Show gold circle entering era of great prosperity BY JAS F OBRIEN N reno nev feb 12 with an ore shoot opened up for foi feet in length that for a width of from twenty inches to four feet averages over per ton on the foot level of the elko prince a mine that has already produced over with ore that samples per ton across six feet being mined at a depth of feet on berry brothers big chief group with rae and sapp sacking ore that goes over per ton from their lease on the gold crown with macy and paisley developing a fine showing on the climax group of the macy mines company with four good properties propertied having been turned in the past few weeks by C S warren john peterson and others with activity on a big scale on two other properties definitely assured by spring with the extension of the electric power line from battle mountain being planned by men who have both the incentive and the needful to put the project through with all these important developments the silver gold camp of gold circle faces the practical certainty that 1921 will be its most prosperous year elko prince has big 1319 strike the bonanza ore shoot in the north drift on the level of the elko prince is showing g up even better than was predicted when it was first opened up it will be kemem bared that this ore shoot shoo is the downward extension of an ore body that is feet long on the foot level and that when it was first entered a watercourse water course that eventually flooded the mine to just below the level was opened up it took some time to get beauvier pumps more power and to drain he mine but it was eventually accomplished and the new ore body has been drifted on for over feet the ore body was unbroken for ninety feet then it pinched for eighteen feet but it is now in again and the twenty inches of high grade in the face of the drift is said to average over per ton which is also claimed as the grade of the ore for the first ninety feet even where it t widened out to four feet it is confidently believed that this ore shoot will prove as long as it was on the goo level feet the mill at the elko prince is being run but one shift owing to shortage of power but it is said that the amount of bullion produced is about the same as when it was run three shifts which would be additional proof of the bonanza values on the the company records show that an average ol of per ton was saved in the mill from the first tons put through indicating an assay value of about 37 per ton operations resumed at big chief after a conference with the berry brothers controlling owners of the big chiel group superintendent jerry coughlan returned to camp three weeks ago and resumed work on the foot level from the grant shaft the face of the drift being feet below the surface when work was discontinued there last fall the ore averaged 73 per ton now at a point fifty feet from the beginning of the shoot the ore body is six feet between the walls and the last assay shows that it averages per ton clear s mr coughlan is quoted as saying that they are going to do some real mining this season sea on that new machinery mac hnery will be put in as soon as possible in the spring and that they may run the power line in from battle mountain he was not quoted regarding a new mill but there is little doubt of that thai being included in the plans of the berrys barrys rae and sapp are down thirty five feet below the tunnel level of their lease on the banner claim of the gold crown company they started on three feet of ore but it has now widened to four feet and they have sacked about seven tons of ore that runs or better new deals consummated among the properties on which deals have been made recently are the coalition group the st croix mckay fraction the spotted dogs and the rex group win J cleary a former associate of the late patsy c dark ark of spokane is active in these deals a and n d promises that development will be under way by the first of april 1 1 word has been received that the gold crown company is figuring on a consolidation with the rip saws and other proper teis and expects to resume operations at an early date representatives of two big outside mining companies who made an examination of gold circle last summer but who concluded no deals on account of untoward general conditions dit ions have written that they will be in again shortly and ready to do business |