Show OLD GALENA DISTRICT herald battle mountain nev the quickening of galena is becoming more perceptive every day it has always been thought that vast bodies of good ore were left in the old mines abandoned years ago on abc acc account aunt of the slump in the price of silver and the lack of the knowledge of the process of handling t sulphide ores recent developments are proving this to be true so far as can be learned there is not a single instance of the ore having harint played out the rich shoots lying near the surface from which millions were taken were worked out and the lower grade ores left for want of facilities necessary to make the working of them profitable these facts need no better confirmation than is found in the recent investments in the district of large capital by conservative and experienced operators on the property of the english syndicate represented by armstrong and collins the work is going forward in a most satisfactory manner about twelve men are employed the property is equipped with a gallows frame and gasoline hoist and the main shaft which is down about seventy five feet is in gold ore on the rockwell property which is probably the most extensively developed a good body of sulphide ore twenty feet or more in width has been opened up by a crosscut tunnel at a depth of about feet the ore runs from 10 to ounces in silver about 5 in gold and from 2 to 5 per cent copper the battle mountain mining company has secured about forty claims adjoining and to the south of the collins and armstrong holdings these claims include some of the old properties that have records of large production in the early days to their credit the claims are traversed by four parallel ledges from four to a hundred feet long and from to feet wide in an old tunnel which cuts one of these ledges a pay streak of ore is exposed that runs from 50 to in silver and lead plans have been made for extensive development the old workings are being cleaned out and re timbered many improvements prove ments are to be added in the way of buildings and equipment the pio property perty is in immediate charge of mr M F fillmore a mining man of expert experience and ability |