Show FOLLOWED A STRINGER FOUND ORE about a month ago says a cortez nevada correspondent of the eureka nev sentinel elmer isaac and charles valle took a lease on the patented mines owned by maurice isaac and W R lewis in mill canyon about four miles north of cortez and soon after went to work on the ground they looked over the workings of forty years ago and decided to try going deeper A small stringer of ore about two inches in width attracted their attention and although it did not promise much they had gone about six feet when the vein strengthened and widened to about three feet of good ore they have gone about fourteen feet on the vein and it is now four feet thick and shows no signs of breaking the assays essays show from to per ton the values being about equal in gold and silver the average value of the ore that has been taken out is somewhere about per ton and is growing better as the work progresses in the ore body the leasers leaders now have about eighty tons ready for shipment although but two men have beben working and the water has hindered them considerably in getting out the ore A pump has been installed this week and will facilitate the operations a great deal as it is necessary to remove more than 1500 gallons of water daily another shift of men will be put on soon and other preparations are being made to increase the output as fast as tile the mine can be gotten in snape to warrant greater operations the claim on which tile the leasers leaders are working is patented under the name of the mald maid queen it was taken up in the early and produced in the neighborhood of before it was abandoned it was located by the present owners in the early SOs and was patented in 1889 but has not been worked to any extent until last month when the leasers leaders took hold of it the old workings consist of a shaft about feet in depth which was tapped at the bottom by a tunnel about feet in length and several other shafts and of less extent |