The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1920-09-07
De WOLF FAVORABLE
TO BROKEN HILLS
[By William p. Dewolfl

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BROKEN HILLS, Nevada, Sept.3.-
Now, less than three months old,
figuring from the date when capital
became interested in the development
of its mines, Broken Hills. Nevada's
latest bonanza silver camp, outclasses
all of the old-time districts in high
grade ore showings at the same period
of their careers, and sets a new min
ing camp standard for quick action
and definite results.
character of the silver -sulphide ore
that has been opened on the property
Of the Broken Hills Silver Corpora
ton, the writer visited the district
to make report thereon for a num-
ber Of mining publications. The FORE
going paragraph epitomizes his opin-
ion of the camp at the close of ten
day inspection of the mineralized
area Of the district in general and of
the high grade silver-sulphide ore
bodies opened from surface to depth
of 1876 feet on the property of the
Broken Hills Silver Corporation.
In early June Broken Hills was
practically unknown and unpopulated.
Today it is the most favorably known
and talked of silver camp in the
country. At that time two tents were
the only monuments by which it could
be distinguished. Now approximately
forty buildings dot the townsite, the
mine payroll exceeds three hundred
dollars a day. and the high grade ore
bodies equal in production possibili-
ties those of Creede, Tonopah and
other bonanza silver camps with
which the writer was associated dur
ing the early periods of their struggle
for mining recognition.
The underlying cause of the really
phenomenal prosperity which Broken
Hills is enjoying thus early in its
mining career is the high silver con-
tent of the ores and their broad area
of dissemination. The center of in
terest is the property of the Broken
Hills Silver Corporation, where a
high grade silver ore body. carrying
sulphides and galena that throw off
vari-colored rays of light with the
brillancy of a diamond, is opened to
depth of 1876 feet The early ore
showings on the Mizpah and Jim But
Ter properties ct Tonppah had nothing
in the way of values and picture
features exceeding the ore that is be-
ing hoisted through the Broken Hills
shaft. Big chunks of grayish silver
sulphides which show wire silver in
quantity are brought to the surface in
every bucket. They sparkle in the sun
like display of gems in jewelers.
window and exceed in value any ore
hitherto found in the working.
In some respects the ore now COM
ing up the Broken Hills shaft re-
sembles the sensationally rich sylvan
ite ores of the Cripple Creek district.
Although, of course, the latter is gold
bearing instead of silver bearing.
The value of the Broken Hills ore,
however, sampling. as it does, in ship
ping lots. as high as 1928 silver ton.
compares very fayorably with the
shipment returns on the ores of any
of the high grade camps of the West.
The writer has followed 'em all, from
Creede, Colorado, in 1891. to Divide,
Nevada, in 1919, but in none of them
did he see ore that offered greater
production possibilities than at Brok-
en- Hills.
The shipping Of hundreds of tons
-;,I, e,f~ he
in the oxidized zone, at the property
of the Broken Hills Silver Corpora
tion. assaying from 1S0 to 250 ounces
silver a ton, was in itself no fly-by-
night performance. But it has been
made to look tame by the showing in
the sulphide zone. Sulphide ore was
entered at a depth of 130 feet. And
now, at a depth of 1875 feet in the
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