Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-06-16

ne rush TO broken Hills, Ne-
vada's new sensational silver mining
camp in Churchill county, continues
with unabatcd vigor. The appearance
at the Broken Hills property yes
terday Of score OF ftminers with picks,
shovels and dynamite, engaged III
stripping on surface the main vein and
adjoining brecciated ore zone, said to
be $50 tieet wide, was breathlessly
witnessed by crowds of mining men,
prospetcors and camp followers.
Later the crowds were given an op-
portunity to go down the main shaft
of the mine and examine the under
ground workings. Everybody was
allowed to sample the ore to his
hearts content. 1t is estimated the
visitors carried away ton of speci-
men rock assaying from S100 to $500
ton. There is streak ? II teet
wide on the 100 foot level of the mine
which is reported to give an assay
of 200 ounces of silver per ton clear
across 1t was from this point in
the mine that the last shipment Of
IS tons of 223 ounce ore was recently
made.
Photographers and moving picture
men were busy. Photographs were
made of large crowd standing by
the gallows frame at the top Of tho
2,5CO-ton dump and in the vicinity OF
the ore bins where many tons of high
grade are sacked ready Tor shipment.
\ fleet of automobiles was parked on
the ground OF the Broken Hills Sill
yer Corporation and also on the adj
joining gound belonging to a coteric
headed by George Williams, president
of the Churchill county Bank, of Fal-
Ion, known as the Silver Trailer
Mines Company.
1t was learned from high sources
that the purchase price o. seven OF
the IS claims embeaced i'll the Bro
ken Hills Silver Corporation group
was $132,500 and a million shares OF
the company's stock. This trans
action occurred before the stampede
commenced and prior to any llnowI-
edge of the sensational showings in
the new district was generally known.
The price of the group of claims ad-
joining the Broken Hills, turned over
to the Silver Trailer Mines copmany.
was SlO0,000 and large block OF
stock. 1t is also learned that Iully a
month ago George Graham Rice
and c. II. Mcintosh purchased the
Thompson group, adjoining the Bro
ken Hills on the southwest. The
price now asked for the claims is
$5C0,0C0 cash. These arc now said
by noted geologists to contain one
of the big faulted segments Oh the
Broken Hills vein. The mincralized
area of the Thompson group is stated
be fully 1900 ieet wide. Two claims
to the north OF the Broken llillsgroup
has been purchased by San Fran
cisco coterie, who formerly operated
in Goldfield Harry Stimlcr is re-
ported to have optioned still another
group situated to the north OF Bro
ken Hills.
Great significance is attached to
the TACT that the highgrade showing
in the main 9-foot vein of the Broken
Hills is not being depended upon by
experts in their determination of the
probable complete value of the prop
crty. For width OF 9 feet on the
$50 loot level the vein assays $29 per
ton clear across. However, a brcc-
ciated zone 240 feet wide in the foot
wall OF the vein contains a medium
and low grade deposit, all of which
it is believed will mill.
1t is said that if the showing in
the main l-foot vein persists to only
depth of 500 feet million dollars