Show B big I 1 g 0 strikes made at jackrabbit Jack rabbit rabbi t arthur murphy manager of the ida may properties controlled and operated by the ilay bay state mining leasing company and located in the jackrabbit Jack rabbit district out of pioche N nevada evada was a salt lake visitor for a few days around the first of the month he reports that developments at the ida may during the past few months have been exceedingly cee gratifying and that the future of the proposition could hardly look better than it does at present true vein opened in ida may recent developments above the tunnel level said mr murphy have disclosed what we believe to be the true permanent vein something that we have previously been in doubt about we are opening up and shipping lots of ore from the new strike that is running 30 to 35 per ton while the discovery has been made in workings above the tunnel level probably feet vertically beneath the surface there is every reason to expect that the ore will go down while mining above the tunnel level is naturally cheaper and easier than it will be below that is not worrying us at all our shaft is now splendidly equipped with a new hoist and we are prepared to mine through it any ore that may be followed down from the new discovery above the tunnel level we are now planning the construction of a gravity tramway between our property and the railroad loading point a distance of about two miles its building will commence just as soon as we can get the line surveyed then it will be possible for us to transport our bre ore at a cost of about a ton instead of the 2 we now have to pay for wagon haulage to the railroad loading station snyders have a bonanza in bristol silver in addition to the splendid strike reported in ill the ida may group mr murphy states that willard F snyder and his bis associates have recently opened up a sensationally large and rich body of ore in the bristol sil ver r near the ida may the snyder crowd mr murphy says are operating the bristol under lease and bond the purchase price be ing S within a very shore time he says ys they have mined and shipped enough ore e so that the royalties have provided O of the purchase price and which under the terms of the option applies on an the payment for the property 1 I understand said mr murphy that they ey have opened up over thirty feet of 40 ore and that its limitations in any diere tion have ave not been found as yet I 1 believe they avill 11 pay out on the proposition very shortly and it will not be at all surprising it if they clean ean up or more the bristol like other mines at jackrabbit Jack rabbit should also drove a bonanza at depth just as the mines at pioche proper at park city and tintic gintic have done 1 I also believe continued mr murphy that the black metals will prove another rich mine at depth it is a big producer now and has yielded much fine ore in the past but I 1 have the greatest confidence that it will yield large returns at great depth larger most likely than it has done between the surface and the bottom of present workings great opportunities for capital 1 I am speaking altogether without personal consideration when I 1 state that in my humble opinion the pioche region is one of the best in this country for the investment of capital railroad facilities are good the ores are desirable from the smelting smelling sm elting and every other point of view and one of these days I 1 believe big operators will realize its potentialities and scramble for a foothold mr murphy has always maintained that the pioche region was one of the richest mining I 1 ng sections in the world that notwithstanding all the millions produced since the early days it could be depended upon to more than equal all past records as time wore on the formation in the jackrabbit Jack rabbit section mr murphy states is almost a duplication li of that of tintic gintic where some of the mines have produced down to and even below the 2000 foot mark he is just as sanguine that the mines in the jackrabbit Jack rabbit region of the pioche country when developed will prove prolific and rich produce producers ds |