White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-12-16
.S|LvERHORN COMPANIES FINANCED;
TO EMPLOY FIFTY MEN BY APRIL |

I Financial ARRANGEMENTS being com
pleted, four of the mining groups
at Sjlverhorn are to be working dur
ing the remainder of the winter and
two of them have been to work in
minor way for two or three weeks
past. 1t is predicted by the man.
agement that by April 1 fifty men
will be employed at the camp.
The groups are owned by as many
companies which are controlled by
]. G. Weir & Co. Of New York. Henry
II. Weir is reputed to have raised
the money for this extensive develop
ment. Prominently associated with
the management is J. l.. Whipple Of
Sunnyside, who arranged for the
starting of the work that is in prog
ress. l.. F. Peer was employed by
him as superintendent and has been
at Silverhorn directing activities for
the past four weeks.
One of the companies, the Silver
horn Mining C Development COM
pany, which is sinking a shaft in a
quartz showing, has yielded assays as
high as $107 in silver, the second.
which is the Silverhorn-Red Ton
Mining company, has a similarly fiat
tering showing.
The general plan of the work is
to sink vertically to intersect tho
ledges beneath several high grade
groupings, which were the ones that
started the Silverhorn excitement and
stampede Of three years ago. These
groupings show fabulous values in
hornsilver and chloride. They are
quite extensive laterally, but owing
TO the more limited distance in width
it is question to be determined in
future years whether each of the
stringers represents ledge or all
of them converge with depth into one
mighty lode.
What interests claim owners there
the most is the fact that the devel-
opment work projected by the Weirs
will have strong tendency to prove
other properties i'll the camp. Most
conspicuous of these is the group of
the Peer Consolidated Mines company
which, has extensive holdings end
and sidelining the groups. Both Mr..
Peer and Mr.. Whipple being inter-
ested in this company they are more
than keen to prove the property of
of their neighbor, upon which the
former is employed at salary.
In the three years since Silver
horns boom the annual work has
been kept up on the best OF the In
side properties. Some ore las been
mined and shipped and more could
be sent out at any time.
Silverhorn is not desert camp of
tents and sagebrush like so many of
its predecessors in Nevada 1t is up
among the cedars and pinions, hiss
an abundance Of fine water and is
neat, well kept and clean. To be there
it seems more like Manhattan, which
had big boom eighteen years ago,
than any Nevada camp, though the
townsite Is more level and attractive.
Commodious buildings for residences.
business and various purposes were
erected there during the boom and
have been kept in condition for use.
Mr.. Peer has been there consider
able Of his time during the three
years and others who have lived
there off and on have given the build
ing property their care. Among
these is a Lincoln county character,
William Magelatin, who Is known as
Six-Shooter Bill, who makes Silver
horn his home and lot of the time
he was the only resident.
The distance from Ely to Silver
horn is 1Ol to 10 miles, depending
upon the route taken. One way Is
TO go by Lund and Sunnys;de,
through Silver King pass. The other
is by the Phoebe road through Spring
and Lake valleys to a signhoard at
a point 15,5 milee from Phoebe, then
west for about ten miles. Both roads
are excellent. The camp is about
twenty-five miles northwest of