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Show I ASBESTOS DISCOVERED j IN SIMON DISTRICT Special to The Tribune. MIXA. Nv Sept. S Oeorfte F. Brown, pr.sidfiu of the North Siar Mining cqiu-..UiV, cqiu-..UiV, to nuies northwest of the Simon Sii v L ad mmo. broiiL'ht into the Com- j rrercUl club a. 'nox of asbestos duff from 1 I j isT I'e'ow tlie surface. Tho sample Id 1 uO'I luokn:? asbestos, and ?. as far as : has b-'-. n ascertained, the first to be ' fc-:nd in this district. The Xort h Star company is preparing lo Mi-'k a ir.o-fool bhaft pn the property Imirt-rd). t'j-y. Trp- rioroe-Likens company has fev-c-r.tl mn fcinkm a bhaft on their property prop-erty near the S'mon Fa pan ground. The sh.ift is now down about twenty fet-t, ar.d sliows a face, of ore forty-two feet v:d' as- a vs trom which run between ?'o and 5'-'f..1. The ore is Kparently the same as that in the Simon Pagan gold, siiver and had. Clifford McClellan of San Francisco la in town for a f-w days inspecting' some properties in I'ro-tolus, in which ho is heavily i n teres ted. il. A. Ltanns of the Lmrms Coal Mining company of t'oaldale is in town today on Ins way back from Reno, where he lias been spridiny seme days in the interests in-terests of his company. Mr. Partus Mates that he estimates about 5"".'KJ'J tons of a fine semibitumin-ous semibitumin-ous coal is available on his property, and is preparing lo unwater an old shaft In oiab. r to .sink about -"'0 feet furt her in order to strike the extension of a larpe vt-ln already opened up at another point. The property consists of 1 fl'j acres of patented ground and about S00 acrey un-ja un-ja tented, and a 8 the railroad is only about three miles from the shaft, shipping ship-ping should be easy and cheap. |