Show NEVADA ely news J H leishman an ans W J wallace two of cherry creeks most prom anent and energetic mining men were in ely several days this week on business cone con necked with an important mining deal which will mean much for cherry creek we hope to give the details in our next issue ely mining record the new moon mining milling company operating the lost gem and found gem claims near osceola are running a tunnel to strike the ore body the installation of a large pump ing machine on the lost gem shaft is sufficient to draw the water out which is to be run to a reservoir and then utilized in running a mill de lamar lode while doing assessment work last week on the sunbeam mine vasso encountered a change in the rock and upon examination it was found to be speckled with gold the width of the vein is not known as they have not drifted across the ledge as yet but vasso says he is going to se see e what he has got from the looks of the rock we should judge it would go up in in the hundreds but as yet there has been no assay made buttle mountain nevada P D delmas is in salt lake with a shipment of ore from the gold quartz property Sr at bullion which netted 74 a ton it is said that the bottom of a two compartment shaft which is down thirty five feet shows ore that runs a ton in gold the gold quartz company has fourteen claims which constitute almost an entire mountain the ore it is said runs 30 at the grass roots there is an enormous quantity of low and high grade ore the richer rock being encountered encounter ea with depth bullfrog miner at the foot station in a drift which is in 12 feet wednesday the miners on the national bank encountered a body of ore between six and eight feet wide nearly all of which is shipping grade and is being sacked the remainder is a high grade milling ore at the foot station in an 84 foot drift a large ledge of good grade milling ore was opened up tuesday manager is highly elated at the showing made and everything points to the national bank becoming a regular sh shipper p in a very short time yerington times john king a mining country has taken a man of the southern six months bonds on three gold claims own d by H G wedekind and others some elgba miles northeast of yerington after examining these prospects thoroughly mr king thought they were good enough development work 0 on n and he to do some and a couple of other miners will spend six months in opening up the claims the prospects are very encouraging and there is a good chance to open up a valuable property in the ground that mr king has bonded bullfrog miner at a depth of feet the miners at the steinway encountered on tuesday two feet of tale talc in the bottom in the shaft which pans nicely and shows every indication of being pay mineral supt bupt wilson obtained assays essays this week running as high as from a quartz streak found in the shaft for some time the quartz encountered in the shaft has had a western dip but the talc found is standing straight up it will be several days before the full extent and value of the discovery is known assay returns received thursday show dip of per ton from more than two feet of tale talc and quartz found in the bottom of the shaft pioche record the work that is being done by the nevada utah company on the works and grade here is is of a most permanent character and shows that it is done not for a mere splurge but for permanent utilization everything being put in first ceass shape the engine of the pioche pacific railroad with J B wheeler at the throttle and roy orr as fireman makes its regular trips hauling balant from the dumps at the raymond ely to ballast the track with great bodies move slow but they move for solid and for a set purpose and we are pleased to note the sureness with which everything is being done by the company the outcome will be but one thing success lorena ledge another new strike has been made in the masonic that promises to add another shipper to the district in the near future sam smith while doing the assessment work on his claim the red rock cut a very fine ledge of oxidized quartz assays essays have not yet been made but the bannings pann ings show that the gold values run high the vein is eighteen inches wide and pans clear across it gives every evidence of widening with increased depth mr smith is confident that lie he has one ot or the best showings in the district there is certainly no one in the district more deserving of a rich strike than sam smith for he and his wife with a firm faith in the camp were among the first to cast their lot with the pioneer life and its hardships |