Show A RIVAL TO greenwater GREEN WATER SPECIAL correspondence johnnie nevada oct 24 the discovery of copper is another valuable addition to the products of johnnie it was discovered in the northeastern part of the district about three miles north of the johnnie con mine and in the southwestern part of the district about eight miles from the town this would indicate that there is a belt extending diagonally across the district but as yet it has not been prospected enough to determine its size the discovery has caused some excitement and prospectors are rushing to the new fields within the last two weeks nearly a hundred locations have ben taken up robert browne of colorado who has large copper holdings has just returned from denver where he associated himself with financiers in the development of his claims and he started work about a week ago browne has a vast deposit of the red metal assaying on the surface 4 per cent copper and 8 in gold 4 about feet to the north he has another property which he says has an eighteen inch ledge assaying 35 per cent copper and 8 in gold fred bowler the original owner of the timous bowler lease on the minnie mae hill of the johnnie con ground is now in philadelphia negotiating for the sale of some copper holdings to capitalists there these properties are in the southwestern portion of the district the midway john nie company reports assays essays of 11 per cent copper and 1040 in gold H wagner and tim connors are now developing a copper property in the northeastern section which they claim has a two foot ledge assaying 20 per cent copper W L bachtel who is out here in the interests of thomas A edison has located copper in the northeastern section but would not state for whom simply saying it was done in the interest of his eastern patrons the T he frost rathborne lease on the johnnie con property made a sensational strike when they caught the extension of the globe treasure vein on the 40 foot level they encountered a rich pay chute that was two feet wide ten inches of which assayed directly beneath on the level they again found this chute and it assayed the 40 foot level is now being opened up and the drift will be run to the end line of the lease when the lower level will be worked two shifts are now sacking ore from this rich vein the globe treasure vein was first discovered in the bonanza shaft about fifty feet away and was was again caught in a tunnel twenty five feet further on now making the th eledge ledge proven for seventy five feet in length and from ten inches to three and a half feet wide assaying from to the full width making it probably the richest ore chute for its size ever unearthed about twenty feet on the other side of the frost lease the same came ledge edge was encountered and ore full of visible gold is being sacked from the surface but not enough development has been done as yet to prove anything remarkable on this ground probably with a little more work the globe treasure vein will prove a bigger thing on the johnnie con ground than is anticipated the congress mine out a mile west of the town will soon be opened up and J J fairchild formerly of the johnnie con gold mining company has been appointed as superintendent charles E knox james L butler harry ramsey of tonopah To and frank al ish of goldfield have recently acquired the property and upon engineers report they claim they can open up a big thing work is progressing most favorably in the lower level of the johnnie con the 0 ore re c hute chute recently opened on the leyel level has been proven five and a half feet wide and assays essays from 25 to 30 the formation is the same on all the levels to the surface it being an oxidized ore with w 1 th free fr e e gold the deep formation in the mine has been of interest to ao local engineers the main shaft following the ledge at an angle of 45 degrees for a depth of feet and then the formation flati flattens ens and on the level it was necessary to run a drift thirty feet before the ledge was ads encountered on the level it was necessary to dig feet in the drift before the ledge was encountered superintendent moser thinks he will have between and feet of ground on this level A gigantic fault was discovered which threw the ledge full sixty feet A new shaft is being sunk on the globe property on an extension of the johnnie lode which is now proven in this portion of the camp five feet wide and assaying about 30 the work is still going on in the lower tunnel and the men broke into a good ledge of ore that assays essays 30 the formation there is changing indicating that they will soon break into the rich ground sacking ore is being continued on the leadville johnnie and there is about half a carload ready now for shipment the management is now considering a plan to erect a concentrating plant so that the mines of mineral flat can ship concentrates instead of the raw ore excellent reports are received from W S schmidt who is opening up the clanahan Clan aban mines on mineral flat and he says that the men have just broken into a two foot galena ledge in a new drift superintendent simmons says that on the battery mines he has the extension of the johnnie lode and that it is five feet wide assaying 30 ROBT BURGH |