Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-07-04
'HORNSILVER ADDS
MORE SHIPPERS

should add three or four shippers to
the Hornsilver District. Several
leases have reached or are to close to
the levels on which crosscutting and
drifting win be done to reach the ore
shoots opened on the surface. when
production VIII commence.
The Jordan lease is in shipping ore
in the shaft, at depth of less than
fifty feet from the surface. This lease
is on the Deyling claim Of the Silver
King Mining Company, Block 3. OnI
Blocks and Judge Dean will
crosscut within few days to cut a
shoot of ore which, on the surface,
contained six inches of very rich rock.
a Adjoining the Deane ground on the
east the Hornsilver Leasing and Mn
#ing Syndicate has installed within
and resumed sinking Thursday. The
shaft is 80 feet deep and prosecuting
will start from the 10O-foot level,
with four veins to cut, all of which
show shipping values on the surface.
The vein through which thes shaft
was sunk IS rs feet between walls.
and in sinking boulders of ore wortl
700 ton were taken out and piled
Con the dump. Thirty days will take
ithe 100-foot level into the nearest ii
these shoots, and the company vii:
then start stopping.
On the Frisbie lease on the Rel
Top claim Of the Silver King the
shaft cut two feet of vein at a depth
of rs feet, of which eight inches ie
alive with hornsilver. Mr.. Frisbie
has ample capital for development
purposes. and will continue the shaft
to depth Of 200 feet. W
The company shaft on the Silve-
King is down 100 feet. with a stl-
tioR cut and drifts will now be hun to
and through the BIG vein through
which the shaft passed for forty feet,
and also to the south to meet the
gold vein. dipping toward the shaft.
Samples from the lump of an, ola
shaft on this vein gave returns of $40
in gold. It is conceded that the ST.
yer King or some of its leasers will
be the next shipper of the camp. Cap
tain Hassell, of the Hornsilver Syndi-
cate lease, would like that distinction
4 and Superintendent Boyle is doing
lAll In his power to make it possible.
He promises to have the shaft fin
ished to a depth of 10 feet and
crosscuts started within ten days. It
will take twenty days longer to reach
the ore.
The Smith-C Champion lease on the
Hornsilver company's ground will
make the race with the Syndicate
and has some advantage, as crosscut-
ting was started from the 75-foot
level and the face is within few
feet of where the ore ought to be
The Hornsilver company shaft is also
a rival, or would be If it were leas-
ing proposition, having crosscut III
toward the south vein distance 81
forty feet. This is the same vein tina:
Smith and Champion are driving for
and shows rich ore wherever II 4
opened on the surface. There arr
two other veins on the north, one II
which the shaft was sunk and ths
third the vein from which the orig
inal owners shipped a car of ore tina;
Melted 1917 ton from an oper
trench.
On the west end of the HornsilveI
company's domain Fowiie and Hill
and Giffoy and May are sinking {;
compartment shaft on the dividing
line between their lease On Wednes
day stringer Of quartz came In OF
the foot wall which shows colors
Above the shaft tunnel has beer
driven into the vein for 125 feet
opening un shipping ore. On bott
sides of the shaft stringers of ricl
silver ore have been opened on tn:
surface.
The Great Western has opened II.
two immense bodies of ore of fin
milling grade in developing the min'
on the 100 and 200 levels, and tn,
company will endeavor to get thing
In shape to mill this ore. 1t is prob
able that custom mill can be founs
which can treat the ore until the com
pany can pipe water into camp am
install it's own plant.
The veins in the Great Western ar
from twenty-five to forty feet thick
aud nearly all of the vein filling ca
ries values ranging from $40 to 81
per ton, exclusive of the shoots Q
high grade that are now being mined
On the 10O-foot level there Is on
shoot of ore. east o. the shaft. IL
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