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Show 31 -oo i WINNEMUCCA VERY j . TT7Ut, ACTIVE IN MINING While very little is said theso days of tho mining operations in the Win-nemucca Win-nemucca district, nevertheless there j is considerable development work in progress at different places in the camp. - ; At tho property of the Bonanza : ' i.Lut B cPmpany, beter known as the i . ; Snlvely strike," located at the north f enJ of WinnemuccR mountain, the 3 ; i management is sending a shaft down i' to exploit the big ledge that Is ex- , ; posed in the uppor Workings and is from twelve to sixteen feet wide. The shaft Is now down nearlv 200 feet j and when that level Ib "reached a , .- station will be cut out and it will 1 ." be sent down another 100 feet Prom this point a crosscut will bo run to j. t tho big ledge, which will then be ; thoroughly exploited and the prop erty put in workable shape. In speaking of the development wock in progress on the Bonanza i j J company's property. Superintendent ! , , J. A. Piatt stated that the shaft I;- ; paesed through the big ledge just below the 100-foot level and was now going down on the foot-wall side of tne vein. Nothing will be known as l.,e rIchness of the vein until the ! 300-foot lovel 13 reached If the big i Vln Proves as good with this work A i accomplished as it did at the 100- 1 1 ; foot level tho Bonanza property will I rank among tlie great mines of the state. : : Along the surface for a distance of ; over 400 feet and on the 100-foot j level the vein pans gold from wall I to wall and Is a good grade of mill-, vng ore. ' There is continued work' at tho Adamson-Tumer property at Rexall and regular monthly shipments of ore arc being mado On this property alono there are over 3000 feet of workings and now now openings are being made further up tho mountain The new development is disclosing a new ore body and some of tho ore that Is being extracted Bhows rich values in gold. There are larce bodies of oro blocked out In tho property and a large tonnage of milling grado is piled on tho dumps. This Rexall property has produced somo of the richest gold ore yet found in any mine in the state. 4 |