Las Vegas Age

Inyo Shows Good Ore.

Nothing but the present hot weather prevailing throughout Inyo county is keeping the Inyo Gold Mining company from operating its wonderful property in that section. This organization is composed of Utah people with but one exception, and it bids fair to assume the most generous proportions in activity and results as soon as the cooler months arrive. The Inyo company is the first to get control of property in that section of the country. The group is made up of seventeen claims, which have been surveyed by a deputy United States marshal surveyor for a patent. Little has been said about this property, although the organizers of the company are more than positive that they have a veritable bonanza in their possession. Lafayette Holbrook, one of the heaviest stockholders in the company, states that out of fifty-three samples taken from one vein the average value of the ore was $12 per ton. This vein, which is more developed than any on the group, is twenty-four feet wide on the surface. Upon it the company has driven a shaft to a depth of seventy-three feet, at which point a crosscut for thirteen feet discloses neither wall. Samples in this crosscut carefully selected show the average values all across to be $76 a ton. From the dump made by this work carefully selected samples give the entire tonnage a valuation of $14 per ton. On a parallel vein the company has sunk thirty feet, at which point the ore gave values of $33 to $60 per ton, while at the surface the same vein averaged between $14 and $16 a ton.