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Show I GONTAGT fill BE I GI Ell If Gigantic Fissures Holding the ;;Rcd Metal Across Large Area of Cam p. I J PLENTY OF WATER TO OPERATE MILLS Many Deals Being Closed for groups Within the Min-oral Min-oral Zone. III. M. Shields, one of the best, known TJfabns operating in the Nevada mi nine: camps, lias just returned from the Contact Con-tact "mining district of Elko county, where at present is being centered some, vory earnest work, and much capital, no small amount of the latter being Utah muni;-'. Contact is attracting attention at-tention not only on account of its demonstrated dem-onstrated large and rich tonnages of ores, but for the reason that the camp, now separated from the outer world by fifty miles of wagon haul, will be tied to iho universe- by the rails of the Orc-tjou Orc-tjou Short Line railroad extending from Twin Falls south. Mr. Shields stated yesterday that a railroad would come even if the camp did not contain the tonnages of ore thai it does. The new road will greatly great-ly shorten" the distance from Salt Lako to Unite, while it will provide nn outlet out-let .badly needed for the Twin Palls country, anil will enter a very rich agricultural region of Nevada. The cam of Contact is one of the busiest in Nevada, and bids fair soon to be far more active than at present. Mr. Shields points out that the district, dis-trict, takes its name from the gigantic contai-t betwecu granite and lime which extends through that section in the form of a hor.srr.Iioc. The ores occur in this contact. tukI iu the shape of fissures in both tile granite and lime. Lt is north of the Salmon river, inside the circle, and, .in the granite, that the major portion- of "the development work has been done up to date. There is in that, particular portion of the camp six miles square throughout which them is I not a claim without a splendid showing show-ing T)f ore. Beginning at a point on the Salmon viver, at the Vineyard ranch, and extending north, then east, there is a belt for seven miles in length on which deep work in numerous places shows One ores, with every indication of f,ieir greater permanency. Extending cast, and west "through tho i center of the circle are numerous por-phyr.y-fillc.d fissures that range auy- : where from five to three hundred feet ! in width. These fissures show copper values ..in .many places, while on the walls occur streaks of rich copper ore. At. len.th, Mr. Shields believes, these great fissures will contain copper values all the way across in at least milling quantities, lie is, interested in several groups in this cam'ti. among them being the Conner Con-ner Shield, Contact Hopper. Blue Bock, Lucy, and others. On the Shield group on xho surface there is an ore body exposed for a width of twenty to thirty feet and OftO feet long which averages 2.3 per cent copper. There also are forty-five inches of rock that averages 2o per cent, f.opper. On the Contact Copper property, a group of twenty-one twenty-one claims, there is a good ore showing on each claim. The Lucy is another big group with splendid metallic evidences, evi-dences, while the Blue Bock has a largo surface showing. . Tho Blue Bird property has one of the deepest, workings in the camp, the shaft being 325 feet in depth. This property shows ore ranging from eight to forty ounces silver, $2 gold, and to as high'.as 32 per cent copper. The Delano property has several shafts at good depths, and ore. ranging from 15 to 51 per cent copper, and from two to 12S ounces silver is found iu good quantify. quan-tify. J. C. , Climo and L. D. Gordon of Salt Lake recently took a bond and lease on the Brooklyn property and a group of. twelve claims adjoining tho Brooklyn, and work of pumping the water from the Brooklyn shaft, a working work-ing 200 feet deep, was started. At the bottom of this shaft there is reported re-ported to be six feet of shipping ore rind thirteen feet: of nulling rock, This is the only working in the camp to I strike the sulphides, the other properties proper-ties mentioned still being in the carbonate car-bonate aud oxide zone. Kansas City c.npital recently secured tho Ivy Wilson property from George ITancock of Salt. Lake and his associates, on which $1000 worth of work a month must be done during the new year. These are a few of the properties getting results, and their merits havo been but hastily described in this article. ar-ticle. Mr. Shields said: I camp for work anywhere when we arc actually connected with tho world by ! railroad. The. section about Contact, is a rich -agricultural region, while there is an abundance of water for milling purposes. The most work so far has been done on tho north arm of (he contact, con-tact, while the south arm. extending cast from the river, also seven miles in extent, shows tho same sort of surface sur-face ores that tho north arm does. There arc over fiftoon miles on the contact, on which somo 500 openings have been made, and not one has failed to show ore. Wc could ship ore now, but a fifty-mile haul makes such action ac-tion illogical when thej are building our railroad as fast as the work can bo done. In the camp is a large power company, which has demonstrated that there is 1100 horse power to be generated gen-erated from the river nt low water, and a power plant soon will ho installed to provido the district with electrical energy. I know of no more promising copper camp iu the country than Contact." |