Show IN LONE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT 01 miner liner tonopah To nev both the le roi roian an d lone star groups have fine surface showings the former of silver lead ore and the latter has several parallel veins carrying splendid values in gold and silver A whim has been sent out to the ana conda tonopah mine and from now on development work will be more rapid A well which is being sunk by the company is now down sixty feet but has not yet reached bedrock bed rock P forzani corzan this week incorporated the ventura mining company which has acquired the le roi group referred to above and will at once commence developing this promising property the incorporators are san francisco and ventura capitalists who purchased the property tor for a bial sum in cash and stock in the company thomas J lynch who visited the ne vada alpine this week reports that an en new ore body has been opened up in that property at a depth of feet and although only eighteen inches wide at present it yields the splendid assays essays of 55 per cent lead and ounces of silver to the ton the last returns received from the smelter for a carload of ore from the other body gave values of a ton net at the argenta wallace mcneill is in charge of the richards mcneill lease where a vein of galena ore has been opened at a depth of twenty three feet the vein is nearly two feet wide and ten inches of it as essays assays says 72 per cent lead and thirteen ounces silver the balance running about 22 a ton the higher grade ore is being sacked for shipment and a drift is also being run on it as it has been opened up on the surface for nearly feet professor A B mccaw a mining engineer well known in this thi state and utah as an authority on lead silver and copper ore deposits has acquired from D C smith the galena group situated between the columbia and black butte companies claims mr mccaw who has associated with him some prominent california capitalists says that lone mountain will be the salvation of tonopah and goldfield as it will produce 0 fluxing flexing ores to justify the erect oin of local smelters shelters sm elters he expects to see large bodies of copper ore developed at depth and the camp eventually rival bingham it is his intention to sink a shaft to a depth of feet on the galena group and he will also do some prospecting on other properties he has under option A portion of the eastern section of the lone mountain mining district was visited last sunday by 0 F reynolds president of the lone mountain miners association W J stoneham secretary J W langley and charles L richards members of the association cia tion who inspected the lone star le rol roi argenta columbia general thomas and monarch mines they report that at the columbia gold and silver com banys property a whim has been installed and the shaft is now eighty feet deep on the vein and for the whole depth the pay streak is from ten inches to three feet wide prom from the sinking of this shaft about five tons of ore have been extracted and sacked for shipment the whole of which will assay from to a ton in gold and silver the vein which can be traced on the surface for about two miles and is from aroln two to four feet wide is in a contact of lim and gray porphyry two shifts are arc being worked and drifts will be started at the level |