Show CAVES IN THE ROBUST in speaking of the robust mine near ely nevada owned by salt lakers the news of that tha t place says the news man paid another visit to the robust mine last week in company with superintendent marx and P C weber who own a nice block of the companas comp anys stock the force employed has been increased to nearly thirty men and the various workings are bein being 11 driven into the mountain as fast as powder and muscle can do it drifts and inclines are being run on the ore body at seven different points in the mine and the ore pile on the dump has grown to over tons all taken out in doing development work ore was first encountered last saturday in the drift from the bottom of a fifty feet below the level A cave has also been struck in a raise from the level leve it extends upwards at least feet with a fine body of ore about five feet thick underlying it these caves of which several have b been een found in the mine afford une unequally unequalled unequal led d ventilation and have invariably led to ore of which several thousand tons are now ex exposed P ased in the mine this property is a fair sample of what a little intelligent development development work will accomplish and we believe there are a dozen more in the camp that would respond as well to the same effect since the above was placed in type another cave was broken into inter on the level it extends downward and though not yet th orough ly explored has the appearance of being the largest yet encountered in the mine A vein of ore carrying better than four ounces of gold per ton led to it and apparently brently pa ly dips underneath rumors are in circulation to the effect that a movement is on foot contemplating the erection of a 1000 ton smelter in north salt lake and it is said that local capitalists and heavy mine owners are interested in the project the plant to be independent of the smelter combine tintic gintic is maintain maintaining ino its record for new strikes and important finds in good shape one of the latest discoveries of this character to be made in this magnificent district being the uncovering of a five foot body of high grade ore in the workings of the bonanza mine which is being developed under the able manager management dent of col H G heffron |