The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-11-07
COPPER PROPERTY
Is HIGHLY PRAISED

The following letter, written by Ed
ward c. Kilbourne of Seattle, an cleo
trical engineer of note and an author
ity particularly on manganese mining
builder of many electrical projects.
former president and builder of the
electric street railway and electric
and power companies of
Seattle. instigator and builder of sew
eral irrigation projects. is of weight
and sincerity and concerns a mining
property the Development of which will
mean much to Winnemucca.
Mr.. Kilbourne is in this city on min
ing missions of his own, he being the
operator of a producing mine in this
district and interested in a manganese
property of which a great deal will be
heard when the time ripens. Mr.. Kill
bourne is in no way interested or con-
nected with the mines mentioned in
his letter and it was prompted solely
by his enthusiasm after having visited
the same recently. The letter follows:
Winnemucca, October 26, 1918.
Mr.. G. B. Williams,
Winnemucca.
Sir
1t was with great interest that I re-
Gently inspected the mining property
of your company, consisting of the
Wolverine, Red Rose and Quartz Hill
groups, located five miles east of Win
nemucca.
The four ledges running parallel
through the claims are all strong and
well defined. and each one can easily
be traced by its outcrop for distances
varying from 1000 feet to 5000 feet.
The numerous openings on each of
the veins all show ore, in most cases
good ore.
A mine is largely judged by its
dumps, and by this evidence the YER
dict would be that yours is an extra
good one.
While the openings are mostly shall
low. being made evidently to prove
he continuity of the vein and ore
bodies, yet practically every hole has
a pile of good ore beside it, with
plenty more in sight The deepest
shaft is on the Wolverine, being 135
feet. 1t shows good ore all the way
down with Improvement III values at
depth.
The ledge which impressed me most
was No on Quartz Hill This l fol-
lowed for a distance of nearly 5000
feet. 1t was as easily followed as a
public highway 1 inspected and took
samples of ore from a dozen openings
on the ledge. every one of which show
good values. Judging by its copper
content alone, most of the ore could
be sorted up to a good shipping value,
and there seems to be an immense
quantity of it, The ledge varies in
width from four to forty feet, and the
ore shoots seem long and may turn
out to be practically continuous ore
for hundreds of feet.
Another feature which struck me
favorably was the east and economy
with which this ledge can be devel-
oped. 1t runs UP a hog back, gaining
100 feet in depth in a distance of
5000 feet by running a tunnel in on
the vein. A favorable place to start
the tunnel would be in the gulch at
point opposite the spring in the bunch
of cottonwood timber
1t was few hundred feet above
this point that the vein shows such
great width and where Mr.. Rose, one
of our party, opened up such a fine
lot of high-grade copper ore.
congratulate you upon the very
fine showing you have, which gives
every evidence that the development
which you propose will open up one
of the great mines of the state.
Yours respectfully,
INnXVADn n LrJT DnJvnNTTH