The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-18
COPPER OUTLOOK AT BLACK
HORSE. CLAIM is MOST
PROMISING.
SOME TUNGSTEN MINING CLAIMS
Operations On Side of Mount WASH
ingtOn Delayed Because of
Scarcity of Labor.

First Louis Smith left on the 9th
to float lot of stock in a company
he represents in the New York mar
ket. The company was organized on
Smith creek, twenty miles northeast
of Blackhorse in the same belt, the
st. Maria, that Blackhorse is located
in. How well ne may succeed re-
mains to be seen.
The best copper showing yet
made in this district is that of the
Phoenix Blackhorse claim, two miles
east of the camp. Mr.. Hart and Mr..
Kane are on the ground doing devel-
opment work. The vein is exposed for
a distance of 200 feet and is from
two to six feet in width. A tunnel is
in fifty-four feet and is high grade
ore all the way. The Blackhors
Phoenix also has three shafts, from
twenty-seven to fifty feet in depth,
showing a strong chute of ore in
each shaft from the surface to the
bottom.
On the summit above Osceola are
situated a group of ten claims owned
by j. II. Marriott, on which good
deal of development work has been
done in the way of shafts and tun-
nels. Mr.. Marriott proposes to take
out ore to be milled during the sum
mer. Adjoining the Marriott claims
is the property of G. w. Gaby and S.
A. Sabin, which have had consider
able work done on them.
j. H. Marriott has a group of
thirty claims at Tungsten, situated
on the western slope of Mount
Wheeler, whose white head goes into
the clouds for a distance of 1890
feet. Mr.. Marriott's first work on
the Tungsten group started at an ele-
walton of 5000 feet. He has owned
the property for years, and has done
"a good deal of development work.
Mr.. Marriott is pinping his faith on
the ground, and, unless all signs fail,
he will realize from his property be-
fore many months. He 81 now nego-
tiating with party to install plant
for the purpose of concentrating the
ore and get the product un the mar
ket The property is fifteen miles
south of Osceola and forty miles
from railroad shipping point at Ely.
Lake valley, distance of forty
miles south of Osceola, has several
promising locations. Mr.. Lanta is
now running tunnel to tap some
deep workings in an old claim partly
developed in an early day. The
property carries gold and silver.
About ten men are prospecting in the
district.
In Lexington district there are
twelve men working under the man
agement of e. T. Wooley of Salt
Lake. The development being done
on the group shows Improvement as
depth is attained. Mr.. Wooley
seems satisfied with his prospects,
and says that depth will show up a
valuable mine. The property was
owned for a number of years by Sim
mons e Fowler, who have simply
done enough work to hold on to the
claims.
Ten miles east of Shoshone and
thirty-two miles south of Osceola is
Mount Washington, whose summit is
$4,000 feet above sea level. On the
side of this grand old hill the st.
Lawrence company is operating, with
d. G. Cahoon at the head of the cor
poration. Ten or twelve men are
just now employed, but the mine
would be working double that num-
Der were they to be had, and, by the
way, the same condition applies to la
Dor everywhere l have visited, all
along the Snake range, for men are
hard to get, and harder to keep after
getting them, as they generally quit
their jobs after earning few dollars.
The St. Lawrence is located on the
side of Mount Washington, 10000
feet above the home of the sea gull.
The company is running tunnel
into the side of the mountain for a
distance of 500 feet, and have started
a working tunnel on the ledge. At a
distance of 400 feet from the tunnels
mouth a crosscut has been made for
forty-seven feet, without finding
either wall of the immense ledge,
which is principally lead, but carry
ing large values in silver. The main
tunnel is being driven ahead, and the
ledge crosscut at different intervals.
The values in lead are very high, run
ming up to 33 per cent, and silver
runs from forty-three ounces to sew
eral hundred ounces per ton. Just at
this particular time the camp is be-
tween HAY and grass" so to speak,
for the snow is still very deep about
the workings. 1t is the intention of
he company to drive tunnel into
the hill just below the present work.
ings for distance of half mile,
which will tap the main vein, making
a backing under the present work.
ings of at least 5000 feet, and later
on with further Development will in
crease the stopping ground at least
2,0A0 feet more, making it a mine for
years to come on the one level, and
doing away with the necessity of
sinking deeper for ore or hosting.
The tunnel when driven into the
vein, will do the work for the adjoin-
ing property, also owned by the st.
Lawrence company. 1t is also said
the ST. Lawrence people are planning
to build a branch line of railroad
from Mount Washington to Ely to
connect with theNevada Northern, a
distance of forty miles, for the trans
portation of ores from the mine to
the smelter The company is also
contemplating putting pack train
of jacks on to pack the higher grade
of ores from the mine down the
mountain side, where it can be
loaded on wagons and hauled to Ely
for shipment by rail. A. S. Will
Jams, the general manager of the
company, is now in the East to con-
suit with his board of directors
about the several projects in contem
plation.
The Omaha Mining company is de-
yeloping several properties in the va