, and M-Ins of from two to five feet have been opened up, assaying from Z to 6M per ton In free gold. The owners of the group, Mc-Kenzle, Mc-Kenzle, and 'lntrs, paaeed through town this week with Mr. Willis en route to Kansas City to perfect the transfer. Charles Hamilton, of tho firm of Morton Mor-ton & Hamilton mining brokers and real estate men of Boston. Mass, paeiofl through town today en route to Qoodspiingl, where he In company with J Lawrence Willis, expert for the Amalgamated and John True owner of a group of eight claims In that district, dis-trict, will examine this and several othur groups of gold-copper claims with a view to purchase. KnOWlee, Frbk nnd Murphy, owners of the White flfc.-m mine, thirty-four miles west of Callente. report having struck a vein flvo foot wide of $15 ore. |