Show NEVADA cherry creek cor ely news ben harrison brought in from the little johnny mine on sunday a magnificent specimen of gold quartz with lumps of gold on it big enough for shirt studs pioche record during the week work on the geaber ge der claim has been pushed and the ledge has now w widened out to three feet or more and is claimed will average 60 in gold 38 ounces silver and 20 per cent lead battle mountain nevadan charles has rented a house across the street from hortons holtons Hor tons store from the blossom estate which he and george arbogast have fixed up as a cozy little office they will also do as saying battle mountain nevadan C M spence of jasper elko county was in town sunday and monday morning went up to galena mr spences visit here so we understand is for the purpose of looking over this district to try and find the necessary ore for fluxing flexing with his jasper ores battle mountain nevadan L G hardy came in from salt lake last saturday mr hardy has an option on the little giant mine at old battle mountain A carload of ore was shipped to salt lake a short time ago which gave good returns mr hardy says the mine is looking good tonopah bonanza the shipments of ore for the week ending noon today amounted to tons of stich about tons were shipped by the tonopah mining company and the balance was made up by montana tonopah and the goldfield mines the january combination and t the he jumbo leases the bowes kernick lease sending out sixteen carloads pioche record B D L godbe arrived in pioche on thursday he states one half interest in the plant and tailings at bullion I 1 ville has been sold for some of the debts hanging over the old company paid and tests being baing made as to the best process for working the tailings As s soon as this has been demonstrated work will start at bullionville Bulli onville Yer yerington higton times the oakland company which has been doing some mining in como this week purchased ten stamps at the morgan mill which will be used in the construction of a mill at como this company has also purchased the gasoline engine from the defunct bizzard mining company which will be used to furnish power to run the mill reno gazette dr L E denson benson has TG re birned arned from a trip of inspection to th the e scene of the recent strike made by shorty harris in what is known as the grapevine range the doctor is very much pleased with the showing and has become interested interested in a number of locations he located i 1 a arted a townsite while there and gave it the name of aurum A meeting of miners was held on august and a new district to be known as the bull frog mining district was organized the new district Is about eighty miles almost fairly good road all the way there is an abundance of wood and water near at hand A dispatch from carson city says what is undoubtedly the richest native gold ore ever rece received ived at the united states mint at carson city was shipped last week in two small cans by bartlett vermilyea from lease no 11 on the jumbo mine the fineness of this ore was and its weight ounces for which the shippers received gross or net after charges were deducted this is at the rate of 2002 per ounce which is the highest price yet paid for native gold this valuable ore came in the form of small nuggets and grains and was obtained from a streak running from one and one half to two and one half inches in width which was discovered a foot and a half from the surface surface this streak was in the form of a small pocket but the lessees lessels are of the opinion that the vein will again show deeper down they are now drifting to strike the ledge and expect to meet it on the |