Show GREAT IS THE JUMBO news goldfield nev the showing under development stamps the jumbo mine as the marvel of the mining world were it not daily visited by prominent mining men from every section who see for themselves the size and extent of its fabulously rich ore one would hesitate to tell anywhere near the full truth and there are a number of other properties in the goldfield district which are but little less wonderful than the jumbo in their showing on the vermilyea bartlett lease on the jumbo the extra rich strike has widened out to 6 inches and the values are increasing as depth is gained such stich a a statement sounds preposterous but it is nevertheless th eless a fact the writer saw a piece of rock panned monday and three quarters of it was gold mr vermilyea has installed a small mill consisting of a mortar and a large pestle suspended from a spring board and with this crude appliance turns out 25 pounds of amalgam a day worth not less than the hard rock one foot in width along the rich streak goes from to per ton the drift from the 50 foot level should get unter under the rich shoot with another fifteen feet of work and if the values hold to even that depth there Is a mint in this lease alone mr vermilyea like others who are getting big values has his tent on the ground and stays with his bonanza night and day the curtis and ridge lease while not having such sensational values is still a wonderful money maker it is not yet thirty days since they started and besides erecting a hoist and doing lots of dead work they have taken out worth of shipping ore in that time the dally daily production now is about twelve tons of ore going about 1000 per ton and the same amount of 50 to ore which is put on the mill dump at least three shipments of the rich stuff will go out from this lease t this his week and the smelter returns will tell the tale the kernick and bowes lease has not extra j rich ich ore in the drifts at present but from the old shaft seventeen sacks of ore were taken monday night which arg are worth 1 a sack A carload was shipped tuesday the richard and cowing lease has opened up a new shoot close to the surface and an average assay across one half foot gives va values of over per ton they are still sinking on the main shaft on the zinn lease two men are taking out to ore from a drift at the 50 foot level which is a good increase in the shipping values first found twenty feet close to the surface on the same lease and it is stated but not verified that the values are as good as anywhere on the jumbo |