The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1916-03-29
new AND OLD DISTRICTS
SHOWING GREAT ACTIVITY
A Prospector Writes of What He
Has Observed in His Travels in
Nearby Sections

Complying with a request made a
couple of weeks ago, one of Church
i'll County's best known and con-
seryative mining men, who was set
ting out on trip that would carry
him into practically every district,
new and old in the country tribu-
tary to Fallon, has sent the Stand
ard the following letter:
Ed. Standard AS / promised to
let you know of the country in gen
eral that | have been in since | left
left Fallon, will say that at Broken
hills, Churchill county, a very i'm
portant discovery has been made on
the claims owned by Charles Burr,
Joe Anderson and CASTILLO. They
have from three to four feet in
width of tungsten ore that will run
from 10 to 1 5 per cent in the metal,
or, in other words, the ore is worth
from $3.50 to $1,000 per ton and
Fallon is the natural supply point
for the Broken Hills country
At the Siebert property, rs miles
east of Nina, they are working a
force of 25 men. This property is
scarcely one year old and they have
at least $4,000 worth of ore
blocked out and broken 1t is
a splendid free milling GOLD re. The
shaft is 800 feet in depth and every
thing that is hoisted in sinking is
a high grade mill ore. There are
several more prospects just diseov-
cred in that vicinity that are sure to
be heard from in the near future.
From there l went to Grantsville
and found that New York COM
pany has taken hold of the once
famous old camp that in the 70's
produced its millions, while still
leaving an enormous mountain of
ore that will average from SIS to
$40 per ton with a by-product of
zinc going about four per cent per
ton. They are remodeling ten
stamps of the old mill which has
been lying dormant since 1882 and
are putting in cyanide tanks and
concentrator and expect by midsum-
mer to have a plant working at least
500 tons of ore per day. The Cirac
Bros. own the adjoining ground,
consisting of six claims, and on each
claim there is some very high grade
shipping ore and they are going
along steadily taking out ore from
which they will make a shipment of
a carload, via Fallon, to the West
ern Ore Purchasing Co. at Hazen.
Going westward to the old camp
of Ellsworth are the tungsten mines,
one of the groups being owned by
Messrs. S. Rosenberg. E. S. Berney
and L. W. Crehore, all of Fallon,
and under the charge of Maurice
Downey who is vigorously pushing
the development work. These
CldlLib Will ttl ldiuAs hSN thC lOitu-
nate owners a handsome sum, as
with only four months work with
five men they have taken out from
$4,000 to $4,000 worth of ore
and have more than twice that
amount blocked out and opening up
more every day.
The Goldfeld property operating
on the adjoining property, which
was purchased from j. A. Mayette,
have a large showing of tungsten
ore. A couple of days ago they cut
4-foot ledge of ore carrying high
values in tungsten and they expect
to cut another vein in the near flu
ture.
The old camp of Ellsworth was
worked in the early SOS for silver
and no attention was ever paid to
the tungsten.
The camp of Phonolite is looking
exceptionally good and it is an as
sured fact that 5O-ton per day
plant will shortly be erected to
handle the output of the mines.
Fallon is the natural entrepot for
this section also and all freight will
necessarily be shipped through
there.