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Show Mining. Rich Strike In Cherry Creek Camp. A long-neglected mining camp in eastern Nevada, Ne-vada, which has for some years past been laboring labor-ing under the burden of litigation and bickerings between owners in an attempt to force the purchase pur-chase or sale of their leading mine, the Star, one of the largest producers in high-grade silver ore in the Western country, is coming to the front. Dining the past week extensive strikes in high-grade high-grade gold have been made in the old Joanna mine, the property of an old-time prospector in White Pine county, near Cherry Creek, Nev. Leasers have been working in different parts of the claim, as well as on several claims located on the same contact as the Joanna, which are owned by Ernest Baker and his associates, and throughout through-out the entire workings free gold running up into thousands of dollars have been opened up and an early shipment may be expected to Salt Lake of some of the richest ore which has been produced pro-duced in Nevada. The assays from a three-foot vein in one of these claims runs from $20 to $1200, uinning in porphyritic quartz. The ledge shows up throughout, well in place, with both walls, and is v ithout doubt a true Assure vein. A tunnel is being run by the owner of the Joanna, which has opened up the richest rich-est deposit of high-grade ore ever taken from that district, and the camp is wide awake to the importance of the recent strike. Egan Canyon, lying close to the town of Cherry Creek, is also rich in minerals and silver properties which have been lying idle for years, since the drop in silver, will be reopened and make good producers. Samples of gold ore have been received in Salt Lake from these new strikes, which fairly glisten with the lich yellow metal, and a future rivaling that of Tonopah is predicted by those who have inspected tho recent strikes, for the old camp of Qherry Ci eek. There are several Salt Lake capitalists who have valuable holdings in this district, who will be encouraged to make early investigations of their holdings, now that the unmistakably rich developments devel-opments have been made. The distance of this camp from shipping points on railroads has been a serious, hindrance to the development of the mines, but with the abundant water and timber supply close at hand, capital alone is required to place the camp upon an enormously rich paying basis, and with the installation of machinery and equipment for handling the rich ores at the point of production the camp will soon take its proper position among the bonanzas of the Silver State. There are a large number of frer-gold propositions propo-sitions close to the town of Cherry Creek, which hao for years been worked in a superficial way by their owners, and have been sufficiently rich to more than pay all expenses for working them in the crudest manner, and one of these mines Mich was located over twenty years ago by David Pierce, has been a steady and unfailing producer during all these years, although lack of sufficient capital to open it up properly and install modern machinery has held it down. Recent assays from tbis property, upon which over 500 feet of tunnelling tunnel-ling has been done, give returns of over one thousand thou-sand dollars a ton and every foot of development made recently shows a marked increase in width ledge and value of minerals. All that Cherry Creek mining camp now needs Is capital and enterprise to place it among the digest dividend-payers in Nevada. |