Show NEVADA pioche record A seven foot ledge ot of fine ore or e is reported to have been encountered in the gelder mine owned by henry wetland welland and john dingman bingman the owners will not let anybody in the mine since the bis bi strike the mine is situated two miles west vest of town tonopah bonanza that the tonopah mines are wonders is being conclusively proven day by day the tonopah mining company tonopah extension north star montana tonopah belmont midway and tonopah gold mountain are regular shippers of rich ore and several other properties in this section will soon be added to the list the west end west tonopah To pittsburg tonopah tonopah home and lit tle tie tonopah being some of them ely news abe barger anu ana samuel cone while prospecting in the old merlaine Ta mining district last week discovered some carbonate ore on the surface from which good assays essays have been ob bained deveray samples were brought into town and were assayed by ed millard son excellent results were obtained two of the assays essays going 32 and 28 the owners will locate a number of claims in the old district and the development work ot the claims will be started immediately yerington times george J becker was an arrival from reno this week on mining business he has become interested in a copper prospect near the pat gallagher mine in mason pass which looks looks good to him the discovery was made a few months ago by a prospector named jones and as yet but little work has been done on the claim A four foot hole sunk on the ledge shows a copper vein four feet wide assays essays from which show 33 per cent copper and several dollars in gold mr becker will develop the claim to see what it will prove to be las advance J L banks superintendent perin of the calivara Ca livada mine near Nip peno was in town last monday he says they are sinking two shafts on their property on two distinct and different veins one of these veins is a true fissure but on the other vein they found either wall these shafts are down over 20 feet and the other 25 feet both are in good milling ore average returns from ama essays assays Ys made on this ore went nearly 20 gold returns are not received yet from the last samples sent to the assayer this promises to become a great property tonopah miner it is probable that the contract for the stamp mill to be erected by the tonopah company at millers wells will be let on the ath instant the amount of the contract being close to the company has now acquired the rye patch water companas comp anys system and this with the previous purchase of the crystal water company including the lease on the water from the halifax mine will give an ample supply for milling purposes in the camp there is a possibility of the mill owned by the midway milling mining and development company being taken over by the tonopah mining company and operated by it some increase in capacity and changes in process are contemplated this step ot of the big company does not at all affect the proposed large plant at company wells 13 miles from tonopah To lida enterprise ore running better than per ton is being sacked at the alice mine near the new town at tule tuie canyon it is related that the ore was being thrown over the dump until it became so sa heavy that the men could hoist but half a filled bucket then the manager mr smith took some samples to goldfield for a test and found the rock to be rich in gold mr smith began work on the alice several months ago and persistently followed a narrow seam of quartz from the surface to a depth of feet at this point the fissure widened out to twenty one inches of sand carbonates containing chunks of quartz speckled with galena and gold when mr smith returned from goldfield he brought with him several hundred or ore e sacks and is taking good care of the precious sand the alice joins the red dog on which some very rich float was found two months ago goldfield review malcolm Mac macdonald donld returned this morning from the bullfrog district where he had been to make a hur cicil inspection of the famous montgomery koshone shoshone os hone property and brings the report that another big ledge of high grade ore lind h ic been encountered in the lower levels while no assays essays have as yet been had mr macdonald had samples from the new strike aich when panned showed colors that thal would carry the values close to four figures th tho new ledge was struck in the crosscut being beffar run from the foot level which W was a being run to cut the ledges that were fount on the upper levels and which supposedly were fully 40 feet from the shaft but at a dist distance mice of cf 14 feet the ore was ard when mr macdonald left the property last evening the ledge had not been cut the supposition is that an entirely new ledge has been encountered lida enterprise john H platner plainer vice president and general manager of the bull frog lida consolidated mining company brought in some samples from the companas comp anys property near indian springs spring s yesterday that aliat are startling in the values contained in them A portion of the samples were run by ross lawrence who found the value in the yellow metal to be ounces having a valuation og 2520 to the ton the vein from which these values were obtained is three feet in width six inches of which gave the values noted an average sample across the vein gave returns of 19 to 40 and were obtained at a depth of 18 feet in a shaft sunk upon the claim the company has a group of five claims lying about one half mile southeast of the camp of indian springs the ore is a blue quartz and is said by those who are familiar with the sylvanite ores of the cripple creek district to be similar to them the company at present is working three men but will increase their force immediately to eight and run two shifts pioche record lloyd and cook are working two shifts on the men afen dah taking out and sacking ore this ore comes from a now down 60 feet from the main tunnel and it is being run for the purpose of making Z connections with the foot incline shaft at a depth of something like feet from the collar both above and below this level there ha has been an enormous tonnage of ore extracted and shipped in early days and this is now opening up tip a block of ground larger than any ever taken out of the mine the grade of ore runs about 70 per ton in all metals and they have almost a carload ready for shipment when this connect connection lon is made it is the int intention antion of the owners to work the mine through the main shaft to its full capacity which means one of the largest producers in this district there is a sequel to this procedure and that is those who live in and know the resources of the country are the ones who will yet develop the camp the record wishes them success and does not doubt for one moment they will make it beatty bullfrog miner parties coming comina 1 in from the scene of the shorty harris strike in the panamint range bring picked samples showing free gold and as assaying sayin over they state the ledge is about 40 feet wide shorty harris himself has been in and gives his lowest assay as 20 stating that the majority go about he says many prospectors are now at the scene of the strike the strike made within the past few days by shorty harris in the panamint range has drawn much attention to this country shortys Shor tys strike was made in the high rolling hills between death valley and panamint valley at a point 30 miles north of and easily accessible from ballarat ballaran Ball arat the metropolis of the panamint country it lies on the furnace creek trail about nine miles east of emigrant springs and near the head of a stream called blackwater and about 20 miles west of furnace creek ballarat ballaran Ball arat is 60 miles by a I 1 level evel wagon road from johannesburg on the santa fe railroad the strike also lies just across death valley in a southwest direction from keane springs in the funeral range A townsite has been formed there and a newspaper reported to have gone in |