Show THE OHIO KENTUCKY MINING COMPANY the ohio kentucky mining company operating at pioche lincoln county nevada claim there is what is popularly known and designated as the raymond ely black ledge so called because it was encountered by the old raymond ely company many years ago in a crosscut run from the 1200 foot level of the raymond ely fissure which the company was operating at that time the ore shoot in the black ledge uncovered in this manner was drifted upon for a distance of about feet and was of an average width of about 5 feet while owns outright the susan duster the alberta and the alberta no 2 claims on pioche mountain and an undivided one halfinger est in the greenback the gold currency silver and independent claims on the strike of the famous porphyry dyke for a length of over feet in the center and heart of the district the other half interest being owned by the utah nevada mines and smelters shelters Sm elters corporation on this dyke covered by the independent borings bolings showed showe d it to be 30 feet in width the metallic contents of this ore body being about 50 ounces silver 10 per cent lead gold and about 20 per cent zinc absolutely no work has been done on athis this shoot of ore above the 1200 level the i v glo ground und above being virgin territory and promising millio millions nW with development and po operation 1 p aeration era tion should the ore body continue up as it undoubtedly will this should give pioche another wonderful producer to boast of from this level and on this ore shoot a was sunk in the early days to a depth of feet from the bottom of which a level of about feet was run disclosing ore of great richness the east drift being carried in a body of steel galena about 3 feet in width which assayed nearly ounces silver and 50 per cent lead to the ton when work was discontinued both faces of this level were in high grade ore below the water level which is near the 1200 foot mark there is a gradual increase in the lead contents of the ore down to the the property now being worked by the ohio kentucky company is the susan duster which lies immediately south of and adjoining the independent the development of the susan duster consists of a foot incline shaft with levels at every hundred feet which have disclosed an immense in body of ore of unknown length and of a demonstrated width of over 30 feet the ore body was encountered in the shaft which was started in the country rock on the foot level but since then an upraise has be been en made on the ore body nearly to the surface each level of the mine is connected on ore with a for ventilation in the mine workings there are nearly tors tons of ore blocked out ready for extraction and the immensity of the ore body the even nature of values contained and the wonderful possibilities of the enterprise almost bewilders the beholder and would convince the most skeptical as to the wonderful merit of the mine A anft 9 U tit A 14 susan duster mine dark portion of dump all ore I 1 Y fill C higas susan duster hoist t and a like decrease in zinc this black ledge on the porphyry dyke is covered by the independence location and in addition there are large bodies of of rich ore in the dyke which are covered by the silver location and these have been barely touched as yet and but little work was done in their development owing to the fact that the lead and sulphide ores could not be successfully treated by the old pan process of reduction in use in the early days consequently the porphyry ledge as a whole was neglected and the attention of the old companies was directed to the qua quartzite fissures carrying silver chlorides the ohio kentucky also owns an undivided interest in the pioche water works system which has a pipeline eight miles in length which conveys water by gravity from springs in highland mountain to the town of pioche supplying all the water nee needed ded for domestic and mining purposes in the early days this water system earned its owners owners as much as monthly in rentals |