Show MOUNTAIN CITY MINERAL BELTS NELSON MINE OPENS UP HIGH GRADE adames advices from S F hunt mountain city elko county nevada are to the effect that the leasing company which n now ow is operating the old nelson mine has just recently made a strike that is yielding from a six to twelve inch streak of ore values that permit of shipping the product direct to the smelters shelters sm elters without concentration in the mill this ore is said to run 50 in gold oz silver and 50 per cent lead giving it a value approximating per ton and five truck loads of it have been shipped during the past few weeks this ore is real high grade says mr hunt and I 1 believe it will carry values as claimed mr hunt has been at mountain city since last spring looking after his property interests in that section and in the mineralogy miner and geology of which he has made an extended study you will recall my several preachments preach ments in the mining review as far back as three years ago in which I 1 stressed the importance of the transverse east cast and west uplifts of this region in relation to the origin and distribution of ore deposits therein previous to the taking hold ok oi the nelson mine by those now operating it and when mark hopkins was trying to make a go of the proposition I 1 expressed the opinion to him that work should be discontinued in the cross fissures and that the main east and west lode should be tackled he did not see it that way and made no change in the plan of development he was followed by mcfall and young in the winter of 23 4 and work began all over again along the same identical lines that had placed hopkins hors de combat mcfall and young failed to realize on their expectations and finally sold out to a mr coyle and his associates and their leasing t company is now in control and operating the property coyle is the ma man n that found and presumably still controls the dream mine on mt nebo the present leasing com company pany began developing along the same linex line as their predecessors sors but in june while some of their stockholders were visiting he here re I 1 suggested their going to the east west mariposa v vein ein system wonder upon wonder they began on the west end and within a months time they got the ore in the lime away from the granite with results as stated there are three east and west mineral belts in this owyhee owahee river basin two of silver and one of copper in in between the two silver lead belts the nelson mine is on the flie north silver gilver belt the mountain laurel an old time producer of high grade and the jasper johnson on the south belt myself and associates own the jasper johnson the rhe rio tinto is the principal showing on the in between copper belt I 1 have traced out all three belts for a distance of four to six miles the three belts added together will give fifteen miles of outcrop in this basin then friend hunt winds up by delivering this broadside if you fellows were 25 or 30 years younger back in the hey dey of your vigor I 1 would invite you up here for but this is no place hands bands and pockets to fill your too tough for all but the young and strong sons preachers right t but did not and nd incidentally mark hopkins was jut caw now it and was wor working kingin in the wrong place |