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Show ;: IKI HUE Property Formerly Owned by Governor Sparks to Be Worked Again. j Discoverer of Deposit Took Large Amount of High Grade From Glory Hole. Jr'!.i::;;tl to '1 in- Tribune. J ll '. O . N :,, Governor Sparks' omI silver mlno, tlu- Wedikend, 1ck.:i tod a ;o;;l t hree miles from He no. is now bfi hk ru.-uored to a prod ucin stimt; by ;i syudioav of Nevada and eastern riV.nin& and bulnes.-; men, ai'icr an idle-iu:.-:u of about fourteen yc.'u, and these opr-rn lions. aliliou,'ii quietly conducted, a re beginning to alt ract considerable Interest. In-terest. The property was In. -k red and first operated op-erated in 1 : 0 1 by an oid prospector named CJeoiK'i Wtviikend, who wheeled out a'-out eiW.VMji) worth of liiiih -grailt: chloride, oi'o l''"oiii a "Klory-hole" whh-n he opened 0.1 tin- surface, ijovprnoi' Sfarks paid W'edi-hond W'edi-hond n lump sum of .'-'".uuii for tiie pi-oH)( el and expended aU.ui ?15o.000 in -f ..lipping t lie pi'opeil y wi tli a roasting aiHl sfidiiim sokiiion plant for ireaiin t We ore. assav of lice, hoard in g-liousea, .siia f : lioues and hoisi ing equipment. A l one lime there were linu men on t lie pay-rod, pay-rod, I lis of them being registered voters in thai preeiihd. Several shofts were sunk. ,the deepest being what is known as the' Bell shaft, sunk about lii!" feet by a Colorado minim,' min-im,' man named Hell, who took out over v 1 ihi.muu worth of ore from a compara-! compara-! livel- Hinall area Ihai was oijencd froiri rhe sha ft. before beeoiiiing in voived in I ligation, on aerouut of whieii lie buik-h.-f.ded the rieiicst workings and caved them to prevent access. This ore is said io have run from s Oil to S;;i.nj per ton, find persons who are familiar wi:h coudl-t coudl-t ons fin they then existed assert that but h:tle inroad was made by production on ; . e big deposi i thai, was liien helm,-ooeited helm,-ooeited up, ami that there- is still a large amount of tilts ruaraeter of ore awaiting await-ing evt.raetion from liiat block of ground. Mine Has Produced Heavily. Kecords show t li: t Governor Sparks produced abou i half a million dollars' wo"i h of 1 aillion. which does not include the ore from the Hell shaft or the pro-cn-tion made by W'eilikend. Although '.he mil! and other equipment was of the most substantial character. t he ore-i-eating processroasting and then leach-rig leach-rig with sudium solution was not a com-p'eto com-p'eto success, and t here was a loss of allies in the tailings averaging about ?11 per ton i The price of silver also reached a very i 1 low point, and. becaiii.-.- of this and the i unsat iskietory milling, results. Governor , tharks closed duwn ope.-aiions in l'J05. lie looked forward, however, to a better bet-ter market for silver and also eontein-P eontein-P :a : ed improvements in the mill which' would make the project a success, but 1 :s death in Ii'O.'j put an end to his plans for resuming operations. Since that time the property has passed in i o other ha i uls. and was recently ;ic-onired ;ic-onired by the Jleuo Silver Hi lis Alining ; company. George A. Hartlet; ot Keno, former cong ress ma u and district judge. :s. president of ;he company; J. J. Uornes. 0 mining operator, formerly of Colorado, h vice president and general manager; C li. Tu-nnison. formerly a prominent ! a':oruey of Cleveland. Ohio, and an active t-i:ne operator, is secretary and treasurer; i Won. lild. MalUy. state treasurer of Xe-j Xe-j ana. is one of the directors, and Dr. Tl. I "ick ei s. a prominent and wealthy s urgeon of Hum ingion, ". A'a., is a director, di-rector, representing eastern capital. Alex L'oyU broiher of Knimet D. Bo'".e, Is eonsuiting engineer. ! Development Accomplished. The new company has recently retim-b'-red a contra'.'y located shaft tho.t was s..:nt; !o a depth of MO feet, installed a v aso'iine engine, hoist and other equip-ncnt. equip-ncnt. and x:. sink deeper and s"s- 1 cma ticaliy develop I lie contiguous terri-io:-'1 witli drifts and crosscuts, there now 'neir.g an excellent showing of high-grade ore in this and other workings. The old ; mill has been prepared for a cyanide 1 plant, and thhi process shou'd handle the I rb'oriue ores economically and success- oe'eral strong and liig'ily mineralized r.i oihe dykes outcrop along the hiil, and tiie (leen-seated origin of the ore is attested at-tested by large chunks and lenses of high-grade high-grade galena or.' thai have been found in faulted segments of some of I he veins thai course through this property and the ma : n body of which is expected to be picked up through future development. The largest ga'ena bo aider yet found in the crushed and altered rhyolite porphyry weighed n hie teen ions and carried about To per cent lead and -n ounces silver per ton. The veins of c n lor i d e ore a re n u -merous and suggest. very pro hi able "giory-holing" possibilities. |