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Show GREATER ftCTIVlTY 01 TUNGSTEN BELT Strikes Being Made Along Snake Range for Distance of 70 Miles. fPv;Ul to Tho Tribun. ELY, Nev.p April 30. Interest and activities ac-tivities are dally Increasing In the tung-atea tung-atea bolt thai, fltretc.hes along- the. Sual-ic range In the ea.si.era part of WlilLe Pino county for eevonty miles, bordering closely close-ly on the western line oC Utah, and other Irnportant discoveries are being made around Cherry Creek, flfry miles north of Kay. and also In the Shell Creek range, fliteen miles eaflt of Ely. The Snake mnro deposit ar prolifi , halnff found on both alopee and In various va-rious formations, Including Kranlte. iua.fi.jslt o and limestone, the ores being hubnerite and schoeMto. Vetno vary from threo or four feet to more than twenty feet wide, and an development progresses Jt Is becoming more evident that thin is one of the greatest tungsten belts ever IIscovered. In fact, what lfc known :s the Shepherd property aL Tunpstonla, hi the north end of the zone. Is pronounced 1q be one of the biggest tungsten min-s In the world, one man break in enough "re to keep a mnall mill supplied that Isf turning out from 800 to 10GO pounds of concentrates per day that will average better than 60 per cent tungBtlc acid, , "worth at present prices more than $3 a , pound. A. R. Hhphcrd, with whom Los Angele people are associated, is preparing: prepar-ing: to add new equipment and greatly enlarge the capacity of this mill. -)eals for properties are being made all along tlie range, one of the latest being the purchase by Charles Osterlund of b'Ay of property adjoining Lhe Shepherd mine for 420,000. A concentrating plant is to be elected within the near future. The new mill of the Independent Tungsten Tung-sten company at Kcheellte is being rushed In construction and should be In operation opera-tion within the next thirty days. Captain Cap-tain Duncan MacVichle of Salt Lake is Interested In this property, with Al D. Movers, Charlp Gaby, William Ptewart nd K. C. Davis of Kly. Development and production is in progress on several veins, a gasoline hoist is being erected on one of (he shafts, nnd a large compressor plant Is being installed at the portal of what In known as No. 1 tunnel, from where power will bo supplied for machine drills ti.1 various points. The United States Tungsten corporation, corpora-tion, employing about 150 men, Is gradually grad-ually expanding the scope of Its operations oper-ations at Tungsten, five miles .south of Scheelite. They have been handling about thirty tons of "ore per day, but are now Increasing the capacity of the mill to iLbout double. TMh company In now in the market to buy ores from otner oper-Htors, oper-Htors, thus providing a convenient market mar-ket for the production nindo by prospectors pros-pectors and lessees. They hold about 1000 ficree ot" ground. A thirty-ton mill is to be erected immediately imme-diately by the Consolidated Tungsten company, organized by McGtll people, and operating In Williams creek, about a mile n nd h, half south of the United Slates Tungsten corporation. They have a eplen-cllri eplen-cllri shoeing on several claims and are rapidly pushing operations. At Slinerva, twelve miles further south, the Nevada Scheellte company, organized by larl R. Pembroke, A. W". Gator, N K. "Win wood and A. W. Sheldon of Palt Lake and William Stewart of Ely, has opened come exceptionally good showings of Bcheelite ore in a number of veins. Pending Pend-ing construction of a miil, they are confining con-fining their operations to high-grade streaks in the hlg veins, and are peeking peek-ing large quantities of ore that will overage over-age around 16 per cent, while considerable consider-able of it is nearly pure scheelite. Cross-pectiou Cross-pectiou samplings seven to twelve feet across show from 1,91 to ".SO per cent. On the Scheelite Chief vein they are working on a high-grade streak two and a half to three feet wide that averages aver-ages 15 per cent. This company holds twenty claims under bond and lease at J30.000 and five additional claims by location. lo-cation. Gall 8. Hoag of TTly recently secured an option from the Tilford Brothers on a srroim of seven claims south of Minerva at 1150.000, in behalf of New York parties. par-ties. Osceola, a few miles north of the Independent In-dependent Tungsten-company. Is nlso the ftoene of extensive tungsten mining-operations. All along the Snake range, on both fllopes. prospectors and small operators nro busy. Tents dot the hills and ravines, ra-vines, blasts are heard throughout the day, the roads are lined with autos and freight teams, and people who have not ben able to obtain choico locations are now making applications for leases on favorable Biiowings. of the possible ore reserve in this properly prop-erly are just beginning to be appreciated Reports from the mine are to the effect that the Colligan lease, about midway of the leaver No. 2 on the south of the t rown Point No. 1, has cut what Is believed be-lieved to be an extension of the east or west vein. In an east crosscut from the old ( nle tunnel and about 200 feet vertical verti-cal depth, a series of stringers have been encountered, the last one of six inches running 29 ounces In silver and $2 in cold or about $21 ore. Tt is thought that thev are merely passing through the hanging wall portion of a big ore bodv which should be In evidence within two "or three days. This strike lies nearlv 1000 feet south of tho main workings of the Crown Point claim, and is unquestionably- a continuation continua-tion of the main vein system known as the east-west and Foreman veins. On the other extremitv to the north the 150 vertical level on the west vein in block 3 of the Crown Point is breaking four and five feet of high-grade ore, the best yet found in this portion of the mine. Assay returns have not vet been received, but !t is pronounced among the best ore found In the hill. These two discoveries, more than 1 "00 feet apart, mark the present north and south limits of the known ore shoots of the Rochester Mines company, while, in both directions the ore showing improves with the possibility of adding manv hundred hun-dred feet on either end. This is particularly par-ticularly encouraging in blocks 4 and 5 of the Crown Point, which would afford 6 no additional feet to the nortfc, while the possibilities of the "Weavers to the south are practically unlimited. In block No. 2 of the Crown Point In the Codd winze, the deepest working of the mine with the exception of the FYied-'man FYied-'man tunnel, is showing high-grade ore. Further pinking of the Codd winze below the 450-foot vertical level, or 800 feet on the dip of the vein, has been started to connect with the raise from the Friedman Fried-man tunneL A large body of high-grade ore was immediately encountered. This Is on the east vein, which recently opened to thirty feet in width about 300 feet south of the Codd winze in a crosscut on the 450-foot level. |
