White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1920-06-13
FORTUNE HAS ALREADY
BEEN PRODUCED IN
BROKEN HILLS

Following the lead Of Governor
Emmett ID. Boyle, who examined and
reported f%avorably on the Broken
Hills silver mine, now being operated
by the Broken Hills Silver Corpora
ton, in the new sensational Nevada
mining district, as yet unnamed. In
Churchill County, Is miles north of
Luning and 63 miles southeast OF
Fallon. and on the heels of the news
that Arthur Perry Thompson. famed
as the geologist of the Anaconda
Copper Company, had put his en-
dorsement on the property. officials
and heavy stockholders of the
Churchill County Bank. at Fallon.
have purchased the Silver Trailer
group OF four claims. adjoining the
1t is reported that the deal calls
for the payment to the seller. V. S.
Baxter, of $780, 900 and a large block
of stock. Mr.. Baxter states that he
has received a substantial sum of
the purchase price. and that develop
ment of the group on which he has
| opened up six parallel lodges that
have Welded ore assaying as high as
1900 ounces Of silver 20 the ton will
be carried on with day ard Night
shifts. =
The Churchill County Bank coterie
consists of c. W. Foote, Georse VII
liams, Thomas Dolh, and Fred
Branch. With them are associated
DR.. c. A. Lehners. and Harry Ferris,
also of Fallon.
Public interest in the Broken Hills
district is growing by leaps and
bounds and visitors to it are daily
increasing. Latest word from the
camp received here is to the effect
that another shipment of ore assay
ing 200 ounces per ton is ready for
transportation from the Broken Hills
mine to the Western Ore Purchasing
Company's plant at Hazen.
To date shipments from the mine
to that company have totaled 406
tons of ore of an average value of
better than 80 ounces of silver to
the ton. The last shipment made,
35 tons. assayed 223 ounces of silves
to the ton.
The Broken Hills property lies
among a cluster of low hills, rising
along with several other groups from
the broad valley between the Els
worth and the Fairyiew ranges %
Western Nevada. IL was discovered
by James Stratford and Joseph
Arthur only a short distance from
the old freight road running from
Wadsworth TO Downieyille which has
been in use for the last 20 years.
In the course of their operations,
with the object of always making the
mine pay for itself. Stratford and
Arthur. the two owners, by their own
efforts. developed the northerly ore
shoot of the Broken Hills property
with a shaft on the vein To a depth
of $50 feet. From this shaft. levels
have been run at intervals of 30 feet
to the north and south of the shaft,
following the vein. To the north of
the shaft. above the second or loo
foot level, much of the rich ore was
obtained to make up the production
of the mine 10 date. On the 30 foot
level to the north Of the shaft. 153
feet of drifting has been done on the
vein. Ore of better than zoo ounces
of silver has been mined there for
several month by Stratford md
Arthur and shipped to the smelters.
Vein matter containing less thaa 100
ounces of silver per ton has been
left in the workings and used as Z
floor as the vein has been stopped.
This filling of vein matter in the
Slopes is said TO average from 2a To
so ounces of silver per ton, eensti-
tuting a valuable addition To the ore
reserves OF the mine. samples taken
across this vein. where stopping has
been done, gave returns of S5G.31
per tor in silver for a width OF 3 LIS
feet. In another section of the vein
a sample across 3 feet of the hanging
wall vein matter assayed SthS.s2
per ton in silver.
To the south OF the shaft on the
50-foot level, more than leo fest OF
drifting has been done. The vein
varies from 3 to 8 feet in width. All
workings on the 50-foot level are al
NEST completely in oxidized vein mat
ter and highly altered silieeous ande-
site wall rock. Ruby silver predom-
mates as the chief ore mineral, DC.
casionally. kernels OF galena are
found surrounded by very high grade