Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-03-26
Big Lodges, Good Ore

borders on the sensational. Miners
who have just arrived here, stated 10
President Ed. Malley, of the Broken
Hills Silver Corporation, that $500 ore
is being lifted to the surface from the
bottom of the Broken Hills shaft and
that ruby silver, the first ever found
in the district, is present in the ore ir.
profusion. Chunks OF bluc-white
silver sulphide, as big as your arm
are being shown by the miners as
specimens.
Mining engineers from San Fran
cisco and Seattle. in search of likely
looking properties, adjoining the Bro.
ken Hills mine, who stopped in Reno
today Ell route from the camp, openly
expressed themselves as astounded by
the showing in the Broken Hills min,
at depth.
Mine Superintendent O. F.. Schiffner,
telegraphed to the company's Office
here that the 300-foot point in tht
main Broken Hills shaft the vein now
assayed $6350 ton across five feet
This makes big mine.
On Sunday the shaft reached {;
depth OF $50 feet, all in ore of higl
grade and the ore extending into boil
walls of the shaft for an undetermined
distance.
The past two days have been uset
in cutting a station on the $50, cross
cutting the orebody, and establishing
a level 1t is believed that the orebody
vii measure fully nine feet in width and
will measure nine feet in width and
will show a great improvement in
values over the showing at the $50 and
250-foot levels.
On the 150-foot level cut across
six feet of the vein gave returns o
$24.36 ton.
At the 250-foot level a cut across
five and one-half feet assayed $25.25 2
ton.
From the $50 down to the $50 th
highest average assays in the miii
have been obtained. At a depth O
$40 feet a sample across four feet
the vein assayed sol ton. At the $50.
foot point a five-foot sample yieldef
S6550 ton
The immediate plan OF development
as ordered by Consulting Geologis
and Engineer Arthur Perry Thompson
who is in complete charge of tn
mine, calls for the driving of two
crosscuts, one from the 250-foot leYe'
and one from the 350-foot level of tn
Broken Hills shaft, to thewest, to in.
tersect the Fidelity vein.
The Fidelity is a parallel vein tc
that of the Broken Hills. 1t has beer
drifted on for 135 feet on the $50
foot level and is solid mass Of 81
,~,-sa,phide ore. The assay value
he ore on the 150-foot level is highc1
than that OF the Broken Hills vein
on the same level, and the Fidelity ye,i
itself, in the opinion Of Arthur PER-
Thompson, is even more promisins
than the Broken Hills vein.
Sensational developments are looked
forward to when the projected cross
cuts from the Broken Hills shaft reach
the Fidelity vein on the ESQ and 49,
foot levels.
1t is expected that the Fidelity vel
will be opened on these lower level
within ten days.
This work will not only prove II
the Fidelity vein for an additions
depth OF 200 feet and length of 20'
feet. but is also expected to show
great Improvement in values, such a
has marked the opening of the Broker
Hills veins at increasing depth.
Tha Belmont vein, which runs par.
allsl to the Broken Hill vein, NOR
than SEQ feet to the east, was reported
by Mine Superintendent 'Schiffner yek
terdag to be in full face of excellcn'
grade ore the drift on this vein on
Sunday heing in 1870 feet. The Bel
mont is another massive orebody.
There are at least half dozen
headinss in the mine which show faces
of. excellent gr dc ore, any one
which would attract attention in an or
binary property,
But these are all dwarfed by the
great showing OF solid silver-sulphid
It the bottom OF the main Broke
IFills shaft. and tie attention of the
eompanys of1ic ais ard of Nevada
mining m,n generally is for the presen
rveted there.