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Show Great Improvement Around Coliente Abundant Capital Is at Hand for Development of a Rich Region. Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, Nov., Juno 10 The mining oondltlons around Calient are Improving dally, and with the increased number of prospectors In tho Hold, barked by abundant abun-dant Eastern capital, a Dumber of Important Im-portant finds have been struck within a radius of fifteen miles from town and clbao to the line of the Salt lAko Route. Perhaps the most important of these htt.i developments embrace the Gold Bug group of free gold claims, lying twelve miles west from Callente and two mllea north of the line of railroad. They em-braco em-braco seven claims, through which runs a twelve-foot ledge of ribbon quartz oaxry-Ing oaxry-Ing valut a of from $2 40 to J16 in gold and from 1 to 12 ounces sliver per ton. They were located bv local people and development develop-ment work Is being rapidly forwarded The southern extension of this jrroup, embracing em-bracing four claims, l now under bond to Eastern capitalists for $.V "'"', .'.nd their . xpert having made favorahl- reports the .tr i will doubtless he consummated within with-in the coming thirty days Further south along the railroad and llng but a scant mile south of the right of way a group of claims In which Immense' Im-mense' deposits of boras have been found were 1.., it,-. last week y Knvst Keate and associates, and their discovery so well situated for transport-it Ion, has created cre-ated quite a flurry In this part ol Nt vac i, The deposits are seemingly Inexhaustible and show a strength f fully 800 feet t the surface and can easily bo traced for over two miles southerly from the railroad rail-road George Fischer an.l Mark Palv. owners of the Fire. Flv frroiip of gold claims northwest fr-m ' il h nt.-. have Just limul-ed limul-ed their group, which consists of eleven . lalms, for $aori0 to Chea. McComlck ft Weaver of Cincinnati, whose experts havo been examining them for the past thirty lavs and made a favorable report on them to their employer!. G. F Landers and Monte Wilson, old-lime old-lime prospector:: in N v.ida. returned to civilization yesterday, after spending thn o months In the desolate wastes comprising com-prising Death Valley The state that they had a very satisfactory trip from a mining point ( view, and -' i t 1 In locating two groups of very rich fr.-e cold mines. They were about forty miles from Furnace creek and there located a group of Ave . lalms. within the limits of which they found a three-foot vein of snow white quartz, showing lots of wire Kold and little nuggets which assay up to $45,0O per ton The claims He about twenty mllea from the well known Keane Wonder group and on practically the ame formation, but Is richer by several hundred per cent. The only water they found In crossing Death Valley was at Salt creek, very poor In quality Their other location was made about twenty miles north of Ballarat, and h apparentlj On the same ledge formation as the Birdie group, already developed, which lies six miles south of their recent locations. loca-tions. Their group Is named the Qoldep Flag, and consists of eight claims, showing show-ing a 6trong ledge of free gold quartz., assaying from MS to f per ton. and where uncovered shows a width of three and one-half feet In the vein They report re-port having stopped at the ( h Re Joyful group, northeast of Ballarat. which group 1 hv- t.os Anircles DOOnle and has been worked continuouslv for five years with good pay results. It Is at present under lease and Is being worked to good advantage These claims run better than 'f) throughout. They alsi. slopp. , at the f.umms Surprise . ..ny-.n more frequently called Pnnamint canyon Hero the rich 1 1 Id Jones and Stewart claims are located, where recent locations and their development devel-opment show some verv hl;rh-grado silver. sil-ver. The prospectors brought with them the richest specimens of free gold ever shown In this camp, and arc going on to Ogih n, where their associates reside They expect ex-pect to begin active development of their rich claim-" within the next thirty days. Joo Fletcher and Alf Boyd report having hav-ing struck a four-foot ledge f $2 free gold ore in tie lr Blue r-:ir.l claim, south r MoapaT on the virgin river, and have sunk twelve feet on this ledge, which shows signs of widening with development |
