Show A NEW MINE IN DEATH VALLEY special correspondence winnemucca nevada jan jail ath 1914 E S chafey one of the best known mining men of the west to use a common phrase is in velvet again it will be remembered th that at something took over the mr chafey like five years ago black hole property at dunn glenn near winnemucca which at the time was termed an ordinary prospect mr chafey at once put men to work and by the time the first payday pay day came due he had plenty of money on hand from ore mined and shipped to meet all expenses and at the end of ninety days when the first payment on the property fell due he not only had money enough on hand to meet this payment but paid for the property in full from ore shipments made during the ninety days this property during a period of two years produced upward of three hundred thousand dollars with but minimum cost for mining and handling but through a succession of mishaps litigation etc mr chafey left the mine without a dollar but with an unlimited amount of determination to find another mine his quest took him over a considerable part of nevada where he found several likely looking properties but failed to make satisfactory arrangements so he drifted about a year ago into the death valley country where with a capital consisting of one burro named monk a small roll of blankets bacon flour baking powder and one frying pan he found what has since proven the end of the quest mr chafey had but little difficulty in securing a suitable bond and option and even less trouble in finding capital to take the thing over the property is located in the foothills foot hills of the panamint range on the west side ide s of death valley the first thing necessary here was a wagon road forty one miles in length costing something like during the construction of the road men were opening up the great at the mine about tons of lead silver ore is practically in sight the shipping ore runs from 50 to per ton sixty head of mules and a 25 ton trac traction tion engine are plying between the mine and zabriskie eskle call california a station on the T T R R which keeps a stream of ore crossing the valley and going over the funeral range to the railroad in Amer gosia valley the valley where the road crosses is feet below sea level and hot in summer time but during fall winter and spring no country in the world can improve on it at the present time a is being sunk from the foot level and is down about feet disclosing a 6 foot vein of first class ore carrying 65 per cent lead and about ounces silver and 8 gold this assures mr chafey and jack his associate continued shipments time to come and incidentally of good ore for some ci proves that chafey knows a mine when he comes in contact with it chafey and saulberry have some forty claims in the group and there are to the writers certain knowledge at least a dozen places within their lines where galena of a shipping grade comes to the surface showing in many places several feet in width |