Show THE OLD SHEBA MINE star winnemucca nev J L safford the well known mining man left yesterday for the humboldt range where he will resume operations on a lease owned by justin hofman H W duncan J sheehan preston oneil and J L safford of this place on the mammoth claim one of the sheba group this property is situated sixteen miles south of mill city and the development work accomplished last summer disclosed a nice body of shipping ore the present workings consist of a foot tunnel incline shaft and an open cut that has ore stripped for forty five feet in length the tunnel is being run to tap the big body of ore that appears in the cut on the surface skid obid is now following a vein of ore that is three feet wide and carries gold silver and a high percentage of lead there is a considerable tonnage of ore blocked out and on the dumps and a shipment is to be made in a short time the ore that will be sent out assays essays ounces in silver 20 in gold and about 40 per cent lead |