Show NEVADA winnemucca silver state charles malm foreman of the ahe glasgow western com J banys adelaide mine spent last evening in winnemucca there are twenty three men employed there at present they are drift ing on the lead and extracting good ore there are large quan ties of pay rock on the dumps searchlight searchlight calkins and vanina have been doing recording work on the morgan courtney the claim is a relocation of ane ore flame winnemucca silver state A lew ledge eight miles east of pactolus recently opened up by the owners W J sinclair P E obrien and A H lee is proving a fine property A large ledge assaying from 20 to is now in evidence eureka sentinel the whalen con copper mining company will continue development work on their mines near alpha the fon oving force of men in charge of andy stinson are now working at the mines dan davies john williams james hillis frank lewis william wiliam hamlyn yerington times J G kaufman and partners have been doing assessment work on their pumpkin hollow gold claims this week all the work now done adds that much more to the value of the claims as it developed dev elopes them this property while not a great and extensive one yet will some day in the future be picked up by somebody who will come along and put up a crushing and cyanide plant and make a fortune out of it we vve believe that with a small plant on the ground it could be made to pay right now searchlight searchlight cecil mayhew may hew john alexander james cohn and frank miller are working on a contract for the duplex company running a crosscut cross cut from the level in the main shaft of the searchlight to the new years gift this crosscut cross cut will be about feet long the ore road to the mill has been completed as far as the new years gift shaft later it will be continued on to the ella workings A three terrace tailings pond has been laid out below the mill battle mountain nevadan the well known bull run mine m ine in centennial district elko county has been sold to eastern parties for and has been paid on the same this property was located in 1896 by tom lovelock and at the time of tile the sale was owned by smith cur leux and murphy wiio wao have been developing the property for several years past with good results the sale was negotiated by hopkins gavin of boise idaho and the transfer made to harry r e taylor of that city in the interest it is said of new york capitalists winnemucca silver state the silver state was shown some handsome copper ore specimens today by peter henry one was a large chunk from J A nelson belsons Nel sons f s mine at jackson creek it also carries considerable gold and silver values the mine was discovered three or four years ago and is being behig developed quite extensively at one time the property was under bond for 40 ouo buo the ledge matter is forty feet wide mr henry also brought same samples from a property he owns it ft adjoins the nelson mine and the ore possesses tile the same char act mr henry is running a tunnel to tap his ledge at a depth of seventy five feet mr nelsons belsons Nel sons tunnel is in feet and he expects x to get his ledge at a depth of feet the tunnel is now believed to be near the ledge pioche record re cord it is understood that mr C 0 whittemore and associates of salt sal t lake who have an option on the mendha mandha group at highland district will take charie charge of the property this week the work going on there tor for the past month has shown up a great deal of new ore in the lower workings the navy drift shows six to seven feet of pay ore for a long distance and the latest discovery is two feet of heavy lead ore in the floor of one of the upper tunnels the whole property never looked better than it does today and we believe with the own ers that it will continue to respond to intelligent tell igent development winnemucca silver state C W canfield arrived from the east this morning during his absence he vis visited cited new york boston toronto and other eastern cities mr canfield will leave shortly for pueblo district in the northern end of the county where he has a promising mining property on which he will resume operations at once with ten or twelve men he will run a tunnel feet into pueblo mountain to tap four strong ledges that outcrop on the top of the mountain this tunnel has already been advanced feet and has cut a blind lead feet from daylight that is 21 feet wide and averages 31 in copper and gold the mountain is very strongly mineralized and mr canfield feels greatly encouraged over the outlook development work will be rushed from now on without intermission |