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Show Broke Info Ledge on fk Halifax Return of Mr. Keith From the Property Prop-erty at Tonopah Output of tho New Camps. Whllo the recent development In tho Halifax group of mines at Tonopah, New, is not such ns to Justify him In characterizing charac-terizing It as a strike, said Hon. David Keith on his return from that camp of bonanzas yesterday, connection has been mado with one of a cluster of ledges with which the company's domain Is fissured nnd with this foothold wystcmatlo prospecting pros-pecting for tho main ore bodies will follow. fol-low. At tho connection with tho first ledge the conditions the highly mln-erullzed mln-erullzed nnd so far Is all that was expected. all to which the management looked forward when the exploration ex-ploration of the ground was begun. The territory owned by tho Halifax has a width of J200 feet, with 3009 feet upon the strike of tho great zone, which opens up the brightest possibilities, and whllo tho management has no doubt of ultimate results re-sults It declines to anticipate them. Meanwhile, said Mr. Keith, the camp continues to assert Its resources, and that Its output nt this time Is not even more voluminous Is that the means for transporting trans-porting Its wealth will not permit Into It and on to Goldfiold, whero tho excitement Is hourly movo Intense, tho strugglo for ground hourly grows more acute. Tho tonnage of freight Is enormous nnd yet the consignees are "hollering" because of delays. At Tonopah the senior Tonopah company, the Montana and several others oth-ers are sending out all the ore that tho facilities for transporting it will permit, and whllo tho tonnage from the new camp of gold Is a small one. tho wealth that Is being drnwn down Is Indeed bewildering, tho rush Into town almost a fronzy. In California, from which he was summoned sum-moned to Tonopah, Mr. Keith reports a great deal of activity, with much Interest manifested In the placers and tho copper-bearing copper-bearing mines, to which latter Utah talent has addressed not a llttlo attention during dur-ing tho past few years. He will probably visit tho properties of tho Sllvor King of Park City, of which company ho Is president, presi-dent, and tho mines and mill of tho Kearns-Kelth the present week. |