Show NEVADA the aurora con will start its ton mill at aurora the first of june george kelsay is reported to have made a strike of a foot of ore in egan canyon near cherry creek the buckhorn mines company is puttie in a 6 foot hardinge mill and a oliver filter at its plant at buckhorn the jumbo extension has made the velvet second payment of zo on the I 1 allowed to claim at goldfield and is now start and will pay per hencel henceforth orth lial has pur P the nevada short line railroad Gla glasca 1011 chased the equipment of the old western railroad at golconda diakin i orean ja three locomotives for the rochester road and additional rolling stock T survey up limerick canyon rochester F nearly done the road is graded a mile up the canyon and packard station is expected to be reached june 1 and rochester a month later leslie savage paul ehlers and ernest oci shepard hepard plan to start work on the elko I 1 prince at gold circle at an early date the crosscut on the lath level of shaft L no I 1 of the amalgamated pioche pioche at pioche has cut the raymond ely fissure drifting along the fissure has been commenced charles 0 orr of goldfield has taken a lease and bond on the property formerly owned by the gold crater mining company thirty miles east of goldfield several thousand feet of development has been done from the bottom of a foot shaft during the past week the west drift from the 22 foot level of the manhattan consolidated soli dated at manhattan has been extended twenty one feet twelve feet of crosscut nad fourteen feet of raising making a total of forty seven feet of development work for the week the ore in the face of the west drift still continues the values averaging 40 per ton the haystack mining district has been organized eight miles south of jungo near winnemucca and J B truitt has been elected recorder work on recent strikes in this district is progressing rapidly among the claim owners are R D maxfield H T maxfield P H pat whelen W J merrifield L G campbell J B truitt H S butler R C patterson R is bolam H W steffen sam watkins W V V W reed and james edmunds the holders of the bond on the cornucopia opia and blaker properties at manhattan attan are proving the extent and values alues of the large ore bodies which show how on or near the surface f for or a total distance of more than a thousand feet following ol lowing the ledge on the cornucopia claim two dinzes are being driven into the tha tore re as well as considerable drenching trenching tren ching work the he sixty foot shaft on the blaker property is s being utilized as lateral work is being extended both ways from the bottom of the haft A force of fifteen miners is at work nd it is understood that this number is to ie shortly increased by the putting on of i night shift in the bath lease on the litigation lill ill merger at manhattan some very rich r re e has recently been exposed and while ie e limits of the new ore so far is unknown ie e ore dump is bein being 9 sweetened appreciably y the addition of the soft ore now being lined ined the sample run on twenty tons from he e lease made in the wittenberg fiill ill showed gross values of about 19 per on n As the mill is being so crowded with re e from the big pine no arrangements uld be made regarding the acceptance t a regular tonnage from the bath lease or cr this reason a milling of about tons is to be made in the rogers amalgamating mill and the tailings t from this millrun milbrun be impounded and treated at some later date when one of the mills with a cyanide department will take the ore ane placer operations on the northern slope of litigation hill are well under way and with an elevator for handling thel the gravel into the boxes and a centrifugal pump returning ahw th wacer from the big pond at the base of tae ane hill it appears as though considerable yardage will be handled during each days operations the water for the placer mining g is being obtained from the pumping operations oper a of not only the bath lease but from the earl and the consolidated and the white caps properties |