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Show BACK FROM RESERVATION. W. J. Craig returned this morning from the Walker River Indian reservation reserva-tion countrv, where he had been called to inspect tbe discoveries of his representatives, repre-sentatives, who went in with tbe rush of prospectors on October 29 last, and from which encouraging reports have been coming. "Our claims are near, Shnrz station," he explained, "and the station is about twelve miles below- Wabuska, on the railroad from the north into Tonopah. 'The country is open,. and our locations loca-tions are upon an outcropping that is the moet prominent landmark of that vicinity. It is known as the Fieldglass group, because it can be seen for along distance. The veins are covered by decomposed de-composed matter, and are difficult of ! location in most instances throughout the district, except where there is an outcrop sucn as we have. The copper values are in the granite, which has caused a great many of the prospectors to compare this district with Butte, and 1 there is considerable enthusiasm there from this fact: but the mining profession profes-sion as a whole has been much, disap- f ointed, because most of the stampeders hought thev could get into the reservation reserva-tion and pfek up ground which would yield ore by the carload from the surface sur-face anywhere. "There had been a great many stories (emanating from the Indians, it was said) circulated that the reservation reserva-tion contained many gold mines in undeveloped un-developed stages, but tbe nearest approach ap-proach to the fulfillment of these stories is the finding of narrow seams of very rich ore at some points. These seams are less than half an inch wide. "On the Fieldglass group the dyke is quartz in the granite, and the dyke is crossed at 35-degree angles by norphvry veins and fissure innumerable. The float from the outcroppings will furnish sample assavs as high as 40 per cent copper; but 1 am satisfied that the copper cop-per is at the surface held by the quartz, as the other rock is decomposed greatly, and whatever values there may have been in the other formations have been leached out. . i "Nevertheless I consider that it is a good prospect, and that we have the best thing in the reservation. We have started to run a tunnel that will have to be extended about 400 feet to cut into the hill, and it should give a good account of the resources of the property very soon." |