The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-06-05
BROKEN HILLS NINE
CAUSES SENSATION


generally classified in the state of Ne
vada as rock sharks" have engaged
auto transportation to leave Reno on
Friday evening to inspect the new
sensational Broken Hills silver camp
in Churchill county. Official figures
supplied by the Western Ore Pur-
chasing Company to Stratford and
Arthur, the original discoverers of
the camp, show that 400 tons of ore
had been received by the smelters to
date from the Broken Hills mine,
which has just been taken over by
the Broken Hills Silver Corporation,
averaging 130 ounces of silver to the
ton.
The Broken Hills Silver Corpora
tion announces comprehensive plan
for developing the property under
the management of Geologist Arthur
Perry Thompson. Thompson has been
at various times, geologist for the
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
the Davis-Daly Copper Company, the
Utah Apex Mining Company and for
Bulkeley Wells. president of the
American Mining Congress.
In an official report, he states that
three shafts sunk on the vein and
three laterals run at the so, 100 and
l50-foot levels have opened up the
vein for length of from $50 to 500
feet, where fault has been encoun-
tered. the throw of which is 300 feet.
The vein has been traced on the sur
face for an additional 1900 feet on
the other side of the fault.
The new shaft will be Immediately
sunk on the vein on the other side
of the fault, with view to explor-
ing the vein for an additional 1900
feet. Because the ore is richest
where the fault intersects the vein,
sensational results are expected.
The shaft, which is down $50 feet,
will be continued to a depth of 500
feet and laterals run on the $50, 375
and 500-foot levels.
William Frazee is mine superin-
tendent who will have charge of the
sinking of the two shafts under Mr..
Thompson. Mr.. Frazee was formerly
superintendent of the Nevada Wonder
mine.
An eight-horsepower Fairbanks
Morse hoist was used by the discov-
erers to sink the first shaft on the
property to depth of $50 feet This
will be utilized until depth of 200
feet is reached. A sixty-horsepower
Fairbanks-Morse hoist has been pur-
chased and will be installed on the
property in the next thirty days. An
other will follow.
Run-of-mine-ore. according to both
Governor Boyle and Consulting Geolo-
gist Arthur Perry Thompson, aver
ages better than fifteen dollars per
ton, unsorted and including the waste
rock, as it is broken down in the mine.
The vein is from thee to ten feet
wide. Recently a sample was taken
from the north drift on the 150-foot
level. the deepest working, which
gave a return of $3.50 for ten feet
of the width of the vein.
South of the shaft, on the 100-foot
level, the average for 115 feet OF the
length of the vein, according to Mr..
Thompson, is $3.50 per ton, accord
ing to sampling, which included wall
rock
At one point in the vein an assay
for three and one-half feet south of
the shaft gave return to s36.10 per
ton. At another point south of the
shaft in the same drift, four feet gave
returns Of s17.S5 per ton.
After the shipment of ore to the
smelters. which has netted 100000.
Mr.. Thompson appraises the value of
the ore opened up to the 150-foot level
by the original owners at $101,375.
All of this development work, it is
stated. was done by the original own
ers, Stratford and Arthur, without
any additional mine force.
Mr.. Thompson says in his report
that the property is only in its initial
stages of exploration. He concludes.
'The property lies in a region of pro-
found volcanic disturbances. A strong
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