Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-10-29

Engineer Spur, of the Tonopah Min
ing company, spent several hours in
camp yesterday afternoon inspecting
many of the principal leasers work.
ings.
Parker, Hyland, Moore & Rosey,
operating the Colorado lease, struck
some very good ore at % feet when
they opened up IL to IA inches >of
ore that yields long and satisfying
string of colors 1t is soft tale
and quartz vein matter carrying
many colors in the brown hematite
and the free gold is fairly we'll dis
tributed through the most of it, An
assay on five inches of the ore, made
a few days ago, before it widened to
above stated width, run $3.50. They
are down rs feet and the present
showing in the shaft is considered
almost equal to any in camp.
On the Little Pete claim No. of
the Shipway-Weneyken estate in the
southeast section of Tonogold, Nc
Nally Mullen & Kelly are down 16
feet in their incline shaft and have
opened up three feet of quite solid
brecciated quartz that is literally
stained with oxide of iron. Several
assays made from samples picked at
random from various portions of the
vein return values as follows: Sam.
plea No. 1, $65 in gold, $2.35 silver;
No. 2, $42.35. According to the pan
nings it is belieed the entire three
feet will run $25 or better per ton
AS no prosecuting has been done, IL
cannot be stated how wide the vein
is at present depth. The owners are
well pleased with what is in sight
and feel confident of opening up
something that will make noise
Holmquist & Almquist Lease No.
on the original find of the camp on
Shipway & Wyneken group have
three feet of conglomerate that is
panning a fair amount of colors al
% feet from collar of shaft. They
are placing smithy near shaft and
getting ready for an extended winter
campaign of development.
w. H. Spencer made another dis
covery of ore Tuesday noon, making
five separate veins that he has found
to date. The latest lies midway be
tween his S0-foot incline shaft ant
a 10-foot hole 80 feet west of the
incline. He claims 10 inches Of ore
right at grass roots pans values a
approximately $50 a ton. 1t is {
tale quartz formation and looks
promising.
4 The Epstine Regan lease reached
so foot depth last Sunday and cross
cuts both east and west are beinl
4 driven to prospect the formation
The rock now being explored is {
heavily iron-stained porphry that il
considered very good indication o
mineral vein close in.
Excellent Roadway is being mad
on. the May lease. which reached tn
50-foot point today. There is tw
feet of ore being followed in tn
, shaft with twelve to twenty inche
left on the hanging wall. Estimate
on two feet of the ore are claimed t
run SIS or better ton. Sinking
being continued and this lease bid
fair to develop a good tonnage {
, commercial ore.
: Considerable progress was mad
r during the past week in the Cam
4 bell-Kelly lease. The west crosscl
v was adanced IL feet from the sha
1 on the SO. No change In formatiC
t to record. The north drift being RI
q on the same level is out 15 feet. tt
e dip Of the vein has changed in ia,
v Of drift and now stands at an ang
8 Of 80 degrees and is somewhat bro
en-. A stope raise few feet nor
Of the shaft was started yesterda
r. An average of 10 to ~ tons is beil
Is hoisted by the two shifts now res
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