Show NEVADA the tonopah extension made its regular semimonthly semi monthly shipment of bullion on the consisting of fifty seven bars weighing ounces and valued at the west end cleanup for the first half of february also went forward and consisted of thirteen bars weighing ounces valued at on the lobby table in the mizpah hotel is piled large chunks of ore from the harma group in south gilbert three miles south of the famous mammoth strike A six inch streak shows assay value of the balance of the ledge being two feet wide on the surface shows a general sample of 45 for 1200 feet this vein is traced and sampled showing values this adds four miles to the original gilbert district says the tonopah times congressman elect samuel arentz arrived in reno recently from the toyace country in in central nevada where lie he has acquired a lead silver mining property from jim harrington ring ton an indian the property is known as the jim icim harrington lost mine and is located twenty two miles south of lone ione it is reached from mina forty six miles distant in company with two miners arentz took a truck load of 01 supplies and equipment to the property which will he be opened up at once otto E schiffner according to the conopa tonopah h mining reporter has been appointed superintendent of the rescue eula mine succeeding S H brady mr schiffner is a grad diate of the montana school of mines and worked for a nuan nurn ber of years in various positions in butte montana tle he worked for mr brady at Horn silver and jefferson canyon when the former was directing work on these properties proper and was brought to tonopah by brady as his assistant when he was superintendent of the rescue since mr brady severed his connections with the property mr schiffner has hs been in charge gilbert is growing rapidly these days and now has as forty or fifty buildings on the new townsite which is laid aldo principally on ground owned by the gilbert cilbert mammoth last i a t I lope hope mines company there are two general stores and an boardinghouse boarding house and one of the stores has an electric lichti plant which also supplies a few street lights ji has been made for a postoffice post office and the mining company a provide a building for the postmaster in the meantie meant irne stage which runs daily from tonopah takes the mail to the new camp the mining company leases lots for one year at a rental of 1 per month business lots are in demand and sales of leases on lots have been made as high as A J brown E B nettleton and W R mckenzie of bakersfield Bakers neld cal arrived in caliente recently en route to the tempiute Tempi ute district where they are interested in valuable mining property they were met in caliente by wm H pitts of pioche the party making an inspection of the mines with the view of beginning immediate shipments of silver lead ore |