Show in nearby states ARIZONA A report from payson gila county states that the victor hugo c group 1 1 11 of claims have been bonded for to the guggenheim I 1 interests with a 30 day option on the same work is to be resumed immediately on the united verde placing the production at pounds monthly this will necessitate a crew of about 2000 men and will clear the labor situation in that district tom gardner and lander young of patagonia have taken a bond and lease on the total wreck mine mine in in the empire district the property is an old silver lead producer but has not been worked to any extent since 1882 I 1 that the gold dust diamond drilling has brought results is the report that comes from oatman the drills havin having entered a vein of ore that runs from to per ton the finding of the vein will probably be followed up by further drilling al into it and the development from the level while absent in the east a few weeks ago R L dimmick made arrangement for the resumption of work on on the frisco mines which have been under his management the past ten years says the kingman miner these properties have a shaft feet deep and a large amount of lateral development work as well the new equipment for the gold trails mines has been installed it consists of a 50 h p west coast hoist cubic ft compressor and a no 7 cameron sinking pump the drifts north and south on the level are being continued and good ore is showing in the breasts the shaft is to be deepened soon says the kingman 6 miner internal troubles of the calumet jerome copper company of jerome were settled at a recent meeting of stock stockholders hollers of the company when a new board of directors was elected these include george W avery president artl arthur ur H whiteley vice president and general manager george H avery secretary and treasurer development of the property is to be resumed at once with a small force A surprising thing has happened at the new mccracken mill where the signal mining company is operating and a thing that will be of interest to the whole coun country says says the kingman miner the concentrates that are being burned turned out by the flotation system in use there is producing values of up to 1000 ounces silver to the ton the management had no idea that the ores be increased to this high value the impression being that a low grade product would be turned out the lead and iron in the ore keeping the product at a much lower figure one of the richest strikes that has been made in the white hills country in years is reported in kingman from the garfield fraction of the white hills mining company this strike was made from the shaft of the fraction and is reported to be about IS 18 inches thick and to be quite extensive exten A L parker and associates asso cates have a lease on the ground and they claim that there is already in sight fifty sacks of ore running 2000 ounces to the ton are on the dump and more is being taken out in the development every day H E grandberg of oshkosh wis one of the principal owners of the hartman gold mining company was in oatman for the purpose of considering the immediate development of the property the company may do some diamond drilling I 1 the ground is well located being Z directly east of the oatman united it is traversed by strong dykes and mineralized veins that can be traced on the surface and which makes it well worthy of exploration work more especially on account of the recent discoveries co veries in in the oatman united S D myers was in kin kinman kingman Z man recently from his camp in the weaver country and exhibited some wonderful specimens of ore from the old jennie mine which he had taken from a this ore is similar to that of the rich ore of white hills and the old jennie was one of the producers that was able to send an imme immense inse tonnage TO market the greater part of the production was sent to the el dorado canyon mill and only a small amount of it found its way to the smelters shelters sm elters COLORADO the baer brothers have made a twenty five ton shipment of high grade silver ore from the pro patria tunnel at rico borax bearing minerals are reported to have been found in abundance in the hills of pinyon mesa forty miles southwest of grand junction this is the first find of borax in the state A the boston and clear creek company a recent corporation po ration has taken hold of the old morris property near the doric tunnel and will soon commence the erection of a building for the installation of a plant of machinery the work work will be in charge of edward butts georgetown courier the empire consolidated mines company operating ing the old empress property in north empire reports having 52 men on its pay rolt roll at the present time they are getting alon along fine with the construction of their new mill neill and expect to be ready to have it in operation soon dredging operations in lower gold canyon below silver city are moving rapidly and the dredger is now located to the southeast section of the property a long distance from the main road A tremendous acreage has already been covered by the big boat and operations are being carried on successfully scully sf ully cur curtis and rhode who have been leasing in the syndicate tunnel at rico made a shipment of good grade lead silver ore nixon and