Show NEVADA Maa manhattan hattan mail the westward drift at the foot level on the estate of the mineral hill mining company is proving up a fine body of ore the ledge maintains a width of seven feet and pans free gold all the way the drift has been run a length of feet and will be continued to feet before further sinking manhattan mail the mcallister lease on the tip top claim on the seyler humph rey estate is opening into a bonanza the shaft is down only fifteen feet but in this distance seventy tons of 50 ore have been taken out the ledge is five feet in width and is certain to enter the list of the first class leases of the camp battle mountain herald the silver lead property recently purchased by senator kearns of utah known as the lucky strike is still sending out rich ore and the ore teams run by C W burge are being kept busy hauling the rich rock to the railroad the strike made recently by the leas ers gave additional impetus to the operations and confirmed the opinion generally held of the proper tys future as a producer searchlight bulletin george dupont the pioneer of the section bearing his bis name some twelve miles to the east of town reports that his drift tunnel is now in feet his present objective point is still another feet further in he is driving in on a big cross vein and in good ore this tunnel eventually will cut at least eight different veins and at one or more of these intersections mr dupont is confident of encountering high grade ore battle mountain herald newton boyd made the first payment this week on the group of claims bonded from H R lemaire L I 1 E kendrick and fred barron barren the property is situated about twelve miles from town and consists of several claims showing t good copper and gold values it is in the same richly mineralized territory that produced the famous copper canyon mine and shows promise of becoming a very valuable property with development ely mining record at a meeting of the i shareholders of the alta mining company of hamilton held in ely this week roy W schenck was elected president and general manager AJ T collins Collin collinsa sj vice president and G A mcelery secretary and treasurer the company has no stock for sale at the present time having made its financial arrangements for opening up its property As the companas comp anys property is situated well up on the white pine mountain where the snowfall is heavy no work will be done until about april lovelock tribune W M white of vernon vernoll who has extensive interests both at copper kettle and camp toben cretu returned arned last monday from the latter camp where he be has been for the past two months doing development work mr air white owns a group of five promising claims at camp toben and states that in doing doina his annual assessment work avery a very promising ledge was uncovered mr white has no assays essays from his new find but exhibited rich specimens of gold and lead ore he expects to return shortly and commence active development work round Aloun mountain afountain tain nugget after tunneling into the mountain for a distance of feet the round mountain Morr monster ster mining company yesterday cut into a series of rich tungsten stringers this is in the lower tunnel which was started since manager poppers departure under the supervision of mark newall the stringers vary from three to five inches in thickness and are almost pure tungsten this now proves up the tungsten deposit to a depth of feet superintendent newall who brought in the news stated that the deposits show up richer and stronger than ever A raise has been started to connect with the upper tunnel seventy feet above battle mountain herald W E parker who with ed carey and sheriff lamb is interested in bernice the antimony camp in churchill county about miles south of winnemucca returned today from that camp bringing with him many samples of ore some of which are nearly pure antimony mr air parker and associates own several groups of valuable claims in this district which contain large bodies of high grade antimony ore some other claims in which they are interested in the vicinity show excellent returns ingold in gold and silver values the formation in this thi s section is of slate the ledges of which are well defined being of considerable length and width ely mining record J F brim the pioneer lead man of duck creek district spent a few days in ely this week and reports that notwithstanding the slump in the metal market things are moving very satisfactory HY in the district he is pushing develop ment on the frederick and oswego and all hands are working on ore the old lead ar ing ng is also going ahead steadily with de loument lop ment work and production while a new strike of importance is reported by charles saxton and others on the lead chief a new Dro property perty which promises to become a heavy Dro producer ducer with development mr brim is of the opinion that a lead stack will be erected it at the steptoe smelter during the present j year in which event the duck creek see section will soon spring into importance as a heavy producer |