The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-03-28
MINES AND MINING.

proves what the inventor claims for it
one will be placed in the Forman shaft
at Virginia City $500 feet down and
the lode will be tapped at a depth of
1000 feet.
The Salt Lake Tribune is informed
that just sixty miners are employed
at Tonopah, and it's informant says
that as the companies are doing no.
thing but sinking there will be no ma
terial increase in the force for months
to come.
The Chloride-Bailey group Of mines
ON Canyon creek, near the town of
Dedrick, CAL, has been sold for one
million dollars by Charles Sweeney and
wife of Spokane to a corporation bear
ing the name of the Trinity County
Cold Mine Company
The Golconda mine, in the Cracker
creek district, seven miles west OF
Sumpter, Or, has been sold for $780,
900 cash. The mine was owned by
John q. ana John L. ngIish OF Dan
vile, III. The purchasers are promi-
nent capitalists and business men Of
Pendleton, Or. This is the largest
single cash mining deal that has ever
been recorded in eastern Oregon.
ha \, ~
Spring have two locations on the tur-
quoise vein which is now attracting SO
much attention. The vein can "
traced for 200 feet. Several rich speci-
mems are haif-inch in thickness and
three inches square have been extract
ed that will net the owners a snug
sum The property has been bonded to
an Eastern ndicate.-Tonopah Bo-
nanza.
According to the Lovelock Tribune
a big corporation has been formed to
work Cottonwood copper properties in
Churchill county and two of the most
promising. groups Of claims in that dis
trict have Deen consolidated and Will
be developed as one mine. The Trib-
une makes this statement upon the
authority OF o. w. Schweitzer, who
was on his way to Philadelphia last
Saturday to complete the details of the
transaction. All the important points
had been agreed upon and Mr.. Schwei-
tier was going East to receive the
first payment for himself and Mr..
Boyer.
Fred Ritter of this city, through his
attorneys, N. Soderberg and George N.
Noel, mas commenced shut in the U. S.
Circuit Court at Carson against Nj.
Lynch ct al, for the purpose of de-
.termining the title to certain ground
contained within the boundaries of a
placer location of twenty acres made
in 1892 by Ritter, and which covers
within the boundaries certain de-
posit of tailings known as the slum
pond, situated easterly of the Chollar
dump; and also to recover damages in
the sum of S20, 900 for unlawfully eject
ing and refusing Ritter right to en-
ter into and upon all parts of the
ground contained within his location.
Virginia Enterprise.
Papers were filed with the County
Clerk today announcing the formation
OF the Gold Canyon Tunnel Extraction
Company. The articles of incorpora-
tion are signed by w. E. Sharon, ]. w.
Eckley and Franklin Leonard Jr. The
stock is to consist of 100000 shares Of
a par value of one dollar each. Among
the directors are w. E. Sharon, h. X.
Colcord, John Landers and Franklin
Leonard Jr., all of whom are we'll
known here, and G. G.. Miller, a New
York banker, an. S. G. Mead, capi-
talist OF the same city. The chief pur-
pose OF the company Is to undertake
the drainage OF the mines of Silver
City and lower Gold Hill ana ii is now
up 70 the mine owners of that section
to say whether this work shall be done
or not. very fair proposition has
been made by the incorporators to the
last named people and upon it's accept
ance by the Silver City people, if they
decide to accept, the work will begin
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