The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-08-01
A Force of Men VIII Begin Work
Within a Few Days on the
Saxton.
Assays of Ore From This Mine
Go as High as Sll6.57 In
Gold.
Eastern Syndicate to Begin the
Development of the Proper
ties In Regular Order.

w. Smith of the Chairman company
and-Prof. F. A. Richmond of Elmira
College have been devoting their time
to the examining of the claims of the
Canton Mining Company, (better
known at the present time as the Nc
Kinley mines) lying within short dis
tance to the west and north OF this
place, and will continue the work until
all the properties, eighteen in number,
have been inspected. This work is be-
ing done Systematically, samples being
taken from each of the properties as
examined, and these are carefully as
sayed by Professor Richmond, the re-
suit of which assay will be preserved in
proper form for the inspection OF the
parties interested in the company now
being formed.
While several of the claims have been
sampled thus far the Saxton is the
only one from which assays have been
made, and these show exceedingly good
values, one going as high as s1l6.57 in
gold, another sS7, and still another S73,
while the average for the entire shaft,
leaving out the rich samples here mem
toned, was s35 to the ton. These sam
pies were taken from the shaft sunk
this season by w. G. Lyons under the
impression that he was on the Eli, an
adjoining location, but which a later
survey showed to be fifty-one feet over
on Saxton ground. In the develop
ment of this property, which is to be
commenced at once, the plan is to sink
a shaft at this point to depth of 200
feet before beginning to crosscut, after
which the other gold claims will be de-
veloped in the following order: Ault-
man, Cummings and Yellowstone.
The claims have been grouped as TO
mineral as follows.
Gold-Saxton, Aultman, Yellowstone,
Cummings, and Willard.
Copper-Blaekstone, Specific, and
Minnie Manorah.
Observation-Disclosures, Carbonate, Ell
dorado, Elijah, Commodore, Union,
Springville, Bullion, Ohio, and Hicks
These, together with the millsite,
lying just west of Superintendent Shep-
herds house, comprise the holdings OF
Mrs. Mckinley and Mrs. Barber at this
place, and 1t is no exaggeration to say
that these claims, embracing as they do
the cream of the district in themselves
contain wealth that cannot be estimated
in figures.
The Aultman, which is the next prop
erty on which development work is to
be commenced, after the Saxton, pro-
duced large quantities of rich ore in
the early days of the camp, and Presi-
dent Mckinley assured Dix w. Smith
on the occasion of his recent visit to
Washington, that he had seen ore from
this mine which yielded S5s7 in gold to
the ton, with about the same values in
silver.
After successful run has been made
by the new Chairman mill now In
course of construction, the development
of the Mckinley mines will go forward
on large scale, the ores from the gold
properties being trammed to the mill
site, where suitable mill is to be cree
ted after tests have been made by the
noted metallurgists, Ricketts, & Banks.
the junior member of which firm will
be here shortly to remain thirty-five
days, during which time he will per-
sonally examine the ore bodies, and
take samples for making the above
mentioned tests.
L. w. Campbell of Warren, Pa, one
of the heaviest stock holders in the
Chairman Company, and who is also
interested in the forming of the new
company to develop the Mckinley
mines, will reach Ely within the next
few days to personally look over the
ground, and with Dix w. Smith, per-
feet plans for the launching of one of
the biggest mining ventures which the
intermountain region has ever known.