Show NEVADA battle mountain nevadan two gasoline engines have arrived at the depot for henry simpson who is erecting a cyanide plant in pittsburg canyon to work the tailings of the old pittsburg mine dump yerington times frank luke came in from reno tuesday and left the next morning for pinegrove Pine grove where his brother W J luke is su superintending super per intending the running of the large tunnel on the pinegrove Pine grove companas comp compa anys pys property prop erty 1 tonopah bonanza the ray obrien company will soon have another big shipment of ore ready for the smelters shelters sm elters the ore now being taken from the lower workings of the property is the best the mine illine has ever produced tonopah miner C H elliott who spent two or three days at the paymaster this week reports a good showing at that mine the south drift from the levelis in 45 feet and shows a four and a half foot ledge eleven inches of which asasys the entire ledge will run clo close ze to the drift will be continued till i 1 s fn an feet at which point an will be started ted I 1 yerington times the little mill at rockland is pounding away on ore every hoar of the time that the water supply is adequate quate this week some fifteen tons of two inch water pipe was hauled to the camp to be used in piping water to the mill from some frings several hundred yards distant with a permanent water supply secured it is possible that five more stamps will be added to the mill searchlight searchlight john flynch brought some large specimens of ribbon quartz and peacock iron showing free gold scattered over their entire surface these specimens were taken from the empire mine of the badger group situated in newberry mountain the group is owned by flynn and E B scott and the specimens weighing about pounds and averaging in value about to the ton are to be shipped to S frank dexter los angeles tonopah miner M H seely has pu purchased i r five claims situated ten miles south of silver peak and six miles from oasis there is a ledge on the property that can be traced on the surface for 1800 feet and a shaft sunk on the ledge has opened up an 18 inch vein of gold ore which shows average assays essays of picked samples run over 1000 there is plenty of fuel in the vicinity and water can be developed at small expense it is mr neelys inte intention antion to organize a company at once to work the property tonopah bonanza superintendent sheridan of the rescue mining company reports that in the early part of the week small quantities oft water began coming in at the bottom of the shaft a at I 1 a depth of feet and by wednesday the amount had increased to such an extent that it required the services of one man to cope with the flow which is estimated at gallons per hour so far the water has not interfered w with ith sinking though it has caused some inconvenience but should the volume continue to increase a pump will have to be sent for and put to work |