The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-01-23
LINE DISTRICT.
The Spring Valley Section Organized
and Under Full Swing.

ana Onuer run owing.
Reports, though somewhat conflicting
strengthen the growing belief that tn
recent discoveries east of Spring Valley vii
develop that section into a productive min
ing camp. Despite the season of the yea
and threatened storms, the hills there
abouts for the past week have been covered
with prospectors, and every patch of groun,
which bears the semblance of a minera
zone is staked off and claimed as mininl
location.
Analyses of several pieces of the outcroy
of the Utah Spur claim, the first claim
located, shows it to contain from 400 Il
1900 ozs silver and S23 to $40 in gold to tn,
ton; 80 per cent. silica and 4 per cent
iron. These were from the best portions Of
the ledge. There is over two feet of thi,
material lying in seam of varying thickness;
in the seven feet of groupings exposed.
This claim is to be worked by leasers.
Duncan Mcdonald, A. |. Harrison and Dan
Ross have taken six months lease on the
segregated southerly three hundred feet OF
the claim. They arc fitting out in town to.
day and Tomorrow expect to go out and be.
gun work in earnest This part of the
claim contains the blowout, from which all
the high assays have recently been taken.
Levi Syphus and Henry Wedge of Panaca.
have leased the northerly segregated 300
feet OF the claim and expect to 90 to work
by the end of this month.
Ed. F. Prudential has six months
lease ON the remainder of the claim and
sent out load of men and supplies on
Saturday to begin work.
The lessees expect to he shipping ore
within thirty days A freight rate of s. a
ton can be secured to Milford as the road
is generally good and there are no mountain
ranges to cross.
The miners meeting noticed last week Co
take place on Monday the both for the pur.
pose oil organizing mining district, was
well attended. After discussing the question
1t was decided to organize on the Utah side
OF the State line, since a majority OF the
locations have been laid on that side, and
that the name of the district shall be
Line. set of bylaws were framed
patterned after those of this, the Elv dis.
tnct, and Nelson Millett was elected mining
recorder for the first term. Since so many
Piochers and others from this county are
interested in the new discoveries. we hone
to publish the bylaws in full next week.
The formation at Line district is prinei.
pally trachyte, with large dykes of porphry.
with quartz lodges. and is re.
'arded by prospectors as good mineral
country. The center of interest for the
past week has been at a point some three
miles south OF the Utah Spur claim, where
immense buttons have been secured from
ordinary assay samples. The first reports
u this ind sent rush of men there and the
lection TOR several miles square was immedi.
'tely located. 1t was stated on the street
lere yesterday, however, that the metal is
rot all silver. nor is it lead, and the quest.
on, what is itE' is the next thing to solve.
Parties are willing to risk it, however, and
''~-rs~ta are changing hands at good values
The owner OF half interest in the Utah
spur claim was offered thousand head of
attic for his title. He is poor and cattle
re valuable but he refused and proposes to
AXE his chances on the claim.