Show MINERAL HILL STRIKE special correspondence manhattan nov nev jan 7 the marls maris jayne company has just struck it rich in the mineral hill mine on the foot level seventy feet from the shaft the drift is in a full face of ore carrying free gold values clear across on the side the values are light but on the hanging wall there are twelve inches of ore going and twelve inches assaying 28 to the ton this ks is on the same contact and the same character of ore in which the big values are found on thanksgiving and mustang and is exactly the same as the ore found in the th e mammoth on this latter property the maris jayne people expect to sink to water level within a short time when the same value of ore will doubtless be encountered as the thanksgiving mineral hill and mammoth ores can hardly be told apart the mineral hill has ample funds for development the mineral hill adjoins the toyace and is on the same ledge with the mammoth the tonopah miner in speaking of the mineral hill strike says the mineral hill property at manhattan in which an important strike was made last month is showing constant improvement the ledge which was opened up on the foot level varies in width from 4 to 7 feet and carries good values in free gold samples taken this week from the face of the drift prove the values to be uniform the two averages were and 2870 the developments on this property during the past two weeks have attracted a great deal of attention locally the strike on the mineral hill carries the th e proved mineral area another step to the eastward and there is no doubt that several rich producers of gold will be opened up along the great lode lines three or four miles east of manhattan |