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Show LAUREL PROPERTY MJjjl Si Winnemucca Mine Is Developing Develop-ing Into .Shipping Class. MANAGEMENT INTENDS TO INSTALL HOIST Completion of Equipment Will See Expansion in Operations. This week teams will commence hauling haul-ing ore from the property of tho Laurel Gold Mining, Milling and Leasing company, com-pany, located nenr Barrett Springs, only eight miles west of town-, In tho Wlnncmucca Wlnnc-mucca mining district, says tho Humboldt Hum-boldt Star. Superintendent C. T. Smith and G. F. Scibort of Laurel, Neb., the latter being one of tho largest stockholders stockhold-ers In tho company, -wore in town recently recent-ly and slated that there, is enough ore on tho dump3 to make the first carload shipment from the property, which is being rapidly developed into a paying proposition. Mr. Seibert arrived ftom the east, about a week ago and has been stopping stop-ping at tho mine, and has thoroughly inspected in-spected the holdingo of tho company. Mo is very enthusiastic over the property and is satisfied that they arc opening a mine or merit and that other shipments of ore will follow the one that will be sent out next week. Wherever work Is being done on tho ledges that outcrop on tho claims or tills r.ompanv thero are fine sbowlngu of ore that will pay to ship. Hoist for Property. Development lias reached the stage where If has become necessary to Install a hoist, and Superintendent Smith says that this will be dono as soon as the arrangements ar-rangements are completed. The main working shaft is down ninety feet with a northerly drift on the ledge torty-clght feet Tn all these workings ore is being taken from a good sized pay streak. Disclosures Dis-closures on the surface along tho strike of the vein have proved the ore shoot to bo at least 600 feet long, with every in-illcatlon in-illcatlon that it Is continuous through tho whole property.. The vein Is a true fissure, cutting the formation, which has the appearance of being an altered quartzlte. Ovo in Tunnel. At a point 250 feet up the hill from the shaft there is a tunnel in on the vein eighty fcot and In this working the labt round or holes fired Friday evening opened what promises t,o be a body of high grade ore. So far there b a streak elflite'en inches wide that w 11 all pay to" ship and this streak has the appw-ance appw-ance of being much wider when the face is thoroughly opened. There is another tunnel 300 feot down the hill from the shaft, that Is In 110 feet and in which good ore Is exposedj U the present time, six men arc employed em-ployed at the property, but a soon as the holsi L in installed a much larger force will be put on. |