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Show R1E PITCH PROPERTY" TO REBMT1 Rich Mine Subject to Much Litigation in Fionecr Days. Sunshine and Imlay Districts Dis-tricts Scene of Considerable Consid-erable Excitement. - Another fan;ous silver mi .!:, tin; J!o T'aU'h, which is lue;uod in tlio 1 1 umboi'l i ranpo, twenty miles north of 1 .ovelO' ks, New, and f ivo miles wnal o( l'n inni:k-, is being pn t. i n shape fur an un te::.slve e.impftiKn of development, aee rdiir-,r to II. K. Clement, fnefal manager "f the American Mining & Kxploralion company. .Mr. Clement is in tin- rity on his v:iv tu examine some properties in the southern part of the r:Uy. In 1' and Is''"' Jlyo I'alelt mine was a he:ivy pi odi"'i.-: The workings, vhifji consist of a long tunnel and enormous slopes, an1 comparatively com-paratively shallow and have not hcen ran led down to d.-pth he-;iue of water. Mont of the ore has b..-en taken oul to water level; new development, v. hieh hou!d begin soon, il is said, will in- hide, the development of oi'Q bodies below water level. Structural Features Unusual. The structural fen tores of the deposit are unusual, according to Mr. Clement. The vein lias no reooLnii'.od out crop. A shaft was sunk on a fault fissure. At a. depth of thirty or forty fed ore was found in a bed vein which strikes north 1 degrees de-grees west and dips 'J. decrees wesl. About ':,0 feet from this fissure the ore body is apparently cut off by t le Alpha fissure. All the ore has come, it is said, from the block of limestone between the two fissures. The whole limestone mass is fissured in all direct ions, according to Af.r. Clement, and the ore is found in the crushed limestone '.one. The ore found is exceptionally high-grade high-grade silver. In the early days it was hauled by ox team to Sacramento, there loaded upon ships and hauled to Swan-pea. Swan-pea. Wales, for treatment. Kor years the propertv was tied up by litigation. The Silver Bell company, following the Aloha fissure, broke into the ground or the Rye. 111 tell, which was following the northwest vein. A contest regarding the location of the apex of the vein was started. In this lawsuit, which dragged through the courts for years, experts were brought from nil parts of tho oouulrv to testify. At present leasers are working the Jlye Patch at a profit, it is said. It is expected ex-pected that in the near future electric-' allv driven maohinerv will be installed and mining at depth will begin. ' Imlay Mine Plans Mill. Operations at the hnlav mine, which Is located about five niil'es southeast of Tntlay, Xev.. have been delayed awaiting t h.e installation of electrical equipment, it is said. The svslem of ore deposition on this property is remarkable for its regularity. regu-larity. savH Mr. Clement. These deposits consist of a silieiou; replacement in the lime shales. The fissures, of which there are two or three, through which the enrichment en-richment came up. stand almost, vertical and run in a general north-sou th direction. direc-tion. The entire distance between is found to be enriched. The line of demarcation de-marcation is s( pronounced that $1.50 values wilt be found in the limestone and in the shale lying against I lie lime i he values will fall as low as Si or b'-ss. Ore carrying excellent values has been encountered on this property. The eom-P'any eom-P'any plans, when conditions are favor- able, to put up a mill, it is said. I Excitement at Winnemucca. Mining districts in the vicinity of Winnemucca Win-nemucca arc the scene of considerable excitement, according to Mr. Clement. TTaus are being perfected to work the i placer deposits, which are found near this I place. The Sunshine district, which lie:-; ! in the Eugene range, nineteen miles j southwest of the foregoing town, is quite I active. In Barber canyon, where a shaft j bad been sunk several years ago on a fissure, the work was again resumed. After the shaft had been sunk a few feet lower a five-foot vein, from which ore valued at $LM)00 per ton has been mined, was discovered. ,On the old Ccm property, f rom which within a distance of sixty feet of the surface sur-face SCSO.OOO of ore lias been taken out. according to Mr. Clement, leasers arc mining: min-ing: with excellent results. A shipmen t of ore which averaged more than M50 ri" ton was made recently. Some of the picked samples run as high as $1000 per ton. |