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Show I GREATEST GOLD MINE IN WEST Biggest Find in History of Nevada, Discovery Made on Montgomery Mont-gomery Mountain Near Rhyolite. Henry Peery of Salt Lnke Ha? Purchased Pur-chased South Half of Mountain Near the Great Strike. I Special to The Tribune. GOLDFIELD. Nv . April 10 Two wct-ks of actual m!ne development on th Shosbona (TOUp of clnlms. situated on tho imrth end of Montgomery mountain, near Itliyollto, Bullfrog district, seventy miles south oT Goldfield. has resulted in the. craieet strike ever made in iho. history of Nevada. Half a dozen noted engineers Who have examined the work declare It has dlsrlost-d what I, in all probability, the greatest goid mine the country ever saw. A crosscut tunnel has been driven 'n(n the side of the mountain a distance .r ih feel The tirst blast, eighty feet within, dlcrlns.ul tin vein The footwall has not yet been reached. Valaes Run High. At ninety-five Feet from the portal of I he tunnel, a drift h,n been started at tight angle SnmiliA fiom both sides r.f the drift show values M high as 115,000 per tf-M and tin ore ha I.e. 11 t.tk n '"it f It that assay's Jess than 13900. Grab-Mmplea, Grab-Mmplea, .ill the w.iy from the tpot where the (ire was rocojniercd. assay from $300 id Jl.".iK per ton At eighty-live feet In n slreolc three and a half feet wide as--! ruin, rt silver and only 1 ounces in gold, as against .mother larther along that runs 12 ounces gold and 50 ounces silver. Five samples of ore taken from t.i? face df the drift show .ier:ig. values f 194.50 In gold and tW' 50 In sliver, nr .- total 'f 16MB per ton of both gold and silver Owners Incorporate SQOn after the sensational strike Mal-ciltn Mal-ciltn Macdonald and "Hob" Montgomery. wners of the Shoshone grotip with T.ewl A. ParUhurst acquired thS inter- -is Imnwdlnteiv west of the Shoshone. Consisting Of the Polaris and Del Monte i I n i . The have Incorporated to mine the propcrtv, the company to be known as the Bhoshone-Polsrla. A tunnel Is In on the Polaris claim l- f'-et and the ein has ben encountered Ixty feet benw the cropplngs Assays on the cropplnge show valued of from ty to W0. The vein e.m be traced from lhe Polaris tunnel easterly to the Shnnlionc tunnel. It is the intention of the new i ompeny tO drift on the ore from the Polaris tunnel In an easterly direction, to connect With the workings on the Sho-shone. Sho-shone. Ore will be eacked and shipped I once Montgomery and Mnedoiiuld ;.( ted Quickly, but did not have time to 'rr:ii the t mnainlng claims Covering the entire Houth half of Montgomery mountain. moun-tain. They were "beaten to It" by an outsider. Flock to the Scene. When news of the marvelous strike on the Bhoshone reached Gpldfleld there w.is 1 rush ! hpei ilal r,. and mining- men lo the acene. They were Intent on buying up property environing Montgomery mountain. Only B few of the best-1n-formed mining men of Goldfield were i ware Of Xu fact that the owners of the Bhodhone group tmei not themselves se- ured ownership of the other half of B I intgomery mountain, on which the Bho- H Hhone group Is situated. The enormous dyke which appears on the Shoshone runs for the entire length of Montgomery H mountain, which is fully (fitiO feet long, J and the ledge of the Shoshone group H crops on the surface for almost the i n- BSBSBSl lr Inrli' r.f I I, a inntitif aln I Henry Peety on Ground Floor. D. H. Peery of Salt I,ake City, a young man who lias not yet turned hi.-" 35th ear, bjt who ts highly connected in Rnanclal and mining circles in Salt lake City and San Francisco, waa the tlrst to reach the ground lie found 'ill the mining mi-ning claims on the south h:iif of Montgomery Mont-gomery mountain tied up by contesting owners and the mountain top bristling w Ith .Trifles. It appears that Joe Beach and Harry Burton prospectors, located whal is known aj the Clipper ( lalm and th Polaris Fraction on the south end of Montgomery mountain, last October. Tom Kllkei. A M Gillespie and (Jc.irge ' mer bought out licn-hs miere-'. and part of Burton's. At that tunc no im-leutant im-leutant Ftrlkes had been made ,,n the Shoshone group. Guard Claims With Rifles. In January, when the first discoveries of high-grade ore In the cropplngs on the Shoshone group at the north end of the mountain were reported. Lyman Andrew:' and George bo. ktlnger l . :t i . . 