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Show SECOND PAYMENT ON ESMERALDA GROUP A dispatch received here last evening announced that the second payment had been made on the Esmeralda property, in the Gold Circle district, and that tho inonov had been deposited yesterday in the First National bank at Winnemucca. A rec.nt report from Salt Lake stated that the d-al had fallen .through, but this pioved to have been crronus. Tho bale of the property, which Is one of tho 1 . 1.. .. ...i.i Jl.t.ix I'CM ttnl 11 III nil- uuiu '-nun; ui.iui'.i. Van negotiated and put through by the Charier1 S. Sprasue company of Goldficld And Involves a commission for that firm of A7&00 In cash and a block of stock In the company. The payment of yesterday yes-terday inake.K It i.crtaln that the remaining remain-ing payment will be made and that the deal is assured. The Gold Circle district i in Elko county, near the Humboldt county line and about forty miles north of the main Hue of tho Southern Pacific railroad, the shipping point being Golconda, in Humboldt Hum-boldt evinly. Tho Esmeralda property has four fhafts and a considerable amount of development work performed and I? said to have 10.000 tons of $20 ore in sight. The amou4t of the purchase price was fOO.000, The group was owned by "foil r miners and the alc was made to Salt Lake operators who at Aral offered of-fered to purchase a three-fourths interejt but later drldcd to take over the cntlro ptopertv. A mill has lately been completed com-pleted on tl 0 Esmeralda property and It is said t, be In condition to begin regular production of bullion at an carl date Goldrtcld Tribune |