| Show Pioche Destined to Duplicate p I it Ot t i r I re i Its Ity Twenty Million TAI Illi n Record g t i IfF Nevada Nealla mineral belt helt r 1 TilE T Is situated In a low Isolated 1 It range ot of mountains about feel above seem HIt level ii Cambrian 4 quartzite and overlapping limestone 1 throughout which run a 11 num 1 s bar ot of ore hearing fissures while a ar r LC K huge porphyry dL measuring over oar t SO feet wide rises abruptly cutting JI r I Its It way ar prom prominently I across the dia and on for tor several mlle malice to the rt west made or of the 1111 dl 1 r trial by b curls as 19 John ohn flays t Ij Prof Kemp the th geologist V I the last yarn by Pack V I d or of geology In t Columbia coll college e to toGether it q nether Gether with other othor and 1111 proc practical deal men has Ima recognised this V I t l dyke nil as the main ore bearing channel or of ortho I limo tho strict front from witch which nil all the other 1 1 veins Ins havo havI ther metallic Ion con conI contents tents and is II the Mother Iother lode lod ot of the ther I dl r r Tho big lads lodo commences commence lit at a point i from the Alps mine on the pMt east and 3 runs rune westerly through the Cur Currency ur rency er Newark and I Y n this latter ground covering the 1 1111 y y the tho length or of th the Raymond Haymond I t I 1 l t Ely claim by overlapping It and P pass I V r p In Ing thence on to tn the west through the nd held by the Irv s Wood f 1 IN TIn H I d 1 t It was t In th the early farly seven s tier b by shafts sunk unk Inon on the Yuba Yuha 1300 q feet tet r feet tt Newark OO sod 1 1 tapped In time ardent ground t t r i 4 1 throe Rh t 1 tt tt m lon long cross cut run out from rom t bottom or of the old Raymond III m Ely shaft 1 1 nt at a depth or of 1200 feet reet below belew the cur ur a I face nce from which point It wes Wall further 1 r p t developed b by II a sunk OO feet still l deeper aJ All AI the tho working mentioned being In InON ON showing bowing It to tn be continuous from rom I a short rt distance below the surface and to extend along the strike ot of the tho ledge for great dl white while the hot ar t torn levels tare lire and show shower er IS the tho ore goinG on doyen down to the deep fit s ORF IN t The ore ot of time tho sulphides or of t m a Irad iron zin Inc c with hiGh silver and amI ty r gold cold x attics limo general average being is around so 50 ounces silver 15 per rent lead kad and S iol gold per ton tun while some Bomo t i t rt h tr r y a blendo Is found close to the trolls running over Iver ounces one ounce gold Kold end fit 50 per tet cent lead per ton TIm Tho long which lips lies about feet reet ot of the tho porphyry ledge a anti 1111 to It Is 1 hy by the old my lily and Men lIen dew Valley 11 lie runes 9 tram which over w ns as produced within th short spa space co ot of six years from tine of nr their discovery in 1808 to around la I This fissure varies urie its III width from rum 4 to 30 feet and wn was worked down to the 1 feet tet or water level 1101 antI and tilled with o oxidized url ores averaging sliver 5 avid If 0 per ton with some olne lead 1111 nut but owing to the tho poor metal facilities in III those thOM days only u of the values V were In the old time pan amalgamation mulls mills at the nil an hand at t that place and now owned by the tho Reduction coal curn pany show chow values In the rou ml over oer O DISCO i RILED It W was there flush days dRYS that the tho ledge WitH was discovered and n chute or ore oro nicknamed tb black ledge round found upon It In n the tho independent contained horn silver ther and rich silver as 01 lIo with galena anI and zinc blend and created and yet at the same ome time lime II a problem pre we seated itself the early day metals were unable to tn solve olve via Iz toO I extract the lIa values from frum this so base material Xo No extraction could coult bo be iY by th ha part Pon treatment Large sums sum VIm wort spent pen penIn In work In thus country and Inri rind and finally Howell roast lag furnaces were erected to roast with salt Aalt followed with but to no for the W was I ore are and not free ree ladling II II n 1 Smelling urns then In n a crude crullo anal err ct stale tafe which added to the I long ng wagon haul of over Oer miles to the neatest point pointon on the tho old Central complicated mn tt rl than ever D A SHUT DOWN Those Thrle together with the tho fact that the ore contained In time tho quartzite fissure changed to It a lead leall ot al alwater water level etl caused ecI 1 a general shut hut down lam In nil all the tho properties at a tine time rot i r h l t 1 Vf f ft fY 1 t y sy L Y rr ti it itt w 1 d t a I Y t ti ht a de w sl 1 r Y t t r Y uw I rw if I L Ll I 1 l I r t r o rt f wY 7 1 a i a 1 t is isM M r Ar Arr i L 3 A 1 r 1 I t t r rM k 4 1 I t f t f M A 1 i R lt 11 a 1 My I J PIOCHE AS IT LOOKED A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO too when were blocked out in I their workings WHAT COSTS COSTa WEnt TIIE The mining ot cost In tho p days was waR HI 44 n a ton and mining cost 3 2 mak In hug time tho total coat for tor mining and milling 1 a ton tOil ot of ore are over 66 tag I the past with wills the tho present stone idea 1101 ns no to the advance In mining and I can h 1 had halI when I Is 11 known that concentrating Is done lu In the hid 1 j l to mills or of today for tor about 1 n dollar Iollar a 11 ton and lend la Is readily separated from zinc with the tho latter commanding u a price ot of over 1 O n a ton Ip III the new York ork market markot formerly was worth next to noth nothIng fug Ing but II like eop copper er Is tow In great at SilO 1 a ton while silver Is ou the upward grade selling now I around TO iO cents cent an ounce with some lome It wit 11 touch the tho dollar mark I The building or of a Into tins t 0 r famous distrIct distract is IJ now about to be completed and will wll deliver ors ores to the Snit Salt Lake market around 3 a ton The tact that raten low or eI now ever known before like Park City and other old will trill soon Fonn take Its place pInel In the front ranks and enter upon a 11 new era or of production oN o EYE OF BIG f la Is on the eve Ce ot of rapid raDl e advancement Many or of Its oM old mines are be being In rejuvenated not l prepared far operation upon an extensive scale while development this year nar has hall brought a good many now properties to the tho front anti which o to become rIch pro mines The Tho Mines corporation and time Miming company are uro probably doing dohlA time tho mot most Important WOI k III hr the tho camp campat It at this time rite fhe former expended n a great deal or 01 money during the past year In re some of the tho camps famous mines milies which had been In a amts or of Inactivity for years OPERATION flub nUi th the Oho Mining corn com has any recently organized and Which ha bean Mild solidly financed has been equally vigorous In bringing now In this Ihl wonderful district or of southern rho Kentucky Mining company compall owns o of the Black I d e os ns well as a 11 halt Interest In tho e Water Sanibel New ns recently ma monde o president PIe or of the company L n IL and FJ B Y I and J I L of Louisville lien Ken tarky are extensively ICly In the tho Property mid w were rp Instrumental In In In Mr 11 Newhouse In |
