Show N NEVADA EVADA battle mountain nevadan M B pope manager of the hardy mine in copper basin was in town this week with a lot of choice samples of ore from the property he reports everything as progressing nicely Cal caliente lente Fx express press dave cook who owns several good prospects near caliente located a property within one quarter of a mile of town this week which shows an eighteen inch vein of high grade free gold battle mountain Ne nevadan valan great excitement cit ement is prevailing at cunnig esmeralda meralda Bs over the discovery in that vicinity of gold ore that atlays essays assays 2000 per ton already a stampede is headed that way with the probability before long that that place will be a booming mining camp caliente Dx express press work is progressing rapidly on the rich copper king claims 11 miles east of caliente four men now sinking on an 8 foot ledge of gold silver copper ore going from to per ton thirty tons of this latter ore is now sacked and being hauled to the san pedro railroad for shipment to salt lake where it will be treated by taylor brunton yerington times T P mack was an arrival from dayton thursday and reports that development work will be commenced at once on the copper mine near this place by the company he represents this company has secured an option on the property for one year at a price reported to be several men will be put to work at once and more later on an as the work requires pioche record reports from el dorado canyon are very encouraging and there is quite a force of claim owners working as well as a number of employed men the wharton property now has a gasoline en gine at work and the old district will assume tile the prosperity of days of the seventies I 1 I 1 recently there have been two new discoveries ceries of gold bearing rock assays essays from which have gone over caliente express joe boullard Fo ullard half owner of the silver star mine 45 miles northwest from Cal caliente lente sold out his interest this week to max bullen of denver for mr boullard Fo ullard has 40 tons of ounce ore on the dump the values running in native silver and manganese I 1 tonopah miner dr U V withee and judge A G horn of ogden who are largely interested in mining properties in the bullfrog and goldfreed Gold reed districts arri arrived ved from kawich yesterday and left this morning for home both gentlemen will return early next month and permanently locate in goldfield from which point they will manage their extensive mining interests in this section t tonopah miner loftus and mayne began sinking this week on the rich ledge uncovered last week I 1 in n their lease on the kruger claim belonging in Sandstorm the company the extent of the strike has not yet been determined ined but it is certain that another strike has been added to the list A strike is also reported from lease no 2 on the sandstorm claim adjoining the od die garner lease goldfield review incorporation papers for the goldfield bull frog mining company have recently been filed the officers are R L colburn president and W S williams secretary the capitalization is at 1 per share this is what is known as th the e lonsway property near beatty and contains six full claims from which assays essays have been had from the ledges running from 12 to 48 A force of men was sent there yesterday to begin the work of development yerington times p F M evans and L F brockbank mining men who visited this section a few weeks ago have bonded the copper mine on the east side of the valley also the dyer group of claims for a term of six months mining experts are expected here in a few days to examine these properties and upon their report will depend whether considerable development work is done or none the value ot of the has been placed at and the dyer group at 1 de lamar lode from a prospector just arrived we learn of a strike of fabulously rich ore at a place known as cherry creek this district lies to the north of de lamar and is in lincoln county the assays essays of the ore found runs 60 in gold ounces silver and 30 per cent copper the ledge is from fifteen to twenty feet in width and call c be traced for about three miles the importance of a find of this magnitude in lincoln county only bears out the assertions which the lode has constantly and continually made that lincoln has more un dey developed 1 ap e d mineral zones within its limits than any other like piece of territory in the west with the clearings clearing away of er a rush to the cherry creek district will take place and we predict for that locality a boom equal to that which threatens goldfield and tonopah To tonopah bonanza 0 one n e of the richest shipments of ore ever made in nevada pas basei e d through tonopah To this week from goldfield Gold fleU it consisted of three tons from the simmer one claim and was conservatively estimated to be worth from to a ton the ore was of such high value that is was sent by the wells fargo co express under the guard of shotgun messengers the ore was taken from the main shaft which is not as yet twenty feet deep no blasting was employed the ore being mined by hand and carefully sacked and sealed I 1 searchlight searchlight by the first of the month the main shaft will have reached the foot level soon after that dated date the two new engines ought to be at the mine one is for the hoist the other for the mill the water supply continues to increase and at the mill two settling tanks and one water tank are being set up underground der ground the foot level both east and west is improving with every foot run the west drift is in 75 feet and shows a face of twelve feet of solid ore in the breast of the east drift there are six sets now in and neither wall is in sight pioche record J W burton wm hatfield and dr steele of salt lake and wa wao are interested in the pioche nevada mining company have been in town several days inspecting the property and after having thoroughly investigated the affairs arrived at the conclusion that instead of placing a gasoline engine on the main shaft they would erect a steam hoist and at once start in sinking a deep shaft the main shaft of the property showed ore from top to bottom being a depth of feet buildings for the men to live in will at once be erected at the point and the comforts of the employees will be looked after tonopah bonanza right at home the great midway has grown richer and richer the ledge is now fifteen feet wide and the values are higher than ever A shipment was made this week of three cars of ore that will average 1000 to the ton and many sacks could be shipped that would go james breen of the J S T saloon has a beautiful specimen from the mine in his cabinet it weighs about four pounds is almost a solid mass of rubysil ruby sil ver and will go to the ton the midway is certainly destined to become one of the great mines of tonopah To Cal caliente lente express one of the best strikes ever made in southern nevada was reported this week 18 miles south of the san pedro railroad right of way 52 miles west of Cal caliente lente james barton and mert fletcher fietcher old novada nevada prospectors struck a 12 inch vein of bf white quartz carrying in free gold they located five claims and brought samples of their ore into Cal caliente lente on their way to salt lake where they will meet henry bloom of bloom murdock murdoch mining men living in montana who grub staked them for their present successful trip they stated that they have stripped their ledge for over feet and find it uniform in width throughout and carrying values of from to at grass roots four colorado prospectors who saw the ore started at once from Cal caliente lente for the scene of the new strike |