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Show ISOLB FOR $22,000. Sensational Consignment of Gold Ore Prom the Plorence. For forty tons of ore from the Sweeny lease on the Florence mine at Goldllcld, The consignor was yesterday presented, through the management of the Taylor it Brunton sampler of this volley, with a check for no less than $22,000. the settlement settle-ment taking place on controls showing 27.515 ounces gold per ton. "While tho consignment which will be reduced at ihe furnaces of this valley is one in which the wealth of Nevada's great camp of gold la impressively rellected, It does not compare with some others that have come from the same source, and will probably be followed by even others of more sensational sen-sational value, Mr. Sweeny, who was p-eratlng p-eratlng nt Cripple Creek when his attention atten-tion was drawn to the new camp, was not long In uncovering tho ledgo In tin Florence Flo-rence mine, and has sinco forward-Hl several sev-eral lots of excellent qdallty. With ln-Htructlons ln-Htructlons to Manager Copeland to" olacc the lot on the highest bid, the owner is now at Cripple Creek, inquiring Into his Interests, but will rdtum within a few days. The rccolpts at present from Tonopah and Goldfleld are averaging about 125 ton3 of ore of flno quality dally, this to be Increased, In-creased, according to advices from those camps, as rapidly as facilities for transporting trans-porting the output shall permit. W. G. Lamb, tho resident representative of the senior Tonopah company, reports nearly 100 tons coming dally from that source, the greater portion of it from the dumps that accumulated during tho leases that brought the new camp Into prominence. |