Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-22

NO. are only scratched Parallel with
this vein is one known as the Uncle Sam.
This vein is only IL inches on the sur
face, but widens out to IL feet at the
bottom of the shaft, us deep. A drift
north at the bottom of the shaft extends
80 feet and south rs feet; no stopping is
done. The ore, or the greater part, was
milled and yilded $50 per ton. There are
still about so tons of ore left on the
dump for the reason that the mill was
bursted and no other place to mill it.
Among this lot of ore can be found many
specimens of free gold, also in the drifts.
Vein No. of this group, as we'll as the
balance of the 26 claims are locations
made by the present owners at stated
times for the past five years. No. is
an east and west vein and is about S
feet wide; it runs from the fiat up the
hill and crosses the Cambridge about so
feet south of the 350-foot shaft. There
are shallow openings on this vein at
various places as it climbs the hill. The
hight of the hill from the fiat is about
400 feet to the Cambridge. The owners
started a crosscut tunnel to cut this vein
a distance of 1000 feet from the Cam
bridge. They calculated this tunnel
would cut this No. vein within 70 feet
The tunnel is now in 70 feet and is prob
ably within 10 feet of the vein. When
cut the vein can be followed, and it will
run under all the old workings of the
Cambridge at least 100 feet and will tap
the rich ore chutes of that vein. This
! No. vein horns we'll from surface open
ings at least $40 per ton. This vein
alone if stopped out from the tunnel to
the surface for 1000 feet in length to
the Cambridge will yield at IS per ton
S275, 900, gross. At the entrance of the
| 70-foot tunnel is the place for mill as
Is of the 26 claims can be worked
through this No. and the ore delivered
at its entrance to the mill
Without entering into detail of each
and every vein, suffice it to say that each
one has pay ore in sight. Rich rock
from these veins showing large amounts
of free gold and running into the thous-
ands has been exhibited at this Office,
mention of which was made in our last
issue, while from some of these veins we
have seen assays, said to be average
rock, that ran into the hundreds
But there are two more of these later
locations that deserve special notice,
! one of these, its width is not yet known.
| The owners have cut across this vein "a
| feet and have not reached the hanging
wall Owen Roberts, a practical mine
operator, recently visited this vein and
made a careful sampling of it across the
cut, and after reducing it in the usual
way, sent it to Cripple Creek for assay
The certificate showed 1913 in gold. This
vein alone will yield enough ore to run
so stamps. Along side of it and parallel
is 3-foot vein of copper stained quartz
which was also sampled and showed S63
value and there are three others having
shafts IT'S, 70 and $50 feet deep, showing
good bodies of high grade milling ore.
Those who read this article may see at
once that this country has gold as well
as copper, and the facts herein stated
are easily verified by seeing the prop
erty. 1t may be asked why this property
has lain idle so long. Why did the Will
son mine, near the Cambridge, lay idle
for years and at no greater depth than
800 feet, and until recently, after yield
ing IS, 900, 900?
These old and new properties around
them will now come to the front
Watch them.