1 chums ..n he spot where thi Clipper claim and the folarlH Frac tion had already le HtSked off. and ther. proceeded to jump the original orig-inal location. Kllker, Glllfsple and Doaner soon got nrlnd of this and they went o-i guard on the mountain top, rifles Ir. hai.d, and patroled the ground, with a view to stopping Andrews and Dockflager from doing the location work required by law to secure title, When ths cent great strike In the tunnel of the jhosjione was madc ths Jumpers move i p In tre middle ,,r the night and pitched their tenia on the bottom of the hill. Kllker wis In possession on te.p and COVered them In the morning, lie leveled hl rifle at them and they left Pesry Settles Trouble. In (idditloii to these contending c'.Mlms. a man named Slmnis. who had apparently staked out a lalm on the south end of the m luntaln and sold his title to it to a S in I rmii li-o ti-c In.-urame man entered Into the controversy. In doing their survey sur-vey work, the original locators had re moved the monuments of Slmms and made it appear that Slmms had no claim J at all. Slmms had one claim named the P.lark Kull on this property, which he sold to the same tire Insurance agent, and this was the only one th.t was not openly open-ly contested. Mr Peery entered Into negotiations ne-gotiations with alf of the contestants and BOttled with them all. purehaslng outright every Interest, real or fancied, which the seven or eight parties had to offer. Salt Laker in Possession. He Is now In full possession and has clear title to the south half of .Montgomery .Montgom-ery mountain, with ns much acreage as Is contained In both the Shoshone and P' larls groups, the same dyke and the sumo .'edges apparently passing through his ground as oro contained In the Shoshone Sho-shone and Polaris. It Is not known how much money Mr. Peery gave up to the various Interests that n Involved, but It Is said to be In the nelghbrohood of JiSO.fOO. Mr. Peery announces that a company com-pany will be formed to develop the property, prop-erty, which will be known an the Montgomery Mont-gomery Mountain Mining company. Hacdonald Purchases Interest. Malcolm Macdonald. the famous consulting con-sulting and mining engineer of the Montana Mon-tana Tnnopah mine, owner of the Gold Heed mine in Kawlch, and part owner of the great Slmmerone of Goldfield. has purchased a one-fourth Interest In tho Shoshone property -Mr Macdonald announces an-nounces that the p'-operty will be mined by a company that is now being Incorporated, Incor-porated, and win he known as the Montgomery Mont-gomery Bhoshone Mines company. Wonderful Prospect. His partner, "Rob" Montgomery, said: "The Peery property, which will be de- vc lop- d l the Mouls r M tain Mining company, Is on the strike of our dykes, and that Indicates ore deposits. UI ledge points In the dip ( lion of thS Peery group, and It cannot miss It unless tiie op deposits gl, t. our ledge runs southwest and northeast on Montgomery mountain, and as the entile mountain runs Im that direction, and the cropplngs are excellent throughout, the ledge must traverse the I'ocry property. 1 regret more than I (an tell that It was not my fortune to have been the purchaser, but I was too late and did not know that my secret was In the possession of others However, I think I have the greats t mine In the world, and I am consoled. Mr Peery Is to be congratulated on securing se-curing clear title to ao wonderful a prospect." pros-pect." Pi ices Jump Up. Following up the puivha-o by Mr Peery for the Montgomei y Mountain Mining company of the south hair of Montgomery mountain, the price Of single claims cov-' cov-' " d hv the wash between Montgomery mountain and Ladd mountain a distance of about l.Vi feet have advanced In juice fn m J.V') to tK.niiu. artd several pun has- -are reported