Show MANHATTAN BUILDING MILLS the leasers leaders of the district engaged in sacking high grade ore special correspondence manhattan nevada oct that the mining camp of manhattan has taken on renewed life and activity is evidenced by the increased traffic to and from the town and the great impetus displayed in mining operations throughout the district what manhattan needed to bring her out of the lethargy in which she lingered for man months was stamp mills to market the product extracted from her numberless mines which have heretofore laid idle for want of treatment the three mills now under course ot of construction in manhattan are making great headway and the wolf mill will be in operation by the 1st ast of november bareng barr ng further delays this will immediately furnish a market for tons of millin milling ore per day within sixty days more the lemon mill will add to the daily capacity with its ten stamp mill to be soon followed by the 50 ton huntington mill of davis chapman under the above condition of affairs the leasers leaders are working with renewed efforts and are laying aside vast quantities of high grade milling ore awaiting the starting of the mills many of the leases on the various properties are taking out shipping ore along with the milling and within another year manhattan will rank with the leading camps of the west on the foot level of the thanksgiving property the same high grade ore has been encountered as found on the upper levels clearly demonstrating that the ore bodies go to the deep operations have been suspended for a few days awaiting the arrival of a large station pump to handle the water cole burns have secured a lease on the entire surface of the little gray claim and will placer the dirt by the sluicing process water will be obtained from the gold wedge shaft Pla cering has become quite the tad fad in the manhattan dt district strict and nearly every gulch in the camp has machinery on the surface extracting gold from the rich placer dp deposits on the indian camp claim several sets of leasers leaders are at work all obtaining good results from dry pla cering the surface dirt runs from 1 to 10 per cubic yard wilcox and golish have taken a lease on the company shaft of the indian camp and will at once seek the ledges which have been traced through the com banys property on the jumping jack claim in addition to the placer diggings kendall douglass are extracting high grade ere cre from the 5 50 0 foot level in their lease about twelve inches of the vein on which they aro are and working will assay between while quantities of good per ton in gold milling ore is being taken out to await the mills on the stray dog leaser giffin is continuing the high grade production daily sacking ore running into the hundreds of dollars to the ton besides extracting quantities of milling ore dan mcnamara recently the stray dog and secured a lease on was sacking ore within a week from the signing of his lease in the early lays days ot the camp the stray dog established a wonderful record for rich specimen ore taken out by the leasers leaders lea sers on the Wolf tone extension lead and galena has been found in considerable quantity at a depth of fifty feet while the formation is identical to that of the thanksgiving and bryfogle the Wolf tone extension people are of the firm belief that proper development will open the same rich ore shoots of its neighbor the thanksgiving litigation hill is establishing a wonderful record no less than half a dozen sets of leasers leaders sacking high grade ore running from the hundreds into the thousands of dollars per ton specimen ore is a feature of litigation hill some of the finest specimens ever seen in the state having been taken from this ground which is a portion of the dexter mining company A J WRIGHT WEIGHT |