The Elk Mountain pilot., 1881-09-29


The Chicago Girl, in Anthracite
basin, has two foot vein with 10
inch pay etreak carrying gray copper
and galena. 1t has 10 foot assess
ment worked on it and is owned by
Callahan Bros.
/ The compromise in O,-Be-Joyful
basin, has al. open cut 20 feet long,
The vein is 4 feet 3 inches wide and
has a pay streak of galena IA inches
wide. Callahan Bros. owners.
The Ruby King is running a DRIFT
from the cross-cut tunnel TO the bot
tom of the new shaft, which is Is feet
deep; also running a tunnel to devel-
op the vein 900 feet south Of the old
tunnel. The drift is il, on the vein
and rich mineral is being taken cut
every day.
The Little Frank, owned by Dr..
Cornell, is being worked steadily. He
has let contract for another 20 feet
of work and has just completed a shaft
house 1Sx24, with the expectation Of
working 1t all winter. The vein
shows 4 feet between walls with 20
inch pay streak that will run very
high in chlorides and ruby.
The Black Bess, in 0, ,-Be-Joyfll
basin, is looking finely. 1t is consid-
cred one of the largest leads there
The vein is IS feet wide and contains
8 feet of mineral bearing rock. which
carries galena, white iron, zinc blende
and copper. The assessment fos 80
and 81 have been completed upon it.
The mineral crops from the location
stake to the assessment work, distance
of 200 feet. Assays show the fock to
run from IS to 200 ounces per ton.
Owned by Arizona Bill and others.
The July Bird. in Redwell basin,
has the assessment shaft 1orked Is #
deep and strong vein, two feet wide.
Of solid mineral, has been developed.
1t is at present largely composed CT
white iron, copper and zinc carrying
20 ounces silver ton. There is plenty
of it, however, end the quartz l.,
getting finer as depth is attained. the
owners, Messrs. Fass, Edwards and
Wood. feel confident that the mineral
will shortly change to higher grade.
The Young America, on Ruby
mountain in Elk basin, is showing up
well. There are two shafts on the
claim zoe feet apart. Nj. is ,s>fset
| deep q - : - Vii a,eh COM.
tains I pay AF AZ 20 inches'wisst. No.
: is 40 feet deep on the same vein,
viii Il shows a ray streak the same
width. A large quantity Of good ore
is being taken from shaft No. and
assorted and sacked on the dump. 1t
will mill 200 to 800 ounces per ton in
silver.
The Durango is continuing the drift
from the bottom OF the shaft to cut
the vein. The DRIFT runs sojigh and is
in IL feet. Stopping is gong on in
the first level, from which very fine
mineral is being taken from a eft
pay streak, milling over 200 ounces
Der ton. The boarding and shaft
houses are about completed. The
boarding house is 24x3o feet, two and
a half stories high and built in the
most substantial manner. The shaft
house is 15x3o feet. The mine is
working all the force that can be util-
lzed and will continue to do so all
winter. The entire property is looking
extremely we'll.
Mrs. A. J. Miller, J. w. Skinner
and S. P. Lyons. are making prepara-
tions to work the kirkendall, the
claim i'll Ruby basin, near the Ruby
Chief, in which the recent rich strike
was made. The tunnel on this claim
is 145 feet long. On the 14th inst.
the vein was struck and 18 inches of
rich pay matter developed, which
showed native and wire silver. The
vein is feet wide and the owners
ere very sanguine that mole pay will
be found when the foot wall is reach.
ed. No assay has been made since
the groupings, which ran 20 ounces
silver to the ton, when tested. Judge
Miller informs us that the parties