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Show I-PLEASED WITHMBIS Values iu Ores Left by Former Owners and in New Finds. EXPERTS PLAN TO VISIT THIS WEEK Mill Run Tests on Broken Product Prod-uct Give Satisfactory Returns. S. M. Stcnhousc. one of the owners of llio Mud Springs mine in Madera county. California, has returned to this city after a three-weeks' visit of Inspection at the property. Mr. Stcnhousc made the trip orlmarlly for the purpose of examining the lower levels of the mine, which was made possible by the recent unwatcring of the lower workings. He was met at the property by a well-known mining engineer en-gineer of this city, who, after making a superficial examination of the property, said: "1 could not do justice to the mine or to myself without sampling the entire ground, which would require time I ean-noL ean-noL at present, afford. J must say, however, how-ever, that there Is a strong likelihood of opening up a number of rich chimneys or ore in the unexplored ground, and also of the extraction of a large tonnage of ore from the continuation of the old chimney below the 4P0-foot level." The old chimney referred to. Mr. Stcnhousc Stcn-housc states, is one from which some J'JOO.000 in profits was taken by the former owners of the ground, who used n fifteen-ton mill for the reduction of tho first-class ores, though many thousand thou-sand tons of second-class was left in the mine It was with the view of making a profit on this broken rock that the Salt Lake interests bought the property and set about putting It In shape for production. pro-duction. In the course of this work, in n-ilmbering the Incline shaft as rapidly as the water receded, three feel of ore was encountered al a depth of ninety feet, the product giving assay returns of $72 per ton. The Importance of this discovery was verified by Mr. Stenhouso on his recent visit the ore having been traced for a distance of fifty feel below the point or discovery and also to the south as far as the broken ore would permit. This ore has all been found in one of tho six claims owned by the company, and it is the intention or the management now to push exploration and development, work on the remainder of lis holdings, as well as in the old workings. I Mill Tests. Tho company Is now testing the ore in the large tommies broken down In the rehabilitated mill, deeming this mothod preferable to sampling for the values. As the property lias not been1 worked for several years, there arc no assaying facilities fa-cilities on the ground -at present, hut minings made by those who are familiar fa-miliar with tho ores give results that promise from 510 to S20 per ton on the many carloads of the product which arc now being stored in the bins. This is not given as an average of the returns to bo expected on the ores, but nevertheless neverthe-less It serves to give an Idea of the possibilities pos-sibilities and makes an interesting proposition propo-sition of the undertaking. On Saturday next George IDern. manager man-ager or the Consolidated Mercur and Boston Sunshine gold mills iu the Mercur Mer-cur district, and an authority on cyanld-Ing cyanld-Ing will visit the Mud Springs property In company with A. H. Brown, a well-known well-known engineer of the firm of Brown and Kdwards of this city, and will make a close examination of the mine. Their report re-port on the property may determine its future. It Is probable also that they will be met at the mine by George T. Stcnhousc. ono of tho Incorporators of the company, and al present manager of the Morgan -Orescent copper mine at Morgan, this state A number of Salt Lake people arc Interested In-terested In the Mud Springs company and are of the opinion that a big future Is in More for the mine. |