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Show GROOM MI HIS EXCELLENT VALUE According to the Fioche, Nov., Record tlie Groom mine is working; regularly with a force of about twenty-five men. Pat Sheahan. one of the owners, is running run-ning it. Ore, of the usual grade of 5? per cent lead and eighteen ounces silver, is going to market, t-hough the embargo on cars, etc.. several of which have been I l in effect of late, do not heip matters any. Ore has been mined now for a distance J of some 400 feet on the liii-foot level, f and ore of the usual srade of this prop-j prop-j erty was cut some forty feet east of the j main shoot from which last year's ship-I ship-I mer.ts were made. The surface cropping s i both north and south of this point indi- cate thai the ore will still extend in both I directions. Testa made from time to time Indicate ' a flow of about gallons of water per; i day from the -00 level drift made some I time ago. This rises to the 1"0 level, ' i and with further work expected to in-j in-j crease in quantity. It !s proposed now Mo unwater tins section and prospect it. i and after fin-iing what quantity of water lean be re h e d upon, to adopt a be t : e r I method of .lig'-ing ore Ih.m has been I heretofore used. I 1: ma y t.j ke a considerable amount of ' work to determine that v ater enough (exists for general mill use. The country j generally is desert and springs, a few, ' small and far between, have nearly ail been appropriated by cattlemen. A heavy duty steel truck, capable of carrying from si:c to ten tons of ore at a 3iid. is now being tested out on t:ie raid to Inriia-n Springs. If it works the makers expect, it will cut the ore haul cost on that part of the road in half. The road is dry and dusty and will no; be good until after a storm, so thai the machine ma-chine so far has not P.ad a fair ehan.-e to demons; iate just what advantages u rosiest es, if iHv. over tlie one formerly used. |