The San Francisco call., 1908-11-02

The Humboldt Star says that many
properties are developing in the new
Florence district.
At the Nevada Fay mining company work on
the No. tunnel has been going forward and
they, have Just encountered the ledge. AS soon
as they cut through the ledge they will drift on
the ore Mr.. Gromley arrived In camp and
wnt up to the Buckaroo. In the last few days
they have cleaned out the shaft at the mouth
OF the long tunnel and now engaged in
trenching on the same ledge but farther to the
north. Manager Skinner is getting everything at
the camp in good shape for work all winter The
wilson q Bowlan group. known as the Wasp
Nest, Is showing up we'll Assays from this
group have shown values ranging from $40 up in
gold values. The ledge has been traced for a
long distance on the surface Johnson & Stone
feidt have some ore that went $50 to the ton
IN gold. Bishops mill is pounding away on ore
tnat has come down to the plant from the
Bishop ground. For some time this proposi-
tion has been looking better from week to
week Dan Roseberry has fine showing Work
Will go ON in this camp all winter. There is a
there was at the same time last year. All the
work done in the last eight months has shown
every prospect much better.
According to the Manhattan Mail
eight feet of s24 ore was discovered
lease. Since then, in winze' the ore
body has been found to be from five
to six feet wide, averaging $40 in the
winzs: Better ore has been found on
the Sherman property, where eight men
are working Rich ore has been dis
covered in the Train, Mcnamara and
stevenson lease in the Meyer company's $
ground on Litigation hill.
The south drift caught the ore shoot when 70
feet from the shaft and Is showing a width
Of 20 feet and the face has two feet OF ore that
VII WI average 5000 to the ton. The ore shoot was
~ feet wide on the surface. Thirty tons Of orc
that Will average 500 ton now on the DUNN
and 60 sacks Of the high grade in the Nye
County bank.
The holdings of the Home leasing con,narv -,
Manhattan viii be transferred to the Manhattan
mining and Development, corporation backed
by w. s. yoorsanger and associates Of San
Francisco. The Home leasing comnanv Of San
Francisco. determined to prosecute deep mining
had secured block of ground on Union 9 and
been perfected than outside parties began making
negotiations to take over the ground, the result
peing tnat II is to be turned over to Mr.. voor-
sanger ana his associates
The Mountain View and Granite. ac
cordfng to the Yerington Times. are
producing camps Particularizing. the
Times says:
The Wilson gold mines companv ha. star+.d +.
winze from the main adit tunnel under the stope
100 feet from the surface and IT'S feet from
the mouth OF the tunnel. The winze has fhe
last week been sunk Is feet down between the
walls OF the ledge. following an open ds~re
ABOUT IL Inches wide which terminated In
cnamber OF unknown length and over SIX feet
wide. filed to an unknown depth with soft DO
milled at Nordyke.
the last run amounted to $40 per ton, and the
returns from the same showed a bullion yaIue to
the gold from the Mountain View mines to be
$3.50 per ounce. The amount remaining In
tailings awaiting extraction By cyanide process
is approximately $40 per ton showing an spprox-
innate mill value of the as broken from the
mine to be $40 per ton
In the window of the local bank last week
were three slugs Of retorted bullion representing
SO, 900, that from a place only 12 miles
from Yerington from mine owned by Yerington
people.
Great interest is shown in the new leases on
the Big Four ground, lately consolidated by
Beach, Beatty, George Wilson and John Nc
Gowan- This ground somewhat in conflict
and so remained practically unprospected until
settlement OF the disputes by consolidation was
effected last summer, when leasers Immediately
went to work on the ground and are now pro-
ducing good ore In place they have four
feet OF ore which they expect to have miiIed at
Schurz In the new Ranker-Truett mill there
Mrs. Mingle. who bought the Brown FfnIayson
lease on the Big 20 at Granite. has a large lot
OF ore screened and ready for shipment to
Schurz. ~
The other leases on the Big 20 are all working
on ore OF varying grade
The Big Cross tunnel the Golden Apa rround
In Granite Is being pressed ahead with rrest
vigor by Emerson. Vaughn and Others and n is
expected will cut the ledge about the 1sf of
November at an estimated sdepth OF 25O feet
The length OF the bore will be about 42o feef
1t Is now $50 feet.