Salt Lake Herald | 1893-12-10 | Page 8 | White Horse District

WHITE HORSE DISTRICT A Fine Prospect Developing in the Jim Elaine Mine W H A Pike informed a Reno Nev1 Journal representative that the Jim Blaine mine in White Horse district dis-trict near Wadsworth is developing into a fine property The shaft is now down about seventy feet and is all the way upon the ledge which varies from two to twelve feet wide Some of the ore has assayed as high a 2000 per ton while the average value of the ore extracted is estimated to be not far from 80 per ton The mint is owned by a Sacramento company They are fnlrintr out the ore and nillner it un as they have no way yet to ship iti the reduction works Adjoining the Jim Elaine is the claim of the Washoe Mining company of which Mr Pike is president This company com-pany believes that they have a continuation con-tinuation of the ledge tapped by the former company and have a fine prospect pros-pect The general formation of the WhiteHorse White-Horse ledge is poryphory while the country rock is slate The ore extracted silver ex-tracted is free gold carrying but little siver