bates and john mcneil also had small lots of ore in the same shipment the latter ore being from the cobbler property on baby hill frank J hayes of the hayes mining company came down from the property which is just across the canyon from the famous old treasure vault which has developed more freakish high grade mineral than any other property in this district with a chunk of ore about nine by six inches which was literally seamed with gold the yellow stuff was discernible with the naked eye and certainly looked good idaho springs G gazette ezette rz ette harry short who is operating the old black eagle bismarck property on the ridge between chicago creek and spring gulch idaho springs has broken into about two feet of the famous high grade that the eagle and bismarck are noted for in driving on the fifth level of the black eagle to connect with the bismarck they have opened up a fine streak that seems increasing in size as distance is gained and now they have about two feet of high grade ore that fairly sparkles with silver wire silver showing through the pieces he brought down to the shatter shaffe r assay office to have run IDAHO the elk mining company at mullan will develop its property adjoining the independence lead holdings b by working through b the independence tunnel it is reported that the company has been given an easement for this work according to the mackay miner harry P hunter has taken a lease on a fraction or one fourth part of the doughboy mining claim mr hunter dunier will put a small force of men on the property as soon as the snow goes off for several days past galena ore has been coming in the face of the east drift in the no 1 tunnel of the america commander mining company at mullan the company has drifted along its vein on this level for feet the vein throughout has been full of carbonate ore and is much wider thai thag the drift the work done by the american commander is on the same vein as the independence pen dence lead which is an extension of the morning mornin and you like veins with the acquisition of the big creek mining company properties by the bunker hill L sullivan attention of mining men of the coeur calenes dA lenes has been attracted more than ilian ever before to that district the bunker hill has now placed a crew at work on the property under its own engineers and is reported ported le to be starting b a development program to bring the property to the front as a heavy producer of lead silver ore silver predominates in the ore which is characteristic of the big creek district the lookout mountain company operating in the pine creek district of the coeur calenes dA lenes has released its first shipping to the bunker hill smelter the lot consisting of 50 tons of first class ore and jig concentrates the ore is a clean high b b grade product free fre e from zinc and impurities puri ties and with enough lime content to make it a very desirable smelting smelling sm elting ore it was hauled direct from mine to smelter over the pine creek road ore from the mine is carried by a 2200 foot aerial tramway to the jigs and sorting tables on the main pine creek road from there it is hauled by truck to the smelter a disi distance ance of ei eight b ht miles ore has been followed for more than fifty feet at a depth of feet in the success mine said allen alien G kennedy secretary of wallace this is in virgin territory and atthe at the 1000 foot point in the drift the values are in lead and silver principally like those in the old granite vein from which so much ore was taken near the surface and include little zinc more than in royalties have been received by he company from recent production by lessees lessels operating near the surface the new body was a knife blade seam when found some time ago it is being followed by hand the harmony mines company is now employing about fifteen men and is sending out a carload a week of rich concentrates of copper ore the last car of which gave crave returns of better than 21 per cent general manager E F nieman says they are mainly developing the mine and opening that they are treating and shipping only such ore as is necessary to be extracted for the purpose of getting it out of the way and that the vast bulk of the pre ore that is broken is 1 wing left in the mine for future extraction the harmony has tremendous bodies of workable ore salmon city herald an ore strike of much importance to mackay was made in the mine below the copper bullion at white knob during the past week horton sherry and brown operating the property under a lease and bond report that they have cut a seven foot vein of very fine ore and samples displayed bears out the statement the ore was struck in the face of a drift being run from the one hundred foot shaft in the direction of the copper bullion a portion of the idaho metals company ground that has produced heavily in the past when in a distance of ninety feet the face of the drift became mineralized and on saturday the vein or ledge e was cut miners of the district who have seen the ore state that it resembles the ore mined in the sweet which proved to be one of the big paying leases of the old empire mackay miner NEVADA P R kelsey who is operating the majors mine mine in the adelaide district south of golconda and W S pullen were in reno recently