Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1907-06-22
MAMMOTH Mine
So"eulng About Gold Property in this Distric,
that is Going to be Producer.

AhS company is organized and incOr-
porated under the laws of the State of
nevada. 1t is home incorporation and
is capitalized at 81 900, 900, divided into
l,ooo, 600 shares of the par value of 81
each. Not share of this stock as vet
has been offered for sale. nor will # he
peddled out at five and ten cents per
Stare, as is often times done to raise
funds to develop, for the reason that the
company owns 26 full claims with free
milling ore in sight in at least 20 claims
The grade of this ore varies from As to
$io0 per ton. The company intends to
put IN operation stamp mill within
the next 60 days, or sooner, if the ma
terial can be shipped. There is enough
pay ore in sight to keep the mill running
day and night continuously.
Il short description of this property
may be summed up as follows: 1t is sit
uated south of Yerington about % miles
and in the same belt as the Rockland
the Wilson, Wheeler and Pine Grove
mines, all of which are rich free milling
propositions. The altitude and climate
are ideal-plenty of wood near by with
the Walker River close at hand.
This entire group of mines is now
known and incorporated as the Cam
bridge Group. The original discovery
was made in the early SOS and consisted
of three claims along the same vein,
Cambridge, Cambridge No. and No. g.
The original locator and the man who
had the principal work done, who erect
ed the stamp mill in which all the ore of
these claims was treated, is still living
in Mason Valley.
The mill, although dilapidated and
the mortars bursted, still stands sentinel
on the banks of the Walker River one
and one-half miles from the mine. This
gentleman will tell you and show you a
goodly portion of the mint receipts, that
the claims yielded about 81 900, 600 when
worked, vet the deepest shaft on the
property is $50 feet deep. The vein
strike is north and south and 5 feet be-
tween walls, slick and hard as adaman-
tine. There is still the old track, old
car and cable and All old iron wfim on
the surface that was operated by horse
power to hoist ore Levels were run at
each 100 feet north and south on the
vein and all the ore stopped out the top.
No water was encountered and the $50
feet was deep as they could mine it with
the rude appliances employed. The ore
milled about 500 per ton South OF the
main shaft numerous leases were let and
the vein rooted out to a depth OF Is or
20 feet, all the ore being milled at the
mill described.
At these old holes the vein is still ex-
posed, showing rich milling ore. North
of the 350-foot shaft the owner started
tunnel on the vein and ran 100 feet,
milling all the ore. At the loO-foot
mark the tunnel entered an ore chute
extremely rich, Wine was then driven
down in all ore body 5 feet wide to
depth of 70 feet and drifts or levels run
each way on the vein. The ore from
this Wine and the levels was mllled and
Sl25, 900 obtained out of the ore. The
whole thing then caved in and opera
t;ons stopped. 1t remains so still to this
day and can be seen by any one taxing
the trouble to look. The 200-toot level
in the old shaft north will cut the same
ore chute within SO feet and from there
to the collar of the Wine is all virgin
ground.
To be more explicit the claims, Cam
bridge, Cambridge No. and Cambridge