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Show HIGH-GRADE GOLD IN GROOM DISTRICT Active Development of Numerous Properties in Camp Is Now Noted. From one of their clatms located north of Groom camp in the quaruite. Lane and Ishwav got a gold assay of $13,60 last week, says the Pioohe (Xev.) Record. The sample was white quartz and was from near the surfa.ee. An offer of SS000 5s reported to have bwn made last week for one of the claims located on the Groom ledge to the south by Lane and Ishway. They refused the offer, as they will shortly begin work on the ground and expeat to find ore near the surface, on a comparison of their surface croppings with others to the north, who have aTready cut ore on this lead. The shaft of the Groom North Extension company, situated north of the Groom mine is down about forty feet. It is intended in-tended to cut the various' strata of the main ledge on the dip, and has already passed through several mbieral indications. indica-tions. After going some fifty feet the company expects to install a gasoline hoist arid press the work faster than at urcsent The caterpillar train and trucks are moving again and ore Is going steadily from the Groom mine to market. The snow melted slowly and no particular time was lost through muddy roads. The distance to Indian Springs station is sixty miles, and the Packard and aauer trucks have been ablo to make a round trip IM miles) in twenty-four hours, on several sev-eral consecutive trips during the past ten days. |