to purchase a hoist fred bender engineer of the mutual mica company who has visited a deposit in the ruby mountains of elko county is quoted as saying the mine mine is is in in commercial mica sol summerfield and george F thompson have a fine showing of silver and lead ore in a property three miles southeast of the simon fagan mine in the simon district ernest and george carter will soon commence working over the old bailin tailings 6 s at the buckhorn mine at eureka by the cyaniding cyan iding b process they have sec secured ared a five year lease on the mine mine ore on surface and tailing 1 ponds the camp of manhattan in southern nevada was totally destroyed by fire on may and the loss is estimated at with very little insurance it is said that the fire started at 4 in the morning in a soft drink parlor dr Wein brake of reno has taken over the kapich property in the pyramid lake district 30 miles northeast of reno and is installing a hoist and other machinery there is said to be a good showing of silver ore in one shaft at a depth of 50 feet F king and fred holloway who are associated with H C pearson returned to winnemucca recently from the pine forest range of mountains where they located claims at tle the head of what is known as buckaroo gulch and as they stated have fine showings b of b irold gold ore A large lot of samples were brought b to town and in many any of the pieces showed considerable free gold the lar largest 9 est body of high grade ore yet found in the eureka uncle sam mine on the east coast of prospect mountain was discovered last week in the course of development work D states the superintendent describes the find as one of great imbor importance tance and will devote his efforts to developing develop ing th the e new ore body the oi 0 z aba group of mining claims located 49 miles north of tonopah To which has been credited with a prodoc ton of from what might be termed superficial workings ork has passed to the silver mines selection company which J C wier co new york brokers will finance it has been decided to do away with the old steam equipment and a horsepower diesel engine will be installed for the operation of a 10 drill compressor the sunshine mine company of nevada which is developing ve loping a valuable silver property in the sunshine district seventeen miles south of winnemucca is sinking a foot doable compartment shaft anew A new hoist has been installed on the new working and good progress is being made through a from a long tunnel level the company has been working at a great disadvantage but nevertheless bodies of exceptionally rich ore were opened to facilitate the working of the property is the reason for starting the new shaft D H hewett of the united states geological survey was in reno on the 1st ast from goodsprings Good springs where he has spent the past six months surveying and mapping the goodsprings Good springs 6 quadrangle the goodsprings Good springs quadrangle 1 is 23 miles long and 1012 miles wide comprising an area of square and is rich in a variety of minerals from base to rare and precious metals hewett went to san francisco from whence he will return to Washing washington top headquarters for another assignment two new strikes have been made in the betty 0 neal mine both of which show high grade ore A raise from the foot level cut the betty oneal vein and has exposed fateen feet of ore with rich streaks all through the vein A crosscut cross cut is being extended on the level to cut the same ore body in no 4 tunnel caving ground exposed the ore at a new place showing a large deposit of mill ore with about one foot of high grade the assay office is not running at present and the samples have not been as assayed saved I 1 hut but mine manager getchell says the ore in both places is is rich the ore body in no 4 tunnel has been opened for more than feet and nine chutes have been put in through which to drop the ore to the tunnel level final abandonment of the levels in the con Virg virginia ibia mine below the sutro tunnel has been decided upon by the company and the two big pumping stations on the 2050 and 2250 are being dismantled the sutro tunnel funnel drains the mine at 1750 feet and the widest part of the old bonanza section is above the tunnel by this move which also affects the ophir mine several thousand dollars per month will be saved in power bills the pump station on the 2250 level is equipped with two vertical centrifugal byron jackson pumps capable of handling 1600 gallons per minute with a ft head water from this level was pumped to the 2050 equipped with three horizontal station pumps with a capacity of gallons per minute with a ft head these pumps carried the water to the 1750 sutro tunnel level washington william gallow and associates are working the great western mine four miles north of keller on bruce creek and it is reported deported they have a good showing of silver lead ore the gladstone mountain mining company received 1548 net for thirty seven tons of ore shipped from froin its property near leadpoint leafpoint Lead point to the bunker hill smelter accord ing to reports at hand the gross value of the ore was wa s 2625 the freight and treatment charges A strike of good ore made recently recently y on the lower tunnel level of the galena mine in the coeur |