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Show New Discoveries at yield Camp I Rich rind Mado at Edge o Tcvrn, and Active Development on the Cimmeron Fraction. GOLDFIELD. Dec. 10. A flurry of excitement ex-citement has been caused here by two f Iato discoveries of rich oro right nt tho odgo of town. In fact ono of them, on tho Whlto Wolf croup, la within the confines of tho original iown3ite. It waa found in excavating for a building and af-snys havo been obtained ranglnu from $2 to $100 per ton. Tho quartz is Identically Iden-tically the onmo ns January oro. Tho oilier discovery was mado by "D. C. Berry on tho Alpha claim, directly west "Of tho January and Just oulsldo the city limits. Surface pannlnga havo Indicated -alucs up to $500 per ton. On tho townsite ground thcro promises to bo a bitter legal light. The ledgo was uncovered by a workman in the employ of W. S. Madding, who is occupying tho property as a squatter. "When tho discovery dis-covery of ore was made ho kept, tho fact quiet until ho had staked out a claim nnd filed tho location papers. The town-v silo company, however, Ignores this action, ac-tion, claiming to havo a valid location prior to Maddlng's. Tho reenn t purchasers of tho Cimmeron fraction havo stajrted active development R work It will bo remembered a very rich y strike was mado -on this proporty sev- F oral weeks ago by prospectors, who pur- t chased the claim for $4000 and afterward b turned it for $00,000. Ponding the consum- g matlon of the deal and cho organization h of a company tho property hau remained r Idle. f; On tho Tinhorn of tho Dixie Mining E company hlgh-grado shipping values havo Jj recently been encountered In tho bottom t of tho shaft. The character of tho quartz L has materially changed with develop- 9 monL Two assay tests ono a cheek on i tho other returned $352 and $$71. respectively. respec-tively. A half Interest In tho capital stock of the Apex Gold Mining company has been sold by Frank M. lsh to Colorado capitalists. capi-talists. Tho holdings of tho company h consist of a group of exceptionally promising prom-ising claims in tho northeastern section of the district. Pay oro has been opened up on tho group in threo different ledges. Sullivan, Baldwin and associates, leasing leas-ing on tho north end of tho Patrick claim ot tho Lone Star group, have oncoun-tcrcd oncoun-tcrcd a streak of extraordinarily rich tnlo that assays un Into tho thousands. At present the streak Is narrow but tho lessees bcllevo it will lead to somothlng birr. |