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Show BUSY IN NEVADA. Leasers in Johnnlo District Throwing Dirt From Shafts. The leasors are getting busy In the Johnnie district, which is 35 miles south of Bullfrog, and shipments are being made and prepared which will place this district on an equal footing with any in the country regarding production. produc-tion. Every day contracts are being signed, and as the dirt is being thrown out of the shafts the hillsides resemble gigantic ant colonies with Its mounds of earth distributed around the landscape. land-scape. Mills are now contemplated lor the benefit of the leasors. The Minnie Mae lease Is doing lino work The main shaft has been sunk 35 feet, and the ledge, which was two and a half feet wide at the start, is broadening with depth. A shipment of ore wna made from this lease the other dav of 14.030 pounds to the Salt Lake qmelter which was purchased at the ?So of 5370 per ton. Robert Atkinson and Frank Bennett have purchased a half interest in the lease for $12,500. Before consummating the deal Bennett and Atkinson carefully explored the ground, and from several samples enor-fnouB enor-fnouB assays were obtained. At ono S across the whole ledge these astonishing as-tonishing figures were gotten: 51034. 51Therownlcasc has been taken by, Robert Brown of Cripple Creek fame, and work was commenced at this point Sn the first of July. It is 400 feet from the Minnie Mae lease. Brown has carefully care-fully explored the ground and encountered encoun-tered some very good ore. |