Show LOCAL MEN TAKE LEASE AND BOND ON LEAD SILVER PROSPECT IN ELKO COUNTY william thornton C W peterson and their associates have taken a two year lease and bond on the property in elko nevada county and now are on the ground to get work under way the bond and lease was secured from dr wesley J davis of this city and the ground comprises a group of claims adjoining the old jackson mine on the east about ten miles north of tecoma on the southern pacific railroad the leasing combination is composed altogether of practical mining men and miners who have for the most part been successful in leasing operations in some of the older mines of utah and who it is said are now out to develop and make mines of new properties on their own account the loadstone group is said to have had but little work done upon it but what has been done has disclosed the fact that a strong lead silver lode is embraced within the property lines and the belief is expressed that a shipping proposition can be made of it during the present year 4 |