The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-06-27
OLD NINE IS
BEING RENORKED
Dick Colburn and His Partners Make
an Old Shipper
Pay.

Dick Colburn is back from trip
to the Bullion district in Lander
county and Salt Lake, and is
enthusiastic over the conditions in
Lander Mining company's property.
He exhibited samples of the ore to
friends in Salt Lake and has started
a stampede of the money bags into
that country.
I'VE have made no attempt to
Slope ore," said Mr.. Colburn, land
have only shipped the product of the
incline shaft, except in one place
where small chamber of high-grade
galena was encountered. We nave
one man working in ore on the 15O-
foot level of the incline shaft and he
is filling twenty-five sacks a SHIFT
with the best product of the mine.
The ledge on which we are working
is perfectly defined, with clean walls
of lime, and has been opened and
mined for a distance of LOO feet
on its course.
Superintendent Lakin writes me
that since | left the Cunningham
lease has struck high-grade 400 east
of us, in hitherto undeveloped part
of our g.ound on the Montana claim,
at a depth of thirty-two feet, and is
sacking. The mine has paid its own
and we have had installed gasoline
hoist from the proceeds of ore sales.
We are going to continue the shaft
until we reach contact with dyke
of quartzite, and then we expect to
find a tremendous deposit of ore The
bottom of the shaft, 165 feet from
the collar has four feet of ore now.
1t has been increasing in size for sew
eral feet, with every indication that
the vein is going to make into a
chamber of ore of considerable size.
Above us, on the side of the hill
is a parallel vein on which the Riddle
lease is sacking a fine grade of ore
right on the surface. The leasers
have cleaned out an old winZe which
was sunk to a depth of fifty feet be-
low a shallow tunnel and found in
the bottom three feet of good ship
ping ore. They will sink 200 feet
following the ore down. From the
150-foot level of the incline shaft We
have started a crosscut which viii
undercut these workings at deptf
of 400 feet. We have this crosscu
in 100 feet and figure that we have
about $50 feet to go. We cut {
blind ledge in the crosscut and drift
ed on it a short distance, and it wild
ened out to four feet of ore. | be
lieve we have a splendid mine in thu
Lander, and we are using all thu
men we can get to open it up"
Part of Colburn's mission to Sal
Lake was to look after trial ship
ment from one of the old dumps
which the former owners attempted
to ship years ago, but were unable
to get satisfactory results. The or,
netted $40 a ton, a trifle over 500
for the carload. The dump, accord
ing to these returns, contains abou
$4,000 worth of ore, and the com
pany will market it along with tn
high-grade from the mine. The ore
of the district are very desirable a
fiuXing ores and are treated gratis b
the smelters. The company keep
its own teams on its own ranch an
hauls the ore to the main wagon roa
where freighters take it to the rail
road for Sc ton.
Adjoining the Lander, Colburl
and his associates, among whom ar
several Goldfield operators, have an
other group of claims which are In
corporated as the Grand Prize. TIL
Lander ore channel, as we'll as
north and south lead, cross thi
ground and the company will star
work near their probable junction o.
the Red Top claim.-Goldfiel
Chronicle.