The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-05-22
GOVERNOR BOOSTS
NEW NINE DISTRICT
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aminer; c. f. Bingham, director of
the Bank of Fallon, and Eugene Grutt.
The property has been developed
by Stratford and Arthur, the discover
ers. down to the 150-foot point and
has been drifted upon on three levels.
The last shipment Of t~hirty-five tons.
lust made from the mine and now at
the sampler at Hazen, gives returns
of 223 ounces of silver per ton.
The average realization on between
400 and 500 tons shipped to date has
been better than 100 ounces of silver
per ton.
The sulphide zone in the mine was
reached at a depth of $50 feet. The
deepest working is $50 feet. The
north face on the 1E0-foot level re-
veals a strong vein, said to be fully
fifty feet wide. and gave an average
this week for a width of eight to ten
feet, according to various sampling,
of from twenty-four dollars to twenty
nine dollars per ton. The south drift
on the 150-foot level for more than
four and one-half feet of the width
of the vein, gave an average assay
of better than thirty-seven dollars per
ton.
Five neighboring properties are said
on high authority to boast of sensa-
tionally rich ore showings.
The new district has within the
past thirty days been located for a
distance Of more than three square
miles surrounding the original dis
covery.
Governor Boyle's statement with re-
gard to the Broken Hills is heralded
as the biggest endorsement which any
new Nevada mining camp has re-
ceived in years. The governor is a
consulting mining engineer of high
standing.
When the governor examined the
Broken Hills property a few weeks
ago 1t had not yet been taken over
by the Broken Hills Silver Corpora
ton, and the condition - the prop
erty as examined by MIN was exactly
as it showed itself as the result of the
single-handed operation of the two
~prospectors, Stratford and Arthur,
after they had highgraded it of about
$50, 900 worth of rich ore. Even then
he was able to express the opinion
that lit is the best showing l have
seer in any new territory in Nevada
for many years"
The governors letter in full, ad-
dressed to G. III. Mcintosh, president
of the Fidelity & Financing Company
of Reno, which has just underwritten
the treasury stock of the Broken Hills
Silver Corporation to net the COM
pany $3.50 900, follows:
I'm pursuance of your request |
am glad to give you my views regard
ing your property, examined by me on
the 5th instant, which | understand
is held by the Broken Hills Silver
Corporation of Reno, Nevada.
Having had, however. an intimate
view of the workings together with
two extended reviews of the date of
your engineer, Mr.. Thompson, in
whose judgment and integrity / have
every confidence, 1 feel qualified in
expressing an opinion as to the ap-
parent and potential value Of the
property.
This property covers the major
outcrops of a wide area showing evil
dence of lively vein and ore forming
agencies. The vein developed by the
Stratford-Arthur workings appears
to lie within one of several faulted
segments of the main crushed or
shear zone and to be only one Of the
several veins outcropping within the
altered area.
This development exposes a strong
vein on the surface which is still
wider and stronger In the 150-foot
level. the bottom of the workings.
1T is not my purpose to go into
extensive details in support of my
conclusions and this letter should be
read in connection with Mr.. Thomp-
sons report. Basing estimates on
his measurements and his sampling