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Show I MINE STUDY IS FASCINATING Correspondent Tells of Fine Properties, No Failures Have Been Ex-psrienccu Ex-psrienccu on Tramp Ledge of Bonanza Mountain. I Baseball Player Discovers Rich Ore While Outflelding In a Garue Great Wealth in Sight. BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT. RHYOLITE. Nev. June 28. One of the mrift fascinating studies In the P-ullfng country is the groat Tramp lodge which extends acrbss the top of Bonanza Bo-nanza 01 Gibraltar mountain at the BOUth WCltern portion of the mountain's surface. At least 300 f t wide in places. s shown by the oiitcropplngs, It leaves a trail, as It were, across the mountain UOO feet wide at this point. Panning have been made along this h-iie. ' the sionj, and a failure to find the precious metal has never been experienced. Tht mountain generally presents u most satisfactory Held for the Investigator, being be-ing seamed and threaded In :ill directions by ledges carrying gold values that show In the free state in man) places, but almost al-most without failure everywhere by pan or assay where iuartz appears Rich float can be picked up St every step as the mountain Is precipitous and the rock easily dislodged Even the country rock, or rhyplite, will in most cases pan colors There Is beyond all doubt the making 61 some good mines In this massive mountain IPropeity Well Located On th' Denver property, where some of the richest ore of the district was found, three drifts are being run on the ore v--ln. a large number of men are at work and a vast quantity of hlgh-grado ore U bHng blocked out. Standing on the upper drift of the Denver; Den-ver; It would seem bj the dip of tho great ledge that It would cut across the ground recently added to the iihriiltatr mines holdings The claims ore called I 'ply Duckling. C--mt and Karly Bird The Wisdom of this addition t-. the Gibraltar's group is thus apparent, as the Denver ledge is one of tho features of thw district. dis-trict. The tunnel that Is being driven through the mountain on the cistern slope has I Ul he first ledge at a dlstantce of about 10 feet from the mouth A two-foot vein of very fine quartz which pans gold values that vary near average $2 per ton has been encountered For two feet mi either nlde of this streak of quarts panrilngs can be found Invariable showing that this much Is at least good milling ore The quartz Is uniform as to values and other characteristics, and l undoubtedly shipping ore. This tunnel Is on the Kqnlt-able Kqnlt-able claim and Is of special Interest to Salt Lake people On this same claim two davs' work on ledge No A shnws no diminution In extent or values of tho rich vein uncovered recently. Rich Ore Blocked Out. II m the fiats adjoining Montgomery nd tadd mountains somi very line quartz has Just been found In a shaft at a depth of thirty-three feet This shaft is on the Shoshone National '..ink company's property, prop-erty, and from the location and general formation it Is thought certain that UUs shaft is on the Bullfrqg National ledge. As work proceeds in the tints Joining the mountains thut hem In tho camps of Rhyolite and Bullfrog strikes are becoming becom-ing numerous chough to encourage nioro ' activity In such locations. The warm weather Is causing B gradual let-up. many properties finding ll advl-jble t, work -oak one iiif t of m An amusing Incident happened during the ball gani" last Sunday between the teams of Rhyolite and Beatty, William Griffiths of Salt Lake was playing first base for Rhyolite Reaching down to stop an easy grounder, with visions of an easy put out for his learn. Griffiths saw the ball ntrike a small stone and bound to.i faraway to be Intercepted in time. While waiting for the ''"'I to DC returned by some accommodating spectator,' the big first baseman picked up the offending stone which he found full of t:e- gold Of course such luck could not !. overcome. over-come. Rhyolite won the game In company with Mr Malcolm ofacDon-ald. ofacDon-ald. The Trlbuno correspondent Inspected i lie, great Shoshone mine recently, and was given every opportunity, frofp sampling sam-pling to panning, to become thoroughly advised In regaid to this famous property. prop-erty. A great deal ha.-, born written about the Shoshone and ihe magnificent values claimed have somewhat exceeded public credence, hut to a person who pecs and ;-ans tho soft. Innocent-looking talc ore. 'latms tv tho management and othTO ro positively found to be the simple TH'n A month ago Senator Macbeth ,.f Idaho, now managing D H. Poetry's Montgomery Mountain mine, said with the. snowing at that time tho Bnoshonc wan the g ratest mine in the world w ith twenty-five feei additional added to tho width Of the ore vein, tho right to thin distinction Is Increased, nnn the Shoshone Sho-shone undoubtedly la one t th brighter bright-er suns that ever Illumined tho mining world. 7 At the moutii r,f ihe tunnel stands the tu W ore house, within which rows of ore sicks awall shipment, and outside of which are hundreds of sack6 of ore awaiting await-ing the same operation. The white talc ore is extremely rich, and from the wonderful won-derful panning of grab samples a person i perfectly willing to believe thai the values will rcich anv point b. twe n 12 00 and J300". ww Entering the tunnel, 'one sees seventy-fh seventy-fh ' feci m' rhyolite extending from the mouth, through which the management blasted their way without securing oqI-qr, oqI-qr, but soon as the talc appeared Shoshone Sho-shone stepped In and secured the laurels by universal consent. Vein a Wide One. The ore vein la 105 feet wide, the tunnel being driven through at right angles winze sink through the vein to a hun- |