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Show RICH STRIKE MADE ON OMlPfiOPERTf Samples Taken in Tunnel Return Assays From $44 to $9600 a Ton. According to the assays of Professor Pro-fessor Ward M. Mills, ore from the new strike on the led.i:e of the Aunt Eosh mine, owned by W. P. O'Meura, formerly a niembor of Tho Salt Lake city council, and his associates, ran from $44 to 9600 per ton. The property prop-erty is located in the Amalie mining district, simated about fifteen miles east of Caliente and in Kern county. California. Professor Mills gathered the samples himself while on a visit to the district. Samples taken from the roof and the breast, of the tunnel ran ifliti, $lTo and $;i50 to the ton. H. B. Frank, a mining engineer of Bakersfield. Cal.. after visiting the district, dis-trict, said that H. Williams, associated with -Mr. O'Mcara. has uncovered a ledge four feet wide of free milling ore. which can be traced for i00 feet. The ground has been opened by a shaft sixtv feet deep, another shaft 100 feet deep, and a tunnel 100 fret in length, with a fiftv-foot crosscut. West of 'the Amu Bosa property about. 2000 feet the Hart brothers have opened up a lodge ten feet in width that assavs between $4" and ..jO a ton. Adjoining the Aunt Kosa to the southwest.' south-west.' Phillips and Crane have a ledge on which tliev have starred a crosscut. Thev are in thirty-four feet and have not "vet found the" hanging wall. This ledge returns values of from 12 to $24 to the ton. Joe Ferris, who owns the Ferris prop-ertv, prop-ertv, said to be a mountain of ore as-saving as-saving form $12 to .2" to the ton. expects to have the mill running in the near future. It will have a capac-itv capac-itv of seventv tens a dav. 'Aeeordine to Mr. Frank, the geological geolog-ical formation of the district consists of limestone, schist and granite. There is an abundance of wood and water in the district and at present there are about fifteen prospectors at work. He savs that the district looks like one of the greatest free milling propositions in California. |