The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-09
TELLS OF SHOWING
At LENINGToN-CoNCoHs

Salt Lake. May Ernest K.
Woolley has returned from the Lex
ington mining district in the Black
horse country. where he went TO see
for himself the big strike OF hisa
grade silver-copper ore in the propat'
ty of the BeXington-Concord Minins
company, of which he is president
and the largest stakeholder. - sa7
that he was pleased with what he
saw is TO family describe the size
81 his mind. He declares tha, he has
rover seen u surface showing aar
Whele thai would equal it,
Before COINS 10 camp l was under
The impression that the miners might
be unduly excited over The find, said
Mr. Wolley, and that their deserin-
tions were correspondence glowing.
.fHi | FOUND that they had moi exasee=
rated II in the least The showing
Is II least 100 per cent better han !
was prepared 10 see II there aren't
some wonderful ore bodies in thai
hill the mature has ontdone herself
in the creation Of deceptive e,fndi
lions
IN dc first place we have satisfied
ourselves thai We have true assure
in Il granitelime contact There was
some doubt about this Al the outset
owing 10 the faet that at some time
during the formative stage the pres
sure from below was so great that
while there was no overflow the moi
ais in solution were forced out into
the soft limestone. Thus giving al
broken appearance near the surface
Bur ii the depth of about twenty feel
theore WAS found in place aud Al
81 leel We have n solid wall OF The
rich rock s feel in height forming
as pretty sight rs one could wish
to see.
The ledge is about niue feet wide,
carrying fair values clear across. and
ON the hanging wall is about eighteen
inches Of the high grade stuff which
caused the miners 10 get excited. And
guess 1t would he almost a wooden
man who wouldn't sci Il little excited
upon seeing IL
The samples brought home by Mi
Woolley Justify his conclusion in this
regard The nearly equal distriha
ton OF white. black and green Over
the surface of the ore gives il an eN-
ceedingly lively appearance, aud lis
richness can be appreciated by the
novice II carries from 500 10 600
ounces of silver TO the ton and runs
high in copper,
tunnel has been started down
the hill from the find which in run
ming about 800 feet will catch The
ore at nearly 200 feet depth This
tunnel is already in 90 feet and the T
miners in their anxiety to see what T
awaits them at the end are making F
the rock fly at an almost unprcee-1
dented rate. Mr.. Woolley says thai I
as a result of The surface work done I
not less chan 1000 tons of pay ore
are already IN sight
When asked about the report thai
a powerful eastern interest had taken
an option ON the control of the Lex
ington-C Concord, Mr. Woolley looked
pleasant and remarked that the prop
erty was looking fine, mcreTy adding
that he was not In position to discuss T
the subject Just raised.
Fred Schrott, who is looking after
the development work ON the prop T
erty, came i'll with his chief, but Will
return to the camp in a few days. He T
is even more enthusiastic than ever I
over the outlook The Lexington T
Concord strike has caused not a little E
excitement in that region, he says,
and the country is being located for
twenty miles around.