Show A condensation of interesting nevada news the bernard lease on the big 20 mine at granite has opened up three feet of ore running well in gold the wilson gold mines company has resumed milling operations at nordyke and will operate as long as the cold weather will permit work has been resumed in building the mill at the ramsey comstock mine at ramsey and the plant will now be rushed to an early completion the ore bodies in the macnamara mine at tonopah are showing up stronger than ever and the property is maintaining a production of several thousand tons monthly the great western at Horn silver is now shipping to the belmont mill at millers at the rate of about tons a month and this will be materially increased in the near future the bonnie clare company is now doing the annual assessment work on its large estate in the gold mountain section the work being el done under the direction of R T alexander R E waterman and B F heywood both well known in salt lake mining circles have taken a lease on the golden bell property at chafey and will begin developments at once three goldfield companies have declared dividends during the past week the engineers lease mohawk jumbo and the consolidated red top were the companies indulging in this distribution of velvet money the second car from the ruby pioneer property at eureka has been received at the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters the property is owned by several salt lakers among whom are C E allen alien A P mayberry H W doscher and the nevada consolidated copper company has issued its annual report for the fiscal year ending september 30 the report states that the company has assets amounting to of which is in cash and call loans leasers leaders on the esmeralda property at gold circle are sacking ore which they claim will go 90 to the ton good progress is also being made in the deep tunnel of the gold circle crown company the face showing sulphides sulp hides and black quartz charles handley an old time salt laker and william crane of elko have located a fine deposit of marble seventeen miles south or of halleck a station on the southern pacific railroad in elko county the stone is said to be of excellent grade and in large quantities general manager W J craig of the red metals mining company operating operate ng near walker lake announces that his company will thoroughly develop its property and from the strong surface indications hope to make a big producer of copper within a short time W M odell of salt lake has received word that the vein has been cut in the eureka tunnel in one of the cleghorn leases on the signal peak pea k property at seven troughs an additional force will now be put on and driffin drifting Z commenced both ways on the vein the gold bar mining company announces that it will begin developments at once on its property at wonder it is the intention to do at least enough work to patent the property and it is expected that before this is accomplished that the property will have proven up into a big mine two shafts are being sunk to develop the vein on the great western claim of the round mountain mining t company at round hound mountain the mill is again being run at its capacity of ninety tons per day and new ore bins are being installed milling ore is said to be exposed in every level to the foot point A high power pump is being installed at the tenth level of the mine of the quartette mining company at searchlight to enable exploration for the ore bodies at greater depth and to provide additional water for the milling operations thirty to thirty five stamps are running and handling tons of ore ver per day the old turquoise mine near crescent is soon to be opened up again by tiffany C co 0 0 of f N new pw york from which will be taken about pounds of turquoise which will be shipped to new york for finishing the stones become soft below the fifteen foot mark but above that point are considered anion among the finest genis gems of this kind in the world development work has been started on the property of the steptoe lead and copper company at duck creek A shaft is being sunk on a good lead of lead silver ore which at the surface gives t returns of 45 per cent lead and 12 ounces in silver to the ton william H and A J davis of salt lake are the leading factors in this enterprise A plant of hoisting machinery is being placed over the old shaft of the panion faulkner group of four claims near manhattan now nov owned by the recently organized manhattan sunshine mining company the company has built a road to the property and announces intentions of thoroughly exploring the northern porphyry and rhyolite belt of the camp the george and english lease on the fine gold property at seven troughs has been extended and the leasers leaders are now erecting a forty ton milling plant for treatment of the lower grade ores A splendid tonnage of milling as well as high grade ores has been developed in this property which is looked upon as one of the coming big mines of the district the engineers lease of goldfield has hag just sent out checks distributing which brings the total dividends from this organization to the lease has expired but some ore is still on the market and it is probable that another dividend will be declared soon secretary lyttleton price says that the company is trying to get another proposition in the district and if so the organization will remain intact the property of the hero nevada company at farrell was the scene of a most important in strike during the past week A streak of high grade shipping ore has been opened on the 80 foot level and four and one half feet of milling rock that will go 40 conditions in the south drift on the same level are also 1 greatly I improved and eighteen inches of very high grade ore is now exposed in this portion of the workings the glasgow western exploration company is vigorously exploiting several properties in the state six miles south of battle mountain it is developing its copper basin group and ten miles to the south on the same mineral belt its copper mountain mines at cherry creek the company is planning and executing big things in its star mines and at golconda on kramer mountain it is gathering in ground for another big 0 group the nevada mother lode at cherry creek one of the early producers of the state which under the management of mr J W walker began a crosscut tunnel nearly ten months ago on its properties is still progressing 0 nicely at the present time the tunnel is in feet and the work is progressing steadily and there is little doubt but that a distance of feet more will open up a mammoth body of ore the exceedingly cee heavy snows of last winter made it ne necessary to close down the plant of machinery and adopt the old and reliable method of hand steel but with the recent experience and excellent opportunities for laying in a winters supply of provisions while the good weather lasts the company will keep going Z full blast all winter with the success of the past the mother lode company should shortly come to the culmination of its sanguine hopes manager walker writes that he has just let a contract for an additional feet in the tunnel and that thin thins things s are moving a long along nicely in every way |