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Show as soon as satisfactory arrangements can be made with the mills around Osceola, & t0J5" or or" wi be reduced dally. ine Gold Bar Placer company Is hoisting hoist-ing pay gravel from one of the shafts, and is preparing to Install a whim on another shaft, where a large body of rich gravel was recently encountered. The properties of this company are controlled con-trolled by C. W. Gaby of Osceola and Dr. R. h. Richardson and Neil Munro of Ely. . Copp, Butts and Schrader have been In Osceola for the past week negotiating for the placer ground at Mill canyon. Two thousand acres of ground from the Gregory ranch to Weaver creek were located lo-cated by the same parties for placer purposes. pur-poses. As they represent large capitalists. It Is their Intention to prospect their holdings hold-ings with churn drills, and- after the permanency per-manency of the deposits has been determined, de-termined, they will work the ground with dredges. Copp is an experienced placer miner, and states that the ground is ideal for dredging. The ground acquired by Copp and associates has long been known to contain gold In large quantities, and dredging Is the only way to recover it. t MUCH GOLD AT BLACKHORSE. One of the many Nevada districts which Interest the mining men ' is the Blackhorse. Locally, a number of Investors In-vestors are Interested In that section, which Is holding out some fine Inducements. Induce-ments. In accordance -.with previous plans, the Amalgamated Nevada Mines and Power company has leased several properties of the Blackhorse, the pioneer mine of the district bearing the same name, and one set of leasers are sacking sack-ing gold ore that will go $400 to the ton.' The curiosity of F. L. Stewart, the superintendent, was directed to a spot twenty feet from where a force of men were working, and at Ms request several sev-eral shots were put in. The charge dls-rlosed dls-rlosed eighteen inches of ore that Is literally lit-erally studded with gold. Pan tests from the new strike will average from $300 to $500 a ton. The San Pedro mine, under the control of the same company, is sacking high-grade ore from the lower Workings. Henry Gunderson A Co., who are , leasing the old Butterfiold property at Osceola, are blocking out milling ore. and |