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Show Ryepatch Mines Again Stirring Up Interest Much. interest is being taken in the old Ryepatch mines north of Rochester, Roches-ter, Nev., in tlio Humboldt range, according ac-cording to roports current in local mining circles. The new ore is said to be the same character of mineral which was hauled over the .plains to; California and shipped to Swansea around the Horn. It has been demonstrated to the satisfaction sat-isfaction of several geologists who have visited the properly and made examinations that the mineralizing so-j lution came up on the east system of fissuring, instead of up the bedded veins, as has been supposed. This is of great importance, since it means that there should be a series of rich beds cut by the Alpha fissure to be explored. Already quartz carrying sil- i r rrr r -t'nliinc vim nn (Into hundreds of dollars per ton is bc-' bc-' ing opened up in stringers under the 1 old slopes. The most important recent development develop-ment has occurred in a connection between be-tween the Boarding-house tunnel and 'the Ray tunnel, which has been run( at a vertical depth of 171 feet below' .the lowest workings of Ihe Borland slope. In making this connection, five feet of quartz which shows streaks of bonanza ore have been opened up between be-tween two clearly defined limestone walls, which lie nearly flat.. This mineralization min-eralization has been followed up until a chamber eighteen feet In diameter has been opened, with the quartz going go-ing strong in all directions. At present pres-ent this quartz is being opened up as rapidly as possible, in the hope that a rich bed may be struck. In the Ray tunnel similarly favorable favor-able conditions exist. In three distinct dis-tinct places ore is being found in rich stringers throughout the altered lime. The ore here, it js said, is a sulphide in the form of argentite. Road conditions condi-tions to the mine are ideal. The four1 miles from the mine to Ryepatch sta-i lion have been greatly helped bv the heavy snowfalls of Ihe last month. |