Show 0 MIDAS GOLD CIRCLE DISTRICT special correspondence gold circle nev sept 23 john E pelton formerly president of the national mines company R L bolam who was superintendent erin there during mr Pel tons regime and L G campbell then and now secretary of the company were visitors here last week they are heavily interested in the queen property situated in the southern part of the camp and about two miles from the elko prince mine last winter martin brown and jacob jacobson took a lease on the queen and they discovered a large body of ore which goes from 16 to 20 a ton they leased the old rex mill and are treating ore at the rate of fifteen tons a day the cost of getting the ore to the mill from the mine is a ton last week william hayand ray and al helm sent thirty tons of missing link ore to the prince mill and now paul ehlers of the june bell is sending a big crushing noble and stone will get a crushing of lucky boy ore over the latter part of the month their road is finished and they are now building an ore chute at the mine the prince is working along steadily it is now drifting north on the june bell vein on the level and at last accounts had a five foot face of milling grade ore it looks very much as though this vein may eclipse the prince vein and its steady improvement adds greatly to the ore resources of the company the prince people have introduced a new schedule for treating custom ores which will be an improvement for both owners and leasers leaders lea sers your correspondent is not sure of the figures but it is said that 1 per ton will be taken from the present treatment charges and that a greater saving than 85 per cent will be given somewhere about 90 per cent or over this will add a great impetus to leasing here in the near future we have always had a rather hard row to lioe hoe when it came to treating oreland ores ore sand and anything under 20 per ton might just as well be left underground john coots who owns a fraction between the esmeralda and hard scrabble recently put nine tons through his two stamp mill from which he realized 1100 the water witch tunnel is being driven forward by night and day shifts but has not yet entered the mineral zone randalls silver strike up the canyon is looking well and he is taking ore to red house for shipment to a utah smelter ater it carries too great silver values to be profitably treated by the prince |