Show NEVADA manhattan post the work of installing the ten stamp mill on the union no 4 for wallace mcneill who has a number of promising leases in that vicinity is going ahead rapidly and it is probable that the plant will be treating ore within a month yerington times L W ross has recently finished sinking a two compartment shaft to a depth of 50 feet on the property of the butte yerington company near the mason valley this shaft is within yards of the mason valley and is expected to tap the same ore shoot which its famous neighbor has rawhide press times th this is morning the coalition company is sending out by express ounces of bullion from an 85 ton run from the alabama lease we are informed that the alabama people will go to work and take out a lot more ore from their lease the last run was in the shape of a trial run and as the returns are entirely satisfactory they will begin breaking out ore at once national miner the tunnel on the che foo claim odthe of the auto hill national Nation hl mining company which is within the town limits of national has been advanced into the hill a distance of three hundred and thirty feet the face is exposing good formations several streaks of sulphide quartz and tale talc having been encountered the conditions prevailing indicate that the bore is rapidly nearing the big auto hill ledge upon which several important discoveries have been made in the past winnemucca star C T smith superintendent in of the laurel gold mining milling and leasing company at barrett springs is in town today he states that he has a crew of men stripping the ledge on the blue bell one of the companas comp anys claims and that another carload shipment of ore will be ready to be sent to the smelter in a few days the work is being accomplished by the aid of a team of horses and a scraper and the vein is being uncovered for a distance of about feet winnemucca star george K pike of modesto cal returned this afternoon from rebel creek where he went to inspect the north star mining property of which he is the principal owner mr pike says that he was very much pleased with the showing in the property recent development work having proved the ere body to be continuous with average values of close to 30 per ton in gold and silver A large amount of ore is already blocked out and energetic work will be continued to further develop the property with the ultimate intention of building a mill national miner with the completion of the present work of installing its big horsepower hoist which has been on the ground for some time past the national defiance mining and leasing company will begin crosscutting from the one hundred foot point in its shaft on its promising lease on the estate of the charleston hill gold mining company adjoining on the south the famous estate of the national mining company of nevada formations of a most likely character were recently exposed in the lease and sensational finds are expected expected to quickly follow the inauguration of crosscutting operations ely record A 50 ton shipment was made this week by A deitloff Deit liff from his mines at the red hills about fifty miles northeast of ely which is expected to go about per ton the property ro perty was located about two years ago by mr deitloff Deit liff who has previously made several shipments from the property none of which however showed the sensational values of the present shipment mr deitloff Deit liff was the original discoverer of the celebrated yankee girl in colorado which added many millions to the worlds wealth he made a fortune out of the property Y but later spent the greater portion of it in prospecting for and opening up other properties in colorado and other sections of the west ely record on monday last the final payment on the purchase price of was made to tommy watkins and the control of this valuable mineral estate passed to D austin brown of boston and A G burrett of salt lake city who will immediately commence the development of the property on an extensive scale that the blackhorse mine will make one of the great gold producers of the state there can be no reason to doubt it has produced picture rock equal to any ever found at goldfield and all that it lacks is development to place it in the regular list of producers and dividend payers mr watkins is one of the pioneer placer miners of osceola precinct and richly deserves the success which has at last crowned his efforts |