at the higher figure Other Claims Purchased John McKane, representative on the ground of C. M. Schwab, the Eastern steel magnate yesterday purchased ths Crystal claim, which lies in a direct line between the two mountains The Red Log rlalm. which has Us end lite at the south end of Montgomery mountain, the Chance claim and the Exposition Ex-position claim, which adjoin, were purchased pur-chased for a round sum hv Mining lin- gtneor w A Thacher and C. H Kiliott. The Red Dog claim runs Into the Chance claim. The Chance claim reaches to within with-in ) feet of Ladd mountain. These claims. It Is said brought 110.000 each. Ownership was secured heforc outsiders reached tho ground. Prominent Dyke Apparent. The Tribune correspondent visited Rhv-edltc Rhv-edltc yesterday, and was shown over the Montgomery Shoshone Mines company s J property and the Montgomery Mountain company s property b Rob Montgomery Montgom-ery and Malcolm Macdonald. the owners of the Shoshone A very prominent dvke Is apparent on the top of tho mountain for its full length Mr Montgomery, before be-fore 0nt ring the tunnel of the Shoshone Indicated that for about WO feet above the tunnel iioie la almost continuous ore that pans very fine The tunnel Is driven In the side of the mountain. Mr. Montgomery Mont-gomery pointed ,,ut that on a spot on the surface Ju-t above where ore was struck ' in the tunnel, assays showed r.ij. ounces gold anel 3fi ounces silver That "was his Index to the presence of pa v ore lm- medlately undei The ore on" the dump runs from J-V") to Jiou per ton. Ore Very Rich "The vein. - said Mr. Montgomery, "runs through the mountain. We are" sorting the ore as development work pro eeds i Twenty-four sacks of ore that will realise fdO.OOO per ton lie- Insale the tunnel i of an intei mediate grade, that win aver- I age f I": ton. Is being sacked on the I dumps." , High Values in Talc. Mr Macdonald was questioned as to the B ologlcal formation; and said: "The country rock lit similar to that of the ; "" WHUI1CIU. ice ore ilini IS rrom tne ore taken out of the Goldfield mines in that there is much silver in it c well as gold. Sliver, in ore, you know la an indication of permanence. It la also full of talc which Is another Indication Of permanence, und in this talc v.. are muling the hl(fh values The ore sacked in the tunnel, which is maryolously rich Will be shipped separately The o: o that lie-- In the sacks on the dump wlil eo ,,ut 'l "i" 1 he or., that vvc are now taking " 'I Of tl - drlfi Is ,,f sin h high and . s, stent value that wt do not find it necessary neces-sary to s,,rt it at all In making the raise for ventilation. $100.i.m) of ore will be taken out before seventy-five feet have been opened up. I never saw a mine that gives evidences of this enormity Thi- is something new In mining. There is not a piece of rock that ,ou can hammer off the ledge on ths side of the tunnt i thai will not pan free ,ri Bj,ow Blvor ThO ore will run I wo-sevent lis silver and five-sevenths gold. Will Erect Mill "It Is our Intention to erect a mill tt Beattj Th win most likely be conveyed con-veyed to ths mills by wir.- tramways For the present ws will have to haul bv wagon 120 miles to La i Vega., me nearest railroad Ration, at a cost of fj, r t,, for faming An .-xt.-n-i. n of M,H .,, Angeles .v- Ball l-ake railroad Is planned from Las Vegas to Rhyolite and Ream and we npet I w Ithln six months to be 'hie i i t'lp to the smelters dir. ( t from the ground. Shipped to Salt Lake The first carload Shlpnteut of fifty tons of ore from the Bhcahbn left Rhyolite for Las Vegas, Nev., to. la- ',-.. tii Uim T f. w,',1 '"' 1 ' rail t Salt Lake city In th., ..f inic, of Mai.,.m s Macdoiuld. the Hftv tol)S will ,ui $1-.,.),, ! Mr. Macuonald says a shipment to 'the smelters will bo mado dally hereafter' The ..re Is being sacked as fast as It f, shot down from the upraise Pift, ,, h,n,. dr.-d empty sacks left G.-idtieid for the mine today It s pointed out that no sloping Is being attempted In the tun ! 0T Mti ' that th or- now bew shipped Is strictly the re.,ult o menl work eiop- |