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Show I told you a tmxivn; iS RilLOF LIFE Present Activity in Nevada Camp Surpasses Any Period in Its History. BIG MEN COMING IN Rochester United Mines Company Is Opening Big Bcdy of Rich Ore. Special to The Tribune. EO(JHESTER, Nov., Feb. 7. There is a real mining boom on in the Rochester Roches-ter district not one of the old-fash-iorjod kind in which the ekimoringa of ' ' wildcats 1 ' used to drown the more modest mod-est appeal of properties with undoubted merit, but a.n era of substantial investment invest-ment and mining expansion that far overshadows any activities in the camp's history during the last five years. The biggest mining deals ever consummated con-summated in the district have recently been accomplished, new capital is being be-ing invested in large amounts, men of national prominence in the mining world havo joined trie older operators in t he development of the mines, and the present year will doubtless witness more nctual mining progress than has been seen in the five yeays since the riches of the district were first announced to the world. Eastern Capital Comes. Latest and most important among the prominent mining operators who have become interested in the district is Civile Heller of Philadelphia, president of" the Tonopah Belmont Development company, who, after an exhaustive examination ex-amination of the district by the most eminent geologists and mining engineers engi-neers at nis command, has heavily invested in-vested in arid accepted the vice presidency presi-dency of the Rochester Merger Mines company, thus unmistakably placing the stamp of his approval upon the mineral resources of the camp. Mr. Heller's entrance into the district is being followed fol-lowed by other men of large financial resources, who now see the iogic of the oft-repeated claim that "Rochester is the second Tonopah of Nevada." Friedman Deal Counts. The recent acquisition and consolidation consolida-tion bv U A. Friedman, president of the Rochester Mines company, of seventy-one seventy-one claims lying between the Rochester Mines and Nevada Packard properties, and immediately south of the Rochester Roches-ter United Mines company holdings, is another notable move in the advancement advance-ment of the camp. It is understood that a syndicate of Boston capitalists will be associated with Mr. Friedman in the development of these, holdings. An air compressor plant and machine drills are now being installed on the property at an advantageous point for extensive development. de-velopment. The Silver King tunnel, which is now being driven by the Rochester United i-ompaov, is expected to eventually open this, vein at about 330 feet additional vertical depth and 700 feet further along the slope of Sunflower hill, and also develop other good veins. Developing Great Vein. A discovery of much importance as leanng upon the future and permanency perma-nency of the mines of the camp is the "big sulphide vein opened by the Nen-zel Nen-zel Grown Point company in its extension exten-sion of the Pitt tnnnel "of the Rochester Roches-ter Merger company, at a point between 1400 and 1.100 feet from the portal and about 700 feet vertical depth. The vein is more than fifty feet between walls, and on the footwall side shows twenty-five twenty-five feet of ore that carries excellent values in silver, zinc and copper. This is one of. tho first of the Xeuzel Crown Point veins to be reached by this tunnel, tun-nel, but it is known that there is a series of other strong veins immediately immediate-ly ahead that will be tapped by the tunnel as the heading is advanced. A new and apparently important strike was made a few days ago in the crosscut of this company on the east slope of Nenzel hill, when what is known as the Zero vein was cut at a vertical depth of o7o feet, exposing over five feet of good commercial ore. Two carloads car-loads of ore shipped from an tipper level on this vein ran .1-22 per ton, and a width of thirty inches of ore that has been developed" there breaks at an average aver-age of $14 per ton. Large Ore Reserves. The property of the Rochester Mines company is probably showing greater developed de-veloped ore reserves than at any time in its history. The towers and terminals termi-nals for the new aerial tramway from mino to mill are completed, but the tramway cannot be placed in commission commis-sion as" early as contemplated because of some of the equipment being damaged dam-aged a few days ago in an accident on the Nevada s?hort Line railroad while a car of this material was iu transit. The mine and mill of the Nevada Packard are operating along the usual lines and numerous other properties are pushing development. |