Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1912-11-30
HONEST ENDEAvoR, REPORT.
Engineer Hoyle Thinks Property Has
Making of Big One.


several weeks in this district and re
Gently returned to Denver, has issued
the following report on the Honest
Endeavor property;
Denver, Col, Nov 10, 1912.
To the Directors of the Honest En-
deavor Mining Co., Denver, Col
structions, | have carefully examined
the property of the Honest Endeavor
Mining Company, situated near Lud-
wig, Lyon county, Nevada, and re-
spectfully submit the following re-
port:
Location.
The property OF the Honest En-
deavor Mining Company is situated
one and one-half miles north of Lud-
wig station, and town of Ludwig,
the present terminus of the Nevada
Copper Belt railroad.
The property is situated in Section
%, Township North, Range "a East,
NJ. d. B. & NJ, Lyon county, Nevada
Via the Mickey Pass wagon road
the property is 6 miles west of the
town OF Yerington, the county seat
of Lyon county.
The main wagon road over the pass
crosses directly over the property and
about 800 feet distant, from what in
this report is termed the Union Blue
workings.
The property of this company is in
the heart of the copper belt of Lyon
county and is what is known as the
Yerington Copper District, section
undoubtedly destined to become one
of the great hig grade copper districts
of the United States.
To the south are situated the prop
critics of the Nevada-Douglas Copper
Company. the Ludwig and Nevada
Douglas to the south and east, the
Bluestone and the Mason Valley, the
Mcconnell and Malachite, to the
north the Albany Copper Company.
to the west the Kennedy Consoli-
dated. Some of the properties less de-
veloped and in close proximity are the
Sunset, the Nevada Denver Copper
Company, the Nevada Queen, the
Randall and Kaufman groups.
Property.
The property consists of II claims,
grouped together and known as the
following Vetta, Louis, Gold Brick,
Union Blue, No. |, Havana, Porto
Rico, Columbia, Woodchuck No. 4,
and Contact Fraction the same cover
ing approximately 200 acres OF mineral
ground.
The machinery and equipment own
ed by the company has just been put
in place on the Onion Blue shaft,
located on the Union Blue claim, and
consists of one White IS H. P. gaso-
line enginne and cable, one Champion
power blower, track rail, ore car, ore
buckets, steel signal bell, tools black
smith forge, etc, and head frame car
rying rock bin, and automatic dump
ing arrangements for handling rock
and ore.
ri the workings on the north por
ton OF the property known as the
Honest Endeavor workings and 10
Gated on the Sunset claim there is one
cabin and head frame at shaft.
Formation.
The formation of the area covered
by the property OF the Honest En-
deavor Mining Company, is the same
as prevails in other portions OF the
district around Ludwig-porphyry
diorite and granite, with extensive
lime groupings. The porphyry is
prominent and no doubt is an import
ant element in the naturalization OF
both the assure and contact veins OF
this district
The veins are traceable in many
cases by the out-croppings and weir
matter IN evidence upon the surface
and, in some instances the veins are
very large; the assure veins have beer
proven to be from 80 to 100 fee, il
width and the contact veins have beer
proven to even greater width than the
above, in this district.
Development.
The development near the norther
Iy end of the property on the Golden
Sunset claim, and known as the Hon
est Endeavor workings, consists o
approximately 800 feet OF sinking ant
drifting.
Where the ore occurs in the above
workings, it is of good grade and sew,
eral tons of ore have been sacked for
shipment.
AT the point where the last work
was done the vein is we'll defined and
occasional punches of ore of goot
grade are encountered. The grade O