The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-04
WINNEMUCcA. NEVADA, WEDNEDAY EVENING MAY 4, 1904
State Mining Notes

Work was commenced April on the
new c.osscut tunnel of the Empire
Cen NJ Co.'S property at Empire
Camp. 1t will be ass feet in length
and will crosscut the Empire lead at
a depth OF 500 feet, or about 700 feet
on dip Of vein. Drifts will be run east
and west 1000 feet each way. The mill
will be erected on the millsite adjoin-
Ing this tunnel.
depth of 250 feet have encountered a
15-foot body of quartz averaging from
$50 to s25 in gold. They have a good
milling ore all the way down.
One of the near and interesting prob
abilities of this section is a railroad
from Ibex, on the Santa Fe, to a con-
nection with the new Salt Lake road,
viz. Searchlight.
f. Gardiner reports a new find in
the Pioche- Nevada Con. mine, near
Phoebe. in the shaft at a depth of As
feet The enti bottom of the shaft
Is in ore.
The Goldfeld NJ Co. at Goldfield,
represented by J. r. Duffield. is the
owner among six others of the Janu-
ary claim, which Is one of the impor
tant producers in the camp. This
claim was leased to Patrick, Kendall.
Jones & Reilly on February 5, and The
first shipment made February 16 of 100
sacks of ore. Since that time there has
been shipped by the lessees 275 tons of
ore which will net $50 per ton. There
is also on the dump from 1900 to 1900
tons of mill ore which will average $50
pes ton. There are two shafts on the
property, one an incline to the aepth
of 112 feet and the other a vertical 100
feet deep about 70 feet west of the in
clined shaft. These are connected at
the 50-foot level and drifts are being
run in the bottom to connect Tha
vein has been erosscut at the bottom.
showing 35 feet of ore, with the foot
wall not yet in sight. The Combina-
tion claim. adjoining the January on
/ the cast, which is also large pro-
/ Queer. has another ledge at 165 feet in
/ Gepth, showing high values.
The ore in the shaft of the Combina-
tion. at Goldfeld is changing from
j oxides to sulphides. The values of the
sulphides in the Combination assay
/ $500 per ton.
/ ]. p Harvey. local representative OF
4 r. Clark, started to develop two
springs and a few days ago struck a
1 flow of to miners inches. The
shaft on the Combination is down liz
| feet and they are d fitting both ways
or the 130-foot level Stopping has
been started on 4-foot streak of ore
/ ii. the S0-foot level This is the first
stopping done in the Combination, the
/ ere heretofore coming from develop
ment work
A gold discovery was made on Gold
reef two ana a half miles southeast
Bonanza. The diseoverers are G. Cor
don and t. Ahern. They came upon
1 the top of a ledge carrying minera
feet from the surface
I The rock has TIE appearance of por-
| phyry and carries q black mineral re
sembliug manganese oxide. Samples
! of the rock have been assayed. The
/ highest return given is 1870 in gold
and other assays run from $50 to $40
all in gold. Neither wall of the ledge
has been found. The gold belt. ac-
1 cording to Mr.. Gordon, is 5000 feet
wide by 600 feet long as far as pros
pected.
1t is out on the open desert. Back
4 of it some distance is range OF
/ mountains. BY the wagon road it Is
rine miles from Tonopah. but on q
bee-line not over six miles. The grouI
1 is known as the Rather The claims
/ are Rather, Montana, Compromise
and Dawn. The owners are G. Gordon
Il. Ahegn. ]. Hall, f. M. Field and r
Wamplcr. The first strike in that
locality was made a month ago in the
/ Conglomerate group by Kielhofer. Ora.
ham and Campbell.
They have a lot of the same rocl
as the Rather. but it is colored with
red and brown iron. Otherwise the
i charact aristics are much the same
| Inc ConglomeT lies ABOUT zu0u rec
to the no. Inward of the Rather. Hal
and Campbell have another group II
that district. This ledge Is large ant
OF the same character as the others.
1t is reported that w. c.. William,
has sold his Cabin and Cabin No.
mines in Olinghouse canyon to L. Nil.
Ter. president of the Springfield Nj. Co
of Reno. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars is the consideration stated. TIL,
Cabin and Cabin No. have been prs
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