Show NEVADA searchlight bulletin A L hiller secretary of the gold beam and majestic gold frog mining companies came in on wednesday accompanied by G A yager the latter resides at thompsonville Thomp sonville conn and is interested in both the above mentioned properties the gentlemen left for the coast yesterday but mr hiller will return here the forepart of next week to personally supervise the commencement of work on his mines winnemucca star A L wisker arrived wednesday from the kings river district where he has charge of the mining property belonging to george H dern bern of salt lake city he states that a number of contracts have been let and as development progresses the showings of ore are good the work being ing done by the contractors is mostly tunnes tunnel and dinzes and as depth is attained the ledges show permanency and in some instances richer values than nearer the surface f ace ely mining record J F brim has started extensive development of the oswego group located near the lead king in the range east of the smelter where lie e expects pacts to make a producer that will be sending a steady stream of ore to the furnaces by next spring commodious buildings for quartering a number of miners have been beell erected and a winter supply of everything ceded will be put in at once the group consi consists ats of six claims and is the personal property of mr air brini brim goldfield news the directors the goldfield mohawk mining company have declared a monthly dividend of 30 cents a share amounting to and the red top mining company has declared a dividend of ten cents a share amounting to both dividends amounting to a total of are payable on november on the same date the consolidated dividend for november of ten cents a share amounting to will be paid the greater portion of the mohawk and red redtop top dividends will go into the consolidated treasury rhyolite miner C P mason of los ios lo s an geles representing the fairbanks morse machinery company came in wednesday from johnnie where his firm is installing a nissen nisse n sixteen stamp mill on the dohnnie consolidated mr mason says that the work is progressing very satisfactorily and that the plant will be completed and ready for operation by the middle of december the capacity of the mill will be about tons a day mr mason was very greatly impressed with the johnnie consolidated and thinks it i t destined to make a good producing mine battle mountain herald three six horse wagons have begun hauling ore from the lucky strike mine to the railroad for shipment to the smelters shelters sm elters this property which was discovered only about two months ago has now become an assured producer between four and five cars have already been taken out and several men are employed developing and extracting the ore the vein which has been proven about fifty feet in depth remains strong and retains its width the values are about the same as at the surface though the percentage of lead is increasing goldfield news the st ives leasing company continues to take out ore from their foot level and are stacking the same on their dumps two shifts are working on the shaft and it is going goine down at the rate of about three feet per day manager codd is very enthusiastic over the showing that is being made and fully believes that within a short time he will run into the ore shoot on the lower levels A crosscut is also being run east on the foot level to strike the ore shoot recently encountered on the st ives it is believed that a large body of high grade ore can be reachel within a short time elko free press in richmond mining district north of carlin another rich discovery is reported in doing their assessment work last week robert henderson and george schoer encountered a big ledge of high grade silver and lead ore assays essays from which show 61 per cent lead and ounces in silver the discovery was made west ot the little marsh mining companas comp anys property which was worked all summer and which is regarded as one of the best in eastern nevada many valuable discoveries have been made in this district during the past year and considerable deve development lodmel it work has been done the district is a comer and next spring will witness much mining activity here ely news there hasben red reduction action of forces working on the nr of the conc concentrator en and it is the fiill fall understanding that there will be none the contractors are on the other hand being urged to top speed and are employing every man they them can find room for they are to do then theil best to get et the unit in commission by the first of the year on the second and third units of the concentrator work has not ceased thoun though li there has been material reduction of activity the first unit will handle 1300 tons of ore daily the concentrates from this it is now understood will go to outside smelters shelters sm elters for treatment until such time as the steptoe smelter is ready to take care of them probably in april at the smelter though there has hag been reduction cf forces to some extent work is going ahead in manner that is promising of completion within the time set the b bg g plant is fast assuming shape |