Show NEVADA UNIE IS GREAT lEAh MINE Property Almost Unknown May Go to the United States Smelting Not many mining men know that In the property ot of the Nevada United Mines compa company y at Ward Vard Ney Nev ha has been de developed developed what svera several eminent mining en engineers believe t to bo be the largest and finest body of lead carbonate ore are on the American continent Development or of the mine has been bein ver very quietly to the Jast ast three years ears attention not hay hav havIng hayIng Ing been attracted to I It until a few ew weeks ago when engineers ot of the United States Smelting Refining Mining corn com company pany examined It wih with the view of that company taking It over overTime Time The ore b bodies les In sight measure up 7 0 tons of an average net value of 1420 a ton I it Is said the total net value ot of the resources exposed bing being The Theore Theore ore i Is a lead carbonate free from zinc arsenic or otho deleterious substance making I it an Ideal f flux x for tor the smelters tens The formation Is said to closely closel re no that of at The mine mines of Yard Ward eighteen mies miles south ot of Ely were to some ex extent extent tent In the old Comstock days Several millions ot dollars of at high ore are were extracted at that time b but t on account of no suitable milling process having then ben been worked out the get great bodies of rel nd low gade grade ores were lef left up un touched touche The possibilities ot of these were discovered a few years ago by A G Bur Burton Burton ton and H Byrd Northrup of at Denver who promoted th the Nevada Unie United Mines company the largo large owners of which are areal al all Denver men Owns Entre Entire DistrIct The has a clear tte title to tomor mor more than 22 2200 acres or of ground of which 16 1600 are arc patented and patent applications are pending for additional mining claims The corporate holdings embrace the entire district of Ward Vard In Including including the town Itsel itself and the tho valuable water rights The underground development aggregates agge gates 75 feet teet more than hal half of which Is In ore The expenditures of the corn com company pany to date amoUnt to A complete tabulation of smelter return returns from or ore shipments shows that the ore are shipped carrie carried an average ot of about five ounces of siver silver 2 23 per cent lead 3 35 per percent pr cent ex excess ss Iron and 7 per cent excess lime pr The company has just purchased and installed a compressor and has a large force of men at work blocking out new reserves and driving a intersect the great Defiance vein In which at a depth of 1 feet is an ore body twelve to eighteen feet wide averaging better than 40 per cent lead When this ore are body is 15 intersected by the tunnel I it Is estimated that I It wl will more than double the ore re reserves s In sight and probably quadruple their value |