The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-23
RICH STRIKE IN
THE TOMAHAWK
Tunnel Opens Up Eighteen
Inches of Sensational Ore
and Lots of Low Grade.

The directors and chief shareholders
in the Tomahawk-N Nevada Mining COM
pany are going TO hold a meeting this
evening TO listen TO a report from II.
Nj. Eakin, president and general man
ager of the companys properties in the
Bellehellen district, about forty miles
due east of Tonopah. That this report
is going TO be an interesting one is in
Gicated in the large batch of samples
OF ore from the mine that he has
brought in with him and which, judg-
ing from the assays exhibited at the
cOmpany's offices yesterday, will be
proof enough to those who have been
putting their money into the PROPOSE
ton since last year that they have
found a mine worth while.
First. Manager Eakin put down a
shaft in the great ledge that runs
through the cOmpany's ground at a
point where some exceedingly rich sill
yer ore was taken out. After prospect
ing the ledge for long distance, it was
finally determined to run a tunnel from
gulch that gave considerable depth.
This tunnel. after being driven 300 feet,
cut the ledge at a point 500 feet from
the shaft and drifting toward the lat
ter was commenced. More or less ore
has been encountered in driving along
far covered, and the last eight or ten
feet previous to the departure of Man
ager Eakin for this city has made such
a showing that he could not resist the
temptation to come home and tell about
it. For ten feet or more he has had
inches of ore on the hanging
wall side of the drift that carries values
in silver that border on the sensational
-Four general samples of this ore, taken
since it made its appearance, have
been assayed and found to run 1925
ounces, 213 ounces, 3,343 ounces and
1925 ounces silver, respectively, with
one of them showing a little gold. The
entire face of this drift is in ore and
ledge matter that is not bad stuff after
the eighteen-inch streak on
the hanging wall side. Six assays OF
this material, every one of which came
from samples that Manager Eakin took
with a set purpose of getting a fair av-
erage, gave returns running from 1915
ounces TO 285.25 ounces silver per ton,
while a sample that was calculated to
represent all of the stuff thus far en-
cOuntered since the high-grade streak
came in, and which was tried out by
local assayeTs yesterday, gave returns
of something over eighty-fiye ounces
silver per ton.
Every foot that is made in the ledge
in the direction of the shaft workings,
still over 500 feet distant from the face,
and where depth will be gained with
every foOt's advancement. is expected
TO make d better showing, as ii is be-
lieved the shaft was put down where
the richest part of the lode existed.
Manager Eakin reports that an adj
joining property TO the TomahaWk, the
GaZabO group. has just been sold by
NJ. S. Brannick and +. J. Sweet to 4.
T. COrnforth and associates of Denver
for 5000 He says there is a fine
on that property, also, and he
the opinion that there will be
a scramble to secure properties in the
old Bellehellen district from. now on.
P A. Sorenson, the furniture man,
Tony Jacobson and other prominent
Salt Lake operators, together with
some of Tintic's live ones, are inter
ested in the Tomahawk quite heavily
as is also J. Z. Darmer, the secretary
and treasurer of the company.