Show SILVER KING MINING CAMP the divide district in esmeralda county nov nev is one of the many sil ver producing icampo in that part of 0 the great basin the district et Is only 5 milis south of the famous torio tono pah camp but ore was not discovered in it until 1917 though pros hecth s had been done there intermittently since 1902 A period of excitement and activity began in tile the district in 1919 and soon an area of GO square miles was staked by midsummer nearly a hundred hoists were in operation and a large amount ot of exploratory work was being done this and later laler work however greatly narrowed down the region that promised to lo be productive and the excitement has now subsided most of the prospects have been abandoned and only a few minus mines are producing steadily the district was recently visited by adolph knopf ot of the united states geological survey department of 0 the interior who prepared a report on it that has just been published the report gives the results ot of a study of the rocks and of the formation of the ores and describes tho the producing mines |