| Show RICH ORE IN THE SPOKANE the golden golde n crescent company bonds the C C gold mine special correspondence crescent nev june 25 1907 consider able exe excitement was caused here by the report that the golden crescent mining company had bonded the C C mine owned by chester and atkins this property consists of five claims situated on the northern slope of crescent peak which can be almost called a mountain of mineral and about three miles east of the town of crescent the original owners opened up a very rich ore shoot on the surface from which several rich shipments were made netting the owners over per ton president I 1 G woodworth tool a lease and bond on the property with a good sized cash payment and started work immediately in the chester tunnel which is now in fifty five feet with a twenty four foot the intention of the present management is to send the tunnel in about feet when a raise will be started through to the surface the values are principally in gold with s silver ilver and galena and a slight perce percentage niage of copper the ore is to be shipped to the needles smelters shelters sm elters for treatment the total cost of transportation from the mine to the smelters shelters sm elters is per ton water has been developed for all purposes mining and milling under the aggressive management of the golden crescent mining company this property should develop into one of the best div dividend idena paying mines minas in southern nevada before another year has passed and the development will be watched with much interest by the mining men of the searchlight I 1 and crescent mining districts ore running per ton from the grass roots has been discovered on the spokane claim of the searchlight spokane mining company and despite the fact that this property was worked for a long time by the southern nevada M al company this rich streak lay untouched within a stones throw of the old workings the rich streak which is six ix inches wide every pound of it being pay was uncovered by A P F jennings son of president A M jennings who has been in charge of the property during the absence of his father in the east while tracing out ledges to the south of the southern nevada mill the finder happened across a live looking piece of quartz outcropping cropping out in an old wagon road breaking it he found it was studded with fine gold and an assay taken across the six inch streak of quartz lying in a porphyry dyke gave returns of per ton the rich streak has been traced for feet et and a careful examination of the surface shows that that no less than three good fe feeder ederr trend toward the vein from the north it is planned to immediately sink a shaft on the rich shoot near where the stringers converge and to follow the vein in its course downward from the appearance of the surface outcrop this new find is the most important yet made near searchlight for the immense porphyry ledge is the material of which large and permanent ore bodies are made and unless every geological condition is reversed this porphyry is destined to become all quartz at comparatively shallow depth mr jennings has taken out a ton of the rich rock in the past five days and has sunk but eight inches deep in a trench along the vein C J LINCKE |
