Show S P F HUNT MAKES DISCOVERY record ely nev S F hunt who is looking after the interests of the metals exploration company at tybo last week found a ledge four miles north of the old camp which promises to become a famous producer of white metal mr hunt who is well known in ely and regarded as an ultra conservative mining man has written ed opdyke secretary of the company that he had crosscut the lead for a distance of 25 feet without reaching either wall and that a general average sample of the entire distance gave assay returns of better than 10 per ton in silver he has prospected the lead for a distance of feet from the crosscut showing the ore the entire distance and knows that is crops on the surface for at least 1500 feet the values occur in what appears to be a gray sand easily spaded and mr hunt is 19 of the opinion that the entire lead can be worked with a steam shovel charles kirchner who is the manager of the 2 G mines at tybo and the tonopah extension property at tonopah To examined the samples and gave it as his opinion that the ore in quantity could be treated at a profit of 5 per ton to n which considering the width of the vein and the low cost of mining would show a tremendous profit when worked on a large scale the ores of the tonopah extension give a general average of 12 per ton in silver from which a profit of 6 is realized from present indications the ore would appear to be an ideal chanid ing in proposition mr hunt made four location on the lead for the metals exploration company and will at once proceed with the development of the property it is his ion that bodies of high grade ore will be found in the vein development 0 |