Show I MINING NEWS I ACTIVITY IN NEVADA PLACER OPERATIONS Manhattan Nev Ne July week of activity marks the placer operations along the tho main gulch Dur DurIng During Ing the week four new nev plants have been started and machInery for fOI two wo others has been ordered The Tho under underground ground work worl has been in the main to opening up and blocking out the ground and nd the only gravel washed was that thal taken out In the course of de development work and In the majority of oC cases the gold thus recovered pays entire expenses of development The discovery of 01 a third channel on the Fairview claIm Is of more importance tance than nl at first consIdered as It probably means the opening up of a anew t new gulch about three miles in length with the enrichment of oC the lower end of the main gulch from this source Since the of this new channel there Is a general opinIon opinion Ion prevailing among placer men that pay IJar values will be round found clear out into Smoky Valley and that there will willbe willbe be a thousand or more acres there that will he be worked there Is nothing definite dennite there thero is a credible rumor that investigation Is now being made us as to the of oC bringIng In the water from Twin River In the ho range for the purpose of hy by hydraulic mining anti If this Is done clone the whole surface front from Valley to Lo Lonear near the summIt of oC the tho ran range be becan can be sluIced at a profit Especially rich Is the surface dirt on the tho ground lying between Central Contral and th the Big Chief property a territory which Is a amile amile mile wide and three miles In length |