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Show ACTIVITY AT AUSTIN MEETS MSUGCESS After an examination of the mines in the famous Austin district. Governor Emmet Em-met D. Boyle of Nevada has acquired control con-trol cf a groyp of claims adjoining The Austin Nevada Consolidated, and commenced com-menced vigorous work, says the l'onopah Miner. The claims were taken over after the governor, accompanied bv Professor Clark of the University of Nevada, had inspected several of the leading properties proper-ties and examined numerous prospects. Commercial ore was uncovered on the new property the first day work started, and arrangements have been made to sink a 100-l'oot shaft and open drifts on the vein as soon as fair depth is gained. The ore occurs largely in the form of silver, sil-ver, with the vein apparently the continuation con-tinuation of one of the principal lodes of the district. President fj. G. Richardson of the Austin Aus-tin Nevada Consolidated is placing the Hiawatha and main tunnels in better shape for extensive operations, preliminary prelim-inary to shipping high-grade silver ore. Governor. Boyle, who is a mining engineer, engi-neer, and other experts, ' are to inspect the property as a courtesy to the management. man-agement. High-grade shipping ore has been exposed in the main workings, and the gigantic vein being opened by the Hiawatha tunnel is commencing to show rich quartz. Preparations for erection of a mill are going forward rapidly. Under supervision of Dean G. J. Bab-cock Bab-cock of the North Dakota School of Mines, consulting engineer for the corporation, the Austin .Dakota company is busily perfecting per-fecting arrangements' for construction of a modern" mill. This property has a productive pro-ductive record of $1,000,000, and has been developed to a stage where extensive reserves of high-grade ore are in sight. The Austin field has a credited output of approximately $150,000,000, of which fully $60,000,000 was extracted from an area of 1500 square feet, with an average depth of 400 feet. The field, -generally known as the Reese river district, comprises com-prises a mineralized area of fully fifteen square miles, of which the greater part is virgin territory. |