Show STRIKE IN PINE NUT courier Gard gardnerville nerville nev A R gray the veteran prospector of red canyon district has undoubtedly found the much sought for morrison ledge several tons of rich ore and a small section of a ledge were discovered by a man named morrison nearly twenty years ago mr morrison secured four tons of ore which yielded over although this ore was found on the extreme summit of the pine nut mountains midway between red canyon and south camp all efforts to find the ledge have proved futile until a few days ago when mr gray discovered what appears to be the permanent ledge from which all this rich float came ollya few feet distant from the point where the four tons were taken out at the time of the first discovery the ledge is small but immensely rich abe cohn who is interested with gray has thirty or forty tons of average rock which it is estimated will work from to 2000 per ton A R gray and john are sinking on the ledge which i is all right to the depth of ten or twelve feet if it continues only ten feet deeper it will be a small bonanza and every indication now points to a fortune for the lucky owners one of pratts ideal stamp mills will be packed to a 4 spring near the mine about the first of next month and which with the character of ore thus far found will produce about 1000 per day or about per day for each man employed there are other small but rich veins in that district which contain small fortunes for care full patient prospectors |