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Show FRISCO AND SILVER REEF. ; mining Notes from the. Busy Camps off the South. r. The large quartz crusher formerly used by the Frisco M. S. Co. has been removed re-moved to Milford and placed in the 'Campbell mill. ' " j" - A. Greggson shipped $1,200 worth of ore from the Duffin mine in the East Reef to the Stormont mill, Silver Reef , last week. Bill Lusk is pushing work in the Hoodoo on the White Reef. His ore streak is twenty-four inches in width, and samples $25.70 per ton. - The Sawyer Brothers, stockmen, have been highly successful in sinking artesian wells in various parts , of the big desert west of Frisco, and are now erecting wind mills over them ; watering troughs will be placed at various points and several sev-eral thousand head of cattle will graze on this hitherto untouched range.- Two subscription lists were circulated in Silver Reef last week' to raise funds to aid a couple of unfortunate men, and in a short time $97.00 was raised for one and $93.50 for the .other. - This speaks well for the generosity and charity of the miners. . , ' Josh Alphin shipped fifty tons of ore from the Bonanza mine on the White Reef to the River mill last week. Johns & Barbee also made a shipment of several tons of ore from this mine tq the, Christy mi11- .. ., ; Female help is very 6carce in Silver Reef at present. Nearly every girl who comes here is snatched up by a marrying marry-ing bachelor and goes to chloriding on her own account, before she spends any length of time working for regular wages. If any young Miss up north desires employment em-ployment or a husband let her drop down to the Reef and she will be accommodated. |