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Show MINING BRIEFS. In the Sirac mine, forty miles north of Tonopah, Nev., and twentr flve miles from Mina. the ore runs aver $600 per ton in silver sil-ver and $250 in gold. Samples giving these values come from surface openings, and all the indications are so favorable that the property prop-erty will be developed. There were last week sixty-one sacks of mail awaiting distribution in the Golddeld, Nev., postoffice, whose clerical forces are largely overtaxed because the Government refuses re-fuses to increase the same in proportion to the amount of business transacted. One contracting con-tracting nrm needs thirty carpenters for work on buildings whose owners are clamoring for. The Inyo Gold Mining company, of which Lafayette Holbrook of Utah is president, has crosscut an ore body twelve feet wide, the value of which ranges $40 to $50 per ton. The announcement is made at Bullfrog that engineers have measured np the resources re-sources of the district for the American Smelting Smelt-ing ft Refining company, which wants to know how much tonnage may be expected from that source. These engineers are aaid to have declared that the aggregate value of ores blocked out exceeds 80,000 tons, of a grade rich enough to ship in crude state. Col. E. A. Wall arrived in Salt Lake from New York and Washington, in tims to raat rota. Bis visit East had been principally re-i re-i 1 k t&a salt he la xtrosaeulia aaainst. . |