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Show people th mm r surely Juatined In working in k mental stale of high tn-Hon. tn-Hon. Thwro ! not one of thm that nun failed to extract from twenty-rtv to ono hundred pounds of ore. fach day for the last six month that will average from 50 cent to Jl jrr pound in silver. The si.ver 1 a chloride, some pieces of which are so pure that they can he bent double. It has been the policy of the parties r operating these leasen, Mfmrj. Ricks and Skinner. Anderson ind Henderson and Rogers and Kllfner. to "say nothing and staw wood." When ten or twenty sack have been extracted it has been expressed to a market and that returns have never run blow 60 cents a pound. Than leasers leas-ers alone have taken several thousand dollars out during this limt winter and none of them have attained enough depth to mention. In fact, they have liardiy I begun to prospect the ground. v.pon tho Last Day No. 1 claim. Joln-ng Joln-ng the Durango Girl on the south, four sets of leasers are busily extracting the same high-grade horn silver as Is found on the Durango Girl. The parties operating oper-ating these leases, Joy and Kelley, New-lands New-lands and MorrK Jim Nelson and Dar-I Dar-I gavel and McLeod. have none of them been working more than two months, but I without an exception every one Is at i present Hacking the high-grade. Of this i pet probably Joy and Kelley have tho best record to date. They started their loase about the first of January and have Just sent to the Salt Lake smelter about 3,000 pounds of oro that will net I them 1 a pound. - Mr. Lloyd, who owns the Last Day No. 1 claim, Is also carrying on development work. Ho also Is taking out ore. It Is almost Impossible to dig a hole five feet deep on this property without encountering encounter-ing seams of almost pure horn silver. I MINING NEWSl (By Josoph S. Jordan.) Tho cleanup rf tho last shipment of ore from tho Wlhuja lease took placo last Monday and the amalgam was retorted Tuesday. It Is expected that the run will surpass any that nan yet been made from this remarkable lease. Several hundred pounds were shipped away from here last week, the rcturna from which are said to bu In the- nelKhborhood of $S0 a pound On the heels of the Wlhuja's cleanup comes a shipment from the Harris Har-ris lease of the Seven Troughs Florence, tho run on which will commence within the next few days. Teams carrying this ore have been pausing through the town during tho last two day, and some of the ore which has been enaked from tho wagons is simply picture rock. This is tho shipment from the Florence, Flor-ence, and the cleanup will be awaited with Interest. Men who are familiar with the mine and Its 'underground workings work-ings declare the shipment will not go less than $100 a ton. More conservative estimates place the values at betweon V) and SG0 a ton. Tho lease is located on the Falrvlew ground from which some of the mont beautiful high grade has been taken. The first shipment of the Falrvlew to the llviidergarten mill was run through In advance of that of the Wlhuja. It amounted to 142 tons, and when the cleanup was made It was estimated esti-mated that It was worth $14, VO Now, news Is received that It went as high as Jlti.O'!. This return Is the more remarkable remark-able from the fact that 70 tons of tho shipment were taken from the dump, the rest coming from the various locls' of the mine. 4 1 Tho Badger Hill mill on tho English George lease had another weekly cleanup clean-up resulting In something over 60 ounce9 which approximated J1.S00. The results In this mill are getting better each week. In tho big tunnel on the lease there are now 400 tons of ore broken down and there aro 600 tons In sight. i The Reagan lease continues to pour out Its ore, and the teams are packing the rock to tho mill of the Mazuma Hills, whero tho stamps continually are dripping drip-ping on It. The shipment promises to be 1 the best that ha ytt come from tho mine, and Ihe stories of the hlgh-grado strike at the 300 level are still tha talk of the district. Ihe new Reagan lease on the wild Bull In Wild Horse canyon Is Improving In Its showings every day, and It Is tho belief be-lief of every ono In the camp that Reagan Rea-gan will duplicate his luck on tho original orig-inal leaso in the.. Mazuma Hills. The shaft Is down 110 feet, and in the north drift a shoot of ore has been opened, which In three feet In width carrying values all the way. There 1 a ten-Inch streak which goes better than $U0 a ton, and the panning aro something Immense, the gold being the coarsest 'which has yet boon found in the camp. The Farrell end of the district beyond W lid Horse Is looking up In great shape. The Seven Troughs Cacar, in particular, la now doing work which will tell tho slory for that end of the Seven Troughs. Thoy arc In about "o feet In a tunnel which Is to bo driven 760 feet in the hill, culling three known veins, on one of which they havo got some very rich high grade, when tho tunnel Is completed, the mine will hayc a depth of 350 feet, and tho character of th-t part of the country pretty well demonstrated. Wlnncmueea Star; Very little has been mado public during the last nix months about the mining progress in whut is known as the Sulphur mine section of the ItoKlud mining district, but from the fact that little has been said does not Indicate In-dicate that little has been done. Con. II- tlons at present aro vt-ry inuoh to the contrary and have been so all winter. Upon the Durango Girl property, owned by the Tomboy crowd of Colorado, three sets of leasers are operating with much vigor and enthunlasm, and as long as money continues to master the American |