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Show 1 on the market, and none of it Is now be-I be-I ing offered for sale. Upon this ground the j highest grade ores In the district have been uncovered, and from picked samples, sam-ples, taken from the pay chute, the lowest low-est values obtainable show as much as 8380 per ton, while the highest values are up Into the thousands of dollars. This very rich streak is small, having been uncovered 09 the hanging wall and only averaging from one-half to two Inches Inch-es In width. Between the hanging and foot walls there Is a three-foot ledge, which carries values from $15 to 890, and the company is running a crosscut tunnel to tap this ledge at a depth of 200 feet, the tunnel now being In a distance of 600 feet and within another 100 feet It Is expected that the ledge will be cut. In this tunnel were found two blind ledges, one six feet and the other sixteen feet wide, each carrying car-rying gold of the value of 85 per ton. Adjoining this property on the south Is the famous United Verde group, recently incorporated, and of which George D. Williams Wil-liams is the efficient manager. This property prop-erty has an exceptionally fine showing, and If in some of the older districts, would be quoted way above par. The lower low-er tunnel on this ground is now in a distance dis-tance of 300 feet underground, and the face of the workings Is In solid ore, with no walls appearing. The upper tunnel is in a distance of 125 feet, at a point about 130 feet above the lower tunnel, and the entire face of this channel Is also in ore. This means a continuous ore body for 130 feet perpendicular by 41 feet wide, and If the ledge was crosscut, from present Indications, it would be at least from eight to ten feet in width. There is also a streak of shipping ore in this property, from which a sample shipment or fourteen tons has Just been made, and the returns were highly gratifying grati-fying to the management. A group of claims m this district, known as the Gigantic group, Is owned by a To-nopah To-nopah crowd. This ground Is being opened up in several places, and the main tunnel has attained a distance of 300 feet in the mountain side. Hoffman Brothers of Salt Lake City and Butte have gathered In . a large group of claims In this district, on which they have paid two-thirds of the purchase price down, and. It la said, will soon make the final payment. They have dropped down several shafts to a depth of 100 feet, and all of this work has shown good values val-ues In the yellow metal. A hoist has been placed on the First of July ground by these parties, and it is said they will soon begin dropping down a shaft to a depth of 600 feet, drifting from each 100-foot level, as the shaft is sunk. The First Chance ground, which is owned by Robinson Brothers and Shields, has attained a depth of 150 feet, and is being operated at this depth by means rtf a whim. Water has recently been tapped and the development work abandoned until un-til the arrival of a pump from Salt Lake. Leases have been let on this group, and shipping ore is being taken out by several of these parties. Some of the values extracted ex-tracted range from (80 to as high as $2000 per ton. . The district has an abundance of timber tim-ber and water, and a number of properties proper-ties are being developed. CAMP OF GOLDEN BOOMS. Nevada has another mining district that is attracting attention Just now, because of some interesting developments develop-ments that are taking place In several of the properties that are being operated. The camp is that of Golden, located seventy-two miles due south of Austin. It is the center of an extensive mineral sone. which can be ' traced from Ollng- - house canyon on the north, through To-nopah, To-nopah, Goldfleld and Bullfrog on the south. On this belt are the thriving camps of Wonder. Fairvlew. Phonollte. Duluth. . Berlin and Grantsville. besides numerous smaller camps, some of which have been j quietly developed for several seasons, and ' are still In the prospective stages. 1 , In Golden " the surface showings are phenomenal. The values run from $40 to: as much as $25,000 per ton in gold and silver, with the yellow metal predominat- Ing. While there has never been any attempt at-tempt to boom or advertise this country. It is being actively developed in several places throughout the district, and lias had a good sized payroll for the past three vcars. At present there are no leas than 150 men employed in the district, and every tlm a miner goes into camp he is offered employment by the several properties prop-erties that ar being opened up. Among the properties responding nlce-' nlce-' lr to the efforts of the operators In this district is the Little Frankie group of claims, which Is a close corporation, no treasury stock ever having been placed |