Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-29
DOWN THE LINE
IN MINING CAMPS
HUNDREDS OF MINERS AT
WORK IN WONDER SECTION
A. D. Myers Makes Purchase Of Ten-
derfoot Group In Mlzpah District.
No More Combination Frac-
ton Leases
Special to The Herald.

GOLDFIELD, New, April 2S.-The re-
port Is current that A. D. Myers, the
wealthy Goldfeld operator, has COM
pleted the purchase of the Tenderfoot
group of claims in the Mizpah district,
eighty miles south Of Ely, New. The
property was secured from Long, Helm
and Shute through r. d. MacLean. It
is now the intention to organize the
Mizpah Gold and Copper company to
operate the ground and the statement
is made that contract will be awarded
at once for the sinking Of 150-foot
shaft to develop one of the most prom
inent lodges. Camp operators are re-
joicing at the entry into the district of
Mr.. Myers, as he has the reputation of
doing things and doing them on
broad gauge scale.
Sensatonally rich copper ore has been
encountered in the Zack shaft workings
of the Ely Consolidated at Ely. At
depth of 376 feet the ore carried 26S
per cent copper, $1.20 in gold and SO
ounces silver. Two feet deeper the sam
pies gave returns of 35.8 per cent cop
per, 2.6 ounces silver and 40c in gold.
The Seven Troughs Eclipse company
has encountered its first vein at point
As feet from the mouth of the tunnel.
The ore shows good paintings and the
company has two shifts working hard
to reach the richest vein on the prop
erty which it is thought will be done
within two weeks time.
Work on the Ophir property in the
state line district twelve miles from
Modena, will be resumed on May /. A
crew of twenty men is now getting
things in readiness about the prop
erty to start active operations in earn
est
In Phoebe July q
Deal Brothers e. Mendenha1l, who
have the contract for constructing the
Phoebe G. Caliente railroad, have as
sured the people Of Phoebe that they
can plan for a railroad day" cele-
bration on July 4. The materials are
all on the ground and work will be
started this week.
The Blair Press states that strike
of good gold ore was made last week
in the neighborhood of Coyote Springs.
Ubehebe district, situated about thir-
ty-five miles east Of Keeler and forty
five miles southeast of Montana station,
gives promise of being an excellent
copper producing camp. The mines in
that section at the present time can
nhip a trainload of fair copper ore
every day, and the output is not being
crowded. Mr.. Brock of the Tonopah &
Goldfield railroad has corps of sur
N6yOTS surveying dllu
feasible route from Montana station
and are at present nine miles from
Montana station.
The State Line in the Echo-Lee dis
trict is improving with depth, and in
the 57-foot level the vein has widened
to nine feet A shipment of twenty-five
tons will be made this week, which
will average about 5000 to the ton.
In the Nevada Fairview mine at Fair
view the tunnelis now in 2S5 feet and
has followed the ledge in ore for over
200 feet. The winze in this tunnel is
now down As feet, with about feet
of ore showing. This is of a high
grade and is being taken out and
placed on the dump. The winze will be
dropped probably so feet more, and then
drifts will be started in both directions.
This will afford a great deal of stopping
ground, and it is expected that suff1-
cient ore will be blocked out here to
allow of regular shipments. In fact,
shipments could commence at once, as
the ore is of sufficient grade to make
this possible, and there is a great deal
of 1t on the dumps.
No More Leases
1t has been given out by the owners
of the Combination Fraction mine that
no more leases will be given on the
property after the four now operating
nave 6AplTeQ.
For something like $25O,O0O Thomas
Lockhart has sold his interest in the
st. Ives mine to Claude Smith, John
Erickson and other Goldfield investors.
The Codd lease has some fine ore on
this property.
Some industrious statistician has
figured out the amount of development
in sixty-five Manhattan mines and
prospects to date at approximately 35.-
900 feet which is six and two-thirds
miles total, an average OF 5S81A feet to
the mine or prospect.
A carload of machinery, consisting of
a hoist, gallows frame, buckets, cars
and tracking has been received at the
Gold Crater group in Manhattan dis
trct. This property adjoins the Stray
Dog.
Ida district is becoming we'll known
as copper camp. Its supporters some
few months since claimed that it was
to be a second Virginia City, but recent
developments have changed their
claims. The red metal is being found in
nIx.. 10,