Show BORK ro BE RESUMED XCTV Life at Cherry Creek White Pine County Nevada CHERRY CREEK Nev May 1 1896 The old Imperial Mining and Milling company of this town was incorporated incorporat-ed in Salt Lake city lately under the laws of the new state of Utah to operate oper-ate and work the following mines in ithis district The Old Imperial Jim Blaine Logan Butler Emma and Nellie mines These mines are located in Montgomery Mont-gomery canyon three miles north of the town of Cherry Creek and have been owned by P H Lannan for the last fourteen years f The Old Imperial mine shows three distinct ledges of ore carrying gold and silver assaying from SO ounces to 300 ounces in silver and from 12 to 540 in gold per ton The mine is worked work-ed through a shaft 125 feet deep but it I being to expensive to work in this war wa-r Cannon sometime ag started to run a tunnel to tap the ledge some 350 feet in depth The tunnel is now in 600 feet and a cross cut run about 300 feet and by survey measure i has only about eighty feet more to go be fore striking the ore chute Thee are contact veins cutting straight through the country rock from east to west hanging with quartzite Avail foot wall sand shale The Jim Blaine mine is a contact vein running north and south and shows a quartz ledge 105 feet wide cropping out the full length of the claim averaging 5 per ton in gold and showing streaks of rich gold in tie vein In places Surface work only has been done on z this mine but the tunnel run on the Old Imperial mine will tap this ledge at abut 800 fee in depth i The Logan mine adjoins the Jim I Blaine on the north end and runs on t the same ledge for 1500 feet I The Butler Emma and Nellie mines I r adjoin these and in all this Is a i valuable a group of mines a has been discovered in eastern Nevada for along a-long time but lack of the necessary capital for their development has kept them in the back ground for several years Now however Mr Cannon has succeeded in raising the necessary I means to work them and they will be I I son heard from as producers of bullion bul-lion on no mean scale The old time bullion producers the Star and Grey Eagle mines are to be started again in the near future Hon A C Cleveland our Cleve William Bliss of Carson City and Professor J H Bcws are now looking through these mines estimating the cost of again putting them in working order I A Heywood the San Francisco mining min-ing man and the Hobart estate are in I terested In these mines with Mr Cleveland Cleve-land and the want of capital to put everything in working order is only a drop in the bucket to these people and so we look for work to be commenced com-menced in about thirty days as when these mines are well opened there will toe about 100 miner put to work ThiS is good news for the people in Cherry Creek and i is a start in the right direction di-rection by the owners who will be sure to reap a rich harvest out of their properties prop-erties The owners of the Old Mary Ann I now the 96 mine are pushing the work on this property as fast as possible and doubtless will soon cut the ledge I which has always produced high grade free inlHInjr ore I I The veteran prospector A G Rea is opening up some very rich mines in I this district Lack of capital is the only thing that has prevented him from being a millionaire years ago still Alf keeps right to work alone on his many mines The Exchecquer mine the property of John Wearne is looking well and like others the lack of means prevents him from working this and many others owned by him here but with a raiiroad to haul away the ore now on the dumps on Mr Wearnes mines as well as many others we will all have plenty of money to work our mines and birds some left to throw at the black I |