The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1908-04-30

FA|RV|EW
PROPERTY
James E. Hicks Secures Lease
on Cansado Fraction of
Dromedary Hump
Per Cent of Gold Values Is
on Increase in Nevada
Hills Mine

James L. Hicks, manager and one of
the principal owners of the Fairview
Telephone and Telegraph Company, has
been in Reno for several days negotiat-
ing tor lease on the Dromedary Hump
mine at Fairview. The company has
granted him a lease on Cansado Frac-
ton, including six months lsase on
the hoisting plant which occupies this
block OF ground. Mr.. Hicks has ar
ranged for all the necessary financial
backing, and will start al once with two
shifts to continue the shaft TO the 250-
foot level, where he will crosscut the
ledge This will make three active leas-
ing companies who are operating on this
ground, and the company is arranging
TO let still another lease on one of the
reserved blocks,
Mr.. Hicks says he expects TO see more
activity in Fairview within the next few
months than ever before. some OF the
companies having declared that they
will resume operations st once. In ad
dition to this several leasefs are to start
work on other properties,
Regular shipments are still being
made from the Nevada Hills. On Sat-
nrday OF last week four teams went out
with ore, and on Monday two more.
W II. Webber, manager and one Of the
largest stockholders, says the mine con-
tiuues to improve with each weeks de-
v pnent, and that the character of
IRE encountered recently in their lever
workings not only improves in values,
hut indicates permanency and great
bodies Of ore al depth. The gold values.
he says, have increased from so to 70
per cent of The assay value of tire ore.
ss compared to 25 per cent gold, The rect
silver, when the mine was first opened
mp.
There is much TO say of the Nevada
Crown IN regard TO the values unrov-
iuiure prospects. This property IL one
If the largest in the Fairyiew district,
covering 33i acres. II Is situated on a
c ntinuation OF what Is known as the
Snyder dyke, about seven miles south
of Fairview. The main vein shows re-
markably good surface values. II is
really network of veins having pro-
nounced trend with bold and prominent
croppings, at many places varying from
FIVE to twenty feet wide, through four
locations. covering a distance of 5000
feet, with strike northeast and SOUTH
west and dip to the east. This group
was located by Sampson Bios. and Wal
ker, and from their prospect shaft,
which was sunk to depth OF As feet,
samples we're taken ssssying from tls
10 $500 a ton. lOn the foot wall a streak
was uncovered which panned free gold
and assayed up into the picture values.
Float has been found on the surface
going 1900 and better ton.
The company has started working
shaft near the prospect shaft and bs.
sunk to depth OF eighty-five feet, the
val tes improving with depth. A hois'
has been installed at this point. Sine,
the highest gold values found In tn,
Fairview district were taken out of tn,
prosI ect shalt there is every indication
that this property will become one of til,
richest in the district.
Work on the lease of the Golde,
Boulder, which property adjoins tn,
Dromedary Hump, was started iev
! dayr ago by Charles Huber and associ
ates. This lease will be watched Will
interest by the people of Fairview, sine,
the discovery of q good ledge on thi
ground will give an impetus to develop
ment on neighboring properties.
The lease OF Ben Chandoin on tn
Mizpsh is showing up better with ever,
shift, and the values in the strike mad
week ago Monday are increasing. /
is the opinion that large body OF higl
grade will be opened up on the Mizpal
within short time.