The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1920-10-22
MINING OUTLOOK
EXCEEDINGLY
BRIGHT
BY OLD ROCKS
The boom is on.

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The gold fever Is epidemic.
All eyes are turned toward the hills.
The tide has turned from meadows
to mountains. New prospects are re-
ported and old mines are In demand
The great Comstock Belt Is to re-
stage the bonanza days of old.
Attention passes from sheaves to
lodges, from granaries to pay freaks.
Carson Valley is booked to combine
mineral wealth with agricultural pro-
ducts.
Our people witness the dawn of an
era of prosperity hitherto unknown
and undreamed Of
The Pine Nut and Sweetwater rang
es, Masonic and Bodie. and the eastern
front of the Sierras are all In the lime
light.
Harigan and Walker are repoening
tn big rich ledge In the Gold Bug In
Pine Nut. This property will make
great mine.
] VIM. Chambers and Frank A. Chary
are opening new deposits In the FAM
GUS old Pay Day claim on the War
Horse group for the Burgard COM
pany.
ID. r. Hawkins, pioneer Of this reg
ion is planning for extensive work in
the tunnel in the Dante claim at
Carter station to develop a mammoth
ledge.
Samples from the Silver Bell at
Sweetwater owned by Mrs. Teresa
Bell, and others of San Francisco ex-
hibit rich values in sulphurts, chlor-
ides, carbonates. brittle and native
silver.
Experts accompanied Frank Ever
EFT on visit of inspection to the
celebrated Willard-McDonal mine
last Sunday. This property occupies
prominent place in the mining his
tory of the West.
Manager E. W. Carman of the Long
fellow syndicate announces that he
Will resume work on that property in
the near future. DR.. James M. Schu-
mann NJ. E.. pronounces the Long
fellow one of the coming. mineral
wonders.
News of phenomenal values en-
countered in the Chemung mine and
the Decker lease at Masonic keep the
mining public busy thinking and talk
ing. Many samples from both prop
critics CLEAN with gold and represent
many dollars the pound in value. !?
Work is progressing on the Great
Western tunnel at Sweetwater at the
base of the an uninterrupted exposure
of silver-gold ore 500 feet long by 100
feet wined; the ledge standing above
the hanging wall 10 feet high and so
feet long.
The Burgard Tunnel and Mining
Company after carefully sampling the
war Horse, Washoe and Limey groups
to highly satisfactory conclusion, is
planning long season of vigorous
development and active promotion
Manager f. Chaplin Gard will start
east soon on an exploitation and
financing campaign.
w. H Frazier, who is heavily in
terested in the Masonic district will
make Gardnerville his headquarters
during the winter. He and Mrs.
Frazier are guests at the Ritchford.
Mr.. Frazier is an experienced and
level headed mining man, and predicts
wonderful future for the camp that
has already produced phenomenal
mines.
Manager R. C. Walker of the Ruby
Hill copper mine is contributing gen.
erously to the mining BOOM He an
nounces that In that property there Is
now developed 100000 tons of three
per cent carbonate ore and 225,0O0
tons of sulphide copper ore. The
Ruby Hill is one of the few porphry
copper properties left that is not prac-
tically exhausted. and is destined to
become one of the states best pro-
| ducers.
Jay Reeder, one of the keenest and
most substantial of our mining ex-
perts came in from his numerous
holdings in the rich triangle formed
by the camps Of Aurora, Bodie and
Masonic. to relate story of marvel
GUS ore bodies and favorable condi-
tions. Mr.. Reeder has spent months
investigating that region. and pro-
nounces it one of the most extensive
and richly mineralized in all the gold
en- west