Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
NEVADA DISTRICTS LEAD IN
HIGH VALUE
Marvel Of the Mining Industry In the
Great West-"GoId Is Where
You Find lt-News
Nuggets
Special to The Herald.

Florence and iewelry ore has been
taken out since at the rate OF SOO
pounds every two mlnutes-as fast as
the bucket could come to the top Inc
ore runs a dollar to the pound CROWDS
surround the shaft and twenty tons OF
this rich ore is under guard. A wagon
load Of this ore assayed $1O,156 to the
ton The first assays went only S20.SO
but on the 11th of the month the rock
taken out ran suddenly up to $34s2
and since that every foot has increased
in value. Three other veins have been
disclosed, but they will not be worked
until the present shaft mas Deen SUNK
100 feet farther down.
Wonder is coming to the front and
staying there with every new piece OF
ground that is opened. The Spider and
Wasp there are producing $3.50 ore and
at the bottom of the twenty-foot SHAFT
of lease No. 20, in the Dickey V
ground, a five-foot vein of solid ore
has been encountered. This lease lies
next to the original strike in the Wasp
The water pipe line is being rushed
into Wonder from Fallon and will be
completed within the week. Fully fifty
people are waiting every day at Fallon
to take the Wonder stage and as high
as 500 has been paid for W stage
ticket.
AT Manhattan the Manhattan mine
the rich ore shoot cut into three weeks
ago, and high<grade rock is now being
sacked for shipment as soon as the
roads will permit. The Tolyabe shaft
is down 125 feet and has been In ore
every foot The shaft will be sunk
seventy-f1ve feet farther before cross
cutting is commenced. A whim has
been ordered for the Timpahute and as
soon as it shall arrive the present two
shifts will be increased to three. The
shaft is down eighty feet. At fifty feet
a two-foot vein was encountered that
runs $780, Specimens on the dump at
this mine show free gold. AT the 11O-
foot level of Toquima Copper, they
have drifted for sixteen feet in ore that
carries 6 per cent copper. The Mann
moth tunnel at 605 feet broke into $50
ore and Toquima Extension is also in
good ore.
Down the State
Seven Troughs district has just re-
ceived it's first modern machinery. Sen
sational strikes are reported from
Seven Troughs Wonder and from c. w
Watts claim.
Work will be under way on the
Greenwater- Death Valley smelter with
in sixty days. The location surveys for
the railroad from Greenwater to the
smelter are being pushed rapidly,
Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate
is associated with Malcolm Mcdonald
of Tonopah in this project. There has
been a new gold strike at HnodeS
spring, Death valley
Ramsey Comstock has 1000 sacks of
$500 ore ready for shipment. The pay
streak from which the ore came shows
an average width of five feet and is
near the hanging wall of the eighty
foot ledge that has been opened up In
the mine. :,
That the whole state is mineralized
and that "gold is where they find it"
is shown by the fact that in blasting
for a pipe line from Hunter creek to
Reno. on California avenue in Reno,
streak of rock showing free gold was
found.
The Bullion district is now in the
shipping class, as the Riggs lease on
Cold Quartz sent out thirty tons OF
rock to Salt Lake that brought net
return of $4,000. Some ran $4,000 to
the ton. The Walker lease, on the
same property, is also shipping ore and
a gasoline hoist will be installed at
once The .Phenix has ordered
hoisting plant, too. as very, ricn ore is
being encountered. Several options at
good figures have been taken at this
camp within the week.
Active operations are going on at
Searchlight. The addition to the
Ouartette mill of twenty stamps Is
taken to indicate heavy production
Large ore bodies are known to have
been run into in this mine, and $4,000
a month has been the average output
The Denver Searchlight main verti-
cal shaft will be driven to 400 feet and
timbered throughout. The Jewell
group at Crescent is in 500 ore, run
ming from the grass roots. The Cres-
cent Searchlight is about to let con-
tract for sinking 100 feet on the Valley
Rose.
one of the largest copper deposits in
the west has been disclosed In the
old Douglas property near Yerington.
The deep tunnel has been advanced 300
feet and is still in good copper, much
of 1t carrying 6 per cent.
At Silver Peak the Pittsburg Silver
Peak Consolidated, composed mostly or
Pittsburg people, has force of $50
men at work on 10O-stamp mill and
many miners are blocking out the ore,
This is the old Blair estate property
and it is estimated that the company is
spending at least $1,000.000 to develop
it, The property has always been
known to be rich, but the cost OF de-
velopment has retarded operations
heretofore. The new ten-stamp mill
for the Silver Peak Valcalda is being
placed in position.
Nuggets Of News
Phoebe district. Bamberger Consolt-
dated (tife old De Lamar mine) is in
seven feet of ore that carries $S6.40
The Morrow has let q contract to sink
a SOO-foot shaft The Big Four claim
of Josephine Consolidated in the Chief
district has struck $50 rock In a three
foot vein at sixty feet down the shaft
The shaft will be driven ninety feet
more and then cross-cutting VIII begin
An eioht-foot ore shoot has been dis
closed on the Banovich.
AT Bullfrog a large body of sulphide
ore has been disclosed in the eross-cut
at the 3OO-foot level of the main shaft
in Golden Scepter. Diamond Bullfrog,
on the east side of Ladd mountain, has
struck very rich body OF ore at 4lO
feet the deepest level on the property,
Several rich strikes are reported
from Buckskin district. hoist ar
rived at Minden for Champagne NC
Cormick last week and will soon be put
in place. The mine is down eighty feet
and Is cross cutting in high-value rock
Some good strikes are OF recent date
around Winnemucca