| Show I PIOCHE NOTES from the record of feb 25 d j A aparto I 1 party of four men left yesterday berday with a light spring wak vak wagon ton ron rde tor san sin juan via prescott ari zonal zonah this is somewhat of a roundabout why way way but considering that by thia this i route dute travelers avoid the great s snow now belt which has caused so much suffering among those who have bave attempted it to io go straight through the party which left yesterday pursued a wise course nick sa sands sanda was the only one of the party W whose hose hoso name we were able to learn W 0 saw yesterday at the house of james B S smith co stock brokers a beautiful and valuable i specimen of ore taken the day before from the ninth level american flag flax mine this specimen waa was extracted from a large body of ore found in the ninth level and will assay us as high as to the ton this shows a v very veny e ry marked aked improvement in the charach char character act r of the ore and amo among ng those who are beat able to judge correctly this change Is ia looked u upon n as strong evidence of a rad radical cal cai change in the formation and as in dica dilative tive of a gratifying improvement indeed showing that another and amter better hetter quality of ground haga hafl been broken into by the company compan y the vein also runs vertically j i instead ste id of at an angle as before six assays essays of flag ore from the ninth level show average assays essays of |