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Show MAY OPERATE ALL WINTER, Prohahlo Completion of Inter-State Mill in Gold Basin District. Special to The Tribune. BASIN, La Sal Mountains, Nov. 25, A (reat deal of activity la shown In the 'iold Basin district by the probable com- 'lotion of the Interstate mill this fall and ts continued operation during tho wln-'.cr. wln-'.cr. The remaining part of tho heavy TUichlnerv Is now at Cisco ready to bp -dilppcd In here us soon ns teams can ic made ready to haul It A force of men Is now at work fixing 'ip the road from Castlcton to Wilson Mesa, cutting down grades and otherwlBf uttlng It In shapo for future heavy vagon hauling, as tho Grouso Mountain ompany also contemplates Its uso for g'-ttlng machinery Into Miners' Basin. The Gold Basin mill Is now fully completed com-pleted with the exception of tho henv nglncs and compressors for the mine Within thirty days from tho time of arrival ar-rival of the engines tho mill will be ready to start. Manager J. II. Clark Is mxlous to got things moving, as he har M10 Interstate company's mines In shape for an Inexhaustible supply of oro. Much Interest Is taken In tho outcome of tho hydraulic enterprise now proposed pro-posed on Wilson mesa. Hobbs- & Copp, tho promoters, will soon let contracts for building tho Mill creek ditch, and also for n ICO-foot drift to bedrock, opening up ono of tho gravel banks where they ntend to start operations. Those who know sav that" tho Immenpe bar upon which It will start operations 1 good for 60 cento to tho yard. Tho gold 'lcposlted hero evidently came from thr Wilson mesa load, as a largo amount of this Hoat quartz Is dopcslted all over the bar, and Is found In tho wash gravel to a depth of seventy feet. Work has been Indefinitely discontinued on tho Flnley property. A depth of feet has been gained In the cross-cut tunnel, tun-nel, falling to disclose the vein which from surface measurements should have been cut at 335 feet. They will run twon-ty-llvo feet farther, allowing that much for the possibility of a fault having been rnd" in the vein at a 'ertlcal depth of 100 feet. |