Show NEVADA the philadelphia group of five claims in the nob hill district is another property of the company and is admirably situated the claims were recently acquired but as yet no active development work has been done upon them it is the intention of the company after mr wisner returns to new york to immediately equip the mine with the necessary machinery and to proceed to exploit the property tonopah miner word comes from the buffalo mining company at east manhattan that a mill will soon be in operation at that point which will be a decided advantage to the large properties working in that section of the district with the manhattan mammoth in good ore at feet in its tunnel and the splendid showing of good milling ore on the consolidated manhattan the mill will have all the tonnage necessary to keep it busy orders for heavy machinery have been placed by nearly all the companies at east TIan manhattan hattan ely news neil munro returned from his trip to ruby mountain several days ago on his way back he stopped at bald mountain with the intention of bonding some mines there concerning which he had some correspondence but when he got to the new nev district he found things booming at such a tremendous rate that prices had gone sky high he concluded that he would not pay the amounts demanded by the sanguine owners of prospects and came back without doing any business he says however that the bald mountain mining district certainly has a brilliant future round mountain nuggett orson smith the general manager of the sphinx has been the happiest and busiest man in seven states since thursday the cause of it all being the arrival of the new 25 horsepower fairbanks morse gasoline engine mr smith expects to have the engine in place and hoisting ore by the first of next week then watch the ore come up the next thing the sphinx company have their minds eye on is a stamp mill they already have the water rights secured and have enough to run many stamps besides the water is so situated that considerable electric power can be developed the searchlight superintendent barnes of the duplex mine finally completed repairs on the stamp mill last tuesday when the machinery was set in motion and ten stamps are now crushing thirty five tons of ore every twenty four hours facilities for preparing the ore for shipment to the smelter at needles have also been completed in the shape of a tramway from the bins at the mill westward to a commodious platform upon which the rock is weighed sacked and put upon wagons superintendent barnes states that the mine is shipping about a carload of ore a week but that this quantity can be increased if sufficient transportation facilities from here can be obtained winnemucca star chris wolf and jerry sheehan took a load of supplies to the sunrise mine on the west side of winnemucca mountain this property is owned by a local company and they have men doing development work A shaft forty five feet deep was sunk on this property last summer and a four foot ledge is exposed all the way down at present an open cut is being run to the contact and already a ledge is being uncovered which promises to be of considerable size the formation is lime and porphyry and the ore is an oxide of iron carrying fair values in gold and silver it is the intention of the company to do considerable work on the property and determine the extent of the ore body As the ore is a desirable kind for fluxing flexing purposes shipments may be made to the smelters shelters sm elters as this class of ore is in demand reno gazette J D poole a mining man of olinghouse canyon arrived in the city last evening from the prosperous washoe county mining camp and says that the camp is active at the present time he states that all of the mines in the district are being worked and that as soon as the mill at wadsworth is completed and the railroad is running there will be lively times at olinghouse the railroad is now graded for a distance of five miles said mr poole and engines will be running into olinghouse within five weeks then you will see something doing in that district the mine owners are now working their mines and taking out ore to be shipped as soon as the first ore train irain leaves the camp most of df this ore will be milled at the large custom mill at wadsworth now in the course of construction but a great deal of it will be shipped to other points and will be sold to sampling works in reno and salt T r |