Show IDAHO silver city nugget L Pedra ceni an old time miner at the black jack has been employed to take charge of work on the traders mining companas comp anys property one mile below dewey the tunnel running north from near the road will be extended to cut under a body of ore showing on the surface still further on weiser signal A report from samples of ore from the keystone mine sent to an assayer shows a return of jog from one lot and per ton from another while there is practically little preliminary work to be done the minor details will be attended to during the coming winter months and the owners expect to be taking out the ore before the fourth of july pierce city miner property owners in the elk creek breakfast creek and oro grande section have banded together for the construction of a wagon roa road d through to the oro grande two crews are working on both ends of the route and the work will be rushed through to completion this is a road which has long been needed and is rapidly becoming a positive necessity some of the richest mineral showings in it the district are in that section silver city nugget judge R H leonard started a big 11 load of supplies out to boulder saturday to begin the reopening of the mines located in that district several years ago by john mcmahon mr mcmahon developed a mani mammoth moth ledge over there and with a little homemade home made mill which people called the rawhide took out several thousand dollars worth of silver mr leonard secured title to this property a year ago 0 and proposes to do a considerable amount of development work on it it is considered a very fine concentrating proposition if worked on a big plan wallace lallace vl times the tarn tam oshanter OS hanter mining company has resumed the development of its property located a mile and a half southwest of osburn A force of men were taken to the property recently by superintendent edward eizman eisman to build a double cabin near the lower tunnel mr eisman declares that there will be shipping ore within the next six months the vein showing ore on the surface of a shipping quality we expect to start a drift on the vein which will have to be driven feet to get under the outcropping cropping out but we expect to encounter ore when in about feet on the vein where a separate ore shoot was opened in the upper tunnel mackay miner word has been received from custer to the eff effect act that W G sweet who left here a couple of months ago has made a very rich strike in the vicinity of custer on new ground the extent of the strike is not known but mr W B rodgers who brought the information to town stated that the ore encountered went at the grass roots and that the ledge had not been sufficiently explored to determine its size mr sweat is known to nearly every person in custer county and is one of the ge gentlemen who cleaned up a handsome sum leasing in the white knob mines his numerous friends will be very glad to learn of his good fortune wallace press eight feet of clean antimony ore has been encountered in the top or of the raise on the property of the stanley mining company this ore was broken into early this morning at the bottom of the which was sunk from the upper UPP wor workings kings five to six feet of ore has already been exposed this makes a of feet of solid ore the raise is thirty feet in height and the is forty feet deep the strike this morning is the most import made in this mine as it proves the ant yet ore increases in quality and quantity with depth and a large body is blocked out in herman J rossi ross is one of tho the the principal owners of the property W W merk merit manager of the property is extremely reticent and refused to give out much information fornia tion but the above facts have been ascertained from a reliable source |