Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1920-06-02
NEAR STAMPEDE
70 BROKEN HILLS

The influx OF mining men, pros
pectors, and fortune into the new
Broken Hills mining camp in Church
i'll County, 63 miles southeast of Fal
Ion and 48 miles northwest of Luning
Nevada is rapidly gaining momentum
The excitement to get some mining
ground in the newly discovered district
is rapidly taking on the hue Of .
stampede, promising soon to compare
wildly with the early day rushes in
to Tonopah and Goldfield.
Publicity given to the news that
Governor, Emmett D. Boyle, has made
q personal examination of the big
strike on the Broken Hills property
and has put his o. K. on the preten-
sions of the camps enthusiasts, with
the facts that Arthur Perry Thomp-
son, far-famed as the geologist OF
the Anaconda Copper Company, has
reported favorably on the property,
taken in conjunction with the item
that IS tons Of ore have been shipped
from the upper workings of the Brok-
en- Hills property giving returns OF
223 ounces of silver per ton has gone
a long way to crystalline expert opin-
ion that the camp will prove another
Tonopah.
Here in Reno where mining engi-
neers of national reputation pass al
most daily on their way to some new
mining camp, men Of the highest and
best standing in the mining world are
being quoted in favor Of the new dis
trict making into a great silver bo-
nanza.
A consulting geologist and mining
engineer, famed from coast to coast
as a CONSERVATIVE" who examined
the main property Of the camp, stated
today that the Broken Hills showing
gave indications of developing into a
bonanza comparable to the Comstock.
He said "The Broken Hills mine,
operated by the Broken Hills Cor
poration, lies among low cluster o.
hills built up by successive flows OF
andesite. Only portion of the main
andesite mountain mass is exposed
at the surface, for beds of volcanic
ash and basalt-hows cover the highest
hills. The Broken Hills vein, run
ming pararel with the base Of the hills.
and following along in strip of ex-
posed siliceous andesite from which
the Gaping of volcanic ash has eroded
has been discovered at its northern
extremity to depth OF $50 feet. This
portion of the vein has been proved
along its strike for $50 feet by the
underground workings Of the, Broken
Hills Silver Corporation. Another
ESQ feet along the vein, south from
these deep workings, has been devel-
oped to a depth of 50 feet by several
shafts to the point where the vein is
cut off by fault and thrown west
ward to an new undeveloped position
on the company's property. In this
faulted position where it is totally un-
developed. the vein can be traced for
$500 feet until another fault cuts it
off and throws it again westward.
From the partially developed por-
ton of the vein, which varies from
two to nine feet in width down to
the lowest level, $4,000 in high grade
silver has been extracted. In these
same workings and on the dump at
the main more than 100000 in ore
of a profitable grade is in sight. The
vein, from the lowest level up aver
ages over $500 per ton as broken in
the mine without any sorting out OF
the waste rock broken with it.
"Areas in the hanging-wall and the
foot-wall of the vein are mineralized
at the surface in the form Of shattered
lenses of ore measurable in humid
hundreds of feet and may mean de-
velopment underground, another in
stance of masses of low grade ore
such as have been exposed in the late
sensational developments on the Com
stock.
1.-THE vein matter and country rock
strongly resemble that found with
some of the rich silver Developments
in Tonopah. Only fraction of the
exposed vein outcroppings have been
explored. Where this has been done
the vein in the lowest workings has
been proved to be wider and as rich
az IL is nearer the surface. Strong