The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-28
WHAT RAMSEY IS DOING
News From the Mining District il
Which Carsonites are Interested

News From the Mining District in
Which Carsonites are Interested
The following notes from Ramsey
come from our regular correspondent:
The way this new camp is getting
ready for the spring campaign would
look good to the Carson people who
have stock and other interests in this
camp.
A property that will be at the front
some day as a big producer is the Old
Gavaranta mine located about three
miles southeast of town, on what IS
known as Virginia mountain. It is
not new mine, opened since the rush
here last June, but has been the scene
of operation for a number of years.
The entire mountain cOmpOses the
ledge and because of the certainty Of
obtaining values at any point along
it's vast course, the old diggings have
received yearly attention for con-
siderable time. The property can be
correctly called a big lOw-grade prop
osition. The ledge is in the neigh
borhood Of 125 feet wide and because
Of it uniformity in values presents
great possibilities in the hands OF
people financially equipped to operate
it on a large scale. From the surface
to the 60-fOot level the averages are
low, probably four Of i've dollars per
ton, gold. Below the 6OO-fOOt point
however, nothing unless than six dol
lar is uncovered and the average is
something between SIX and ten DOL
lars per tOn, gold; all free-milling ore.
The old mine has been frequently
inspected by mining experts and We
have yet to hear an adverse report
on it. All agree, however, that il IS
is a property requiring substantial
backing and that whenever the right
parties take hold Of it, Ramsey dis
trict will have a property that will
put of this state. That something o1
the kind is likely to occur is eVi
denced by a statement of Mr.. Sullivan
of Virginia City, who, as stated in {
recent issue, reports that Pittsbur&
capitalists, through a Los Angels
representative, are taking lively n
terest in the property and will likel.
makes some offers should the averas
come up to the values claimed by I'll
owners.
The advantage Of having a mine .
the dimensions OF the Gavaranta prol
erty throughly exploited, can hardl
be overestiMated. All who know any
thing of the great mines Of the wOrl
are aware that it is the big, loW-grad
producers have given the creates
amounts to the mineral wealth of uh
world. The district would prove
drawing card for investors III thl
class of property should the Gar:
yanta mine come into the hands :
capitalists, and some of the gre:
dikes on the same trend, which Wi
produce low surface values, would III
dergo similar development
The Garavanta mine as stated,
on Virginia mountain the most sout
westerly of four yellow peaks tn
protrude from Ramsey basin, al
these peaks, like the big ledges, for
a mountain chain with a northeaster
and southwesterly course and u
whole system interlaced with gre
dykes and lodges.
Since the New Comstock Compal
has put on a double shift in the tu
mel very good headway has pet
made. The mines are fast galnll
the present objective point, l5O 1e
and the underground workings d
steadily advancing into the hearI
that extraordinary dixie. In the ID
letter we called attention to its hu
dimensions and the fact that u"
owners had seen fit to name IL
Mother Lode. The more the gre
ledge is considered the more 1t seer
the proper designation has been CIV
il.
In another article descriptive OF |
old Garavanta mine attention is ca
ed to it's location on Virginia mou
ain. the most southwesterly OF 10
yellow peaks in this basin. 1
other three are named 4lamo, GO
stock and Douglass. 1t is the IL
named and also most northwestel
of the four that is the scene OF ope
ton by the New Comstock compa
on their group of claims which c.
tain the newly dubbed Mother Lo
From the Gavaranta property to
New Comstock can be seen and eas
followed this tremendous lode, VIII
breaks forth here and there in one