| Show DEVELOPMENT TUNNEL FORT FOR-T tE GRANITE CONTACT Tho Granite Contact Mines company Is planning extensive development General Manager A V Carpenter Is now on tho ground and Is making arrangements ar-rangements to start the driving of a largo main working tunnel on tho big ledge of tho No 5 claim The Granite Contact company owns six claims Joining tho Skidoo company property on tho northeast and lying northwest of town The officers are President John W Seller Rhyolltes Bonanza Mountain and Black Spar promoter vicepresident Clay Tall man attorney Rhyoltte secretary J J Fagan broker and real estate man of Rhyolito treasurer G D Keenan cashier Bullfrog Bank and Trust com iany Rhyolito general manager A V Carpenter a prominent Nevada mine owner now on the ground superln tending development Tho slx claims have been thoroughly thorough-ly prospected and show well defined quartz ledges varying in width from 2 to 35 feet carrying high values In gold silver and copper The largo tunnel where permanent work Is beIng be-Ing started is on tho main ledge which Is on the No 5 claim This ledge Is 35 feet In width and assays have been taken giving gold values from 10 to 1900 Although tho entire 35 feet of quartz carries gold there Is a richer streak running through this of about ten feet of gtfod milling ore and through this latter a small pay streak of two to three feet of very high grade ore There has also been considerable work dono on the No 6 claim on two ledges cropping there showing rich tannings of gold and several hundred ounces In sliver A shaft has also been started on tho No4 claim where the surface shows many small quartz stringers running in all directions These stringers yielded good pannlngs of free gold and believing they would eventually come together the shaft vas started The muss ledge matter and decomposed granite Is still considerably con-siderably diffused but the former Is rapidly gaining strength and continuity continu-Ity and later development will undoubtedly un-doubtedly open a largo solid ledge of his rich ore R E Collet Spanish Fork Utah heavily Interested In thin Granite Contact Con-tact company at the time of his recent re-cent visit to tho workings took out about 200 pounds of rich samples Ho believes tho company will open one of ho richest mines in tho district Skidoo News o |
