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Show OFF THE SAN PEDRO. Old Camps That Await the Attention of Capital. Young James Kcnnelly of this city, discussing dis-cussing the result of his observations with The Tribune s COrreapOOdsnt at Callente. after a pilgrimage through many Of the olrl camps along the margins of the San Pedro Route, says: "Good Springs mining seotlon Is among the Hist In rich-ncis. rich-ncis. although Its ores an not gold alone The Cinnabar mine, about three miles westerly from Good Springs, has ten nx-n working on a shaft which has reached a depth of 240 feet, with a seventeen-foot ore hod exposed lu the bottom, and which Carries B high percentage of cinnabar cin-nabar and considerable gold. "Fhc mile- westward from the cinnabar cinna-bar Is th famous Keystone mine. The ore from the Keystone is free milling The Keystone Mill lc Mx miles southeast of the mine In Sa.ndy, New. where seventeen seven-teen tons of ore are milled dally. This averages $2S per ton. "One of the lead properties Is the famous fa-mous old Mormon Lead mine, known as the Potoal. which was recently purchased by the Ma honey brothers for jss.ooo. They have thirty men working, and are In-creaslng In-creaslng their force Lost week a carload car-load of ore was shipped to the Bmcltcrfl at Murray, which assayed 80 pr cent lend, carrying 2' ounces silver. SJ gold. Work Is hcing carried on as speedily ,as possible, an aerial tram at the mine Is nenrly completed, and when completed will give a chance to ship ore In larger ipiantltles. as the present orp Is being packed down to the wagon road on hurrs and mules. "Now Is the time to get down and prospect pros-pect and do your locating for lo put it off menus a great deal, as ground is being be-ing taken up ns fast a.s can be, atxl still ix-w-i onxTS aie Hoi king In to get their share " Mr Kennellv has spent the biggest part of the last five or six years In that section sec-tion of the country, and he knows pretty near what he Is talking about |