It is reported that the entire property of W. S. Stratton, in the Cripple Creek district, including the Independence, Washington, May Raymond and several other claims, has been sold to San Francisco parties for $155,000.

Cripple Creek—Stratton's Independence (Ltd.), the British corporation owning 112 acres of patented property, including the famous mines known as the Independence and Washington, staked out by the late W. S. Stratton, on the Fourth of July, 1891, has, through its manager, Charles M. Becker, inaugurated an entirely new and liberal leasing system under which operations outside of company work will be conducted.