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Show MANY SALES BECOBDED. Eastern People Pay Cash Sums for Caliente Properties. Special to The Trlbuno. CALIENTE. Juno 6. The Great West group of gold mines, south of Moapa, belonging to Smith and Jell Curtis, was sold yesterday to Grande & Lathrop of San Francisco and Los Angeles far &000. of which 10 per cent has been paid. These claims have had over G00 fcot of work complotcd, and thoy havo about forty tons of $23 ore on the dump, with nearly 1000 tons blookod out ready for extraction. Boyd and Wc3ton, ownors of tho Jack High olaSm, north of Moapa, havo struck a ton-foo ledge of $1 ore. which Bhows equal value In gold and sllvor. Tho owners will make a test shipment of their oro within this month. Norrls, Blakoloy & Morton of Denver havo purchased tho Golden Eaglo group of claims of Callonte from Street and Moseley for $4000, and they paid spot cash for the properties. They oxpcot to erect a small mil within tho coming summer Jackson nnd Wilder, owners of tho Jack Pot group of claims located In Tim Pali TJtc district, havo sold tholr claim to Norton & Frlck of Boston this week for $1,K)0, of which 20 per cent has already al-ready beon paid, the balanco coming duo In Blx months from Juno 1. Lawton, Moroloy & Jamison of Chicago Chi-cago havo purchased a onc-hnlf Interest Inter-est In the Hidden Treasure group of gold claims on Virgin river for $50,000, and will put a gang of men at work on the properties about July 1. Gen. Van Berg, ono of tho leading mining mi-ning mon of Birmingham, Ala., pased through camp today en routo for tho new booming camp of Falrvlew, whoro his son has located four rich claims. Bootwlck nnd Jones, owners of tho Pino Grove group of gold-silver claims, woat of Caliente, have Just struck a throe-foot ledgo of oro going $3.25 In gold and 245 ounces sliver. They wero sinking on a two-foot ledgo of low-grade oro and encountered en-countered the lato strike at a depth of 150 feet Thoy aro drifting on tho now strlko, and have gone In fourtoon feet, and llnd tho now vein widening and Increasing In-creasing In value with dovelopmont. |