White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1923-03-18
GW|N MINE WORTHY OF
MILL SAYS " A. WATSON

Ore TO justify the erection of a
small mill has for a long time been
exposed in the Gwin mine. formerly
known as the Blaine, at Water can.
yon, according to William A. Wat
son, who is one of its owners.
Starting a sorht distance from
mel the ledge will average $3.50 a
ton, he says, and these vaines
improve for about half the length of
the drive. averaging in that vicinity
about $12. Then 1t gets better and
about half the gold Is free and the
remainder Is in the form of a tellu-
rum, nine inches of which Mr.. Wat
son declares will run 500 a ton. A
Wine ten feet deep has been sunk
on this ore. This ore Is opened and
stripped ready to be stopped. Five
tons is broken down and samples
STOP a ton
1t the inner end of the tunnel
there is a shale belt of 100 to 200
feet in width and the tunnel has been
driven into 1t for thirty feet. This
shale carries values averaging s3.35.
A raise of 200 feet from the tunnel
TO connect with a 300-foot incline
exposed more good ore. When this
neline was sunk thirty tons of ore
We're taken out and thrown on the
dump. 1t was taken cut by Jim Jobe,
Dee Clark and Jim Reilly, former
owners of the claims.
This is the same shoot as that be
w containing the telluride. At this
place, known as the 900 level, it has
been opened for seventy feet and ay
erages under sampling s37 a ton.
Lots of ore is in sight between the
levels, according to Mr.. Watson
The owners hauled several tons OF
II down to the old mill at the w. ID.
Campbell ranch and Joe Buzzetti.
who still lives on a ranch a few miles
south of there, put 1t through the
mill for them. 1t yielded SIS a ton
and only so per cent of the values
We're saved.
On this dump there are thirty OF
forty tons of ore that. according tt
various samplings that Mr.. Watson
knows of. has proved to have an ay
erage value of $40 a ton.
Here for a depth of $50 feet and a
length of 500 feet and an average
width of one and a half feet. accord
ing TO the estimate of the owners
5000 to 1000 IONS OF good milling
ore Is in sight in the mine, and a
great deal of this Is high grade thai
would pay handsomely to ship. The
ledge throughout will average three
and a half feet in width.
When the mine was bonded to
Connors and Mccoy, who have been
bound over after a preliminary hear
Ing in Salt Lake for sailing orr
from the Gwin dump, Mr.. Watson
forbade them to take any of the five
tons of high grade ore from the
mine. lie informed them that The
dump ore would not pay to ship, It's
value not being more than $40 to
ls12. but they said they wished to
ship Ii anyway in order to determine
the kind of a mill required. Mr.. Wat
son says there are about LOO tons
of this character of ore in the dunn
and in the waste dump there are
thousands of tons that will run from
50 to $3.50.
In all 100 feet of work has been
done. This includes the main tun
mel. the raise and incline. the upper
drift and the lower Wine.
The ledge takes a northeastern,
aud southwesterly curse and The
tunnel goes in in the latter direction
About every 100 feet the ledge fault
ed and the throws were TO the right
They were picked up with great reg
ularity within ten or twelve feet.
When Mr.. Watson and his brother
in-law, Percy j. Jackson, relocated
the claims they renamed them thu
Gwin Nos. |, 2 and 3. The Gwin 4
a famous Mother Lode mine OF Gala
yeras county, California.
The Gwin or Blaine is the MINI
that the Salt Lake Tribune and a 10
cal newspaper, in publishing the nc
count of the arrest of Mccoy ant
Connors, declared to be a WORTHLESS
mine near Ely. New" and the Sal
Lake newspaper kept it mp II
its daily report of the preliminar,
hearing
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