The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-09-01
Mining Mention

The Emerald in Justice basin, has
4o-ft shaft on a 3-ft lead. Two feet o
vein matter.
The Little Stell, in Stevens basir
has vein about three feet wide o
galena and iron. Only the assess
ment has been worked, but it look
we'll.
Matt Dorsey has purchased six
teenth interest in the Ace of Heart:
lode, adjoining. the Burlington. l!
has shaft IS feet deep and shows 4
we'll defined lead.
NJ. E. Callahan has sold Il Of the
Robert Emmett lode in Evans basin.
to w. P. Rose, consideration $500.
This claim has a Aft vein between
we'll defined walls, showing we'll in
galena.
The Wide-Awake in o, Be Joyful
basin, has a vein 40 or 50 feet wide
which shows iron and galena scattered
all through it. An open cut with .
loft face has been worked on it. H.
H. Pell, owner.
The Iron Monarch, beside the Yam.
kee Blade, Stevens basin, has a 5-f1
vein with a-ft pay streak, which is
rapidly widening. The mineral i:
galena. A loft adit has been cut on
the vein. H. H. Pell, owner.
The Belmont tunnel is now in 1o5
feet and the rock is becoming exceed
ingly hard, but the contractors, Chris
topher, Mcdonald & Co., are driving
the work as fast as they can with three
shifts OF good miners.
The Aumego, adjoining the above
claim, has a tunnel 100 feet long, but
as the vein is still in the cap rock the
width of it cannot be ascertained. A
six inch pay streak has however been
developed which contains native
silver.
The Jackie c., mouth of Elk basin,
has a 2o-ft face on it, from which 3
tunnel runs in on vein of quartz 4-f
wide. There has been no assays made
on the rock this year, but assays from
the groupings last season showed &c
ounces Of silver per ton.
The Old Virginia in O, Be ToyfuI
basin, has Oft vein with 3-ft pay
streak of zinc, galena and iron, in
which there is some ruby. No recent
assay has been made on the mineral,
which ran IL ounces at the surface.
Owned by Ferguson & Pell.
Messrs. John Mclean and Timothy
Deasy made a big strike last week in
their Gen. Jas. Shields lode. This val
liable property is the extension of the
celebrated Lee Taylor mine. 1t has
a SIT drift on loft vein of fine
galena running 400 ounces silver ton.
The tunnel Of the Zuma, this side
Of the Lead Chief, is in s. feet and
shows vein four feet wide between
walls, mostly decomposed matter
which can be dug out with the pick
No mineral vein has been found a.
yet, but an abundance Of good quartz
is showing up.
The Bonnie Scotland, at the heac
of Ruby gulch, has about $500 wortl
of work done upon it. The vein i:
four feet wide with a 2o-inch min
eral streak, and shows iron and gra,
copper and runs IS ozs of silver pei
ton. Owned by H. H. Pell and c.
A. Robinson.
The Yankee blade, in Stevens basin,
has 100 tons of ore on the dump which
the owners say they have been Offered
$50 ton for. A tunnel is being rur
on the vein of the claim and is in
about 60 feet. The vein is seven feel
wide with pay streak of two feet
The ore is galena.
The Chicoma, at the upper end O
Ruby basin, has had its ANNUAL worl
for the present year completed. The
tunnel is 4I feet and shows we'll de-
fined vein S feet between walls witt
an IS-inch pay streak, mostly galena
1t is thought that a few feet furthe
will take the tunnel into good pa,
ore.