Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-09-08

established a new INNING camp STAN
dard.
Capitulated into quick flame among
mining men by the record of its dis
covery mine as shipper of hundreds
OF tons of bonanza shipping ore assay
ing from l3O to 223 ounces of silver
per ton, it has now out-broken Hillsed
itself by tapping new vein 500 feet to
the east which for ten inches across
the face at depthof 50 feet gives Off
cial assay returns of $320.o6 per ton.
This ore, according to the official as
say certificate, yields 277.40 ounces of
silver, 24.20 per cent lead and 2.80
per cent zinc per ton.
- At depth of Us feet in the main
Sshaft, to-day's official average assay
return across 2H feet OF the vein is
$l10,.84 per ton, the content Of the ore
beingo8. 60 ounces silver andll.8 80 per
cent lead. Assays of various other
faces OF ore in the mine, at points re-
moved as far as 500 feet from each
other, officially given out today by the
Broken Hills Silver Corporation,
yield returns OF $66.52, $662s and
$88.28 a ton, respectively.
1t looks for all the world as if the
miners dream of "lousy-rich" Silver
bonanza of an epoch making kind is
being opened upfurther and further,
and extended wider and wider and
deeper and deeper the drills are driven
in the ore. And unless history re-
verses itself the camp of Broken Hills
is on the eve of record braking rush
such as marked the early days of Lead
vile, Cripple Creek, Tonopah and
Goldfeld.
Surely all the old time Nevada
camps are outclassed in high grade ore
showings here at the same period of
their spectacular careers, and this
camp distances them all. too,in the
speed in which an arid expanse df sand
and sage has, in less than three
, months, been transformed into
snappy, virile mining community that
possesses all of the necessities of mo-
dern life and many of it comforts.
Broken Hills has swung into action
and gone over the top. quicker and to
better purpose, age and development
considered than any other mining
champ that has been established in
or out of Nevada in the last Is years.
The foregoing epitomizes my o.
pinion of Broken Hills at the close d
ten day inspection OF the district
and of the high grade -sulphide
ore bodies opened from surface to
depth df l95 fceton the property of
the Broken Hills Silver Corporation
the discovery" mine OF the camp.
And ! think speak advisedly because
have followed all of the big mining
camp excitements from Creede, Colo
. RADIO, back in 1891, to Divide. Nevada
in 1919.
For some weeks past reports of the
sensational character of the silver-sul
phide ore that has been opened i'll the
Broken Hills mine have been received
in Pacific coast. Middle and Eastern
financial centers. In due course the
writer was commissioned to visit and
report on the district in the interest of
syndicate of mining publications.
Mining here fully justify the visit and
more than justify the money that is be-
ing spent for the development of the
districts high grade silver orebodies.
Three monthes ago all that distin-
guished the camp of Broken Hills
from its unfriendly surroundings of
the sun-dried desert and parched sage
was two small tents that clung pre-
cariously to the unstable sand. It's
population was the "loafing' type: of
the genus homo and sometimes reach
ed maximum of three, but more often
dropped to the minimum of one lone
miner. Then the Broken Hills Silver
Corporation went into action with pick
and drill, like the engineers on the
Western front, fought the desert to a
stand still, and placed Broken Hills
on the mining map.
A scant three months practically
unknown and unpopulated, Broken Hills
is today the most favorably known
and talked of silver camp in the coun-
try. The population has increased by
leaps from its former least common
multiple of one. And the twin tents
ok the original locators of the Broken
Hills mine have been shouldered aside
by the forty or more buildings of the
nondescript design which now dot
the townsite. The mine payroll al