Deseret Evening News | 1910-02-25 | Page 6 | Drops Lease within Few Feet of Riches

I 1 DROPS LEASE fEW FE fEET OF RICHES vow ow Y to O Go I Battle Mountain e W WAbe Abe of Battle Mountain tnt l of the COmPanY on block boek 2 of the Nevada I Omaha estate at will not bo boI d dependIng on the tho I II from the shIpments nun will go o out 11 from the tho vein of low grade ore oro j In a drift of oC the tho main tunnel I last week J H He has othel mining interests In tho f I 1 4 tate state ant and ono one or of these is hI located In InI I f 1 i I valley 30 miles south of oC Battle L f Mountain There ho Is sacking oro I 1 n a two and Il a halt foot Coot Vein el 1 that t assays s GO CO to TO iO per cent lead and ounces per ton Th This Is property I up t to Jan 1 tills this year was under bond bondi I i and lease to 10 Frank J and f fl others of oC Salt Lake for or sl months I who during that expended j about In development work i part of oC which consisted of oC n a tunnel It I feet teet In length About the date I mentioned 0 they e had J I re reached a small n stringer t of lead ore r in inC C I n a drift ore off the tho tunnel which was about I I the tho best Indication the they had had When I the tho time arrived for tor of oC tim tho k conditions of the lease lerum and bond there thero I I was n a hitch and the they anti Mr Abel could not como come to terms so 10 the prop ort orty came a again ln full fully under his con control cont t I I Mr Ir Abel put mon men to 10 work on the Ule I anti 1 the 1 second round of tU shots opened 1 it 0 out to 0 Its present se width I I On this the men are arc driftIng and sack I lug ore oro for fOI shipment The case caso Is another of oC so num numerous I erous In the tho mining s and andI I dollars spent In search of oC an ore bod bodi body i finally throwing up the job In disgust and along comet comes another who drop drops 1 right Into the pa pay without an any cost costI I It Is one of oC those cases to toi i that In which I it is iR said an Irish pros prost prospector t and miner I had I been caught and who on learning n of h his successors success swore that he would never let iet the next property get et awny avay tram from him until he had sunk 10 Ceet further