(By Jack Bell.)

Rawhide, Nev., July 4. - The most important developments in the camp at this time are on the Mint lease. A discovery of high grade ore at the 400-foot level has brought more visiting engineers and mining men into Rawhide than anything heretofore discovered in the camp. The station has been cut at this point and a drift run in the back of the cut 10 feet north. The ore is becoming richer and the high grade quartz, free gold and suphide streak, ius almost a foot wide as it lies against the hanging wall. From the time this ore was struck at the shaft there has been absolutely no change in the even distribution of the values across the entire vein outside of the high grade which is widening as the drift proceeds. A sample taken by an employee of the parent company across the back of the cut 9 feet wide, gave a return of $352.00. The drift at this point north will be driven to the side line 300 feet away and the stopes will follow in quick succession and be broken out up to the 100-foot level. The south drift shows the enrichment but not as strongly as that in the north. The company has bargained for a big compressor plant now at Fairview, Nevada, and which they state will be on the ground within the next 10 days. With this outfit are 5 drills and the company will go ahead and mine on a big scale, sinking the shaft at the same time. This lease runs for a period of three years and the owners have decided to sink the shaft to the 1,000 point instead of the 700-foot point that extension granted called for. GRUTT BALLOON HILL -