Show KRAMER HILL MINES star winnemucca nev the aggressive mining and the milling of the ores from kramer hill at golconda is fast bringing that town back to its old standing when the town was one of the busiest commercial and mining centers in the state the work being done there is not mere prospecting but progressive mining on a big scale and reduction of the ores extracted in the big mill at golconda there are now about thirty men at work on the property under the of A P S macquesten Mac questin of the glasgow western exploration company and it was by his conservative management that the property was so extensively developed develop bd for the easy handling and extraction of ore with the aid of power drills two long tun tull nels were run from different directions to penetrate the great ore zone that had been previously prospected by a shaft to a depth of about feet on what was known know as the oswald thompson lease and another on what is known as the lyng eg gers gerg block of ground just south of the former lease satisfied that a great mine existed there the tunnels were started into the hill to tap the ore bodies at great depth and it is from these workings that the mine is being worked at the present time three teams are kept busy hauling ore to the mill which is crushing forty tons a day with huntington mills and with gratifying results it is claimed that the ore is averaging in the neighborhood of 20 per ton and this is a fine grade of milling rock when it is taken into consideration that the ore bodies in many instances are fifteen to twenty feet wide the kramer hill property was only discovered about two years ago by L K kramer and since that thai time the claims have been under development either by leasers leaders or by the discoverer and nis associates the finding of this big mine so near the town is one of the wonders of this great mineral country for when mr kramer placed his notice in the discovery monument on the outcrop the ledge stood at leapt five feet out of the ground with ore that assayed very high in gold with the showing and large ledge that can be seen traversing the side of the mountain for a long di stance distance it seems strange that it should have been overlooked so long by prospectors |