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Show BUSY NEAR CALIENTE. Rich Finds Are Stimulating' Activity Around Town Site. Special to The Tribune. CALJENTE. Nov.. Oct. 24. Work has been commenced this week on the claims of tho Caliente Gold Mining company, owned by Selber & Co., recent purchasers pur-chasers of these valuable properties, which aro located adjoining the townslto of Callcnto nnd which have shown high grado frfe gold ore In both open cuts and tunnels. tun-nels. These piopertles bid fair to advance-materially advance-materially the population nnd financial standing of Caliente In tho near future. Has High-Gmde Ore. Jones nnd l'nrruway, prospectors, who recently returned from a trip to Virgin river country, brought with tnem severnl sacks of high grade free gold ore. In wlilto quartz, some of which went JW0 per ton. They report a large number of claims having been locnted along the river within the past summer, and state that the Burns & Berry Dredging company, who have for seme mnnthn past been operating on Kent her river. Cal.. are now taking out rich alluvial deposits on Virgin river, and that tin; ground for several miles along the river duo south from this camp shows values of from 10 to 35 cents per cubic yard, but as ihe gold Is very line dredging seems the only method of successful extraction. ex-traction. Buys Into Black Rock. U 11 ford & Fry. 'mining brokers of Denver, Den-ver, have Just closed ;l deal with John T. Metcalf and George Fre.ycr, of San Diego, Cal.. whereby they havo acquired a one-half one-half Interest In the. Black Rock Mining and Milling company's rich gold claims located fifty-three miles west from Caliente Cali-ente nnd which were purchased from Ijng and Burroughs, the locators. last spring for $10,000, It Is staled that the recent sale brought ?2OO,0OO for tho Interest sold. |