Show TONOPAH AND SILVER PEAK A strike was made this thi ls week on on the foot level of the wandering boy one hundred feet from the shaft a vein carrying commercial values was encountered because of the hardness of the vein matter the progress is slow and it may be some days before the extent of the vein can be determined this strike fully demonstrates that there are good values under the volcanic capping and shows the continuation and great width of the vein series from the fraction shaft to the point of the new strike one the stone cabin drifts are being driven in both directions on the vein at the foot level and a crosscut is being run auth youth on the same level the sinking of tre the shaft to the foot level is proceeding at the rate of four feet a day with three eight hour shifts working and a depth of feet has been reached the developments in the stone cabin indicate that the gold values increase with depth as in the mizpah at the surface the gold values were about one fifth while at the acot level they have increased to one third good shipping ore is being hoisted constantly and a large shipment was made wednesday the new engine and crusher will be in place in a few days when shipments will be largely increased the omeara lynch company are pushing the work on their group of claims at alpine and the indications are that they have struck a bonanza that will rival tono opah they already have tcp taps of ftp ping ore sacked and ready for shipment and are extracting shipping ore at the rate of tons a month with fully 1500 tons blocked out the values run very high and all of this ore will net the owners a ton ion in other words the owners of this rich property which they purchased two months ago for a sum said to be already have in sight a profit of more than on their investment the wonderful success of these enterprising young men at alpine has again attracted attention to lone mountain and there is much activity in that lo io bality there are many low grade propositions in that vicinity and the miner predicts that before spring there will be a good sized boom on W P omeara and J T lynch returned saturday night from salt lake city where they had been on business connected with their tonopah mining properties prop erdes in conversation with mr lynch he stated that salt lake people are taking an active and keen interest in all matters pertaining ining to the material advancement of the tonopah section and he thinks that with the opening of spring a large amount of utah capital to be used for development purposes will have arrived here miner tonopah To nev |