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Show highest values Dr. Shock has obtained on his claims is $2. SO a yard In the Henry mountains there Is considerable activity. The Bromide mine has been placed under a bond and lease and machinery for the operation 6f the plant Is on the way. Klinball and Turner's mine Is also bonded and leased. These two prop-ertlos prop-ertlos carry good values in gold arid copper, and It Is expected that considerable con-siderable work will be done as soon as the spring opens up. The weather on the river is lhr most severe ever known since the diggings dig-gings were discovered. The river 13 frozen over and there is about eight inches of snow where snow was never known to stay more thau h few hours. Cass Illte still holds on to his property prop-erty on the river. He has leased the Tlckapoo property there. EXPECT ACTIVITY j II PLACER II; Salt Lake, Feb 7 Dr. W. H. Schock returned from his placer claims a week ago after having done tho assessment as-sessment work on his holdings on the Colorado river, says the Richfield Reaper. Rea-per. The doctor still has great faith In the gravel beds of the liver and he looks for considerable activity there tho coming summer. The Good Hope, company is preparing prepar-ing to put In machinery to work the beds. This is the company that has. secured a coal claim on Hansen creek and will put In an electric plant there and transmit the power to the diggings on the river, ' a distance of 25 milos. Bert Seaboldt.hri3 promoted promot-ed a company for this purpose. Bonnet's claims are belnjj worked A 40-foot current wheel Is in place to operate the diggings. The gravel runs as high as $3 and $1 a yard. The |