Show NEVADA caliente express J A bush representing the hiko bell mining milling company was a Cal caliente lente visitor wednesday going to salt lake mr bush has a shipment of ore 0 re destined for salt lake to test the com banys 1 irish mountain property mr bush isa is a mineralogist of national repute and expressed himself as satisfied caliente would some day be the center of a great mining district humboldt star Samp lesof the ore from the strike made by phil blume on the brown palace group grou p at rosebud the new camp in the rabbit hole section were assayed in reno saturday and gave the marvelous values of in gold and in silver mr blume and his associate E L mcgue the latter prominently identified with the oil industry in california have left reno for rosebud to arrange for extensive development of their property which looks like it is going to be one of the richest and biggest mines in the state ely expositor S N williams a mining operator and C R murdock a mining expert of goldfield secured an option last saturday on a group of six claims adjoining the mcdonald ely properties from william hollenburg Hol lemburg of lane city the claims formerly belonged to john magnuson and james and hollenburg Hol lemburg held them under an option by the terms of the transfer mangnuson and receive and Hollen hollenburg Hol lemburg iburg gets and fifty thousand shares of stock in a new company to be organized 0 ely news general manager AT L requa was interview by the news yesterday and said that the general office of the nevada con copper company would be removed from salt lake to Alc mcgills Gills some time within within the month and that the general office office of the nevada northern would be removed from cobre to the site of the com banys ely yard and freight sheds as soon as the necessary buildings could be put up tor for the accommodation of the companas comp anys business he also said thal thai he would change his headd headquarters barters from salt lake to this section very shortly eureka sentinel charley was over from hamilton on thursday he states that the mining interests in that sec section tilon are feeling very much encouraged over the prospects of soon having better transportation facilities the several surveying parties that have been working between donop ah and ely for the newly proposed railroad are reported to have recently been running lines just south of hamilton and it is generally conceded that if the new road adad is built an effort will be made to tap the rich lead mines of hamilton mr states that at the present time there are between and 1000 tons of ore on the dumps of the several mines near hamilton awaiting shipment but there is a scarcity of teams and it is thought there is little probability of getting any quantity of this ore to the railroad at eureka before the winter storms set in columbia review several goldfield and salt lake gentlemen are elated over the reported strike of rich ore on the lucky boy claim of the ramsay comstock at ramsay A few days ago in the crosscut of the 60 foot level bonanza ore was uncovered and upon its becoming known the camp went wild with excitement superintendent hasson is having the dirt taken out and sacked as fast as men tools and powder can do it an assay from the face of tile the drift shows values of the picture variety while the whole streak will mill better than the entire ledge 71 feet wide will average better than 15 to the ton this strike is without doubt the most important that has been made in the district as it proves that high grade ore exists there and that too in quantity sufficient to be taken out rapidly for shipment the owners of the above property are captain A H mayne alayne W H fuller E H meade T J gray H T bragdon of goldfield and H B cole of salt lake they were at once notified of the big find winnemucca star J jones a prominent mining man from philadelphia accompanied by W G adamson superintendent of the intermountain mining company made a trip to the property on winnemucca mountain sunday and inspected the property this i is s mr jones first trip to the mines and he is very much pleased with the property work has been started on the new shaft house and frame and the foundation for the new gasoline hoist will be laid as soon as possible the hoist is expected here in a few days at the big biggins ns property south of the intermountain active work is going on two men are at work shil sinking shilling cing on what promises to be a rich lead the ore is a carbonate carrying good values in gold and silver the hercules mine owned by F C robins has been leased to S faust john biggins and mat kyle jr and work will be commenced on that property immediately the commencement of active development work on winnemucca mountain will materially help in the up building of the town of winnemucca and should be encouraged cou raged by everybody the work started will stimulate others and new prospects will be opened up all over the mountain tonopah daily sun J T A kirby of kirby stoneham lamb brokers has just returned from a two weeks inspection trip of the inyo gold mining alining company property of which he is a director the companas comp anys property consists of seventeen claims about eight miles from furnace creek in the funeral range during the summer work was suspended on account of the intense heat but ope operations operatic ratio ns are again under way according to mr kirby the shaft has ben sunk seventy five feet and rich ore has been struck the drift in which it was found being twenty feet in A twelve foot crosscut has been driven into the ledge and the shaft and crosscut are now in rich ore which assays essays at from 40 to 50 per ton free milling gold with a slight value of silver 1 I believe the district is most promising said mr kirby and that it will be one of the big gold producing districts with a sufficient show of the metal in sight to warrant extensive operations the inyo company is backed by salt lake capitalists lafayette holbrook of provo is president of the company mr kirby also visited rhyolite which he reported to be enjoying a very healthy growth in regard to the greenwater Green water country mr kirby said that things look good thereabout there about ely news old residents of cherry creek have long claimed that white pine county was the banner section of the state and that around cherry were the best gold in mines ines in the county this opinion is at present being verified by the rich strikes and numerous shipments of high grade ores during the month of august and in the early part of september among the mines showing up rich were the hartford nevada and the joanna the joanna made a shipment of about five tons to the taylor and brunton ore sampling works at murray utah which was sold to the american smelting smelling Sm elting and refining company at a price which netted per ton other shipments of the same grade of ore are to be made in the near future the joanna is being developed by a crosscut tunnel which is now in feet and has cut three strong veins on two of which levels have been driven from the tunnel to the length of about sixty feet disclosing large bodies of ore from two to four feet in width and carrying values ranging from 25 per ton to between veins number one and two the tunnel has cut a large body of low grade ore carrying values from 5 to 12 per ton A large milling plant will be required to handle this low grade output and the company will continue to ship the very rich ore to the smelter |