Show l 1 Edited I. I Mines and Mining Sprague F F. DY nW W. W j. j I RYE P A T H MINES SATISFY OWNERS f Developments Are so Encouraging Encouraging 1 aging Advance Payment Is Made I The Rye Ryo Patch Consolidated Mines Ines Is making final for tor forthe i payment the old ol mines in Humboldt county count re recently recent ro- ro cent purchased el h by It I. I This is il being dono done despite tho fact tact that tho the last payment payment pay pay- ment would not be he cu due until next ext January and the further Tact fact that no 1 discount b be allowed It I t IH evidence o that tho new nc owners are arc satisfied that y tha the they are recel ln receiving tho worth WOIth of their mone money It I IH Ia It doubtless also true that the former owners would ho he only too loo I II back at glad Clad to take tho the properties I received anything Jlko liko the tho price The Tho work Iko of ot cleaning out tho old oJ lower loer tunnel l feet teet long ht has just i. i been heen completed cars and track trace are aro on the lie way and soon three shifts will wil be bo 0 working In nl Its 18 face tace The Tue tunnel was r driven 40 years ago aso and front from It one 1 ore oro chamber WA was wa sloped out out It I wi will have to bo ho driven 00 feet teet further urther however to got get et under the tho famous Borland Bor Bor- r. r land which yielded something e Ilko from froni above the thc foot toot levI level ew r That tho the rich oro ore In that chamber extends even en far below tho the lower tunnel tun tin nel liel level Is indicated b by results at attending attending attending at- at tending tending- the tho sinking of or a shaft near t the tho mouth o of the tho upper tunnel by tho the Tho shaft wa wa-j wa t time old operators Hunk ol I fee f f H r n In the tho country rock i n C the thoi bottom m a crosscut was at the bot I driven over o to the vein There according ncr ftC ac- r cording to tho the word of some seine of ot the minors employed In the tue work who are aro S. S yet et living was encountered two feet ti of or the richest oro ore over taJ taken en from tram t the tho mine But water came camo In In such l t Volume that the tho work could not be bo continued and short shortly afterward ard was WL started tho the migration litigation ton which securely f tied ted up tho mines for moro more than a a. I gen gon- oration C. C D D. Ray Ry president and manager ot of l. l the Ryo Re Patch Consolidated Mines company was occupied nearly live years roars oars looking hooking up tho records o of tho the old alI oldA A Rye Rc Patch mines examining tho the old ole 0 workings and surroundings and ane d' d out the tue legal tangle beorA be- be straightening straightening- 1 orA ho ii I. YinA T thorn them In form to turn Over oyer i to u tho present prese- C owning company compan The Tho old ohl upper tunnel has hoH already been driven some saro distance on tho the vein by bp tho en dr new company compan It I is In ten feet teet of ot ore of ot good g milling grate grade and tho the character or of tho the formation Is such that no doubt is left lett that new chambers of ot the tho high grade gold silver gold sUver ore are gado will Jl be encountered in virgin ground Tests of tho the oro era on the tho dumps and atthe of at the tailings s l are re now being made mutu by Professor Protessor C C. F. F Bowon Boven to determine the milling milling- process that will be bo required I |