The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-04
PROPERTY OF
NORTH BELLE
PROMISING

William Douglas, James McQuil-
Ian, Thomas Kendall and Jack Hall
who returned Thursday by way of
Manhattan from a trip to Grantsvllle,
Berlin, Union canyon and lone, has
much to say regarding what they
had seen, says the TOnopah Sun.
81 never had such a trip in my
life," said Jack Hall to a Sun report
er. Yesterday. 1--WE had a splendid
trip and saw some splendid ground.
The property of the North Belle Gold
Mining company, between Union cam
Won and Berlin, in which am inter-
ested, looked particularly good to me.
We have fourteen lodges there, with
nav ore right from the surface. 1t
fact we have so much that one COM
pany could not develop it all at once,
and we have decided to follow Jim
McQuillan's suggestion and let leases.
The leasers could start taking right
from the sage roots down.
II. A. Jewell and myself acquired
the property year ago from Theo-
dore Cirac, and we believe we have a
big thing. Old man Cirac for many
wears worked one of the lodges on the
old North Belle in a primitive man
ner, and milled 700 tons of ore which
netted him $3.50 to the ton. There
is a shaft down on the ledge which is
two and one-half feet wide, to
depth of 10 feet, and we have got
tunnel in 100 feet, which ought to
tap the ledge in another forty feet
and will give us 200 feet of backs. AS
says have been obtained from this
ore running as high as $4,000.
And there is another ledge, too,
on the North Belle. which can only
be described as a whale. 1t is from
three and one-half to five feet across
on the surface and return assays give
3 per cent copper, and where cut by
a tunnel at a depth of 200 feet, 1T
gives assays of 81 per cent copper all
the way across. On the Cat TAN
claim 3O-foot ledge of free milling
ore outcropped for 1900 feet 1t
goes $50 to the ton
Here Mr. Hall showed the Sun
man some specimens from the ledge.
1t is regular mother lode Wh1te
quartz, dotted profusely with free
gold, and needs no glass to show the
rich stuff. This claim has been pros
pected by open cuts, as also has the
Over TOP, where there is ledge OF
over six feet across that averages ~
per cent copper. There is splendid
copper showing, too, on the Allce,
where a shaft is down thirty feet on
five feet of gray copper, the value OF
which is brought up by gold and Sill
yer to between $50 and $500.
The company intends to grant fif-
teen leases on the Alice and thirty
five on the rest of the property Al
ready a strong syndicate has put men
to work on the Over Top on a lease
that has been christened the old
Timers lease.
Sinking has been started on a
ledge that is broadening rapidly and
at depth of eight feet the pay
streak is fifteen inches across and aV-
erages $50 feet in gold, silver and
lead. The shaft will he sunk to the
1OO-foot level and then drifting and
stoping will be started.
The copper ore from the four-foot
ledge on the North Belle and from
the six-foot ledge on the Over Top
will be hauled in a crude state from
the mine to Austin, and from there
will be shipped to the smelter, while
the ore from the other ledges will be
treated in the old Berlin mill by plat
ing and concentration, and the pro-
duct sent out also by way OF AUSTIN.
Austin is 54 miles from Berlin, but
very favorable terms have been OBJ
tanned from the haulers, which will
amount to about SO per ton. 1t is
a farming country, and the freighters
are only too glad to get any freight
at all on the return trip to Austin.