Show NEVADA ely mining expositor the rattler shaft which is being sunk on the steele group of the federal ely copper company dropped into solid ore at a depth of 79 feet with slight traces of sulphides sulp hides no assays essays have been made but the values are known to he be sufficiently high to make it an important strike taken in connection with the fact that the ore is a good grade of copper ore from the surface but the formation has been considerably sider ably broken tuscarora mining news wm win dye and al gabbert brought in some fine looking quartz which shows plenty of free gold their property is ted on bonanza hill seven miles west of tuscarora the samples was taken from the droppings crop pings of a strong ledge that traverses in a northerly and southerly direction the bonanza hill mine produced a great deal of picture ore in early days and the boys are confident of making a big payer of it caliente lode express unusual activity is being shown in chief mountain and vicinity the result of the recent strike on the property of the elkhorn mining company W D shemwell the superintendent informs us that the wagon road from the mine to the railroad is nearing completion the delay being occasioned on account of scarcity of labor he is now contracting for the delivery of the ore to the railroad to be shipped to the smelters shelters sm elters at salt lake city mazuma alazuma herald L L R C moore and F I 1 gunnell have made application to the state engineer of nevada for permission to appropriate the waters from a spring in stone house canyon two miles westerly from marzens markens Mar zens stone house near the group of mining claims to be used for milling purposes the spring in question is three miles west of farrell and the hagemen group of claims extend from stone house canyon to burnt canyon in tle the seven troughs district ramsey recorder preparations of all kind is now bein being made to get ore shipments out from the sensational walkover mine every day sacks are being filled and stacked on the dump while the miners keep right on uncovering more and more of the high grade they are sacking ore over there that assays essays from to 1000 a ton and grab samples from the sacks are returning assays essays from to a ton gold every bit of the rich vein is put into sacks no attention being paid to sorting and the ore body has widened from eighteen inches to nearly three feet winnemucca state news on different mining property adjoining or lying close to the galena mine which is is owned by s webb fayant and duncan si sixteen x tee n jea leaders leasers ser S are engaged in extracting ore this section of the gold run district is rich in lead and silver at the galena mine there is abell a well defined streak of fa lead ad silv silver er ore on the hanging wall from eight to twelve inches wide that will run over ounces in silver this phe nominal streak of ore has been found on other adjoining properties although not as rich as in the galena mine which is considered to be the mother of the lead silver mines in th therold eGold the gold run district wonder mining news the prospects for the new dixie district for which wonder is the source of supplies and the nearest center are constantly growing brighter eight leasers leaders are working with vigor on ground allotted to them by the nevada dixie gold mining com company one of the leasers leaders lea sers swift water bill gates has installed a five stamp m mill ill which during the few days of its operation has crushed about twenty tons of gold ore that averages about to the ton some of the samples have assayed as high as 2000 to the ton the intention is to increase the number of stamps in unison with the production of the district preliminary work is under way on a tram from the workings down to the mill which is located near the water at the base of the hills winnemucca star W M webb and C D duncan of golconda who are associated with joe fayant in the galena claim came in from camp yesterday mr duncan departed for winnemucca to purcia purchase se more ore sacks during the past few days they have filled one hundred sacks with the rich ore that is being taken out of that claim As soon as the sacks are received at the mine and filled from the pile of ore on the dump a shipment is to be made to the smelter at salt lake the galena is developing into a bonde wonderful erful property at a depth of 35 feet there is four and a half feet of shipping ore the shaft is all in ore but only the richest will be shipped at the present time this large pay streak is almost solid galena and will run run close to to the ton round mountain nugget down in the flat west of the sphinx mine there are a couple of properties which during the past few weeks have been the subject of considerable sid erable comment in round mountain mining milling circles these are the round mountain comstock and the round mountain sphinx extension both of which are located in a direct line to catch the famous sphinx ledge tile the cause of comment regarding these properties has been however principally horn from the fact that in the comstock shaft at a depth of feet bedrock has been struck and at bedrock richness for ten feet above bedrock the dirt all pans good colors the COIn comstock stOck people are well pleased with the find and for the present will content themselves with establishing a station and drifting on the bedrock expecting as they do to find immense deposits of placer gold |