The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-06-19
MINES AND MINING.

another rich strike in their claim The
strike was made in their shaft at depth
of 100 feet.-Virginia Chronicle.
The Darragh group of mines at Lone
Mountain, near Tonopah, have been sold
to the Wepah Gold Mining Company
composed of Eastern capitalists. These
mines were discovered about two weeks
ago.
The shaft on the Mckinley mine at Ely
is now down to depth of 260 feet and
prosecuting will be commenced on the
3So-foot level In addition to the copper
values. good body of low-grade ore
averaging $5 to the ton has been uncov-
cred.
The Tonopah mining stock exchange is
booming. The fifty seats at $50 have all
been sold. There were so many more APP
plications that the board of directors de-
cided to sell fifty additional seats at SIS
each. and a number have already been
taken.
James Yerington is expected back from
the East about the oath. He has success
fully consummated deal for valuable
mining property in Esmeralda county.
The mines will be extensively developed
and a mill erected at once. Mr. Yering-
tons deal is said to run well into six fig
ures.-Virginia Chronicle.
| A party of five officers of the William
Penn Company arrived from Whittier
yesterday and are making a personal ex-
animation of their large landed interests
here. improvements on an extensive
scale are contemplated, including the in
stating of a large electric power plant.
We venture to predict that within few
years there will be a population of five
thousand on the eastside.-Inyo Register.
This is the period of the year in which
some hundreds of students of mining and
mineral sciences In the universities ana
colleges throughout the country, and
especially in the West, get out among
the mines and hills and get valuable prep
aration for their careers from nature
and from miners and their practical
work. A great many are dallying in
mines as working miners. The number
of such students was never so great, the
demand for scientifically trained men in
the industry was never so large and in
sistent and the Western colleges Of
mines never made such progress as they
are making now.-Pacific Coast Miner
Col Dewey, the owner of the Dewey
mine and mill in the Thunder mountain
district in Idaho. has just placed an or
der in Chicago for forty-eight carloads of
machinery for his Thunder mountain
plant. This means that the work of de-
veloping the great property owned by
the colonel In the new district Is to be
developed on a magnificent scale, 1t is
the understanding that the machinery is
to be shipped at the earliest possible mo-
ment and if possible it will be shipped IN
one train. 1t will be one of the largest
single shipments of mining machinery
ever brought to the West and will marx
an important era in the development of
Idaho's mineral wealth.-Salt Lake Tri-
bune.
Sensational assays obtained by Tom
Colehan on ore from his claim on the
north end of Gold mountain. four miles
south of town. caused a hegira of pros
pectors to that locality during the past
week. The ore which caused the excite
ment came from holes less than four feet
deep, and from a lead said to be from
two to four feet wide. The assays ranged
from $3.50 to over $1,000 gold per ton. Nu-
merous specimens which contain free
gold have been exhibited by returning
prospectors. Several other leads, 1t is
claimed. have been opened In the imme-
| date vicinity of the Colehan strike all
of which show good values In gold. on
the Reavis & Nelson property one ana
half miles north, there Is ALREADY
,nite a village of prospectors tents. Prep
arations are being made by the Los An
geles people, who recently secured
.h,s nronerty. to put down