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Show HIGH. GRADE SEEN BY JUDGE NELSON Salt Lake, Aug. 31 After having spent threo months In tho rauch-talked-of camp of High Grade In northeastern California near the Nevada Ne-vada state line, Judge O C. Nelson has roturned to Salt Lake and was at the Windsor yesterday He worked several leases, principally on the Sunshine, and came out ahead, soiling soil-ing his rights and the product of his labors, sacked ore, with profit. "High Grade Is a meritorious camp, and ahould mako good," declared de-clared Judge Nelson. "But It has been unfortunate It has been worked work-ed In a way for seven years. There havo been mills, but they hae been poorly arranged and Illy handled. The gold 16 fine and tho recovery has probably averaged not more than forty-five per cent In order to secure se-cure satisfactory results there must bo employed the cyanldlng process with its sliming. This process has never been usod In camp. "Another thing, few practical mining min-ing men have been in High Grade. Thi3 has kept the camp backward. In apitc of this, there are about half a dozen good looking properties in cump the Consolidated, the Big Four, Alturas, Sunset, Modoc and tho Sunshine. There are now nine sets of leasers on the Sunshine T oporated two leases with twelve men working. I sacked the ore and sold it when I sold my leases. Thoy were sacking or on the SunBhlno when I left. This is from nn 18-inch streak seventy-five feet vertically below the surface. This oro averages $175 a ton. with somo running as high as $240 to $2G0. The Modoc people have put In a hoist, and are operating a ten-stamp mill, giving ompjoyment to thirty men. A carload of ore was decently shipped from the camp which netted $287 a ton. Tho expenses ex-penses was about $62 a ton, Tho ten-mile wagon haul costs $S a ton. The road to the mlno Is so steep that It takes more teams to haul the pre down. I 'The proven district is about throe miles by a milo and a quarter. In thlB aro now employed about 300 men working and operating properties. This Includes High Grade, Pine Creek, etc. New Pino, ten miles distant, Is the nearest railroad point. ; "Tho country rock is principally 1 rhyollte and porphyry as far as It ' has been thoroughly prospected. Tho i .principal fissures have an east-v est strike, and tho ore occurs mainly in these fissures. The values aro principally prin-cipally gold with a little silver." I |