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Show ration.-! are fine on this property and a Utile 0itti will undo.ib"dly make eKi. Mr. Sh. 1 r. a 1 1 say there c.n .1-'rabV .1-'rabV lu'ivlty !i t'e Chi.-t dsTKt tills K.l!. A number of iv.itlaod. Ore., people liav,. iuv.st.-j j re and n r working th-ir properties Mi'Si? Wescoe, C.oidou an I 1 th': r.s .'in- al-o d.-veloplng iV.i ir -round and nil w th gratifying result- In addition to the predominating yllv.rlead on n-jsldrab)e n-jsldrab)e cold Is (ound -n some cf the Chh-f district ores. There art- s wr..! ' 'ron dcpo.-l's In th- vulrlt. and It Is I expected that in time the-,. w.M be I found tr bo the crcip n-i of cumnnr-cl.il cumnnr-cl.il ore hodi. CHIEF DISTRICT IAS PI0CI1E With one b ; carload of b!ih-CKi-!e eacUed mi the d imp ready f' r shU-m shU-m rtf to the Salt Lake h-ue'ters. and j thr-- mote carloads broken down I ready for nicking, th. l'lkton M i 1. 1 j .v: Milling company l t Jay in a very flout lshini; c ndii'oiw and Manacor W. D. Shcmweil and C It WlUlams. the latter Jut in fro.n Pittbur, Pa. aie at the Wlls-on. The. Llkton property Is bx-aied In Chief mining di-'rlct, Nevada m J Mdv between Pl.x he and D lamar. U i in the Chief mountains, aMut two and a half mlb-K west 01 (he Picche branch railroad, ami lx mib-y and a half northwest of Cal ente The pp P r-iiy embrace ll'O ncres of very promising crounu. "Th" FJUon Is ,-x lead-silver prop slrlon." snul Mr. Sh'mweii yesterday, "and for the amount of work done, we think it n pretty poid prospeei. We have only nn eighty-foot shaft, w ,tu forty fvet of drftlng. b it from tho , ra.'n roots and oown w have becn In ore. On the surface the vein was oo!y threo 'nehes. but now it I" four feet wide. When we a pl'roiched I the ollil fortnat'on we foun.l the I vein nioie utill.'rm. 'e have net hfl 1 rL'h values all the way, but we have found ore ripht jIoik. That four-foot four-foot vein will r $afi to the ton with I out sorting. T ore Ip In place Four carload.; out oi:o little wt.rk Ls not so bad. I "I'p to now we have been mining with the ah of a whli and whim. iit now we have nrmnffd for 11 gaollno holnt. which will be fent down Immediately. Imme-diately. We then expert to carry our shift down 2I fir ?.l feet. We expect ex-pect valii-s and quantity will bo 'n-crea?fd 'n-crea?fd wlh deplh." Adjolnlnc the Plkt m Is the well-known well-known f;old Chief mine, where a mill of about peventy-flve tons Is being constructed. ("n thin ground is a :mn-foot :mn-foot shaft. 'The Hold Chief Is a b'F property, with lots of ore In s'ght." sib! Mr. Shemwrll. -It has one vein fifty to sixty feet across." Near by Is tbe Josephine Consoll dated. ;.nd the Camp Plrd Mining company properths. over both ff wri'f-h Mr. Shcmweli Is general man-acer. man-acer. The Josephine Ciinp. Udated 1 shaking shak-ing 11 nlnetv -fcrot ihaft and sending out a drift t open up a vein on which the surface showinc runs from fS to $22 ot lh ton. This drift will Flvo'lOO feet depth on tLIs vein. In about twenty feet more the drift phould catch the veli, when .1 ! rp,e body of fine ore lt anticipated. Light mining is bt-ing done on the Camp Rlrd pi'Op.crf y. Consbleial le prospect Ing Is being done over the property with ,1 view to ascertaining the most advantageous place to begin permanent operations. Surface Indi- |