Show THE INDIAN IKE MINE star winnemucca nev from a reliable source it has hag been learned that the option or bond on the famous indian ike property in the humboldt ran gehas been forfeited for the reason that the party holding the option failed to produce the required amount of coin to fulfill the agreement the indian ike property consists of two claims known as the pearson and the lizzle lizzie cinnabar located at the head of black canyon near the humboldt house on the southern pacific the indian d s covered the ledge while packing over the range and from shallow workings some of the richest gold ore yet uncovered in this section has been taken the ore is as white as snow and somewhat hard and on account of its fabulous fao ulous richness in the yellow metal it is prized for jewelry purposes in fact the property can be easily called a jewelry mine for the ore it produces is fairly alive with gold not the fine variety that requires a mortar and pan to show its true merits but cov covered erect and impregnated with crystallized gold from the size of pinheads to as big as peas and imbedded bedded im in a beautiful white matrix that takes a fine polish so far the property has only been developed by a tunnel that was run into the mountain for a distance of thirty five feet but which never i reached cached the ledge for which it was started there are also a number of shallow pits that exposed the rich ore although very little work has been done yet there has been a considerable quantity of the fabulous ore extracted which was sold by the indian or stolen so rich was the ledge when first discovered that the finder and locator was called the Mj millionaire llon indian indian ike was raised in the humboldt range where there are many other rich mines he knows gold when he sees it and when he broke ane first piece of rock from his ledge he marvelled marvellee marvel led at its extreme richness for fear that perhaps it was waa on someone alses ground he covered the cropp ng with dirt and did not tell of his find until the required time had lapsed on any ether location that might cover the ground since that time tane a number of people have tried to acquire the rich property but so far have not succeeded ben lancaster who gives the information about this rich property is associated with indian ike in another group of claims that have good showings of ore and located a short distance from the rich ledge indian ikes is situated at an elevation of about feet just under old star peak one of the famous landmarks of the humboldt valley |