Show 0 NEVADA wonder mining news at the nevada wonder the work of sloping out the high grade which we mentioned last week goes merrily on some of the ore in this mine shows values as high as 2600 per ton which is not bad considering the warm weather and the high price of ice searchlight bulletin H M denson benson of crescent has made some kind of a big rich strike according to information received yesterday from two leading citizens of that place the day before he is reported to have gathered a hatful of nuggets showing free gold in profusion one of the informants put it benson has the quartette of crescent battle mountain nevadan it is reported a rich strike was made last thursday by a man named snyder between cortez and mill canyon A big ledge was found and it is said the droppings crop pings can be traced for 1700 feet assays essays running as high as in gold to the ton has been obtained prospectors are said to be rushing into the country where the new find has been made ely mining expositor the first carload of copper ore to be shipped from the giroux consolidated was consigned to the smelters shelters sm elters at salt lake yesterday the ore was taken from the lower levels of the alpha shaft and averaged 22 per cent copper the car contained thirty tons of ore joseph L giroux who arrived from los angeles tuesday evening did not reach the mine in atme to see the shipment sent out mina miner W A R loose of bodie and judge of salt lake were in mina the first of the week mr loose is the manager of the new bodle bodie mining company and also of the utah nevada power company which is erecting a mammoth power plant on west walker after looking around here mr loose declares it as his belief that this is the greatest mineral section of nevada and was utterly astonished at the high grade copper ore being mined ely mining expositor the brothers and george F newman of ely who made the rich lead strike at dolly varden which continues to attract attention have sixty tons of high grade lead ore on the dumps for shipment they have closed a contract with R M robinson and R B to haul this consignment to the te railroad for shipment to the salt lake smelters shelters sm elters by september 1 the ely mine owners expect to have tons of this character of ore ready for shipment winnemucca star A few days ago county clerk ryan and assessor henrichs of virginia city went to carson to ta interview attorney general stoddard regard regarding ilig his construction of the law taxing patented mines and he sent a written opinion to the effect that all patented mines of acres or less must be assessed at over acres the assessment asse will be 10 per acre under the new law any one doing worth of work on a patented claim during the year will be exempt from taxation rosebud mining news the remaining sacks of ore at the brown palace have been removed from the top to the bottom of the hill that they may be in readiness for the freighters when they return to camp shipments will go out steadily from this property from now on an extra force of men is now busily engaged in trenching drenching tren ching above the point from where the ore has been sacked to determine the exact course of the ore shot shoot tun nel no 1 ls is now in nearly feet and no 2 about feet battle mountain nevadan H V lalime and H C christensen of manhattan nevada last saturday bonded the pedro property located in copper basin for a goodly sum this is a gold property and no doubt will turn out to be a good producer they also secured an option on the ground belonging to W lee and R ferney for this ground is located about a mile below the pedro property lalime and christensen will begin operations on both properties right away dry washers will be used to work the placer ground wonder mining news at the ruby wonder they are sacking high grade for immediate shipment the rock they are handling now comes from right light on the surface and assays essays away up into the hundreds foreman ferguson although not in the best of health is about as busy as can be he has one crew of men mining and sacking high grade on the surface and another drift drifting int on ore from the bottom of the shaft the hoist is working splendidly and everything at the mine is satisfactory to the management mr harris the superintendent in is very sanguine about the future of the mine as well as satisfied with its it present condition tenabo miner david eccles john filigree and ill M S foos of ogden utah F S lack of los angeles walter bramwell and W R mccrea of tenabo have organized the ogden n mining company with W R mccrea as president Dres ident and walter bramwell as secretary and treasurer and will operate on the blue bell lost and shepherd claims which adjoin the little gem mine the company is capitalized at with shares of stock of the par value of 1 each there is a neat sum in the treasury and none of the stock is for sale A E raleigh is superintendent of the work and has five men sinking on the blue bell and trenching drenching tren ching on the lost peg leg lumber for timbering 1 and windlass is on the grounds winnemucca star H J mahon a millionaire lio mine operator has bought up most of the property in the old tuscarora district distri cL and effected a merger to operate the big properties on a colossal scale already has been taken out of the camp and the foot level has only been reached the merger controls acres of lode and placer among the best mines in the merger are the navajo north belle isle queen grand prize commonwealth independence the belle isle and the defreeze the old camp of tuscarora paid in thirteen dividends by the time it had reached the foot level out of one hole has been taken so far al meyers a well known mining man of goldfield is heavily interested in the district goldfield tribune the lida district is galloping to the front with its finds and it predicted that a few months hence the copper silver and lead showings in that section will cause the entire state to sit up and take notice only last saturday a minor miner came into goldfield with a piece of copper ore that runs probably 40 per cent and which was found at a de depth p th of only about sixty feet and now comes the report that at a depth of fifty feet in a claim on mount magruder at the head of tule canyon the vein has widened to two feet and carries values up to 1800 mostly silver and gold the property is near the old pipe line into gold mountain and formerly operated by the state line mill the story runs that the find of yesterday is due primarily to a halfbreed indian who found a small seam of silver gold and copper on the mountain and notified his friends of it the seam has now widened to two feet and carries the values before stated |