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Show BRANCH OF SAN PEDRO TO OPEN MANY CAMPS CALIENTE, Nov., Nov 2. As soon as tho San Pedro line Is completed from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, grading and track laying will commence on the branch road from Callcnte north. This line will take the old Oregon Short Lino right of way, now gradod to a point fourteen miles north of Callcnte, It will then continue to Pnnaca, Ploche, Ely, Cherry Cicek and terminate at Wells. Nov.. on tho line of the Southern Pacific road. This will open up many of tho best old-time camps ln eastern Nevada and will enable thousands of high-grade silver camps to resume business and reopen re-open numberless mines which havo been closed down owing to lack of shipping facilities, which tho new lino will afford. Ploche has sliver mines within a rudlua of Ion miles of tho county sent which will pay big dividends to develop with the shipping advantages guaranteed by tho now line. Ely Is fast coming to tho front as a copper camp, and Chorry Creek has some of the finest silver mines In tho lntor-mountaln lntor-mountaln States, besides a tract fifteen miles long by thrco miles wide of grass-root grass-root properties showing values ln free gold Going from ?2S to 510.000 per ton. Theso places were all good shippers In the davs of SI 2fl silver. Tho gold properties prop-erties ln Cocomungo. four miles south of Chcrrv Crook, were struck two years ago, and there arc at loast twenty miles within a radius of ten miles from Cherry Creek which will provo big dividend-payers from tho dato of their first shipment. Sprue 3 valley, through which the new lino will run north ot Chorry Crock, has some of tho richest gold, silver and copper cop-per mines In Nevada, and with tho now lino tapping their district will ad materially ma-terially to the output of precious ores from Nevada William F. Llndsey and Joe Finch, owners of the Three Ladle gold-silver group north of Moapa, havo sold their Joint Interests to Slmrpo and Wlthorell of Colorado Springs, for SfiOOO. The group consists of six claims, on which nearly 1000 feet of work ln shafts, tunnels and niifts have been completed, and nearly 1000 tons ot ?I3 ore Is blocked out and on the dump George Shannon, half owner of the True Bluo group of gold-silver claims northwest from Callonte, has just struck a four-foot vein of J5G ore In pink por-phvrv. por-phvrv. between walls of granite, which show's a strength or eighteen Inches on tho surface and four feet at a depth ot 100 feet. Mr Shannon hopes tn make a carload shipment of Ihlti ore to Salt Lake CI ty before the first of the year. |