| Show NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS two tiro colorado cowboys rope and ad a capture a mountain lion I 1 f SOME GOOD WORDS FOR THE TRIBUNE 1 1 7 I 1 A sausa go grinder as a snow plow Attachment california clana clam digger mangled I 1 fatal N P wreck GOLD IN PINE COUNTY knowin knowing your paper to bo be ono ot of th ebest friends ol of nevada and Neva nevadas hes rul miners ners I 1 thought I 1 won would id drop you a few lines from the county seat scat of whito pine arid and give you some santa news from tho the now low famous johanna mine tho the property of our fellow towns mail inan mr it II K R watson and I 1 can assure you sir mr editor it Is not overdrawn nor yet given its duo through tho the pross press tho ni blo Is situated about two to miles lies f from roin the low town n of ely up roban son canyon Canyo nand and ll 11 lust just on the north side of tile tho old aultman mine and she Is just one mountain of gold bearing ore with not over three feet of lima into and soil on the tha top of tho the ore I 1 have worked lit n the richmond mine lit in eureka in her best days in 1673 and sat 1 and I 1 assure you I 1 never saw as largo a body of oro ore in fit her as is Is this lay day in sight in tho the johanna find tho the beauty of it Is tho the ore Is light in the lie the mountain and call bo be ruined mined very cheaply the price ot at extracting tho lite ore at the time does not exceed soo soc per ton tho the luine in I 1 no is worked li or I 1 mean what vi aliat liat ore Is needed at the present time 35 3 tons per day is taken from two tunnels funnels one of 0 said tunnels tunnel is running up the canyon to the west tho the other right into the mountain to the abo south fach each of said tun tunnels nals Is 10 feet high and about 10 feet wi wide 10 I 1 the ore is very heavy lit in bronw ith lh seams of quartz and carbonate no lead and is 14 working up to 00 per cent with a 1 10 0 stamp gold mill tho the mill Is situated in tho the town of ely and is run by a vic ater A loci heel the mill Is routed by mr watson tor for SIB 1 6 per day by the way a nice income to its owners tho the battery as assay asray ray ot of tho the ore is 22 per ton in gold but b ut right lu in the center of 0 the johanna and dipping to tho the cast or down tho the canyon is a seats scam or small ledge of 0 ore that Is enormous in richness I 1 myself front from a small pan of dirt halo ha 0 taken over sa 5 in gold I 1 visited some other mines in this di district 3 and I 1 novel never saw more favorable prospects in my life than is in this district I 1 but tho the most of tho the oro ore I 1 saw out side of tho the johanna I 1 Is rebellious rebellion arid and iu in toy my opinion cannot bo be handled by a milling process what Is i needed in this camp is a largo furnace and an able management that will mill purchase ore from us prospectors arid and give us ns 11 living ing prices tor for our ores arid and I 1 know from 1 v abat hat I 1 saw of tho the mines there Is thousands of tons of lead oro ore that can bo be purchased iary cheap hero here that will pay largo large profits to a smelter and coal can bo be had for several years within ton ten miles of the town of kly ely when this thing is dono delta 1 will bay to the come to 1 W lite kilo alne but until then there Is two tivo men tor for tho the ono one job in conclusion I 1 will say all suits against A E R watson in regards to little and so forth are withdrawn arid and havo have been looked on by our best cil lons as I a blackmailing scheme some two months since sir mr watson ly ritson was offered V for tho the johanna but owing to recent developments the property Is yorlli at least double that amount ot of money J S IV ELY nevada larch 5 |
