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Show FUTURE OF OLD CAMP OF EUREKAJtRIGHTENS Projects which are doing much to insure in-sure the permncncy of the camp of Eureka, Eu-reka, Nev., are being steadily pushed to a successful culmination, according to A. G. Burritt, local mining engineer, who yesterday returned from a visit to several sev-eral Nevada mines. The large deposits of high-grade and low-grade ore, which runs in value from $8 to $16 per ton, and which averages around 12; the companies compa-nies that are doing the work, and the manner in which development work is , being done, all inspire the observer, says Mr. Burritt, with confidence in regard to the old camp's future. Not only, are there thousands and thousands of tons of this low-grade ore, but considerable high grade will be struck from time to time, as is proven by the recent strike of an $80 body of ore, twenty-two by twenty-seven feet, on the property of the : Eureka-Croesus company. I The Eureka Nevada Minintr comDanv. in which property Mr. Burritt is interested, inter-ested, lies between the famous Dunder-berg Dunder-berg and the Diamond mines. When the new company first acquired the property, the only working: consisted of an adit which had been driven 200 feet in the hill. Since that time the tunnel has been lengthened until the face is 750 feet from the portal. On this property there is a large vein of milling- ore, which present development has proven to be 300 feet long and flfte3n feet wide. A raise forty feet high and a winze sunk ten feet are still in ore. Several ore shoots, from which larjje shipments have been made, were intersected by the upper adit, according ac-cording to Mr. Burritt. At present shipments ship-ments have Deen interrupted in order to drive a lower adit, which will intersect inter-sect at a greater depth these same shoots stoped out in the upper working. The upper adit Is also being driven ahead to strike another ore shoot, which lies a few feet ahead. A very interesting strike was made recently re-cently on the Silver Connor property. An adit was being run from the west side of Prospect mountain to meet a winze sunk from a tunnel run from the east side of the mountain. The connection was successfully suc-cessfully made. During the construction of the raise to connect with the winze from the east tunnel, a fair indication of ore was struck. This was followed with a drift. In this drift was made the Important Im-portant find of high grade, it Is said. A shipment of excellent ore was recently recent-ly made from Harrison and Fine's lease on Adams hill. Salt Lake men are making mak-ing arrangements to open up the old Monroe mine, in Secret canyon. On the return trip Mr. Burritt stopped to survey and plat the vein system of the Del- Duke property, situated near Arnold. Xev., on the "Western Pacific. On this property, which consists of twelve claims, there are a number of quartz veins from one to four feet in width, which run in a general north 55 degrees easterly direction. di-rection. These large veins are Intersected Intersect-ed by veins which run north 22 degrees east. The formation consists mostly of granodiorite. porphyry and ahdesite. In the veins, sulphides carrying considerable consider-able lead ore may be picked up on the surface, according to Mr. Burritt. With depth, it is thought that the enrichment will increase. At present Nicholas Del Duke, the owner, is sinking three shafts, the sites of which were chosen by Mr. Burritt. |