The Florence tribune., 1898-03-05

ieeulhg grounds ln the alfalfa fields that are being irrigated. The ducks were not flying in our part of the coun- try that day, so we turned our atten. tion to quails, cotton tails and jack rabbits. After about three hours of very exciting sport we started buck with lOS quails and lot of rabbits and two stray ducks.
 On our return from camp about ten days later we brought tent along and again put up at Florence for two days. The following morning we drove down south of town about sixteen miles to a big reservoir in the middle of the desert, fed by large irrigation canal. This is a famous resort for ducks and reese. After getting our tent up and cooking something to eat it was about { o'clock p. ID. From this until dark we had some very fine shooting, and continued the sport the next morning, bagging forty six ducks. We had 8 rssaer unusual experience on this morning:
 While out of camp shooting, the coy otes came into camp and ate the breast straps off of the neck-yoxe. One they ate snug up to the buckle and of the other they took buckle and all. If you ,.,opt fo baa~a oararoda oo,,, ,.roaJ of all the sounds ever made, you should have heard the songs they sang to us that night.
 Since returning to this place I have had four fine hunts, the last of which was made day before yesterday. The family drove out about three miles af- ter dinner. two of us taking guns, and returned at o'clock with fifty-six quail and several rabbits, hawks and owls. This was certainly the most exciting quail hunt that ever in- dulged in.
 There has been added zest to the few hours sport have described above, on
  account of the fine showing exhibited by the different mines in the camp, with which I am identified. It seems to be the general opinion among the many prominent mining men whose acquaint. ance I have had the pleasure of making on this trip, that, for general forma- ton and future possibilities, the prop critics on Scott mountain, in the Min eral Creek district, take precedence over anything in this section, and some declared that they would be only too glad to buy She properties.
 On our arrival in camp the Jimmie's Luck tunnel was in l25 feet; it being the intention of the management to drive straight ahead and intercept the ore bodies tgreat depth in the noun tain. D ssasr % give Mir Richards and myself an ocular demonstration of what he knew to be fact, Mr. Dun ham, the president of the company, who supervises all of the work in per- son, had cross-cut driven to the right 1 from this tunnel at a distance in the mountain of 1l0 feet, stating that he would cut the vein within from fifteen to twenty feet. At exactly sixteen feet from the main tunnel, and while we were there to see it, the vein was cross cut, showing six feet of solid ore. A winze was then sunk on this vein to a depth of six feet, and about fifteen tons than fifty pan tests were made on this ore, and in no case did we fail to find the yellow metal visible to tine naked 1 eye. It is the intention of the com pany to continue the tunnel in for to tai depth of 250 feet [that depth has now been reached, March 5l, cross cutting ore at intervals of fifty feet apart Winzes will then be sunk to depth oi fifty feet, connected by underground drifts, and the work of ''stoping" oui the ore in large quantities will begin At the present time there is blocked out no feet of ore, the lower workingi being about ll5 feet from grass roots
 The Scorpion mine is developing or the Jimmie's Luck vein. on it's propert. adjoining the Jimmie's Luck mine The work here is in the shape of an iu cline shaft, pitching at an angie Q ! of zorty-eight degrees, on hanging wall that appears all the way as smootl as if made to order.
 The Scorpion property is much highe up the hill than the Jimmie's Luck ol account of the cap rock of quartzite This capping the immense Assure vel has split and filled with mixed DOT , phyry and ore. As in the Jimmie Luck, Scott, Tarantula, and other lead ing properties, the best values ar found in the porphyry, beginning in [ mediately under the quartzite. It wi be necessary to continue sinking in th , Scorpion until we have passed throug , the cap rock (quartzite) and into th , the porphyry, which we expect to at complish within fifty feet of addition, s work.
 The future of the Scorpion is a | s1