The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-04-02
MINES AND MINING.
During the past twelve years ore
shipments from Eureka aggregated
140,007 tons.

The Davis & Gignoux cyanide plant
at Dayton is to be enlarged to seventy
five tons daily capacity.
The shaft at the Ludwig copper mine
near Yerington is now down 300 feet.
There are but five men employed.
The Phoenix group of mines near
Ely, White Pine county, has been sold
for $4,000 to Boston capitalists.
The Blue veing mining property near
Bodie has been bonded to Eastern par
ties for s1o0,0OO2 The first payment of
$40, 600 will be made in the next sixty
days.
The Willow Creek Mining Company
has been incorporated in Dover, Del,
with a capital of $1,000,000. The com
pany will operate in Nevada, 1t has
acquired the Willow Greek mine. in
property was given in these columns
several days ago.
The Eclipse Gold Mining Company
of Ogden, Utah, has filed a certified
copy of it's articles of Incorporation
with the Secretary of State of Utah.
The company is capitalized for 100000,
divided into 81 shares. The officers are
son, vice president, Jesse }. Driver.
secretary and treasurer. The company
owns the Eclipse claim in the 'Ddsca-
rora mining district, Elko county.
What is believed TO be the greatest
strike in copper ever made in Nevada
mas been maze IN the Quill mine, two
miles west of Carson Guy. Late this
afternoon Dick Hesse brought in a
sack full of the ore, and it is bonanza
material SO far as copper goes. The
ore is literally streaked and spattered
with peacock copper, ana the samples
will probably run 20 per cent in the
red metal, beside about $40 to the ton
In gold. The values are high, but the
important thing is that the vein OF
this rlen material is tweive feet wiue
and in an eighteen-foot ledge that viii
ali pay. Also it is concentrating ore
ana can be worked without smeiter.
Carson News.
w. Ii. Elwood OF Idaho Springs, Col,
is superintendent for the Willow Creek
Mining Company which recently pur-
chased the old Galena mine in Wa
shoe valley. Nine men are already
at work in two shifts cleaning out and
retlmberlng the old workings. When
this is completed the backs will be at
tackled and ore stopped from twenty
two foot vein. There is estimated TO
be 11S, 900 tons blocked out. The ore
is supposed to be worth $40 ton ac-
cording to the returns on which the
recent deal was consummated. A spur
track will be put in by the V, Il T. and
ore will be loaded on the train from
ore cars direct from the bottom of the
stopes.-Virginia Enterprise.
The Southern klondike mines, situ-
ated about nine miles south of Tono-
pah, are destined at no distant day to
be big producers. When capital once
takes hold of these mines they Will be
hard to rival About $4,000 worth of
ore has been shipped from one of the
mines owned by Bell az Court. There
are large lodges capped with iron on
which scarcely any work has been
done. One iron ledge on which shaft
has been sunk to a depth of about
twenty-five feet shows galena and iron
that carries $40 in gold besides the sill
yer and lead values. The main quartz
ledge owned by Bell & Court Is over
mile in length and from four to four
teen feet wide. and ore from this ledge
has been shipped that carried over 500
ounces in silver and $40 in gold per ton.
About one mile from Southern Klon-
dixie Is Eastern Klondike, district
showing some rich ore, one ledge being
worked by Sharp a Moore having pro
duced ore that went over 700 ounces IN
silver per tom .-Tonopah Bonanza.
q