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Show CAPT. DE LAMAR'S LUCK. ' Now Has $2,000,000 .Profit at; His Funeral Range Bonanza." ! Through the purchase of an adjoiu-iirg adjoiu-iirg " property by , Tonopah- Operators, news touching the' value and condition of the Kane Wonder property ;in the Funeral range of mountains skirting Death valley, by . Captain J. 'r. -De I amar has just oeen brought out of camp. Charles R. Maunder was recently re-cently sent from Tononah to secure the Llackbird group, ard when he returned his mission had been fulfilled. The Kane Wonder, for which Captain Dc Lamar paid $170,000 before scarcely any work had been done upon it now has, according to Mr. Maunder, 100,000 tons of ore blocked out. which aver-ages aver-ages $27.60 per tor. in gold. This ore is how being worked at a, total cost of S7.G0 per ton. so that the mine now has in sight $2,000,000, net, for its owner. Mr. Maunder expresses the opinion that the property secured by himself and as30ciates is just as rich as that belonging to Captain De Lamar. On it they have two big ledges that give essay values from $7 to $564 in gold and one of the ledges, cailed the Blackbird, Black-bird, is from fourteen to eighteen feet thick. It is schist witn a big capping cap-ping of quartzite. The company incorporated in-corporated by Maunder and associates to handle the property is called the 1 California' & Nevada Goia Mining company, com-pany, incorporation bei?ig under the laws of South Dakota, and the capitalisation capital-isation $1,000,000. |