Show OLD CAMP OF GALENA herald battle mountain nev ore that runs ounces in silver and 50 to 60 per cent lead is not found every day nor in every camp where silver lead or ores es predominate at galena though such ore is found on a number of properties and seems to excite very little comment this week the writer made a trip to the camp and was successful in getting away with a chunk of high grade from the meager group that reaches the above values and some more on this property which is owned by william meager an old timer in the camp a shaft has been sunk to a depth of about ninety feet from the bottom of which a level is run on the ledge about forty feet connecting with a tunnel feet in length which runs out to the surface in the level mentioned and about feet from the bottom of oe the shaft a has been sunk fifty feet showing a good vein A ledge of good ore is cut in the tunnel and along the southerly a distance of feet and verti able jewel cases were cut into at frequent intervals more than worth of ore has been shipped from the meager property returns from which show it to have run from to ounces silver 27 to 32 per cent lead and 6 to io 8 in gold from ore recently opened up assays essays have been run as high as ounces silver and 65 per cent lead the meager group comprises six claims which lie only a shirt distance southerly from the famous white and shiloh D E starrett has been doing some work on his claims known as the summit group on which has been opened up some very high grade ore that is richly laden with ruby silver on mr starrette Star property there is a foot tunnel that intersects two strong ledges running parallel and about feet apart the first one which was cut at a distance of about feet from the tunnel entrance is about 15 feet wide and carries gold values the second is about feet from the face of the tunnel and is from twenty to forty feet wide here the values are much higher the ledge was drifted on for some distance and a that was sunk about twenty five feet cut into ore carrying steph enite and steel galena that ran ounces silver and 50 per cent lead in doing the annual work on the driscoll property a two foot vein of ore was encountered running into picture values the discovery of rich ore in this property however is not new as it has been known for some time to be a high grade deposit there having been something over a hundred tons of very rich ore shipped from it the nevada company is working steadily and it is expected that the french company will begin active operations in the spring |