The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-02-19
WHITE HORSE HAS
RICHEST MINE YET
Hundreds of Thousands Turned
Up in Remarkably Short
Development Period.
SOME ARE VALUED
DOLLAR PER POUND
Hundred Stamp Mill Contem-
plated to Which Railroad
Will Be Extended.

Most wonderful indeed is the new strike
reported in the keystone Nevada Mining
company In White Horse district, Washoe
county. says the Silver State. for Il is
now authenticated beyond the shadow OF
doubt that ore is being taken out of the
mine from the face of the drift. both on
the upper and lower levels. which really
shows more gold than rock. and the rich
ness is so pronounced that it is absolute
ly beyond relief, In the upper level,
which is about eighty feet below the sur
face. three sacks OF orc Weighing per-
haps seventy-five to eighty pounds TO the
sack were taken out last Friday morn
ing In fifteen minutes, which will aver
age at least $10o In gold per sack and on
the lower lovel the face Of the drift be-
Ing go feet below the apex of the lode,
Saturday seven sacks of ore were taken
out within half On hour. each sack run
ming perhaps seycnty-nYe or eighty
pounds, which carried the enormous
value OF at least 81 a pound for each and
every sack
Richest Mine on Earth
This is Indeed most remarkable show
ing and Is only In keeping with the cnor-
totore encountered in that remarkable
property, II Will no doubt be remem-
bercd that three months since shoot OF
ore WAS struck which carried values of
$1,000 10000 and $4,000. and the general
average value of the vein, which is eight
feet between walls, Is 5000 Without
by far the richest gold mine on earth. for
we never before heard OF a property
which produced seven sacks OF that
would average dollar pound in tif-
teen minutes, and this shoot La now be-
Ing exploited and seems equally as rich
as when first encountered.
Helps to Make History.
The ORC group and the Crown Point
mines, which compose the vast holdings
OF the Keystone Nevada company, have
helped 10 make history in the White
Horse district, and for years they have
been considered among the best mines
there; but such ynlucs being uncovered
was never dreamed of, though exceeding
ly good surface showings existed at all
times. The reason for driving the lower
tunnel mentioned above was to crosscut
the vein which was disclosed In shaft
twenty feet deep. In which values were
secured going 5000 per ton In gold. 1t will
thus be seen that there Is very strong
probability that this fabulously rich
shoot extends from within twenty feet of
the surface at least TO a depth OF 80 feet.
with every indication of much greater
depth,
Was Very Wise Purchase.
The property of this company was pur-
chased about four months ago from Jack
Sheehan. D. NJ. Harvey and others at a
cost of about 5000 and since that time
three different shoots OF Gre have been
feet wide, which average thousands upon
thousands of dollars per ton. The prop
erty Is located Immediately upon the |
great mineral zone which trends through
the district, and is surrounded by such
mines as the Green HIl, Williams No. 2, |
ingalls, or Buster group, Slip. Renegade
and Others, which have produced hun
dreds Of thousands Of dollars In less than
twenty-five or thirty feet OF the surface.
almost taken from the outcrop OF the |
leads, and the total output of the disc |
trict within the depth named has been |
81 500. 900
Will Erect Large Mill.
And now comes the story that the |
Green Hill Mining company proposes at
once to erect l0-stamp mill the |
Truckee river at Wcdsworth and build !
a railroad from Wadsworth as far up the |
canyon as possible toward the mines and |
then connect with n tramwaY. Most GER |
tainly the prospects of the White Horse |
district are indeed bright. for these op- |
eratons and the aggressive mining being |
advanced on other properties are sufn- |
Client to assure permanent results. The !
people of Wodsworth In five minutes sub |
scribcd $1,000 toward paying half the cost |
of grading this railroad. and as that !
amounted to only 5000. II was unanimous
ly agreed 10 spend the other 5000 In a |
wine supper.