| Show FORMER SALT LAKER HITS IT AT SEVEN TROUGHS O 0 D Banks formerly in the millinery business In this city now mining In the Seven Troughs district Nevada is re reported reported reported ported to have made a strike that he h ex expects expects expeels peels will make him wealthy one of ot these days While doing assessment and loca location location location tion work In open ODen cuts he ha has struck a vein which at a depth of or less than ten feet carries 05 gold and 64 t ounces sil all silver silver allVer ver This prospecting was done on one end em of ot his property which has a por porphyry porphyry porphyry and quartz dike running Its entire length and Wid in which surface showings vary from to a hundred feet teet in width Mr fr Banks bought the group of claims which comprise about acres some four tour or five weeks ago paying spot cash for tor them Many of ot his friends friend doubted his wisdom and treated his yen ven venture ven venture ture into the mining world from feathers and chiffons as aJ a a joke He now laughs back as he ho has had time to assay assa and explore his ground sufficiently to know that he has a property that may yet prove proe a bonanza He lIe has assayed the dike matter which stands thren or four feet teet above aboe ground with these results In one place the dike above aboe ground assayed gord gold 52 ounces silver another sample about BOO feet Ceet dis distant dIstant distant tant assayed 10 gold and IS 18 ounces sll ver An open cut was run at the contact down a hillside about feet teet with the result that ore running gold and 54 4 ounces s silver slIver was vas opened up less than ten feet teet from the surface A tunnel is being driven across the en entire entire tire property that will cut the main vein at about 50 feet depth As the Banks ledge Is a continuation of ot what is gen generally generally emily believed to be the principal vein of or orthe the district and on which the Mazuma Hills Hilts Kindergarten Therein and other big properties are finding ores running over oer a ton It will be hard to estimate his ils wealth In dollars and cents until the property is opened up As he ha can com corn commence mexico nence any an day mining ore that will not nt him ilm a profit of ot 45 a ton tone he has quit worrying over oer the price of meal tickets His ledge of or is expected to be con through the entire property or r about feet as a second cut at the t e opposite end from where the assay was made shows the same mme character of rock at the same distance from the surface while the main ledge on the surface is regular and in place with little or no variation in its character I |
