Show r EW DISTRICT NEAR PIOCHE Section Where Whipple Dis Discovery Discovery Discovery covery Was Made Described by Pioche Record Man NEWS FROM LOON CREEK YANKEE FORK COUNTRY WANTS TELEPHONE TO CUSTER A representative of or the Pioche Pocho Record has just been making an Inspection of the section near Bailey Springs where the sensational strike was made by J 1 L Whippie a short time ago Five men he says ire are at work on the property in which the tho original discovery was made and the shaft which has been started down on the Silver SlIver King claim shows four feet of ot exceedingly rich ore in the bot hot bottom bottom tom torn On the tho surface no mineral other than chloride of or silver could be detected in the rock but in the bottom of the shaft sulphides are appearing and it is figured that the ore will run into the thousands of dollars per ton in value Of or other strikes and possibilities in the dis district ulet In general the Record man says of an another another another other strike has been made which shows greater values than found on the surface In the former place the ore being of the same character uN North orth of or and on the belt bolt some feet distant still another strike has been made which in appearance seems just justas ju t tas as important as any an of the others This Is 15 about all the prospecting which has been done don In the entire district and the extent of high values consequently can only be contemplated The district which at present has no noname noname noname name appears aDt ears to be about two miles mUes in width and six miles mUes in length in a se series series series ries of rolling hills and Is 15 crossed In a north orth and south and east and west di dl direction direction by b large and in some Instances enormously large quartz ledges l cropping boldly above the surroundings These ledges excepting e the one men mentioned mentioned mentioned above seem never to have been prospected and possibly no part of them ever over assayed The rock is exceedingly hard and of a n peculiar dark or black and unattractive color which perhaps ac accounts accounts accounts counts for the district having been over overlooked overlooked looked up to this date The formation is bedded Cambrian quartzite slightly tilted to the south and west by b an enormous granite belt on the north for a distance of six miles thus marking distinctly the mineral district In the opinion of the writer every mery indi indication indication cation is favorable to a permanent camp tamp and the values being uncovered almost at a stroke are arc sensational In the ex cx extreme extreme Little attention has been given the new camp by the local public until recently and only a few prospecting out outfits outfits fits fils are as yet there Should these discoveries have oc occurred occurred occurred anywhere an where else on the th globe ex ox except except In the vicinity of Pioche resident inhabitants would be breaking their necks to get a foothold there It is a n pity some of them are arc not doing this |