Show NEVADA E F gordon of san diego connected with the american vanadium corporation was a recent visitor at goodsprings Good springs where he examined th the e vanadium prospects and mines of that district during the first two weeks of february the tonopah extension mining company compa ny of tonopah produced twenty four bars of bullion weighing ounces the estimated value of which was A new hoist hoisting ing plant has been purchased by the nevada silver metals company operating at austin on the property adjoining that of E L durney burney where a sensa dional discovery was recently made A C robinson mining engineer is in charge of the companas comp anys work A new hoist and compressor have been installed at the eureka holly mine at eureka and the two 75 horsepower crude oil engines are now being placed by R R mattley erecting engineer from san francisco talc is now being mined at acme near tecopa tecola which is being shipped to los angeles for grinding and then re shipped to jersey city new jersey to one of the coun arys largest manufacturers of talcum powder den ben harrison operating a property at cherry creek about one and one half miles from the mary ann property where the sensational sat ional strike was made in january has uncovered a quartz on his holdings values from which run as high as 69 ounces of silver and 20 in gold to the ton golconda is given as the principal place of business of the newly organized gold circle chief mining milling company recently incorporated for the ancor pora tors are E E frost E F knudsen and J L I 1 peterson of golconda and the property is located at gold circle near midas the new plant of the silver peak chemical company will be ready in a very short time to start t treatment reat ment of the potash ores that this company has developed at silver peak the new reduction plant will have a capacity of tons daily james roberts and W B roberts are large owners in the company active operations have been started at the property near bear national recently taken over by S beeman of seattle from F R oleary and carl Stol feldt the mine which is located in the santa rosa range near andorno station about forty miles from winnemucca has some excellent showings of rich silver ore As soon as coal is available for fuel the new pumps that have been installed at the ruby hill mine at eur eureka eka owned by the ruby hill development company will be started and when the water is entirely removed the shaft will be sunk an additional feet according to L T herchmer su perin of the property an offer of has been made by tonopah parties to W M miller of mill city for some claims which he just recently discovered near the day bay horse property about nine miles from that place the ledge edge which has been followed for a distance of 1000 feet shows a width of fourteen teen feet and assays essays 28 in silver and gold jack cahill discoverer of the nevada birch creek property at austin has been busily at work during the winter on the adjoining prope property arty to the one in which the sensational disclosures were made last year he has already sunk a shaft to a depth of sixty feet through the iron capping that covers the gold bearing vein which he expects to reach in another ten feet crosscuts Cross cuts will then be run in both directions in an endeavor to pick up the valuable ledge e found in the original mine erling prout and vernon bell both former service men who are leasing on the property of the buckskin national gold mining company at national have opened up some exceedingly rich ore in the bottom of a sunk from the main tunnel level two streaks of high grade have been encountered in a ten foot vein assays essays of one sample of which run as high as in gold and in silver to the ton it is expected that the entire ten feet of vein material will average as high as to the ton the eureka croesus mining company operating at eureka has secured from R A laird on bond and lease the cloud claim which is on a direct line with the other properties of the company after considerable sid erable work in caved workings in the dunderberg section of the main property the bottom of the old atlas shaft has been reached this will be cleaned out and used for heising from the old workings the catlin shaft to be used for the ore from the newer discoveries that have been made in the last few months recent showings of high grade on the cottontail property taken over on a lease and bond by the north nevada mines company at rebel areek indicate an ore body of great extent and permanency A width of from one to three and one half feet for a distance of ninety four feet has been disclosed some samples from which show values of 1280 in gold and 95 ounces of silver to the ton in addition to the high grade there is considerable mill ore already on the dump the officers of the company are dr alex mcintyre president E E roberts vice president J C secretary and treasurer K M morris director C K jarvis superintendent |