Show NEVADA ely mining record the sapho mining company owning property near lane city put a force of men to work this week the property adjoins the ely northern and has plenty of ore in sight it is the intention of manager john weber to sink the shaft to a depth of feet searchlight bulletin there is report as yet unconfirmed that the black hawk in eldorado canyon in charge of E P jeanes is to start up some time next month it is on this that a ten stamp mill was erected about a year ago and immediately following the completion for reasons never made public the property was closed down and the mill never operated eureka sentinel C M perry president of the newark mill mining company at newark was in town thursday and informed the sentinel that the companas comp anys mill and concentrating plant have recently been overhauled and are now about ready to begin operations he thought the plant would start up the coming week an electric plant is being installed to furnish lights at both the mill and mine quite a force of men is now employed by the company ely expositor the nevada united mines of ward are now on the shipping list and the first three cars were loaded on oil the tracks here today the ore comes from the strike of high grade lead silver ore that was made in the foot level several weeks ago which has been developed by drifting both ways and by raising from the point where it was first cut the shipments will be continued steadily to the salt lake smelter and from four to six wagons will be on oil the road all the time mina na miner marshall hamlen has shipped dipped f five ive tons of ore from his lease on the millsap property at the bodie stage station summit to the stewart mill at soda ville e where it is now awaiting treatment it u is a test shipment made for the purpose of E ascertaining the value of the ore from a mill run the assay values show better than an per ton in gold and the ore 1 is free ee milling mr hamlen has run a tunnel ln in on the property and sunk a to a depth pta of 50 feet where he has cut a good ledge of shipping ore which is being sacked for shipping he has a force engaged irk in pushing development on the property goldfield news an interesting development took place yesterday in the consolidated red tops workings on the red top the from which ore is being extracted tr flattened so that it became difficult to handle the ore so an upraise was run in search of other ore bodies while a reduced force was kept in the slopes yesterday the face of the upraise went into a solid quartz formation similar to that in the meanwhile the south drift on the level is also looking remarkably encouraging cou raging moisture is coming in and the face of the working consists of quartz and talc assaying as high as 20 during the brief period that the consolidated red top has been in ore it has shipped tons practically paying for all the work that has been done since ground was broken last march |