OCR Text |
Show ANOTHER EUREKA PROPERTY REVIVED Basing his judgment on nearly fifty years of close st.udy of the Eureka mining district, C. L. Broy, pioneer of Eureka and postmaster at Keno from 1899 to 1916, 1 is making preparations to open up and de- i velop an extensive area of mining prop- ! erty he has acquired in the district, and j has already incorporated a company to ; start the work. j During the past ten or fifteen years Mr. i Broy has been slowly acquiring Eureka property, and now has twenty claims in the Silverado and Eureka mining district, says the Keno Gazette. Some of the claims wore worked during the days when Eureka was one of the country's foremost silver producers. The company has been Incorporated In-corporated as the Summit Queen Mining company. In a report made on the property, J. Carlton Bray, a well known Nevada mining min-ing engineer, declares that there are lare deposits of commercial ore in the property, but that it will require extensive development and the expenditure of considerable con-siderable money to open up the ore in paying quantities. The company owns twelve claims In one group lying between the old Diamond mine, which produced $7,500,000. and the old Gettysburg mine on the south, which al.-o was a heavy producer. The entire group of claims, according to Mr. Bray's report, cover almost a mile of the main mineral zone on Prospect mountain and the south end of the Eureka mining district. dis-trict. The workings of the Diamond mine extend to the north end line of the Summit Sum-mit Queen property, and Engineer Bray says that the ore bodies of the Diamond mine grew larger as tlie work progressed to the south. "Tlie property warrants extensive development de-velopment similar to that of tlie Diamond." Dia-mond." says the report. "It will require a CuuOfoot tunnel ar.d perhaps considerable consider-able drifting before a pay deposit can be found." |