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Show WILL ONCE MORE ATTRAirrATTENTIOM New Miuiiiic District of California Califor-nia Gradually Coining to the Front. LOCATED IN MOUNTAIN RANGE 0K MAYO C0UNTR1 A. J. Davis Brings iloiiii,r lle-ports lle-ports of flip Region Back to Salt I,ak, The Sjiale of California x , t,, again attract the attention of th inlnini; srorld with u hsw mineral district of which there la ver.v little kimvii hi present, ac-ior(Jln(t ac-ior(Jln(t to A J. DaviS, the well -k no w?i mining man of Suit Lake, wh has .lust returned from an sc tended tiii throusjh Nevada Califorjila and Prisons The n-w district, Mr. uavls states, iiia fair create as ftreat an excltemenl .is man) ( the early mineral dlscoverlSB in call-(Ornls call-(Ornls . The new region la located lii tin Coso range Of mountain:- lii Invii count) Cali-fornia, Cali-fornia, southwest ii the Bullfrog district of Nevada. The ma'jOr portion -f Mi U.ivlss jc cut i rl i was ilcv.iieil in un li-t'pection li-t'pection of the new count rj-, he having nunie an examination of nnie claims In the intercM ol Roderick McKenzle of Bait Lake and s syndicate or Bastern caiii-taiiMtu. caiii-taiiMtu. rii propertj which engaged tno attention of Mi Davis Is located fort) tnil-e from ECeeler, Cal., the nearest ntil-raad ntil-raad station Shows Fiee Gold Mr. Davis look t went ycslx s imples of on from varl.ni purts nf tin nine Inlms and in states tiiat tiie lowest assay lie obtained was J104 a ton. Everj sample of nfe showed fre- jolii The ledge on the pinpertv null rops for mme ihun ,i mile tin the surface the pay streak measures four Inches, and at a depth of twenty-eight twenty-eight feet It -lloW-- S Width Of eleven Inches, averaging Jism b ton The formal lion is a pure white sugar quarts and i? thorough!) Impregnated stli free k.m.i While ihe vein or the countr) rock is not in place, Mr Davis declares thai the property la one of ihe best prospects hS lias ever examined and th3t it will pM.v development expenses from the grass !O0tS. The ore can he mined and delivered deliv-ered at the SaU Lake smi iters inr les than $2fi a ton. Another Rich Ledge Found. Mr. Davis further reports thai al Centennial Cen-tennial Springs which is fifteen miles north of the McKensle property there lives an old prospector and mining; man who lias located twentv ilalms in the im- medlate vicinity On tiieq. claims the prospector has located B ledge, five feet In width, that outcrops for a distance of more than a thousand feet, and that protrudes pro-trudes ahOUt five feet above the snr-faic. snr-faic. The ore front Ihe ledge runs per cent cooper, ounces of silver, "7 per cent lead and about CI cents In gold. Plenty of Water and Timbor. A pleasing feature of the country is that there is an abundance Of water ann timber, anil the me can he handled cheaply) as a syndicate of New York capitalists nre at present constructing a LSO-ton smelter and a ten-Stamp mill n t KSelef, which Is milv twentv miles ilN- innt from the property. The mill is just about completed and the smelter will be in commission ahom March I The mill was erected for the purpose of working the olrl. tailings of the 080 Gorda mine. Which In the early nyr- paid dividend amounting to $l4.00u.uon The mine waa originally owned bj Mexicans and was worked in a primitive fashion There is an immense quantlt) of the old tailings, which will average $4.S a ton Stiike Made at Kent. Mr Davis received ThursdS) an en-couraglng en-couraglng reporl from i L McGntlre, who is hi Kent, just north id Flv. Nei Inspecting five claims for Salt Lake capitalists. The report was to the effect that a tlve.foot . dge hail heen encouii-tered encouii-tered at a depth of ten feet running ISO miners In silver 11 . pep cent copper and 41 per cent lead |