| Show charleston NATIONAL MINING ORE AND GETTING READY TO OPERATE A MILL according to late advices advises from camp things are moving rapidly at the charleston hill national mines properties twenty six miles north of winnemucca nevada the recently purchased compressor plant has been installed and is now in operation greatly facilitating the work of development and mining A new bunkhouse bunk house capable of accommodating commo dating thirty miners has just been finished and other improvements are being rushed as fast as possible early in the month a shipment of ore was made to a coast testing plant for the purpose of finally determining just what character of milling equipment to purchase this matter has been settled and the construction of a milling plant with an initial capacity of forty five or fifty tons a day is expected to be completed within sixty days several thousands of feet of pipeline pipe line through which to supply the mill with water already has been laid and work on the building of the mill has been inaugurated while this work is progressing opening up of the mine is going forward all the e time with results that could not be more edifying to the management A short time ago samples of ore recently opened up in tunnel ao 10 no 2 gave returns of oz in silver 65 per ton in gold and 8 per cent lead when these samples were taken the tunnel had been driven feet since then the tunnel has been advanced beyond the foot mark while the ledge has widened from froin 30 inches to eight feet with the mass of ire ore sampling better than per ton in silver and gold the companas comp anys operating force is being augmented all the time and instead of twenty men as previously reported the payroll pay roll will include thirty names or more during the month of may manager clough evidently intends that no 0 o grass shall be allowed a grow around the camp until he begins reimbursing his stockholders for the faith they have reposed in him |
