Show ACTIVITY AT DOROTHY LEASE special correspondence winnemucca nev dec 22 J R wentworth who has a two years lease on what is known as the dorothy lease a portion of the nineteen ten property located at barrett spring ten miles northwest of here is making preparations for a very busy winters campaign mr wen wentworth has shipped sev eral cars of ore during the past eight months that shows smelter returns of from sixty to eighty dollars to the ton in gold silver and lead and has another fifty ton shipment now ready to load that runs better than 90 per ton the work heretofore has been carried on by a crew of five men but mr wentworth says the property will be sufficiently opened up by the first of the new year to justify a crew craw of at least twenty men these will be divided into two shifts after which it is the intention to ship a car of ore each week the vein on the dorothy lease ha sonly been prospected to a depth of one hundred feet all of the ore shipped having been taken from this level it is claimed claim edthe the ore ord body on the one hundred foot level is stronger and richer than found at any other point so far explored and this fact mr wentworth says will justify him in installing a hoist and going after the rich ore at greater depth where he has every reason to expect a higher grade lead silver product and may look for the gold to hold its own the report comes irom good authority that the nineteen ten property is about to be purchased by what is known as the salt lake leasing company for a consideration of this turn however would not interfere with those leasing at the present time there are several other shippers in this new camp worthy of mention that may be written up later J L SAFFORD |