Show ACTIVITY IN C N butler of salt lake who has been bonanza chasing in nevada and california during the past year is home again and he returns to zion full of enthusiasm over the outlook for the camp of in crackerjack district san bernardino county california where he has a number of valuable properties is located forty miles south of greenwater Green water and twenty miles west of silver lake a station on the tonopah tidewater railroad during the past few months mr butler has been handling the pick and drill and now prides himself upon the fact that he has the reputation of being one of the best single jack men in his camp during the summer and fall he has been hard at work in the development of the galena contact group and has a crosscut cross cut tunnel in a distance of feet the last eighty feet being in rock that pans well in free gold and the rock apparently is an excellent milling product As a matter of fact mr butler has a mountain of low grade gold and silver ore the immensity of the tonnage virtually in sight being the chief attraction to this portion of his property on the same group he has a large vein whose lead bearing shoots and stringers will average eight feet in width this ore will average 60 per cent lead 10 to 12 ounces silver and 3 in gold to the ton of this character and quality of ore he has about tons on the dump from small surface workings the country is cut by a series of parallel rhyolite and nd porphyry dykes and the vein bearing material comes between them in the form of intrusions some of the ore being of excellent value and showing quantities of native gold has attracted a goodly number of experienced mining men by its splendid surface showings and development work is going on at every hand beck wilson are among those who have secured valuable and promising properties in the camp and the full face of their tunnel is in ore assaying 41 in gold to the ton with silver values also present E M myrick has three groups the great wonder the sleeper and the slipper on all of which there is a fine showing of the yellow metal the ore going from 50 to to the ton these properties are now under bond and option to hutchinson of goldfield the owned by david is another mine in embryo and mr is is getting ready to push development by means of a shaft in the a little copper is associated with the ore it is the intention of mr butler to return to in the spring and he hopes during the present year to have his properties there on a producing and paying basis |