The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-04-22

eooi Va new arrivals dali
at Silverhorn indicates the truth O
the prophesy that there will be 200,
people in the district within tw,
months. Ten weeks ago there wa
only ore prospector in the vicinity
and today there are well over tw,
hundred with dozens of cars ar
irving daily. The number of new
parties who visit Champion Hill anf
Wier's Peak aggregate ten te
twenty daily, with ever increasing
numbers. Everyone is astounded
with the showir.gs. The large out
crops are being sampled as quick,
ly as possible and daily new bodie,
OF ore are disclosed. The mappns
OF the ore-bodies continues and elab
oratc plans are being made for
models. These will include large
glass models with plates of glass at
every 15 foot interval. The work
OF surveying for these models is in
progress. What has already been
done ir this line has done much 10
clearly defined the tremendous bodies
OF milling ores, and the location OF
the exceptionally rich ore.
In he cross-cut being driven to-
ward the Number Six workings on
Champion Hill the quartz was en-
countered last Monday fifty feet be-
fore 1t was expected. This indicates
that the quartz body at this point
Is much thicker than had ever been
previously computed. This work is
being continued with double shifts
and the cross cut will be drifted
from upon the foot-wall of the ora
body when this is reached.
Another piece of important de-
seiopment. will be the driving of a
tunnel In to the Mineral Monument
from the east distance of about
9oo feet. This will be an adit and
VIII be started near the France out
crop which is located further to the
east. The mouth Of the tunnel will
be located rAar the collar of the
Number Two shaft, which was form
erly known as Whipples Nickel
Shaft 1t was in this shaft that the
ore body was recently sampled and
found to carry such high grade sill
YER ore. Nickel ore from this shaft
carries from four to II per cent
nickel.
The Number Two shaft is going
to be one Of the main workings, and
plans are being completed for en-
larging this and timbering it for a
double and possibly even a triple
compartment shaft. The shaft is
about 100 feet in depth and drifts
at the bottom have been run upon
the foot-wall of the main quartz
ore body. These drifts will be con-
tinued to the west and to the east.
The work to the west will block tn.
1re between the adit tunnel. which
VIII start from the collar OF the
shaft to the west, and the drift
which Will be about 1875 feet below.
measured upon the dip of the vein.
The continuation of these workings
TO the west will make 1t possible to
block the ore beneath
the entire Champion Hill. The
work when completed will satisfac-
torily block ore for a depth of over
ESQ feet below the very rich out
crops at the Mineral Monument.
Another cross-cut will be run
from the north Of the Mineral Mon
ument toward the south and will
be run to cross-cut the ore body.
with the expectation that the Miner
al Monument ore bodies will be more
quickly and satisfactorily blocked.
The favorable samples taken from
the Nickel Shaft continues to be
the cause Of much elation in the
camp, and the net result is that fu-
ture development will be guided by
these recent discoveries, principally
because OF the greater depth at
which the samples were obtained
Mr. j. c. Weir who has been MAX
Ing an extended visit to the Silyre-
horn properties, left camp for Tono
pah on April 18th. Mr.. Weir made
several statements regarding the as
sured future of the district which
mas carried much weight and is
bringing onto the district many new
inerests. Mr.. Weir states that with
out qualification. he considers the
wonderful showings upon the Nevada
Silver Horn property and the Silver
Dale property the largest which have
ever been discovered In the west
Ar. Wisr will stop In ronopah 10,