Show NEVADA pioche record john cook and william lloyd are aie extracting some very high grade ore in the old pacific tunnel pioche record T J montgomery who recently bonded the gold eagle and gelder groups of mining claims arrived monday and has been engaged making preparations during the week for working the mines tonopah bonanza W S williams states that the camp of gold crater crate r is rapidly building up over thirty tents are now abw erected and town lots are selling as high as on the ridge curtis claims claim the 1 shaft is down forty six feet and will assay clear across the bottom over 1000 per ton excellent wat water e r for camp use has been struck in a well eighty feet deep pioche record the transfer of the little mendha mandha property has been made and the incorporation formed the capital stock is shares at 1 per share the directors of the company are B M cornish B S rives A P gardiner K V Z zink I 1 nl C all of salt lake and E P gordon the working fund has been provi provided and men will be placed to work on the property the latter part of next week pioche record B M cornish one of the pr principal nc pa 1 owners in the pioche nevada con company ar arrived rived sunday night and has been busily engaged m making a k ing arrangements for the working of the property I 1 in n proper way A hoist is to be erected forthwith and the necessary buildings constructed at the mines mr cornish has bonded four claims in highland district on what is known as the yuba dike paying cash and the other good and valuable consideration to follow at stated periods caliente progress merton thompson and jack bullard owners and locators of the twin peaks group of gold silver claims north of moapa sold their properties seven in number last week to goodwin burbanks of san diego for one half in sixty days and the balance in one year they have over feet of work completed in open cuts cute shafts and tunnels els showing a ledge averaging five feet in width going from to 65 in gold and from 67 to ounces silver per ton they have over tons of this ore blocked out ready for extraction tonopah bonanza the tonopah extension mine continues to open up in a most splendid way every foot of the workings being in high grade ore and four air drills are now at work there are now about six carloads of ore ready for shipment and the first lot will leave tonopah today it is the intention of john mckane to grade the shipments to an average of about per ton which can easily be done when the rock breaker is in work although some sensational ore could be shipped out the railroad company is about to build a switch to the mine which will greatly facilitate shipments goldfield news the old reliable january the second mine opened at goldfield and which is owned by the goldfield mining company and operated by lessees lessels patrick jones kendall and reilly is to the front chis this week with a new strike which promises to put into the shade its former great record the strike was made in the 50 foot level at a point feet south of the shaft at this point a cross ledge was encountered and 4 feet of its averages per ton this is not one sample that goes per ion ton but is the average of the ore as it is bein bein gaily edaily sacked judging from the past history oi of the mine in regard to the main ledge this cross ledge will be opened up in each of the lower levels and if it is as rich at those points the january is in the race for the honor of being the bonanza pro producer duder of goldfield the lessees lessels are now raising an average of 10 tons a day of this fabulous ore and about 25 tons daily of mill ore worth 50 per ton As has been the case nearly all the time since work was started no waste is being encountered hence none is raised the new shaft is down feet and a drift driff started at that point 1 |