| Show PLACERS AT OSCEOLA ely nevada news in doing the annual assessment work on the recovery claim in dry gulch a shoot of ore was encountered in the shaft that has all the characteristics of the rich ore in the cumberland on the opposite side of the gulch samples of the medium grade ore assayed ounces gold 16 per cent silver and lead to the ton while picked samples show almost solid galena in the cumberland galena is always found in the ore shoots in small quantities and is an unfailing indication of good values nearby the recovery is controlled by orson hudson and william wilcox who expect to dispose of an interest in the claim for development work which they believe will result in the making of a big mine cheyney and gunderson own the adjoining groups containing the extension of the cumberland vein from which a pocket of rich ore was taken by former owners forest D goody president of the bos ton nevada company operating the cumberland is said to be on his way to osceola and is expected to increase the force and start work on other properties held by his company frank and others have taken up large placers west of town and are sinking three shafts to prospect the bars which were formed by the wash from dry gulch and which have yielded considerable gold ir former days dr R H richardson of ely is stopping at hogum looking after ader th the e affairs of the gold bar company drifting is being done from an old shaft to catch the pay channel recently found by marriott and hume on the adjoining claim and it is probable that another channel also exists in the unexplored ground between the two shafts miller and cone caught the henry schilling channel in their new shaft at feet where the gravel prospects as high as to the pan the channel is twenty feet feel wide and good values are found six feet feel deep in the bedrock hartman and gilbert report gravel from a channel eight feet wide running seventy five cents to the wheelbarrow load in their tunnel on the upper end of the bliss placer |
