| Show ACTIVITY OF VIRGINIA CITY intermountain butte mont arthur V corry the well known mining engineer has just returned from a weeks vist of inspection to numerous mining claims at virginia city mont in behalf of butte clients he talks very enthusiastically of the mining possibilities of this famous old camp everywhere h ha found evidences of renewed interest being taken in the old producers and in addition several of the newer prospects were rapidly developing into mines the major portion of this work is being done by local people who for years past have pinned their faith to the old camp and are now realizing their prophecies virginia city and surrounding country have long since labored under the handicap placed upon an otherwise tempting field through the ill advised erection of mills and their consequent idleness due to the lack of development of suitable ores amenable to the treatment therein frequently ly the mill was planned to treat the simple oxidized ores at a shallow depth the character of the ore having changed a modification of the mill and treatment became necessary very often however the operating company would have reached the end of its financial resources and the result would be another monument of failure bearing the epitaph mill built before the mine was developed the well placed confidence of several local people in the ultimate worth of the camp is bearing fruit in the development of at least a dozen properties the youngest of these prospects is the janetka Wa netka this was located about fifteen months ago P P bell and H hall are now developing this vein they have opened a shoot of ore feet long that contains thirty inches of shipping ore they employ dut but four men and for several months have deen shipping two or three cars of ore per month from this development C E damours is opening a very promising gold property about three miles south of the city the pay streak affords considerable jewelers quartz he has several eral tons of ore on the dump assaying from 3 to per ton gannon caddel are working on the alfreda claims they have been shipping considerable ore the past year frank wright and brother are reopening the old prospect mine they have lately disclosed a new shoot of ore which bids fair to equal those formerly encountered in that property A short distance south of this claim johnson and associates are working on the old erhorn claim and are meeting with success gerry rain and others are prospecting some of the claims of the old kearsarge group on the alameda thompson and barre tor are leasing from all indications this old property may soon be expected to entzi the shipping lists parkinson and stranahan are operating the apex claim which is owned by C P D mcclure of st louis they have developed a very considerable ore shoot through a shaft feet deep in this property the gold values predominate over the silver they employ twenty men and are treating their ore in the old shatter shafter mill the easton mine which is owned and operated by the elling estate is steadily producing as has been its record for the past sixteen years mr henry pankey is superintendent this property employs about forty men electric power is used throughout the shaft is feet deep with several thousand feet of drifting from the bottom levels dinzes have been sunk an additional one hundred feet thus developing the ore bodies to that depth the great strength and continuity of the vein system of this locality is strikingly gly exemplified in this property the generous disposition of mineral wealth in this section together with the open seasons and general accessibility its ample timber and abundant water and the proximity of the distributing power lines of the economy power company conduce towards encouraging capital to seek this field the realization of the old timers visions of a steam or electric road into vi virginia may not after all be without the tha bounds of possibility |
