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 the Lone Star group of lode claims on Gold hill.

Cripple Creek, Col., Dec. 16—Walter Head and associates have opened good ore in the Lone Star No. 2 on Gold hill.
After sinking the shaft seventy feet they started a level and got out some ore, but the best find comes from a cross-cut run from the 150-foot station in the shaft for sixty feet to cut the vein, which had dipped out of the shaft.