Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1911-08-12
MOUNT GRANT DIS
TRICT LOOKING
GOOD
AN OLD DISTRICT WHICH is Of
FERlNC BIG INDUCEMENTS
TO THE PROSPEcTOR

Parties arriving III ferington from the
Mount Grant country this week give
excellent reports of the country and
them to show that the genuine stuff is
being found there.
This old district has been run over
and prospected in way for the past
forty years and innumerable strikes
have been made, many or them very
promising, but the locators have been
men without means OF their own and
unable to interest capital for develop
ment work.
That there will, eventually, be devel-
oped some valuable properties in the old
district can hardly be doubted but il
will require the expenditure of money
and the installation of mill or some
other reduction plant to handle the ore.
The district is favorably located so far as
wood and water are concerned but trans
portation facilities are not of the best as
the distance 10 railroad is between 40
aud 50 miles.
Tile strike OF few weeks ago, at the
south end OF the district, made by Mr..
Graham. is one of the best ones made.
This is at the head of Lappan Canyon
and the ledge, though small. is rich
In fact, we were shown some ore from
there this week that will easily run sew
eral thougand dollars per ton. This pay
vein is from eight to twelve inches wide,
but the ledge matter is considerably
wider and it all carries some values. The
quartz in the vein is hard. flinty and
white and shows some copper and iron
stain as we'll as an arsenical stain. Mr.
Graham pounded out $50 in gold from a
hucketful of this ore III couple of hours,
using small hand mortar He has
lease 800 feet of his ledge to Goldfeld
parties and they expect To do consider
able development work.
There is a large porphyry hill in the
range OF mountains to the east of Lap
pan Meadows and it will surprise no one
who is familiar with that section of the
country if this porphyry hill proves to be
scanned with these rich veins OF ore, one
of which the Graham strike undoubtedly
is. The meadows below this hill con
tain some excellent placer ground, and a
few years ago there was quite rush to
locate tins placer ground. Since the
Graham strike all of the country from
the hill to the meadows has been staked.
Mike Knoh has a claim next to the
Graham property which is showing a
one-foot vein OF $50 ore. 1t is a little
different in character, showing more OK
idizaiion and iron and being more de
composed. a forty-foot tunnel is in on
this vein and it is holding up in values
all the way.
Some four miles to the west and south
of the new strike r. b. Gambel has sew
eral claims which promise well. He
has done considerable work on some of
them and has ore that will mill $40 per
ton. The formation of this section is
porphyry, also.
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prospects about half mile east of the
old camp of Dumontel and joining the
old Morningstar mine, property which
was worked to some extent i'll early
days This old property now belongs to
Gambel and Harris, of san Jose. Nor
gan and Osborne have vein from four
inches to a foot wide and the ore runs
about $50 to the ton. They are driving
tunnel to tap this vein at depth OF
about 100 feet The contact is porphyry
and granite.
running a crosscut tunnel on their prop
erty, the old Webster ground, some six
miles from the new strike, southwest,
have struck their ledge and are in fine
sulphide are. This has just been accom-
plished and exactly what values there
are in the ore is not vet known. 1t is
heavy iron sulphide.
Some three miles to the west OF this
new strike is also the old Bovard prop
erty, recently sold to the Magneson peo-
pie, of San Jose, out of which some
hi gh grade ore has been taken and sew
eral mill runs of SIS to $40 ore made.
About a mile west of the new strike is
also the Hanson, Warren, Bovard Fish
property, upon which about l2o feet OF
work has been done, showing up three
foot ledge OF ore that will average lit
tie better than an ounce i'll gold to the
ton.
With all these showings it certainly
seems that some good mines ought to be
made with development work, There
is surely source from which all this
gold comes. The new strike would indi'
cate that it is the old porphyry hill. VIII,
not dig into it and see. Possibly th'
Graham vein is the main lead, but there