Show NEVADA pioche record ed deck has taken a contract to sink feet on the flynn roeder r mining claim situated at stampede gap for the sum of 1000 from mr A W scott who has an option on the claims this is a very promising property and no doubt with development such as contemplated by mr scott will soon become a producer columbia review two wagon loads of ore from the weirs lease on the lookout claim at gold crater arrived at the columbia sampler last sunday while the exact figures are not attainable it is said the ore will run to the ton weirs and have struck a fine body of ore in the lookout and it is their intention to ship two wagon loads a week to the sampler de lamar lode nevada has another new raining mining camp it is situated about twenty five miles southeast of st thomas near nea r the colorado river the values are in gold and big ledges show average assay returns of 60 one fourteen inch streak gave values as high as salt lake and arizona people are flocking to the scene of the discovery and several hundred claims have already been staked out yerington times Z pierce and son john who have been developing a gold claim located about twelve miles southwest of yerington between the old cuyahoga Cuya hoga mill and huston pass sent to the yerington assay office this week some very rich rock the ore assayed as high as per ton and there was only a dollar or two of silver in it just how much of this ore there is in the pierce claim we are not informed but if there is any width or depth to it the owners have a comfortable little fortune in sight bullfrog miner the first consignment of the machinery for the snow mill to be erected at south bullfrog by awit dwight lit laughlan of los angeles arrived sunday last the balance of the plant is expected to arrive any hour excavating is now in process and the mill will be put up at once under the supervision of B V laughlan and W B gates cates who are on the grounds it is promised that the mill will be extracting the yellow metal from its hiding places in the bullfrog ores within two weeks anyhow by february 1 caliente express L F peer who has of the examination been conducting an louisiana purchase mining alining companas comp anys property situated about three miles east of caliente completed arrangements monday for stock of the company taking over the entire after making a thorough examination bodies 1 mr fr and sampling of the ore convinced that another pro peer became ducer could be added to nevadas long list and will give his hia personal supervision to the development of the property which is considered one of the best in the district las vegas times charles straub a prominent and well known Den stopped at las vegas during the early part of the week en route to crescent he is prominently identified with the ajax mining company of crescent this corporation is operating the wathena claim they are shipping ore to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters that gives returns of 48 per ton at a depth of forty feet they have an ore chute opened up for feet in length and two feet in width and is the shipping product as mentioned the company is shipping machinery and material to operate property on larger scale las vegas advance dr J B renshaw received a letter and some samples front from the star mine near crescent last sunday no assays essays had been made yet but the samples looked good ore taken off the surface went 25 per cent lead 5 pe per cent copper 15 oz silver and gold the two men working on this mine have sunk about thir ty five feet in little less than a month at a depth of twenty five feet where the shaft struck the vein it was about twelve inches wide but in drifting six feet east it was three feet wide and at a depth of thirty feet it had opened up to about four feet besides dr renshaw this property is owned by J S wisner J M wilson and george M latimer all of whom are highly gratified at the way it is opening up and think the time dimeis i s not very distant when it will take at least six figures to express the size of their wealth bullfrog miner the gibraltar made another touchdown touch down on wednesday when a giant stride towards the goal reached by the top notch mines of the bullfrog district was recorded this time it was in the upper or no 3 level in the breast of this tunnel which is in about feet a vein of ore was broken into that shows plenty of free gold no tests have been made ot of the new find but superintendent nelson says it will run into the tens of thousands it is a fine sugar quartz ore with manganese showing all the characteristics of the rich stuff in the denver and hobo its neighbors there has in fact been very little difference at any time between the product of the gibraltar and that of its two bonanza hill sisters sacking has been going on at the gibraltar right along at both no 2 and no 3 levels the following assay figures showing the grade of ore that up to the strike 0 of f tuesday was being saved sample 1 2 in the neigh neighborhood bor of sacks are now piled up the breast of no I 1 tunnel is in feet from this the north drift has been driven feet miners are pounding away in each A double shift is also doing effective work in no 2 tunnel |