Show NEWS FROM blackhorse big strike of high grade ore in the hamilton group mining record ely nev the gold camp of Black blackhorse borse in the eastern part of white pine county is again the scene of great activity resulting from new finds of the rich ore which made the camp famous last year this time it is the th e hamilton brothers who have a group lying between the original blackhorse and the san pedro mines from bothof which high grade ore has been taken the best samples shown contain a large amount of free gold visible to the eye and much of the rock which does not show colors gives fine results when panned the find is in the main blackhorse ledge on which is located the blackhorse san pedro mable and other groups and which extends several miles both ways from the first location the find on the hamilton group was made by leasers leaders and now the whole group is divided into blocks which are being worked by james milligan Mi higan howard pepper F J mcqueen young andoch and others ers miller brothers have opened ore on the same ledge on the white jack group east of the san pedro that does not show so much gold in the rock but which pans a long streak when pulverized it has always been the leasers leaders who have opened and developed gold camps when capital was afraid 0 o venture in and now that the system has taken root in the blackhorse district prediction is f reely freely made that it will soon make a lively producing camp charles W gaby of osceola was given a two pound sample of the rock from the new find from which he extracted gold that amounted to or at the rate of 2 a pound when the mabel was found last year fred L schrott the lucky dutchman found a pocket of ore which assayed to the ton and rich specimens have been taken from half a dozen different groups that cover the ledge for the length of two miles the san pedro made quite a production from the ledge last year that all milled better than a ton and in that mine another blind ledge was found twenty eight feet wide that carries a ton in i a free gold the amalgamated company is having the assessment work on the california arid a other groups completed but does not expect to start the san pedro again until ney next t year 1 D south of the town of blackhorse warren on the velvet group has driven a tunnel fifty feet and gets good results fron from panning but has not reached solid forna forma dia tion yet he has gone to california for the winter binter and will return in the spring and sink a shaft on the group the town is very much excited over the recent discoveries and has great hopes that the leasing system will pull the camp to the front as a pr profitable gold mining section ak ahr through ough the work now in progress A prospector named saunders who owns some claims near the buchanan group did assessment work this fall and the ledge matter taken out was pounded down in a mortar by him and amalgamated which resulted in netting him better than wages V B sabin and A P levander partners with al D myers in the goldfield group be tween 0 sceola osceola and blackhorse blackham e arrived in ely wednesday night and confirm the strike on the Wind splitter the leasers leaders are busily engaged in developing the several blocks into which the claim has been divided and all are confident of success in locating the main body of the rich ore the goldfield shaft was sunk fifty feet the past season and a drift run fifteen feet which cut an important ledge but not the main one for which it was driven A mr I 1 r myers has ordered the work discontinued for the present as he h e is stopping all work wherever he is interested the same partners own some promising claims on silver creek north of blackhorse where the ore is silver and lead and have been sinking through the schist under which they expect to find the main deposit Z mr sabin is a pioneer in the osceola blackhorse district and has great faith in it though he has been in many other camps camp s in the last few years and lias has not found anything better about twenty years ago he operated a stamp mill in grub gulch on ore from the gilded age forest D goody of the boston nevada company is about ready to commence crushing the cumberland ore in the whitney mill the ore haulers are bringing the pre ore down to the mill as fast as possible during the fine weather |