The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1906-03-05
in THE LOCAL
MINING FIELD
BONANZA KING OPENING UP IN
GOOD SHAPE
Other Humboldt Properties are
Proving Valuable With
Development

Since installing the new hoist and
pump at the Bonanza King, Superintend-
ent Cornes has been drifting on the
225-foot level to catch the ore shoot from
which SO much good stuff was stopped
out in the former prosperous days of
that mine, says the Lovelock Tribune
There was a fault or break in this
ore shoot and after it had been mined
out to the extent of about 200 feet deep,
800 feet long and four to six feet wide,
this chimney of ore seemed to give out.
Mr.. Corns stated to the Tribune man
that after drifting fifty feet from the
bottom of the shaft (now down 225 feeD.
the men were coming into what seemed
to be the same ore shoot. which had
yielded so richly at the top. No assay
had been made of the ore. but paintings
showed that it carries good values. Mr.
Corns was just starting Off Tonopah to
examine mines which his company has
there, and thought that upon his return
the boys would be into the ledge afr
enogh to determine it's extent and value
When this is done and the trend OF the
ore determined. the shaft will be sunk
at various levels to catch the ore.
superintendent Corns is doing thor
ough, systematic work and says the
Bonanza King will yet make good
mine. The compan wants goods miners
and win pay $3.50 per day feight hours
Csstie & Lynch have returned from
their trip to- California and are going
right at the erection of a five stamp
mill on their property at the head of
American Canyon. They have pur-
chased from Carpenter the five-stamn
mill, located at the mouth OF limerick
Canyon and will move it to suitable
location in the American Canyon. They
have purchased a gasoline engine for
power and will start in with a Ave-
stamp mill to work the ores from their
mining claims situated at the top of the
divide between American Canyon and
Dry Gulch
The veins nthis property have been
worked sufficiently to prove that they
have good milling ore and lots of il.
Messrs. Castle and Lynch have been in
the canoyn for some time and have
worked and own valuable placer ground
below these lode claims. They are
faithful workers and deserve to meet
with good fortune in this venture.
The Cactus Peak Mining and Milling
Company, of which E. Bailey is the ex-
ecutive officer and L. w. Bond of st. Ives
fame is vice president and director has
been quietly developing the properties in
this section Off some little time. the re-
suits being very satisfactory to the COM
pany. This is the first shipment of any
consequence that has been made.
In talking of the mine yesterday Mr..
Bond stated that the average value of
the sacked ore which is being shipped
would go better than 800 to the ton
and that considerable fit owuld run
as high as $l25 and that b ycomparing
the ores from Cactus Springs and those
of the ontana Tonopah it would be easy
to see that they were identical in every
respect, and that he felt confident that
the Cactus district would prove abso-
lutely to be a permanently mineralized
belt. The ores are purely sulphide in
character. carrying gold and silver val
ues in the same formation. The quartz
is a solid blue or blackish color. heavily
charged with sulphides.