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Show ACTIVITY ISGREAT IN BELL DiSTRiCT! A. K. Tiernan Is Much Pleased With Conditions at Various Mines. A. K. Tiernan, mining engineer and mine operator, who lias Interests in several sev-eral sections of Utah and Nevada, has returned from a trip of inspection of the Bell district, in the Cedar Range mountains, moun-tains, east of Mina, Nev. He is more than pleased in fact, enthused with the results so far attained by the various properties under course of development, and is confident that the district will soon be known as one of the big gold camps of the region. Mr. Tiernan said that the mill of the Olympic Mines company, located at Omco postoffice, was now handling forty-five tons of 530 ore per day, but that within a few days an additional filter for the cyanide process used would be installed and the capacity of the mill raised to ninety tons per day. While Mr. Tiernan was on the ground a shipment of one thirty-pound bar of bullion, having a value of $6300, was made from this mine and mill. Mr. Tiernan said that the Loo Loo property owners, the ore being about the same grade as that found in the Olympic, had let a contract for the sinking of the shaft from the 50-foot, to the 100-foot level, and that even now, in the bottom of the shaft, was found considerable ore that went better than $40 per ton. The Crystal Butte, which has a splendid splen-did surface showing, will soon let a contract con-tract for the sinking of a shaft. There is great activity in the district generally, the Contact Copper and the Nevada Lead being among the steady shippers. A big strike is reported two miles southeast of the Olympic, in ground held by Radcllff and Everett, but Mr. Tiernan did not have time to investigate. |