Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-08-20
Queen Regent Ledge
lsGainiing In Width
The Values Are Also Increas-
ing With Depth
Work Is Being Pushed

Again Mineral county comes to the front with
big strike made Is miles east of Schurz on the
property Of the Queen Regent Merger Mines
I company. The strike is of such Importance as
Z to Indicate that a new and important camp will
+ be opened.
At depth of 24O feet the entire width of the,
shaft was in ore and at go feet where an in
: elinewas started to follow the ledge, the ore is
fully IL feet wide During the past few weeks
the shaft has been sunk at the rate of II to II
. feet per week with one shift of men, indicating
that very good progress is being made. The
shaft is now over 800 feet and the ledge has very
materially widened and is now about II feet
WIDE while the class and character of the ore has
materially improved; assays showing all the
way from $1.73 to $133.
!. The Operations of this company have been
watched with a great deal of interest, owing to
the fact that they have quietly and persistently
carried on development work under very trying
7 conditions. In sinking the main shaft an enor-
nous iron dyke was encountered which proved
to be almost 100 feet thick, and sinking through
this iron was slow and expensive; in fact, it has
been stated that it was little like drilling
through an anvil. But at 220 feet quartz strin-
gers began to show and much more rapid prog
ress was made At 230 feet three feet of quartz
+ was showing in the shaft and at $50 feet as stat
J ed above, the ledge was fully II feet wide. -.
Through the property runs a great hematite
contact fissure showing at the surface hematitf
! iron deposits carrying apprecable values in goR
and copper. If transportation facilities 5weHe
available; it is stated that this iron alone would
fully finance all Development work After pass
ing through the iron the ore was found to lie I'M;
mediatelE beneath and from the $50 level the
shaft is carried on las an incline at an angle Of
As degrees and all sinking is done in solid pre-
This important discovery has attracted thu at !
tention d capital to such an extent that the tonl-
pany is Banning to very materially increase the
working force and will put on at least two shifts
of men in sinking the main shaft. At the rate
they are going, they will be able to make from
120 to 100 feet per month 1t is intended that
sinking operations shall be carried steadily for
ward and that drifts will be started bOtl ways
from the shaft on the 800 level; also on fhe 400
when that level is reached, and block OUT ore
s to put the mine in position for early production.
The ore is free milling but plans for REDUCTION
works will not be determined until the Shaft has
reached a depth of 600 or 700 feet in order to
fully determine the kind of plant necessary for
the reduction of the ore.
There is no doubt but that there ire many
properties in Mineral county that wouh develop
into bigpaying proposition if machinery equip
ment we're installed and systematic Development
carried forward to reach depth. AS The mining
situation is improving and money becoming
more readily available for the development of
good properties, we believe important strikes
will be made in Mineral county thai will event
ually make it second to none in theStatc of Ne
vada.
The above article, which recently appeared in the
Western Navada Miner, published at Min, Mineral Coun-
IT, Nevada be Of great interest olocal people and
especially gratifying to those who purhased shares Of
this company w
dollars in dividends every year. Thsis especially true
of the great camps Of Tonopah and oIdfield
Judqinq from the best nformatoa obtainabe, the
purchase Of QUEEN REGENT MERCER MINES CON-
PANYs stock for I've cents per shae at this time will
probably result in good profits to tie purchaser, not
only by value of the stock but also by
dividends
Great profits have been made mining by those
who bought m the beeinningat 10" price, and
in comparatively short time foun their shares SELL
ina at many dollars per share Such advances nave
laid the foundation Of many a substantial fortune
Shares of this company be secured from