Show STRIKE IN THE WHEELER nevada mine owned by salt lakers produces nice bar of gold bullion in commenting upon the successful operation of the wheeler gold mines company near yerington nevada which is principally owned by salt lake people the times of yerington says T L walden superintendent and manager of the wheeler gold mines company whose property is located some thirty miles south of yerington was down from the mine this week bringing with him a nice little bar of bullion which he shipped to C N strevell vell of salt lake president of the company the bar was a beauty and contained about ounces of gold that runs over 18 to the ounce making the value of the bar in the neighborhood of this thiis bullion is the result of a run in the 5 stamp mill on the property of eighty tons of ore the mill was iwas only run about eight hours out of twenty four each day and worked about five tons of ore each eight hours several nice bars have been shipped from this property in years gone by but this is the first shipment since the mine was started up some months ago under the management of mr walden Walde ii and the mill repaired and put in order this shipment of bullion goes further to show the merit of the property than all the newspaper talk that could be made about it in a century the property is now nicely equipped with a mill boarding house blacksmith shop and other necessary buildings and it is the intention of the company to continue development work on the mine and further shipments of bullion may be looked for regularly the main tunnel of the mine is now in a distance of 1300 feet giving a depth of feet under the surface five hundred feet from the portal of the tunnel a staton station has been cut out and a raise made to the surface for air at this point a foot incline has also been sunk on an angle of about 45 degrees and drifts drift srun run from the and foot levels in this the ore shoot was encountered on the foot level about feet from the on the foot level a drift run north feet and crosscut cross cut seventy feet to the west again cuts the vein and at this depth water was also encountered on this foot level four feet below the water the ore assayed per ton in order to do further development work on this level or go deeper it will be necessary for the company to install a pumping plant which it is considering si doing at the present time A thorough 0 sampling of the below the tunnel level gave assays essays ranging from 18 to per ton and the ore has been followed for about seventy six feet above the working tunnel level from where it is being is toped As the ore goes into the water at a depth of about feet from the surface and at that depth the assays essays are better than the average above the water level it is a pretty good indication that the owners of the property have a mine that is going to make them wealthy it may be added that the mill equipment contains a concentrating plant and that the last run that turned out the bullion shipped accumulated several tons of high grade concentrates cen |