Show NEVADA eureka sentinel dr W F burnett received c by express last monday some interesting specimens from his california mine they have been turned over to badge locke the assayer who will report on them in a few days las vegas age the patterson district sixty miles northwest of pioche is waking up af after ter a sleep of thirty years the camp was discovered in the early sixties and reduction works were operated there at one time miners and prospectors left there during the big rush following the discovery of pioche pioche record F M laffan of the ne vada utah has let a contract for a tunnel on his group of claims adjoining the famous old mandah mine and supplies and men left town yesterday for the scene of action this is considered one of the best mineral sections in the highland district and the showing on this property for the amount of work performed compares favorably with any of the producers there battle mountain nevadan the writer droye drove out to the boyd and bray copper property last friday and finds that everything is moving along very smoothly work has been started on a double compartment shaft which w will ill probably be sunk to a depth of between and feet A fine large blacksmith shop has been erected erect edt also a stable for the use of the horses shortly they will begin the erection of a lodging and eating house for the miners as they expect in a short time to increase their working force rhyolite miner A good strike has been made in shaft no 2 at the bonanza mountain A streak of high grade eight or nine inches wide and carrying an average value of 17 ounces in gold to the ton or has come in picked samples of the ore have the rich stuff is being go gone no as high as sacked for shipment T this his shaft was only recently started and has not attained 1 no 3 is 30 10 feet a depth of over 0 down feet and crosscuts cross cuts are being carried both ways any round of shots is expected now to break into the I hobo doboe eclipse clipse vein winnemucca star at the glasgow western companas comp anys mill a at t golconda fifteen taking out the aldma old machinery men ar are 0 emp employed loyed and installing the now new and other wise remodeling the property the plant is being put in shape with new and more up to date machinery to further cheapen the process of reduction of ores from the adelaide and the mines minds at copper canyon and cherry creek when the mill is completed a long run is expected as the company has already blocked out an immense quantity of ore besides the large tonnage on the dumps of the various mines searchlight searchlight when L E bamberger was here last week he confirmed the report that a deal was under way to purchase the majestic smelter at milford utah and to move it to goodsprings Good springs the smelter promoted by W H wilson has not materialized and now joseph dederichs who had the contract for building the wilson smelter is working independently the majestic smelter is no longer in use for the reason that the mine is producing shipping ore the plant has two stacks and is well fitted to handle the class of ore produced in the yellowpine Yellow pine district of which goodsprings Good springs is the metropolis hamboldt Hom boldt star the old ethan allen alien mine at willow creek is to be worked by a company recently formed at mountain home idaho J K winters returned to that place wednesday after having made a thorough examination of the mine which he pronounces a property of merit the ethan allen alien is situated near the north star group on willow creek and was worked many years ago mr winters says there is a large ledge and the ore carries good values in silver and lead he believes that with proper development it will make a good mine and the new owners will put men to work to thoroughly prospect and open it up iv columbia review the new machinery which was ordered some time ago for the red top mining company has commenced to arrive the fifty horsepower electric plant came in last tuesday and the cars pumps cages and other paraphernalia are expected the latter part of this week the cement foundation for the big motor is now being laid and when it is completed work on the gallows frame will be commenced the management states that the gallows frame will be one of the biggest in the district work on the shaft on the north end of the claim is being rushed along rapidly in a few days the gasoline hoist on the main shaft will be replaced by a new one pioche record operations on the hill above town by the nevada utah are more satisfactory to those interested than at any time during the past twelve this is occasioned on account of greater progress being made in every branch of development and the scene of action under the management of charles swanton and superintendent ed F freudenthal is interesting to see meadow valley no 5 shaft under the personal supervision of frank mcneil Is now down feet and is rapidly nearing the big ore bodies while raymond ely no I 1 supervised by foreman lock has beat the record in its downward course for the past thirty days the timber shortage is now over and everything is working full blast tonopah miner curtis L knight superintendent perin of the silver peak in his report to the ton tonopah opah office of therom the company received this morning states that the conditions at the mine are of the most satisfactory is character in the first crosscut from the main tunnel the raise has been run up six feet to the hanging wall showing the vein to be 12 feet wide the face which is feet gives an average assay of in free milling gold in the second crosscut the vein is 14 feet wide and the entire face shows average values of 8 the new tunnel recently started across the canyon from the main tunnel has not yet reached solid ground altogether the showing in the Val calda is splendid and it is bound to make a great producer good progress is being made on the pipe line and superintendent knight expects to have the excavating completed by the middle of september reno gazette A six foot ledge of milling gold ore was encountered on the rocky hill group at washoe yesterday afternoon which has materially strengthened the stock in that company the ledge is six feet across and was caught by the long tunnel that is being driven from the canyon superintendent perin wilhelm says the company has been looking forward with great interest until the ledge could be struck and that it more than fulfills their hopes if the values revealed by the tunnel hold out P he said the mill will show up enough ore upon the first cleanup clean up to pay for its construction st and nearly all of the development work that has been done the ledge is remarkably mar kably rich we have not received the returns from the assayer yet but bannings pann ings made from samples taken across the ledge show that it carries big values in free gold the mill was started yesterday and is being run now upon the ore that is piled upon the dump |