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Show BLUEBIRD HE BEII DEVELOPED Mexicans Worked Deposits in Early Days; Ton of Good Ore on Dump. Considerable mining activity prevails in the Kllsworth mining district in Nye County, Nevada, according to George "Wood, secretary of the Bluebird Consolidated Consol-idated Mining company, who is in the city on business. The property of the company includes Feven lode mining claims situated about twenty miles northeast of the famous Simon Silver-Lf-ad mine in the Mina district. Upon this property is found plenty rf timber for mining and ample water for milling and culinary purposes, according to Mr. Wood. Years ago, the mineral deposits on this property were worked in a primitive manner by Mexicans, who sorted out the richest ore, smelted it and took the bullion to either Salt Lake City or San Francisco for sale. On the dump, there is at present approximately J5.UO0 tons of milling ore which shows assay values from $iu.75 to 51-0 per ton. Some samples which will run as high as lliUO ounces in silver, can still he found on the dump, according to Mr. Wood. This ore, mostly tetraneririte, was taken from ait inclined shaft sunk to the depth of . 1100 feet, where water was encouiiU'red. The present pres-ent company is now driving a tunnel to cut the ledge at 400 feet, which will drain the shaft and tap the vein at a depth of 400 feet below the old workings. work-ings. The face of the adit is at present a distance of 510 feet from the portal. Two hundred feet more should mean the renching of the objective, it is said. The company has also sunk another shaft, 800 feet distant from the main shaft, on the same ledge, and has recently re-cently disclosed, on a lime-granite contact, con-tact, 4VZ feet of ore carrying values of approximately 540 per ton, it is said. In addition to the operations of the Bluebird in this district, D. R. Burke of Tonopah and San Francisco and associates, as-sociates, are operating the Illinois and Jieturn mines. The Bruner company has completed recently a $100,000 mill. The Bluebird company plans to build a mill in the spring, it is said. One of the miners employed on the Bluebird mine, according to Mr. Wood, in his spare time opened up a prospect on two claims adjoining the Bluebird. Recently, Re-cently, lie sold these claims to Tonopah people for S1U.000. Mr. Wood, who, before be-fore going to Reno, was an employee of the Auorbach company, lived in this city for a number of years. |