The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1920-09-09
Broken Hills District
Has Great Showing

/ -.
Harrison, A. J. Moore and John
Regal made three days trip to
the Broken Hills camp last week
They return very enthusiastic over
the outlook OF the new and -four
ishing camp. The doings of the
Broken Hills property is fully set
forth In another column. As to
the other properties they report a
great amount OF work for so young
a camp. The Broken Hills Silver
Corporation is employing 80 men,
the Silver Trailer seven and four
men are employed on the Costello
group. About 26 more are scat
tered around the hills doing loca-
tion work and prospecting.
A. J. Moore states that he has
been through the booms of Tono-
pah, Goldfield. Rochester, Oatman.
Arizona, and other camps that are
now big producers and he has new
er before been in camp that
shows so much high grade ore
with so little development work.
Even the trenchings show high VAL
ues. This country differs from any
other in that there are no blow-outs
nor lodges exposed. To look over
the district one would be reminded
of any rolling prairie lands. The
ore discoveries are made by follow
ing what are known as blossoms
These are nothing more than a soft
formation showing distinctive
white at the surface. The color
comes from the tale below which
has been exposed by erosion. In al
most every instance these "blos-
SONS" when dug into show a series
of stratas, some of which usually
carry values often very high.
These stratas lead to the ore body
The country is one mass of veins
and cross veins and while many OF
them show high values IL is calcu-
lated that very high values and
large bodies of ore will be found
wherever two or more veins come
together. The development work
in the Broken Hills Silver Corpora
tion shows ore in evory face and
meme of it that might be classed in
other camps fully developed and
will mill as low grade. While much
of it would not pay to ship owing
to the long and difiicult haul, II
would be a bonanza for custom
mill.
The Broken Hills Silver corpor-
alton property comprises the mine
proper where the discovery was
first made and where most OF the
work has been done and the Mount
Morgan group some little distance
west. Between these holdings IS
the Brohilco Silver Mines Corpora
tion surrounded by mines in vari-
Gus stages of development but ev-
cry one sacking high grade.
Only trenching has been done on
the Brohilco. Team loads of sup
plies left Fallon Wednesday for the
camp and with them went Vic
Keith and Henry Knight. ; Mr..
Keith will look after development
work and Mr.. knight. a veteran
prospector of Nevada, will do only
prospect work.
On the east side of the Brohilco
there is fourfoot cut which Mr..
Keith will give his fiji st attention
to. This was blossom discover
ed by George Edison Porter in look
ing over the claim He dug into 1t
little with prospecting pick and
soon had tale exposed DR.. Harri-
son started after 1t with pick and
shovel In less than one hour he
had dug into the side hill exposing
about four feet of strata. A sample
taken from the grass roots down
showed assay values of $40. AS
large amount of dirt was taken
along with the sample 1t is fair to
suppose that If fair sample OF
some one stratum had been taken
high values would have been OBJ
tanned AS Mr.. Knight is we'll
versed in prospecting and will de-
vote his time to the direction OF
trenching and other prospect work
other finds" may be expected any
day