Show MINES OF PIOCHE Resume of What Is Doing at Several of Camps Properties Pioche P Sec Nev Oct 2 The hawk shaft has now reached the level and a station n is being cut In sink sinkIng sinkIng sinkIng Ing this shaft a vein of oC manganese ore was cut and nd now at the level another ledge has just been en encountered encountered encountered countered The extent of the latter has not yet been determined Representatives of Salt Lake smelters are here in the field in search of flux fluxIng fluxIng fluxIng Ing ores and are finding them In plenty From remarks heard by your correspondent correspondent correspondent dent It is very likely that one or two properties will soon change ownership and a certain smelting company compan will be bethe bethe bethe the purchaser The work of hauling machinery to the Golden Prince Is completed and the erection erection erection tion of the gallows frame timbers Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now progressing It is very likely like that within two weeks the hoist will be in op operation operation Operation Good Showing The Pioche Xray tunnel is now In the hill hili feet teet This tunnel is being pushed with all possible speed It is the intention Intention intention tion of the management nt to ship ore are by bythe bythe the Ule first of at the year Last spring a shaft was sunk upon the Iron Crown claim in this group On one of the fissures veins to the value of 52 per cent lead and 34 4 ounces of silver sliver were obtained The tunnel which Is la In the Iron Crown No 3 will have to be run about feet in order to cut this vein and will attain a vertical depth feet teet It is proposed by the Xray company to continue the tunnel a distance of 2000 feet as by so doing a vertical depth of ot 1100 feet will willbe willbe be gained There are numerous other veins that the tunnel will open up and thus reduce the cost of at mining to a con considerable considerable extent The company owns six sixteen sixteen sixteen teen claims adjoining the Great Menda Nevada on the west The Menda is owned by T TJ J Osborn of Salt Lake and William Lloyd and John Cook of Pioche and Is Isa Isa isa a steady shipper as well as one of o the most prominent mines of the district Many Ledges in Moines The Moines continues to attract considerable attention The bot bottom bottom tom torn of the shaft is now 38 feet from the surface and has cut three distinct ledges The first one was wag e feet through and of manganese hematite and spar car carrying carrying carrying values Then feet of lime was passed and another ledge very similar to the first but only fifteen if teen feet through was cut The third vein has more manganese and less iron and carries a pay streak that as assays assays assays says 71 ounces in silver sliver and 50 fJ per cent manganese The shaft is still In this last vein Manager expects it will be I essary to sink the shaft feet farther before the shale is encountered and then go an additional sixty feet teet to where the sensational gold values were ere discovered by the diamond drill These values were in a black quartz carrying white iron ironI The Dorris which Is west jf of the Ohio I Kentucky Kentuck Is sinking the haft in the thelin theline I lin line of the Alberta Dyke and will con continue coni continue i to the l foot level and if the vein veinis is not encountered In that distance cross crosscutting crosscutting crosscutting cutting will be done The Schley group joining the Bamber Bamberger ger property on the north is looking well The tunnel will be pushed feet far farther farther farther ther in order to tap the big fissure |