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Show GOLD miXS DEVELOPMENT. Superintendent James A. MeViehie of the Gold Hill: mine in the CUifton district of the Deep Creek country has arrived from that camp and saya that the shaft on this jrround has attained a-deptB of 300 feet below the tunnel level.- Within a few weeks the management manage-ment purposes to crosscut the country from the bottom of this shaft, and thus ascertain the mineral that the ground contains at this depth.1 This givei the. company a depth of approximately. 700 feet underground, and as a large tonnage of gold and copper cop-per ores has been exposed in the upper workings of th property, the management manage-ment has every reason to believe that an immense ore reserve in the drifts and .upraises -will be developed. . - - - Just now there ia considerable activity, activ-ity, in th Deep Creek camps, and as soon as the Western Pacific-reaches this section there will be employment for a great many mining men. Jn . addition to the increase of men ia the properties there are now being actively operated, there are large holdings by other operators oper-ators who . will begin development aa quickly as that country ia tapped by rail, r .. ..;.-:.. |