| Show SAYS PIOCHE WILL BE RE REH GREAT uREA T TONNAGE CAMP CA P H Lewis Has to Enlarge Estimates Est Est- Esti Esti- mates Once Regarded Extravagant Extravagant i PRINCE ZONE IS WHALE WHAL Believes Many MalY Big Mines Wi Wil WilBe Wil Be Opened on That Side I Former Senator elator A A. 13 D. Lewis Lewia who ha has hasI I been looking after his extensive min min- minI I I in Ing Interests in the Pioche district district said ald at nt tho the Knutsford thai tha yesterday a while at t the time he began roul up up properties erles for tho time Nevada Utah coman company com com- pany an man marty who heard his prediction I of the futuro future of Pioche regarded himas him hirr I as a dreamer no Is now I upon each succeeding visit to tho the cam camp 1 to move mo hl his estimates of ot its Is ties tes upward several notches in iii orde to 10 do simple Justice to th the tho showing that are hell being mado made When hen I first predicted that In point of or tonn tonnage o production woul woul In a few years car be the tho greatest c cam camIn mp In iii Nevada eva a. a time the exploitation of ot Ely Jy b by the thc ha had not yet el been begun be bc- bc gun said tho the senator Had T I th thou then n I known what was going to bo be done liEly li iii In L Bl Ely I might have felt rol called caled upon t to I mOtU modify that prediction but in tho the light of recent developments it I Is IB no not nol necessary When hen ono one sees today toda th thi tho great ore bodies that havo have been boon do do- only to relatively shallow depth In the time Prince mine and ond In tho the mines miles of or the time Ohio Kentucky tho the Nevada Novada Ne Xe- vada Utah nu and other oilier companies ant and amid considers the wonderful wO possibilities mimi mimi- of or the tho undeveloped portions of or tho the zone upon which those mines are aro situated It ft Is 15 entirely within reason reaBon reason rea rea- son Bon to believe that Pioche will wil eventually even ovon- be pro producing oven oen a 3 greater ton- ton lingo nago Jago than titan will ill EJ Ely Irh Crowd Active l. ch-l. It I IK is IE a satisfaction to mo me lo to to see ee so conservative and amid successful a a mining man as John A. A Kirby become so prominently prominently prom prom- Identified with wih the of or tho the Pioche district In traveling o c over ovel the time several se miles extent of what Is now known as the zone ZOlO from one end to the tIme other of ot which active work is in progress It seemed to me inc that at least er c every overy other property was pointed out to me as one In which Kirby Kirby Kir Kir- b by is i the tho moving mo spirit Ills his Ils properties properties proper proper- ties teR have havo o ha boon been well wen selected and there thero Isn't a doubt that ho he will wl be bo ono one of the big operators of tho the district district In Inthis Inthis Inthis this connection It may bo ho sal said without with with- fh out nut disparagement of the time wonderful Prince mine that alon along that west side rilo belt are arc probably ol eight ht or ten tell tel prospects prospects pros pros- pros pros- with wih Just bet as good surface show show- lugs ings as tho the Prince had to start with wih Of or his own OWl operations in the tho district Senator Lewis Is saying little at this timis time except that there Is no 10 question queston In hi his mind that the companies with which h he ho is associated will i develop elop big mines In rim time the Lucky Star a n deep tunnel tunnel tun tun- nel uiel is boll being driven to crosscut a series of strong which are known to contain largo large bo bodies bodien les of good ore Shaft Shar work that Is la b being done dono ono to prove pro c up some of the veins is revealing greater riches at depth than had been antici The Tho properties of ot both tho the SanIa Santa Santa San San- San San- ta Ia Maria an and the Bristol Cop Copper ra ia er companies com corn are arc responding to d development in tn mann manner r most roost gratifying Gold roMped Prospect Looks Louka Good Tho The gold discovery made near Cal Cal- lente a few tew months ago b by Charles Rives fives is developing de in a aa a way Mr Ur Lewis says which gives promise of ot adding an nn Important section to the time Pioche belt At t t the time depth of o 10 feet Mr Rives fives has exposed a well defined cJ quartz ledge 20 O and 26 25 6 foot feet 1 which yields IC 8 for Its Is entire width go gold values alucs of oC fl 7 7 andt anda and t a a. n ton Within th the mass of quartz aro are streaks and lenses of ot high grade gradt stuff from which in the course of sinking Kinking sacks of or oro ore have ha been saved which Mr r. r Rives fives says sas will run better beter than 00 a ton The wl rock reel is free tree milling and time the rich stuff sturt roc Is alive 1 alve with coarse so gold gol an and wire gold god Two hun hundred red tons of milling ore arc are plied piled pleon on the dump |
