The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1919-10-04
GRADE ORE FOUND q
A? EUREKA IN CA!LlN SHAF?
Principal Owner Outlines Plans for Developins Mines and
Railway--Mr. Davis Visits R~eno--Renew.l Of
Former Prosperity of Famous Camp
Is Assured
From Nevada State Journal Of September 30

Eugene Davis. new owner of the
Eureka alisade Railway, is in Reno
for a day or two on a business mis-
sion. Mr.. Davis is also one of the
principal owners of the Eureka-Cro-
esus mining properties and has other
large interests in that section of Ne
vada. s
When asked a 8 to the plans of
both the railway and the mining COM
panies be made the following state
ment:
so much has been said about
Eureka and the development there |
feel ! owe it to the public to tell the
exact facts as they are to-day.
High Value Ore
I'VE are running a drift on the 400
foot level of the Catlin shaft to reach
the old Dunderberg workings. In
so doing we struck the top of an ore
body that carries high valuation and
at once started to sink a WINE on it
for exploration purposes. At 80 feet
encountered a large cave. The
roof and sides of the cave are cover
ed with a back substance, as q Chin
ney is lined with SCOT. which carried
values. Being encouraged
by this unusual showing we contin-
ued to sink the winze from the floor
of the cave. which itself was of high
grade ore. Continuing we again en-
countered a second cave which was
similar in all respects to the first one
except that the ore on the floor was
of higher grade than any we had
encountered previously.
From this cave on. the ore body in
creased in width and the ore in value
until late in July we ran into a body
27 feet by II feet of galena ore.
from which ore has been taken rum
ming from $3.50 to S400 to the ton.
We continued to sink on this shaft
until we are now 260 feet below the
400 foot level of the Catlin shaft.
and approximately 1000 feet below
the collar of the old shaft on the
Dunderberg property. which is at
least 200 feet below the lowest of
the older works.
Black Metal Found
THE bottom of the work is now in
black metal referred to by Curtis in
his well known report on Eureka.
and in which he said would be found
ore of the value of $1,000 per ton. In
this ore we have had assays as high
as $ll00 a ton.
Perhaps the most important point
of our discovery is that it proves the
contention of both Clarence King
and Major Henry B. Catlin that at
Eureka would prove more val
liable than ever in the older work
ings, Notwithstanding the fact that
the records at the courthouse in
Eureka show that of the z 1000, 900
worth of ore taken from the old
Dunderberg property was at an av-
erage of better than $40 to the ton.
Thus ii would seem that the new Eu-
reka discoveries will no doubt lead
to the re-opening of the old Eureka
Consolidated and Richmond mines
developed years of active
production in silver and gold in guam
tity second only to the Comstock and
which were the largest producers of
lead in any mines at that time in the
world.
To Deepen Shaft
Arrangements are completed and
work will start in a few weeks to
sink the Catlin shaft 400 feet deeper
this Winter.
1.-The Eureka-C roesus bought ma
chinery the past week with which 70
sink a working shaft on its pioneer
which is designed to be the
main working shaft of the property
because of its reference to known
o~a hod;as and snecially to those ore