OCR Text |
Show RICH GOLD STRIKE MADE U 101; The Ore Shows High Assay! Returns and Bonding Lease Is Let. That, the proat. mining district Of tone, in the northeastern portion 'if this county. Is "comlnc back" into its own, Is evidenced each day by the rich strikes boliiK made The latest pen -allonal discovery dis-covery is upon the Catherine croup of claims a half-mile above the town Of Tope and owned by .John Rrnnton and E. W. Steele. These Rcntlomon have triven a bonding ieac to Tom Murphy, the Goldfleld minim? operator, and his associate C K. Jarvle, of this city. The new strike was made m the i.ic dyke that stands out so prominently alongside along-side the road going up the canyon leading lead-ing to Austin. The ledge Is over twenty feet and no hanging v-ali in sight) the ore assaying from $in to $snn per ton In cold. Murphy and Jails have eipht men at work taklnc out and assorting ore lha.t will run several hundred .lollai.- a ton. Mr. Murphy look out with him lat Monday 1000 ore narks and now has 'S Sacks ready for shipment , which will b- hauled to Tonopah and s.-nt to the Western West-ern Ore Purchasing company al Millers It ib- ?a.ld by parties that returned fnom the new strike recently that Murphy ami Jarvis have enough high-grade ore In Flcht to pav the purchase price of the property( which Is no small amount in Itself, Leases have been let to D, V Cavanaugh, Thomas Lynch and T. D. Van Devort of Tonopah Two autoe hav Jefl for (ho new difovery with seven of our people ax passengers ho go to see and eel busy at once, Resides Re-sides the new find there Is much minute activity In the Tone and Reese river sect Ions. The Mercur Mining company which has larpe Quicksilver furnaces near the town of lope, has been in operation all winter and is producing much quicksilver. quick-silver. The eompan employs about thirty-five men. The Davis Brothers, pioneers or Tonopah, have valuable Quicksilver properties adjoining the Mr-cur Mr-cur company and it is their Intention the cominc summer to build furnaces that will handle from :nn to ,r.no tons of cinnabar ore per day. Tonopah Bonanza. |