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Show BIG DUMP VULOES Expert Engineer Completes Sampling and Makes Re-. Re-. port for W. E. Trent. Extnnlve sampling of the NVvada- Ophlr Mining company's mill ore, as well as the values of the old dumps, has been set out In a report of an expert engineer, employed by W. K. Trent of Tonopah. himself an extensive operator and now directly Interested In the future of the Neva'la-Ophir. The samples were token In the upper levels of the mine, where lessees have I worked out virtually all the lilsh-grada j ore, but the samples taken across the I fa.-es. averaging from live to seven feet, ! give values of lJ.5i per ton in silver and : In places as high as CM pet ton. i There arc manv thousands of tons or ' tailings on the dump below the old mill j site, the sampling of which gave silver values of this calculating silver at I only f" cents per ounce. ! At the local offices of the. company T5I- i rector L. G. Burton said that the drain j tunnel which Ihe company was running ' under thin tailings sump would tap the lower level of the mine and expose a largo tonnage of high-grade ore which could not he worked out hy the lessees, as I bene old sl opes have been under w ater I for t lie past twenty-rive years. |