Show i INES I MINES AND ANO MINING S EDITED BY F. F W. W SPRAGUE k NEV NEVADA ADA HILLS STRIKE I BIGGEST IN HISTORY Opens Twenty Feet of High- High Grade Sulphide Ore on Level S IN ENTIRELY NEW GROUND Ore Like That of Comstock S Values Half Gold Half Silver Siver S Twenty t feet of oC grado sulphide o oora oro ora In entirely new ground is what the tho ada huE 1 Hlf hu has hul encountered on the foot ICO-foot level of or the mine which means 5 about oo feet teet depth from the tho It Is the biggest est thing ever in the mine te according to Manager fonn W. W xv S IL JL W who wan waa in tho to city yesterday yes yes- and it is known that somo pret pretty big ore bodies have in lii the tho past been opened in Nex-ada Nex Hills Mr Il Webber Is Js not giving out accurate accurate ac nc- ac- ac curate curte values at this time but lut he ho EnY says that the ore runs as HB 1000 a aton ton with wh the values about equally lied sold gold and and silver which IsH Is Isa old a R larger proportion of or gold than has hasS S H been tho rule with Nevada lulls Hills ores A S good por portion portOn ton of at the vein Is ts being I sacked d for shipment as It I Is broken broleen down Th The remainder r is a good gooel grade gradeS S of or ore running from Crom 80 SO 0 to 10 SIO a ton Nevada Hills doesn't pretend to His a ship anything that tha runs less Ics than a aton ton n The Tho hod Ind i Is s peculiar ii in 11 that it it Is i in 11 tho the hanging wall country countr tho the high grado grado oro having ml previously been found In the of ot the great vein The Tho hangS hanging hang hang- S ing wall had been supposed to contain only gr low grade o ore and for that thai reason rc rca rea son It had bad never nc been explored to an any I n n I Discovered b by Accident Ut r S But It was dl discovered b by accident that after I breaking through a thinS thin S streak of ot low grade stu stuff twenty feet of ore or virtually nil high grade le lies beyond Indications are flO Ire that It can Cn o i-o sloped tope right to the surface before to be beS Nevada evada Hills wit Wil known lefore a a. big mine This latest ph phenomena S strike a places it I In Jn the list of or mine wonders won won- dors ders as It stands with wih possibilities It has lias S that ar are beyond comprehension I reached a a point where It I la no long longer r such aich a far tar cry to predict the thc making at t ew of ot another Comstock As s a a matter mater of or fact tact the ores of or Neva Nevada Zelda Ze l S da cia Hills Hmo arc uro ur Identical with wih those of or Comstock The formation is almost identical It I Is pretty g generally nei ally recognized rec rec- o that while hie Virginia lnla City and nd Fair view aro are fifty miles apart tho the two camps aro ato upon the samo great mineral belt bolt I Mr tho the Comstock re recently rc- rc I I. I and he ho says sas that that ho obtained c has already information there theto which hal been of value to him In outlining new newe development e In Nevada ada Hills He le fa rays b that ho was WIS surprised at t the similarity of the Cor formations atols tho the only difference noticeable being that the country rock bellg at the Comstock Is la a lorIe while at atthe atthe the thc Nevada Ii Hills It Is 18 a Tho ores are aro o of precisely the same charac clarac- S ter Mine r Generally S Aside from the tho big strike there has hM hasben hasben ben g general improvement big in Nevada evada S Hills as development has progressed S Mr lr ir Webber says The arc are bodies havo have S opened bl bigger Jcl and better cr In the upper upperS S levels le Tho The shaft hafl hn has l' l reached ached the f and lc a n crosscut Is being driven S r tor rUlo the Ulo ore oro zone one with Wih the tho opening of the ore are bodies on tho the DOO 00 level whiCh Is well within the sulphide zone further milling ex experiments x x- x will wUI be conducted and It Il Is c expected to not take tako long long to determine determine deter deter- mine definitely the tie process l for tal treating the ores As A soon as this shall thal have 1 0 been determined with wih re relation relation re- re lation laton to the tho sulphide ores ares the company will wil proceed to erect works for tor handl- handl ln ling Its Is product on a a large sc scale lc The company is now shipping at tho the rate rale of or about live hive carloads a month month just Juet enough to l keep development c going and maintain a generous surplus surplus Tho The Eagle now no controlled by George Wingfield Is making a good nood snowing showing with development development Mr Ir V Webber Webber Web Web- b- b ber bel says tays and and three sots sets of ot lC leasers sars arc are working to good advantage ad on the thc Dromedary Hump These rhese arc are tho the only properties In the camp aside from I Nevada evada II Hills that are arc arc being beIng worked nt at this time beyond al assessment work 1 |