The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-01
New Developments. at Montana
Camp and in the Immediate
! Nieirtiiy.
FIND AT 4oo-FoOT LEVEL.
Yield of 1908 Will More Than
( Double Alaska's Output for
I Three Years. -

J3cPUBLIC SPECIAL
SaD Francisco, Feb. 2a.--At Furopah. the
dkvelopment all along the line has been pEe-
npmenal within the last two months. owing
u the fact that the companies which have
nten sinking shafts during the hist few
months have at various depths WITHIN 500
feet run into ore, and there are 4 number
OF others which will undoubtedly como into
ole In few weeks.
Harry Ramsey, one of The pioneers and
capitalists OF IoROpah, VINO sAa gust in
VISITED some % his Tonopah Weal-h in q
hkndsom home at Berkeley. says the Mon
t4na TOnopah Company encountered their
fist strike at the 4yJ foot Level. winch dips
rPrthwest, which takes II about 100 feet
West of the North Star shaft.
This vein Is about five feet wide. which
shows some rich spots OF ore with average
values OF over $40 for the whole. in The bot
tam OF their shaft they dropped down on
afotber vein, which IS apparently as rich
al the Mizpah, some OF the specimens show
iig up like pieces Of jewelry acIG.s three
feet of the vein, and the quartz shows the
fun length of the nine-fout shaft. nj pres
eht they are sacfing Ssso worth Of ore for
VEIN OF SO ORE.
fThe Desert Queen shaft at 60 feet has
Just shown up another large vein % 50
ote They are thirteen feet ito it without
finding the foot wall
Charles woanacott is a guest of friends
here who states that the growth u Tuuo-
ptFrt1urtug rhe Last eighteen nantAs mas ay-
etaged forty residences per month, and SIX
teen business buildings. The cosf of bust
NESS blocks runs from 1900 20 $4,000 Six
million feet Of lumber has been shipped into
Ttonopah from California and Nevada for
ctnstruction work. Lumber commands so
per thousand feet al Tonop;4h.
II. G. Donald. the manager Of the silver
knight and clifford Mining Company, OF
which 8. n. FELTON, 20 the president, states
that the main shaft on the silver Knight IS
down over fifty feet, and il in quartz
vein three feet wide running from SO up
ward in silver, copper. galeua and a little
gold, The galena runs from - to 500 ounces
in silver.
On the Clifford group Of properties some
very rich silver ore is being taken out Of
the American Flag claim; some OF the ore
runs from 600 TO 10.S ounces in silver. This
ore carries a great deal Of copper and
galena also.
There is a great deal Of development
work In progress In the Ray district. I'D
Joining the Horn Silver and Christmas Gift
claims near the Ray and O'Brien property.
The strike made in the Ray and o'Brien
mines has been confirmed. The ore is very
district, no.
In the Lone Mountain district develop
Paymaster. the Kendall properties, cutting
and Griffin, and sorne new prospects. which
are showing good pay ore from The grass
acter. showing high values
SILVER PEAK BOOM. .
Within the last two weeks tisfe has been
quite rush of prospectors to the silver
Peak district. which rs enjoying 4 boom
upon manner that John Hays Hammond
mas IecoHluleflA9 tle -tdklIig. ONef5tne- S'B
Yer Peak mines from the. Liar estate of
New York by an English syiifficdte. which
Will be contaminated within ninety days.
In this event over 600. 0D,T will 'be exJ-end-
ed In opening up the properties -anay. put
ting In new mills. water and local improve
The old Liberty mine atzbrn rtse.7o u ned,
by w. b cramp of Philadelphia land u
few associates. is being Developed under the
new management, with -al the force at
hand. and the main shaft is down SO feet
whsre they are In ore the value or which
runs over 500 a ton in silver. lead and gold
A reported rich strike has been made nea.
the old Gold Hill properly. south of Aida
Valley, at Tokop : - 70
The production of gold and silver alone
IBIS year from Fonopah will equal the out
put OF ALASKA for 1hres years. Mefe than /
100000 in ore is, nov. blocked out in
I,onopah, ready TO be mined as soon as a
Nevada company erents Its mills 10. handle i
the production Of the camp.