Show NEVADA ely news the lead king mining company which is operating in the duck creek district is planning to make regular shipments to the salt lake smelter the upper tunnel on which work was started three months ago is rapidly nearing hearing the principal ore body it is estimated that about a ton of ore a day can be extracted from this working goldfield news two nice bullion shipments have been made within the past ten days by the goldfield consolidated mines company to the united states mint at denver on october 25 worth was shipped and more was forwarded by american express october 30 this bullion is about fine as turned out by the consolidated refinery and is almost like the same weight of 20 gold pieces going into the mint austin reveille J A miller and J H ingram made a trip to carroll in gold basin last week and were so impressed that mr ingram returned yesterday to spend several days in the camp he was accompanied by E C kenney cyanide expert and engineer who will at once open a surveyors office J A preston the well known austin assayer has opened an assay office in the new camp having gone out last week ely record from gust simon who was over from hamilton this week it is learned that superintendent axtel shields is proving up a large vein of wonderful rich ore at depth in the old ne plus ultra mine mr shields has been working a small force of men in the mine for some time past the new vein was found at a depth of feet from the surface in a drift from the old workings since its discovery drifts have been run for distances of seventy one and forty feet along the strike of the vein and so far all the workings are in ore averaging about 60 per cent lead and from 15 to 25 in silver it is considered the best strike ever made in the mine |