Show RICH STRIKE IN LINCOLN HILL the lovelock nevada correspondent of the star at winnemucca same state gives the following interesting account of an important disclosure on lincoln hill in rochester district refusing to be left behind in the hurried march of events now taking place in humboldt county with reports of extraordinary finds at rochester seven troughs and willard lincoln hill has just come in with a strong bid for fame with one thousand dollar rock from the property of the lincoln hill mining milling company specimens of the rich gold silver quartz were shown here yesterday by P C kittle a director of the company who has just departed for san francisco on company business although the company has been treating ore of extraordinary value since last august at their mill below lower rochester running an average of a ton the new find eclipses anything heretofore found on the two claims peerless and blowback on the north side of lincoln hill the strike was encountered in a fault fissure at the foot level in the middle vein the break cutting the vein at right angles but carrying a foot of high grade on ti the le wall of a badly broken mass of porphyry the fault fissure could be traced on the surface but has been termed a dyke it is now believed that it cuts all three of the veins that have been worked and seem to converge toward the alie fault where even richer finds are in prospect the lincoln hill company has maintained a remarkable record since it began operations last summer paying its own way at every stage of the game with a production of they have a two stamp hendy mill brought in from unionville Uni onville a 60 horsepower electrical compressor put in an expensive dugway road down lincoln hill and have done more than 1600 feet of under underground ground work As a result of this development they have of ore in sight it is interesting to note in connection with the long struggle lincoln hill has had for recognition that the first tests made from this ground was a fourteen ton shipment to unionville Uni onville last summer this shipment returned 2613 or in the neighborhood of a ton this test settled all argument and the purchase and removal of the unionville Uni onville mill to rochester canyon followed immediately 0 |