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Show ICALIENTE MINING NEWS. Great. Activity in New Southern Nevn.da Districts. Bpeelal to Tho Tribune. 'ALIENTE. Nov. vs.-Ernest Keate nn.l Mr Conoway, who went down the Una twenty-flvo miles to their mines recently, have Just struck a twenty-foot ledpo of fine gold-silver quartx showing fair assay In both metal. They are rlnklng on tho fuotv.all bf the ledge and are a now down 15) feet, with cross-cut of twenty-four twenty-four feci. Four nioro men hovo been put to work on the Adianro property, eight miles north .if 'allento, by Mr. Liiwrenee. the Salt Lake rvner. Tho forco will b largely Increased within the coming month Tho ore Is steadily Improving In value, and the size of the deposit has Increased front four to fifteen feet In tho cross-cut now being run from Ihe (unnel. Tho ore values hnvo Increased from P Gl at grnsn root to 190 roM nrvl 154 ounces silver per ton. A shipment of this hlgh-gTado ore will probably prob-ably be mod': t'j Salt ljiko Reduction Works TUXt e.V;. T H Smith relumed yesterday from tho Pnnsivanla district, below f'allente. whera be has boen examining proprtIes belonging to Smith Brothers of this camp. These claims havo been located for years and at ono tlmo wero profitably worked for silver, but with Iho slump In white metal, the rnlnea closed, down and not until the. nrrlval of the rallr-nd j f-opl did anyone tako the trouble of looking j Dp these formerly pay propcrtler, from Which ! thousands of dollars were taken In earlier days. Now the doctor -xiectB to place thes j properties with Los Angela people, who havu , loth capital and ability to open them up and j make them again leaders In southern Nevada producers of pay metal. ' Largo numtK-ra of prospectors ore outfitting 'i at CallenU for tho territory north of this ; amp and with tho recent rich strikes mnlo J In the Advance and Josephine group In hlf i district, great ortlvlty has resulted In that lo- .t'lt and nearly -vciv I.jol .f available grcund he now been located running through the district and on which the new mines ara rated. Values as high as 14- cold and 30 i uni OS In silver have been struck. In theso claim and an uverimc assay of a nine-foot ledge showed values of pit gild nnd 101 ounces In silver per ton, besides fair valuta In 1ml In all these properties. A largo amount of new work Is now being done In Antelopo canyon mines, threo miles north of Calient e. and good rtports are coni-Ing coni-Ing In from all theto lujcatlons. free gold In fair values having hr-mi found at grass roots in every cisim en the belt. This is but tho beginning and great rosults are mpaotad from this district within the coming winter Neuily a score of new locations have been made wllh-In wllh-In the past week nnd there Is but llttlo giouiel H In tho ivauon but 1 now slaked out and ro- H ecrded. H Tho townslte of CaJientS wa staked out this M Wiek by new ,.!! s here, who have struck H a lead of V frea gold ore on IJooton Heights H rsrt of tho townslte Strikes have been driven H In tho ground throughout tho entire length and H Inadth of tho townslte H ftlake and McLcod, owners of the Oreat Hl Par group of gold-silver claims west from Qallante, brought In samples of ore today H showing values of $C per ton In gold and Z'A H on . " silver, v. I I' h they state came from a H fcur-foot ledge, down 14! feet In shaft, sunk H Ml the footwalL The ore Is a white honcv- H embed quart; allowing brow a hematite of H, Iron sfid oxldo. H M. FletcUer and Nets Watson, locators nnd H owners of the rich Blu. ltldge mlno on irgln rl"er. soulhwrst from CsllentO, were in camp B to'.ny, en route to Cripple Creek, having Jut g oid their two oi-iims to j. ii Browning unj H Atidge Watson of K Pa. Tex., for 112.000, of B which one-half waa paid In cash and one-half B Is to be iald within six month. A t wenty-Htarnp mill will be Imiuedlo inly n- H stalled and H Is expected that It will b In H . -l i within the next three months The H re In this nilr.o showed uluos of 1234 gold nt H deptfa of but sixty foot in a two-fbol vein H and in. reHSt In v.l.lth to three and a lal' f -. i H at a depth of 100 feet. A cross-cut run at this H depth opened up another two-foot vein which H contained free gold to the value of (114 per |