Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1921-03-23
SPLENDID SHOWING
IN BROKEN HILLS

! DOT uGTS On the sensational Miners
who have just arrived here, stated tc
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 il;
profusion. Chunks OF bIue-white
silver sulphide, as big as your arm.
arc 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 mine
at depth.
| Mime Superintendent O. +. Schiffner.
| telegraphed to the company's office
here that the 300-foot point in the
main Broken Hills shaft the vein now
assayed $63.50 a ton across five feet
This makes big mine
| On Sunday the shaft reached !.
depth Of $50 feet, all in ore of high
grade and the ore extending into botl,
| walls of the shaft for an undetermined
distance.
The CT fx,,o da,,c k,u Il
i'll 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
VIII show d great Improvement in
values over the showing at the $50 and
25O-ioot levels.
On the l50-foot level cut across
six feet OF the vein gave returns @
S24.3o ton.
At the 250-foot level Il cut across
five and one-half feet assayed SIS. a
ton.
From the $50 down to the $50 TIL,
highest average assays in the min
have been obtained. At depth
$40 feet sample across four feet O
the vein assayed SOL ton. At the $50
foot point five-foot sample yielded
S6550 ton.
The immediate plan OF development
as ordered by Consulting Geologis
and Engineer Arthur Perry Thompson
who is in complete charge OF tht
mine. calls for the driving OF two
crosscuts, one from the 250-foot level
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 been
drifted on for l35 feet on the $50
loot level and is a solid mass of sill
ver-supfide ore. The assay value
the ore on the l50-foot level is higher
than that of the Broken Hills vein
on the same level, and the Fidelity veil
tSSi', III Tic oPliioii Vi NItiul IclIN
Thompson. is even more promising
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 $50 and $50
foot levels.
1t is expected that the Fidelity weir
will be opened on these lower levels
within ten days.
This work will not only prove ur
the Fidelity vein for an additional
depth of 200 feet and length of 2N
feet. but is also expected to show a
great Improvement in values, such as
has marked the opening OF the Broken
Hills veins at increasing depth.
The Belmont vein, which runs par
allcl to the Broken Hill vein, more
than 800 feet to the east, was reported
by Mine Superintendent Schiffner yes
terday to be in full face of excellen;
grade ore, the drift OH this vein on
Sunday being in 1870 feet. The Bel,
mont is another massive orebody
There are at least half dozen
headings in the mine which show faces
Of excellent grade ore, any one o
which would attract attention in an or
binary property.
But these are all dwarfed by the
great showing OF solid silver sulphids
at the bottom of the main Broker
Hills shaft, and the attention of the
eompany's officials and OF Nevada
mining men generally is for the presen' {
| riveted there.