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Show DEALS THICK AND FAST. Caliente Abounds in Mining1 Transactions Trans-actions Wherein Cash Is Paid. Pleclftl to The TrlbutP- CALIENTE. March 19. John Ramer and Mcrt .Long, owners of the Majestic group of claims on the Virgin river, passed through camp today, en route to Elmyrn. N. Y , with $4000. tho result of a cash sale of their properties to Morris & Burns of Kansas City, realty men. who have taken hold of this group with a force Of six men for extensive development. Tho new owners will have a mill in commission before be-fore June 1, and expect to Increase their working force to twenty men at that date. There are 300 feet of development work completed on these claims In shafts and tunnels, and a winze sunk on a four-foot kdgo 110 feet in tho tunnel a depth of ftrty feet shows values of S&2 In free gold. In the tunnel of the Ilespcth mine, one of this group, a crosscut bus been run live fcot across a ledge of white quartz, showing show-ing $13 oro tho entire cut, and in the Slnglo Jack shaft, which Is now down sixty-five feet a vein two feet wide shows tho richest ore of the group, samples going go-ing ns high as &I32 per ton and averaging averag-ing ilC5 across the vein. lako & Norton, owners of the Blue Kldgo claim, west of Caliente. are lak-irg lak-irg out and sacking SI3 ore for shipment to Salt Lakj In a gold-silver quart?., of which thoy have four and seven feet In two separate ledges. Mark Jeffries, half owner of the Three Tines group of claims. In St. Lawrence district, passed through camp today, en route to his old homo in Cedar Rapids, la . having just f-old his interest In the group to his oartners, McLain and Baldwin Bald-win of Louver, for JS0O0. Thomas Osborne, ono of Plocho's leading lead-ing mine owners, has forsaken the home of his birth, and left yesterday for Salt Lake City, whero ho will In future make his residence Mr. Osbcrne Is a stockholder stock-holder In many prominent mines In Ploche and has made a fortune In tho county seat. lie leaves there because of III health, but will retain his holdings and olilclnl positions In properties In which ho is Interested in the camp. Los Davis and George Plummer, owners ( f tho General Miles group of claims, recently re-cently located, near Indian Springs, the district where tho recent strike called so many miners from Caliente. have 3truck a three-foot vein of gold-silver ore showing show-ing values up to ?1S0 per ton in both" metals met-als They have stipk but six feet on the cln, which has widened from two to ihree feet li that depth, and shows free-gold free-gold In nearly every piece of ore extracted extract-ed They have Just refused an offer of S20.CO0 for their prospect, which was made them by Georgo Davis and Hon. G. H. Fletcher, two Colorado mining men, whc are represented In the new camp by Dujo Lawler, an old-time Nevada prospector. r:l:e owners bellove they have the big mine of the camp and expect to make a lest shipment of oro tills month. C. P. Chrlstensen Qf Caliente returned from Summit Springs, where he owns several sev-eral claims adjoining the rich Great Eastern, East-ern, bringing wiMi him a ton of average ore. which he will at once ship to Salt Lako for a working test before continuing work on the claims. Ills partners arc slill at the claims and aro taking out ore for another shipment. |