The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-09-30
GENERAL ACTIVITY
N CAMP Of L0R|NG

far shown by the Jose-Davis Mining
and Milling Company in preparation
for the erection of the mill recently
ordered, it is evident that not many
weeks will elapse before that concern
will be shipping gold and silver bull
lion from the reduction of the high
grade ores which they have developed
in the Sheepherder mine at Loring'
A well for the water supply has beer
sunk and an ample amount for all
purposes developed at a depth OF
thirty feet, a pump has been installed
much of the grading has been done,
and a part of the machinery Is al
ready on the ground.
The millsite in on the ranch OF
Stephen Young-one Of the pro-
gressive and successful farmers of a
valley as rich as the Nile-and is ad-
mirably located. From the mine to the
mill the distance is but three miles,
with a down hill haul when the ore
wagons are loaded.
There were rumors during last
week of a new big strike on the
Sheepherder, but Manager Beauchamp
denies that there is anything particu-
larly new in the way of a strike.
1t appears that after completing the
new ore bin and getting things it,
shape to keep the ore going 70 the
mill after it is erected, work vas re-
sumed in the face of the tunnel. ST Oh
after this visitors to the mine saw
high-grade ore being broken down
and assumed it was a new strike. Tho
fact is, that they have been in that
kind of ore for some distance, arc
Manager Beauchamp estimates that
the first two hundred tons of ore
which he will put through the mil
will average 5000 per ton. This esti-
mate is based on assays of ore ex-
c~lusively of the picture rock" which
shows so much free gold.
The crosscut tunnel which is being
driven to intersect five known veins
on the New Willard is in very hard
rock at this time and progress is
somewhat slow, but it is. expected that
softer ground will be entered shortly.
The New Willard is north of the
Sheepherder and the Willard Metals
is north of that, and these two prop
critics have the extension of the same
big ore zone, in the center of which
on the Sheepherder, the Jose-Davis
company is mining the rich ore above
referred to !. The three companies
are under the same management, E.
E. Roberts, former congressman, be-
ing president, William l.. Beauchamp,
secretary and treasurer, and John
Jose, additional director.
Thomas Owens is developing the
strike recently made on the Bangors
by means of a short tunnel which
will gain some depth with less
trouble and expense than by con-
tinuing the shaft. Specimens of the
ore continue to show free gold, and
Mr.. Owens has hopes that the Ban
gor will prove up as big as the
Coalition mine at Seven Troughs, of
which he was the original locator
and which was a great producer of
sensationally rich ore.
The broken parts of the Nevada
Honey Bees compressor have been
replaced and the full force will soon
be going again. The Honey Bee. which
is under the management of William
j. Loring, of the firm of Bewick,
Moreing & Co., of London, has the
deepest workings and best equipment
in the camp, and rapid progress is
being made in proving up the mine az
depth.
An eighteen-ton Gibson mill was re-
Gently installed at the Tiger mine in
~Muttleberry canyon, three miles from
Loring, and the first shipment OF
concentrates went out last week. The
Tiger has a mile and a half of work
ings through nine different tunnels.
and during the past ten years that it
has been periodically worked, there
have been a number Of shipments of
high-grade ore made to the smelter.
1t is owned by members of the Towne
family, and is now being operated by
Mrs. John Doyle under lease.