White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-02-29
Properties Long Idle Are
Again Being Worked.
Further Development
Follows Rich Strikes.

silver camps rapidly decllned from
thriving communities OF busting ac-
tivity to ghost villages that seemed
10 haunt the desert. Some became
totally depopulated; others dragged
along in quiescent dormancy-a
sort of twilight zone between life and
death-kept from total extinction
only by the indomitable spirit OF a
few pioneers who continued TO main
tain in spite of all contrary indiea-
tions, that silver would some day
come back.
Silver did come back during III.
year 1919. Many large sales of sill
yer bullion were mace In both the
New York and San Francisco mar
kets at prices well over sl.40 per
ounce. Financial experts who are
in a position to best judge maintain
that the value of silver will continue
NJ least the present price for years
10 come.
Naturally IL follows that follow
ing the silver comeback. many of the
old silver camps OF Nevada are COM
ing back.
Without unnecessarily disparag.
ing the progress In other camps, !,
can be stated truthfully that Cherry
Creek has responded to recent dc
yelopment work in a manner second
10 that OF no other camp In the
state.
Even the most conservative old
timers are simply amazed at the
magnitude of the new strike In the
Mary Ann mine. made few weeks
ago. The vein has already been cut
by two cross-cuts. fifty feet apart, at
q good depth. One cross-eut shows
the orebody to be thirty feet wide az
that point. The other has passed
through fifteen feet of solid ore, with
the face still all in ore. The whole
orebody as exposed is said to average
forty ounces silver per ton, with the
addition of good lead content. A
considerable quantity OF iron sui
phide in the form of pyrite Is scat
tered promiscuously throughout the
vein material "a condition which at
this depth undoubtedly points to the
permanency of of the orebody.
The vein strikes northeast south
vest and dips to the southeast at an
angle of 65 degrees. The hanging
wall Is granite. and the footwall Ia
said TO be mennonite. through which
runs ribbons of shale.
Unquestionably, this is the greet
est silver strike made in Eastern Ne
vada since the early seventies. and
foreshows the possibiiiti, s of neigh
boring properties II developed under
a management equally as clever
The resuscitation of the Mary Ann
Is due primarily to the efforts of Mr..
Walker. one OF Cherry Creeks most
prominent operators. Mr.. Walker,
II Is said, has already disposed Of his
interest In the Mary Ann to an emf
nent group of New York capitalists,
who have extensive mining interests
in British Columbia. The company
operating the Mary Ann Is known as
the Syndicate No. . Mining COM
pany" Captain Prior of Colorado Is
the resident manager. At present
about twenty men are employed.
The same company is also develop
ing the Imperial and Exebeckor
mines In the north end OF the dis
trict. A crew of twenty men are EN-
ployed on the development of those
two properties. The old Imperial
shaft. which follows q strong lead on
a quartzite porphyry contact. con-
tanning good silver values. Is beins
pushed to depth as rapidly as pos
sible. It is now past the 300-foot
point
Two valuable water rights have re-
Gently been acquired by thi sconlpany
These acquisitions evidently point t.
the construction of mill In the near
future.
Messrs. Russell, Bowen and Stew
art, who own the Good Hope Group
which joins the Mary Ann on thu
south, are preparing to start develop
ment work on their claims.
deal Is also pending for the con
troll of the famous Star Mine, Cherr,
creeks most noted producer.
The Star has production OF sey