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Show CANYONNEWS Carload lot No. 9, containing -10 tons ftom tho Pacific, was marketed this week and netted tho shippers $2,931.52, of which amount $438.99, went to tho owners royalty. It assayed 3.1 per. cent coppoj, 90.25 ounces In sllvor and .Ofi in gold per ton. Another CO tm car of this class was sent to tho tmellor Tuesday and another car Is In tho oro bin ready to ship. There Is slso u car of lend oro In tho bin. Joseph W. Thornc, E. L. Halllday nnd X. K. Nlolson went up to tho I'lah Centennial mlno Sunday. Mr. Hnlllday will remain ns superintend, eat. Tho men nro now In nbout fior feet and ranking good progress. Somo fine samples of galonn oio bi ought back. Negotiations nro now ponding for n loaso on this part of th mine. Tho Lavaun Mining Company took a force of minors up tho Canyon this wick to commonco work. This property proper-ty lies north of and adjoining tho Hoi. orophnn nnd Is thought to contain the muno fissure. t 'llio Mlllor Hill Exploration Co. that Ik driving n 1,600 foot tunncl to cut the Paclflc-Dutchmnn fissure now has It tunnol In over 350 foot nnd Is niiiklng good progioss under tho sup-rnlslnn sup-rnlslnn of Emll Nlolson who has 150 feet yet further to drive on his eon tniet. Ten moro mon woro put on nt Hi Pacific this wcok. Itopoits nro tin the coppor strlko In. tho upraise I Improving and that a cross oast.wcn' fbtuiro filled with high giado oro. In being dovolopod. m m Elovon minors nnd.n cook aro now employed at tho Earl-Eaglo which property Is making tho fnstost dove lopmont In tho Canyon. Tho char ncter of tho woik Is mso equal to and superior to most of tho work being dono any whore olse. The Dutchman mlno has 14 mon employed em-ployed now. Tho main tunnel hns now been thoroughly timbered, nnd today will soo tho laBt sets of tlmbor place' In tho two drifts each of which are run 200 nnd 300 foet south and north re pectlvely from the end of tho 900 foot tunnel. Prospecting tho llcli silver sil-ver strike reported In our Inst Issue will now bo taken up. Tho dovolop. incut woik on this old historic property prop-erty is being watched with the keen, est interest. Senator John II. Woottou ropoits Inning opened up a most promising flssuro on tho South Pnrk property which ho Is developing across the Canyon from tho Pacific mlno. |