A two days' jaunt on horseback took me from Rhyolite hill, on the north, to Grouse mountain, on the south, and from Pisgah, on the west, to Wilson creek, on the east, within which boundaries some four thousand claims have been located.
The greater part of those have nothing more than the assessment work done upon them, and in many instances, this has been so indifferently done, and with such an utter abandon and disregard of the statues, that they cannot be held for a moment to comply with the legal requirements.
But, in traversing Ennis, Globe, Gold, Bull, Tenderfoot, Womack, Mineral and a score or more of hills in the district, sources of Cripple, Wilson, Requa, Squaw and other water courses, I came upon scores of properties that were being developed with more or less vigor and intelligence, some with tunnels or inclines, others with shafts or open cuts, and the owners of each full of hope and expectations.
Among those having already good indications of mineral are properties of the Challidon Mining and Milling company on Tenderfoot hill.

New Boston.—It is reported that a vein 4 ft. wide has been opened at a depth of 35 ft. on this claim on Womack hill. Values are reported at $40 per ton.
The property is owned by the Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Company.

Denver, Colo.—Hedges & Bradley, who are working on the New Boston claim of the Stratton estate, are shipping ore that returns about three ounces gold to the ton.

Lessees at the New Boston mine, on Womack hill, commenced shipping with a 25-ton lot consigned to one of the Cripple Creek plants.