Show STATELINE T PIKES DIGGINGS BELT special correspondence v athe 3 the mineral fr fay nevada june big belt which surrounds fay and includes stateline Stat eline deer lodge and pikes diggings is fast becoming attractive to the investor and its merit more mor e fully recognized it would be difficult to name an area equal to this belt in size in the west that can pre sent better opportunities for legitimate mining but a hoodoo seems to have hung over the camps no doubt caused by the two or r three attempts that have been made to open pro properties berties per ties but which failed on account of gross mismanage mismanagement men t goldfield or tonopah have n not ot yielded richer ore than has been found in the stateline pikes diggings belt but the difference has been in the push and boom that have brought out the former camps and the lack of those things in the latter places one has only to recall the rich ore shipped from the johnny mine that went over 2000 per ton the ore shipped from the ross mine that went per ton and the many lots of lower grade ore from other properties which had they come from bullfrog kawich or some other boom camp would have created a wild stampede on rice mountain at stateline Stat eline there is an abundance of float that has run as high as 80 ounces in gold and 90 ounces in silver but the owners of this property have never yet been able to raise money enough to prosecute a search for the source of the float the gold bug mine at deer lodge has within its boundaries a foot of ore that yields float running over 2000 ounces in silver and the ledge has not yet been discovered for the same reason that the rice mountain bonanza lies uncovered and so on down the list of the many properties here the great snowflake has yielded ore running into the thousands the buck has shipped to the salt lake market several lots of ore going over per ton the Wild Irish has given up ore assaying ounces in gold float from J C Dono hues claims has assayed per ton the horseshoe mine extracted hundreds of tons of ore that went over the mark and the whole country south of fay for several miles is covered with float that will run into the thousands yet no ledges have been found and the irus indiana home stake jennie mcmullen drake independence willow vale crown point sulphide margaret jumbo and other properties have yielded rich ore and along with the others mentioned carried fine ledges of lower grade milling ores with the hoodoo banished from om the scamp camp these many fine showings will develop into big mines and the near future has more of promise in it for this country than any other in the bonanza region of the south only recently a los angeles party arrived at pikes diggings after a seven months examination of all the boom country in southern nevada they had been looking for a property that would keep a fair sized mill running and turn out some few thousands in dividends per month they had two complete outfits including assayers and examined everything that they could in the south and made many excursions into regions new to the prospector failed to get what they wanted either by purchase or discovery the stateline pikes diggings country was recommended to them and they came to see it as they had many other districts the results of their visit have been even more than they expected at the best they made hundreds of as says from different properties and were so pleased with the tests that they opened up negotiations with the owners for several different properties but as yet only one mine has been secured captain D R kilbourne of los angeles is at the head of the party and has returned to los angeles to complete the details of the organization of the california utah gold mining milling company to operate the wild irish amethyst group which they have purchased they are surprised to find such properties overlooked by salt lake people so close to home and located under such favorable conditions for economical mining they declare that no field that they have visited is so pregnant with possibilities as this and predict for it a bright future as soon as it can become known to the los angeles people the property will be opened up as soon as matters can be arranged to get material and machinery on the ground Z drake is pushing work on his pikes diggings mine and is getting ready to make regular shipments of 25 ore to the new port nevada mill at deer lodge J L mcmullen has his tunnel in now feet and has four feet of fine ore running high in silver as well as gold J C donohue is making a systematic search for the rich lead on his property he has some fine lower grade ore and the property is looking fine the jennie gold mining company has made a good strike recently on its ground adjoining the big snowflake mine they have two feet of ore running close to an ounce in gold with several ounces of silver A ten foot hole has been sunk on it and it seems to be improving much from conditions at the surface james W johnstone has made his second payment on the jumbo mine and will organize a company soon to operate it richard cabell is another new comer into the camp and is equally enthusiastic with the los angeles people over its possibilities he has made some locations north of the t e mcmullen group and intends to develop them phil beck and dark clark miller have made a rich strike at deer lodge in the old inter ocean which they located the first of january last the values are found in the porphyry and are silver instead of gold an assay made in salt lake giving them ounces they are working the property and expect to be shipping soon george moody and milt damron have given an option on their irus group to A M jackson which extends to june the deer lodge gold mining company is pushing work steadily and now has its tunnel in over feet air drills will be installed shortly which will permit of more vigorous work the homestake Home stake mill is to be put into commission shortly and will work on custom t orn ores superintendent hackett is putting in a number of new cyanide tanks to work over the old tailings and slimes C A SHORT |