The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-12-22
YELLOW PINE DISTRICT.
MORE ABOUT THIS WONDER
Full MINING CAMP.
A Review of the Properties There,
which are Regarded as Ore Pro-
iducers.

Yellow Pine district in this county is
not without good mineral foundation
may be forciblyt illustrated by a review
OF the properties there. which at this
time are regarded as ore producers; the
claims in fact which will be relied on,
without acknowledgements, to supply the
200 tons of ore a day required by the in.
coming branch road from COTS.
A number of immense lead deposits
exist in the district, among the fore
most Of which comes the Mountain Top
group, situated some two and half miles
southwest OF Good Springs and embrac-
ing nine claims. ;ss,
The Mountain ! Top claim itself has
heensunk on for bat fifteen feet, exposing
ore for ten feet. the ledge or ore body
being six feet wide and is a nearly hori.
zontal vein or dspesit 10 limestone. The
ore is mostly galsns and lead carbonate
with silicious gsngae running forty per
cent lead and twelve ounces silver per
ton. Twenty-Five tons Of ore lie on the
dump. G,s
The Mountain Top extension, adjoin.
ing, is in the same formation, q with a
three foot ledge. = Twenty-Five feet of
ore ia exposed on thisclaim and the deep.
eat workings are but fifty feet. The ore
runs Fifty per cent lead and twenty five
ounces 10 silver and twenty i've tons lie
on the dump awaiting shipment.
On the Lookout claim more work has
been done; the ledge here is the same as
in thesMountain Top and is four feet in
width. The deepest workings are sixty
feet, while altogether seventy feet of ore
is exposed. The grade continues to i'm.
prove, carrying thirty five ozs. silver and
forty per cent lead. Two hundred tons
lie on the dump. 81.
The Copper & Lead, another claim of
this group, of the same character of ore
as above, has six foot vein sunk on to a
depth of seventy.fve feet, with twenty
feet Of ore exposed which runs fifty per
cent in lead and twenty ozs. silver, 100
tons are extracted here ready for market.
The West Side and Ruby Silver claims
are also of this group; both show ore
from one to three feet in width, the ledge
being bed vein, with limestone walls,
dipping to the west at an angle Of about
fifteen degrees. The deepest workings
are but ten to fifteen feet below the sur
face. but fifty feet Of ore is exposed or
the west side and $50 feet on the Ruby
Silver. averaging from tbirty.6ve to forty
per cent lead and from twenty to thirty
five ozs. in silver per ton. Sixty tons arr
mined here and await shipment.
| The Volcanic has . larger vein, but
more broken UP ,snd is much poore,
Though it has only been scratched. on to
the ore is exposed, for 25O feet. Th
ledge is composed principally of quart
and Gale spar. The ore averages fourteen
per cent lead and fourteen ozs. in silver
The Galena and Chicago claims, whicl
complete this group, have a similar veil
to the West Side and Ruby Silver, run
ming from one to five feet in width. Tn
Galena has seventy.fve foot shaft, witt
fifty feet of ore exposed, while the Chi
cago is not more than uncovered. TIL
ore in both claims Is clean galena an
lead carbonate, running seventy per cen
lead and forty ounces silver. About sixt
tons are extracted.
A conservative estimate Of the prob
able output of this group, on the devel
opments already made, is 100 tons of or
a day, and every indication goes to sho,
that it might be continued for an indefn
lite length of time. AZ
| The Oklahoma and Full Moon claims
two other good lead properties, are stu
ated about six. miles southwest of tn
Springs, and will produce twenty tons c
shipping ore a day from the start. TIL
ore is found in . nearly horizontal deposi
or vein in limestone and runs about fort
per cent in. lead, and thirty ozs. silver
Forty tons are ready for shipment fror
these two claims. q t $50
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