Show NEVADA ely news R A and C E own a group of seventeen claims about miles west of blackhorse and fifteen miles to the south of ely in doing assessment work they found a ledge from which ore has been taken giving assays essays of 12 per cent copper 60 ounces in silver and about 30 per cent lead they purpose starting development work within the next thirty days ely mining record the white pine gold mining milling company who are driving a tunnel on their property located about twenty five miles north of ely are reported mohave to have made a good strike recently they crosscut cross cut a vein of thirty feet wide and samples assayed as high as gold A stamp mill is being completed which will soon be pounding out the values from the pile of ore on the dump gold cold center news the force has been increased on the gold mining success and will continue to be increased as they c can a n b be e used the tunnel is advancing rapidly and is showing up well this property has made some star showings for so short a time of development the tunnel has a big ledge over twelve feet wide how much wider is not yet known which broke down at 43 and another big ledge that has averaged over 34 on the surface searchlight bulletin rumor has it that joseph wharton owner of the mine has given orders to superintendent charles gracey to prepare a ship shipment ment to the smelter at t needles ore is now being sacked and with the first high water on the colorado river a quantity will be sent down for treatment the purpose of th the e shipment it is said is to determine the best method of treatment with the view of erecting a reduction plant near the mine times otto taubert fred freda J berin yerington agton bowman and W T aucott returned here from acme tanks this week wednesday where they report a phenoi phenomenally nelly rich find of copper the strike is about n nine ne in miles les of luning in kinkead from the old town district esmeralda county the parties brought in some very rich specimens of cuprite ore and claim the ledges crop strong and the district is about five miles in length they returned to the new diggings yesterday and have laid out a townsite to be called butte prospectors are flocking to the new district in droves ely news excavation for the foundation of the first unit of the concentrator of the steptoe smelter at mcgill is now about completed this means that the first of the forty acre cluster of great buildings will soon be going up it is understood that iron workers will be brought from pennsylvania next month to work on this structure there are afe already about laborers and others engaged at the smelter site by the end of summer it is hoped that ore trains will be running from the mines of the nevada consolidated and the cumber land ely to the smelting smelling sm elting plant las vegas age near SL thomas thirty eight miles northeast of moapa the cedar basin copper company has a great deposit of rich copper ore the vein is four feet wide and the ore is taken through a drift hauling from the mine to moapa is 22 per ton and freight by rail to salt lake with smelter charges increases the costs of handling to a high figure it is estimated that this ore averages from 90 to per ton in copper these figures are sufficient to make a greenwater Green water man turn green with envy yet we hear very little of cedar basin lincoln counts county verily great noise and great mines are not always found faund in the same place mina miner one of the greatest mining excitements excite ments ever witnessed in nevada since the early days of the comstock and aurora is now on at the new copper district of fitting fittin it is located about six miles east of acme tank on the line of the southern pacific pacific railway and a short distance north of mina the strike is in the same range of hills as the mina and luning copper belt of which it is really an extension fred wallace con martin fitting and W I 1 snooks were the discoverers cover ers A district has been organized with W N gallagher district recorder the ore is cuprite and and is liberally sprinkled with native copper and runs about seventy five per cent in copper experts who h have ave been on the ground state that it is undoubtedly the biggest and richest copper strike ever made the whole country has seemingly gone crazy over the find and men are rushing in from everywhere owing to the lateness s in receiving the news n t coni complete report which we have on hand will appear in our next issue |