Las Vegas times. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1906, 1906-08-25

beheld this immense showing with
establishment. and greater is the sur
prise when the statement Is made that
at intermediate points the manage
ment has run crosscuts that from wall
to wall reveal this rich deposit OF from
65 to 9S feet. In width. Mark, no
waste; all ore Of the high grade order
these crosscuts. Not pound Of ore
has been stopped; the ore lifted and in
sacks is the result of development
work, and the crosscuts are expression
of many sacks OF the richer ore cached
besides what was hoisted on the sur
face. The ore reserves on this level
not touched, but standing awaiting the
hammers, early convey the millions
that are in 1t.
What has been described on the 100
level has its duplication. only in an
enlarged sense, on the 200 level drift.
with its crosscuts, pay rock here there
and everywhere of the class and sort
above described.
On this level 1t was our privilege to
follow a drift on a parallel vein for
approximately 900 feet in milling ore
averaging s15 per ton and crosscuts
every 100 feet or so giving a mean
average of this great continuous body,
as revealed by the crosscut of fifteen
feet in width and at points twenty
eight feet wide. The shaft is sinking
to the 400. At the three hundred is
only crosscut without the develop
ment work accomplished on the 100
and 200 levels. but the ore Is there.
So far no dead work When the
statement is made that the writer ap-
proximately followed 5000 feet of
drifts. levels and crosscuts, all In ore,
the imagination can partially conceive
the ore reserves and its millions of
value as 1t relates to the great Sho-
shone mine.
Besides these main exhibits of the
great Schwab property there are nu-
merous cross courses or intersecting
ore veins, as we'll as numerous paral-
lei leads Indicating that in their en-
easement or interlocked courses are
other fortunes than those revealed by
actual computation through the handi-
work of man.
Ar4a
The Shoshone mine is gEeat-It is a
wonder The owners have fortunes
upon fortunes in their possession 1t
is better than bank, for its product
is stable and so fruitful that If 1t were
not for the love of enterprise associ-
ated with 1t. it would do as a source
of monetary supply for more than one
generation. to afford Injuries and
comforts not enjoyed by the average
man, The company is receiving bids
for the erection of combination plant
to handle and treat 800 tons of ore per
day. II will be a milling. concentrate
ing and cyanidiEg plant in one. Be-
sides a new three-compartment shaft
will be sunk or driven with all possible
speed through the ground to great
depth to open the unexplored ore de-
posits.
Other Great Metal Producers.
Other great properties that can be
safely classed as way ups are the
Homestake. Gibraltar. Gold Bar. Dem
yer and the Mayfower. The latter
has an extraordinary showing-a
large. high grade ore body--the entire
shaft to depth of 200 feet giving
good values with recent new large
strike towards the Starlight groap
giving values for sixteen feet across
at a depth of twelve feet The ubl-
quitous Bob Smith. one of the well
knowns of the western mining ranges,
and a hail fellow well met, is in
charge of this most promising proper
~. 1t is good property to get in on
Has Great Future.
Let no one mistake the Bullfrog
district: 1t has great future. When
the present generation is absolutely
obliterated those scanned and rock
ribbed mountains will afford new dis
coveries and produce plentifully the
wealth out of which succeeding gem
erations win extract comfort and
pleasure In line with the newer and
a better civilization.
With men possessing the mastery
brain power Of Donald Gillis and NAL
colin Mcdonald, directing the present
march Of mining development in
south Nevada. there win be within the
next decade in this section . greater
wealth produced than South Africa
presents today, through the great con-
certise acts OF an Alfred Belt. Cecil
Rhodes and q John Hayes Hammond.