Show NEVADA rodney molyneaux of Mat mamilton nilton is shipping a carload TT of silver lead concentrates product of a hand jig to the uliter cited states smelter at Mil midvale milvale vale utah I 1 from the silver age mine near lane city three ee miles from ely is to the effect that the drift off the raise put up P fort forty y feet above the main tunnel level at a point f elt from om the portal has struck four feet of rich carbonate ore cit cita the 1116 con virginia and ophir companies of virginia 6 i ya jointly developing the donnelly property at kii king I 1 b III in to northeastern astern mineral minera 1 county are driving Z a crosscut tunnel prospect hect n a wi wide de east west fracture along a dike on 0 the ace claim surface prospecting on oil the vein yielded essays assays assac ya of GI f 35 in gold gol d across four feet ii able reports continue to come from the basque north mining gand and milling company property twenty two niiles miles aroun of winnemucca the new tunnel started to open the with round it at a depth of feet is being pushed rapidly py ahead a compressor and three jack hammers the new ore is in in about feet and ore panning well in free gold is being extracted from the face says the humboldt star goldfield deep mines companas Comp anys big shaft has been cleared of water down to the 2150 foot station or lowest leveloff level of the mine and nothing but cleaning up and some repair work now stands in the way of a resumption of crosscutting into the great goldfield vein 1 which was interrupted early last may when the borki workings filled with water to the 1600 foot level as the result of the burning out of the pump ino motors tors the new power plant at the seven troughs reorganized mines hasteen has been completed and is now in operation the ion long drainage tunnel which is being driven feet to the workings of the coalition and other mines of the company has advanced about feet and is making feet a month the last feet has been in a fault requiring close timbering and slowing down the work perry D chapman aged seventy years prominent mining man of for nearly a half century died august at the general hospital elko after a short illness he was one of the best known mining men of the northern part of the county settling in tuscarora in the boom days some come forty two years ago and during his residence there was identified with some of the bi big b properties at the time of his death he was the owner of some very promising properties which he had planned to develop near the old camp work has been resumed at the pioche bristol mines with joseph S free salt lake mining engineer in charge drifting has been started from the bottom of the shaft at feet to reach a fissure at a distance of fifty six feet north from which lessees lessels mined several years ago two carloads that baroti brought ht a net smelter return of samples taken dy by mr free from this fissure on a recent visit assayed as follows no 1 per cent copper ounces of silver and a trace of lead to the ton no 2 26 per cent copper 12 per cent lead 93 ounces of silver and gold 0 H paulson has returned from a tour of a number of the mining districts of different sections of the state says the ely record of recent date theoretically mr home is in salt lake icicy but actually he is a nevadan interested te rested in the states development and prosperity with a distinct partiality to the ely district after making the rounds of the state and making a close study of conditions and the new order of things lie he has come to the conclusion that the day of the grubstake prospector is rapidly drawing to a close and that the mining b industry will hereafter operate scientifically and on large c capital discovery of surface properties henceforth in his opinion will be rare as the state has been pretty well covered by men in search of visible wealth and there is little room for such dis discoveries ov erics the industry will now turn to tunneling an drilling and shaft operations lie he believes |