The White Pine News

ACTIVITY IN ALL DIRECTIONS IN STATE

Mining Notes From Throughout the State, Gathered From Exchanges and Correspondents, Tell of Headway Being Made in Development.

A $60,000 shipment is now ready to move from the Fairview mine in Seven Troughs. The Mogul Mining company, operating at Ray, has cut through six feet of splendid ore on the 300-foot level. Several rich strikes on the Big 20 ledge at Granite during the past week have served to keep that camp in a high state of excitement. E. W. Dreyer, who recently sold his lease on Ladd mountain, is working his Original Bullfrog lease and is being rewarded with good ore. He is in high grade and is sacking the product for shipment. The Mac Lincoln lease on block 6 of the Lemaire property at Skookum has encountered a two-foot vein of good ore at a depth of only fourteen feet. The rock assays $25 in silver and $18 in gold to the ton. Application has been filed with the postoffice department for the establishment of a postoffice at the new mining camp of Fluorine, 12 miles east of Beatty, Nevada. Edward M. Jones has applied for the postmastership. The Pittsburg Liberty mine at Masonic is sacking high grade, the ore running $1,000 to $9,000 the ton, according to the report brought from the mine. In a few days a shipment of the jewelry stuff will be made from the property. N. Paulsen of the Blaisdell-Paulsen lease on the Round Mountain Antelope property at Round Mountain, is making plans toward the building of a mill in that camp. He is now in Denver perfecting arrangements for the enterprise. The Jumping Jack property at Manhattan, is apparently making good. The Kendall-Douglas lease on this property, of which Tom Kendall and W. J. Douglas are the owners, recently sent out a fifty-one ton lot that netted them $5,484.90. Reports from the Knierim mining property, located at Rio Vista, about 12 miles northeast of Yerington are encouraging. The shaft on the Red Top ground is down 40 feet and the bottom is in solid ore, from which good assays are returned. Increased activity is being manifest in the district around Tenabo. At a depth of 112 feet the Rose lease has encountered a three-foot ledge that gives returns of $270 in gold. The Mills and Grossline lease and the Little Gem are also showing up in good shape. Fluorine, although one of the latest camps, is rapidly forging ahead and promises to be one of the best mining camps in southern Nevada. Several new discoveries have been made and the mine owners of the district state that the camp will be a hummer with a little more development work. Every report from the Fraser Creek district only more firmly emphasizes the strength of the strike made in that section a short time ago. Several weeks ago a very important discovery was reported and later the finding of tellurium ore only makes more valuable the land of Tracy and Bird, the locators of the Eastern Star group. A small army of men are at work in the placer diggings of Windy Point claim just to the south, and satisfactory results are being achieved. On the Dead Mule lease they are down 90 feet and are operating a bench twelve feet by three and one-half feet deep, from which they are getting as high as 20 and 30 cents to the pan. The Victoria group of claims owned by John Yates and Peter Sanger in Boyd Basin, has just been sold to L. O. Berger and W. A. Towle of San Jose, Cal. The consideration was $10,000, the first payment of which has already been made. Messrs. Berger and Towle have left Florence, but will return shortly to begin active operations on their purchase. Daniel F. Yost of Boston, Mass., who has been looking over the state for several months past with a view of interesting himself and associates in mining properties, passed through Yerington Thursday en route to the old Kelly mine. He was accompanied on the trip to the mine by J. C. Moore, a member of the company at present operating the Kelly mine. The Seven Troughs Mining company has decided upon the erection of a stamp mill with which to treat its ore. Upon the completion of the Kindergarten mill, which will require but a space of about 15 days, work will be vigorously prosecuted on the Fairview mill, which will be built at the mine. Ten stamps will be put in and others added as occasion requires. Within two weeks the Truckee General Electric company will have power in this camp, says a Jumbo dispatch to the Nevada Journal. The main line will be tapped on the Douglas ranch and the current will be reduced at a point near the site for the new Selby mill. The lights will be installed at once on the completion of the line. Surveys were completed last week. The Michigan Mining and Leasing company, operating on the Thor ground, between Seven Troughs and Mazuma, which was obliged to suspend operations some time ago on account of an inflow of water on the 175 level, said to be the biggest yet encountered in the district, has ordered a nine-horse power pump and will resume operations as soon as the new machinery is installed. At the special meeting of the shareholders of the Nevada Douglas Copper company, held a few days ago in Salt Lake, out of the 600,000 issued shares, 500,000 were represented and all were voted favorable to the proposition of issuing $500,000 worth of bonds, the proceeds from which are to be applied toward paying off the present indebtedness and the further equipment of the mines at Yerington, Nevada. J. H. Snyder has made a strike on the Adolph group at Jessup that runs into $300 to the ton. The news was brought into town by Frank Jessup and by Mr. Morrison of Hubbard. Henry & Morrison, simultaneously, and is the talk of Jessup. In doing assessment work adjoining the Climax group, he encountered a three-foot ledge that shows free gold. There is a narrow streak of very rich ore in the ledge. Another shipment of bullion was received from Manhattan yesterday, which brings the amount for the past ten days up to $23,000. With her mills grinding out at this rate, it is believed that Manhattan will be the talk of the country. Hardly a day goes by but what some two or three capitalists or men looking for leasing or investment wend their way toward the camp. -Tonopah Bonanza. J. L. Workman of Tonopah, has been quietly working on a bonanza mining proposition for the past six months. He has a shaft down 50 feet on a ledge that carries $634 in silver and $23 in gold. His property is 90 miles north of Winnemucca, not far from Boyd Basin. Goldfield people are going into this new camp. A townsite has been surveyed and they will be taking out shipping ore immediately. F. W. Barbee is in town from Sonoma canyon, says the Humboldt Star. He left at this office some fine specimens of copper ore from the Nevada Northern property, on which a long tunnel, following an 18-foot ledge, is being run, into the hill. The ore is heavy with sulphide and carries a high percentage of copper. It showed the character of the ore being taken from the face of the tunnel at the present time. The Price lease on the Rawhide Bluff Mining company's ground has uncovered a nice body of ore at a depth of 50 feet. They are now sacking the stuff, which goes better than $150 per ton. The Bluff mine is owned principally by Tonopah parties: Zeb Kendall, W. B. Pittman, Roger Dougherty, Bob Govan and Dan Ryan. O. B. Kemp, the general manager of the property is highly elated and says that the property will be one of the greatest in this camp. The West Extension has one foot of ore on the foot wall of the south drift which Superintendent Len P. McGarry estimates will average $5,000. Mr. McGarry is familiar with the character of the ore from the numerous assays which he has had made of it, and his estimate is probably in the vicinity. The richness of the ore is patent to the unaided eye. Free gold is scattered all over the ledge, and besides this it carries a substantial content of silver. -Tonopah Bonanza. Frank Guney, discoverer and owner of El Rancho group of mining claims, near Tiptop, in the Sierra district, Humboldt county, arrived yesterday morning en route to his base of operations, from San Francisco, says the Reno Gazette. While in that city he secured co-operation of a strong syndicate for the aggressive development of El Rancho, and what is believed by Mr. Guney to be one of the first companies organized for operations in Tiptop was incorporated with $1,000,000 capital stock. Three camps in the Reese river country have combined to advertise their wealth and prosperity to the world. The camps - Austin, Gweenah and Skookum have organized a club the sole business of which is to tell the great public of the country in that section. Arrangements have been completed and $10,000 will be spent each month for advertising of the section. George Watt has been selected president; Joseph M. Bradley, vice president; I. W. Haworth, secretary and Jack Ingam, treasurer. An application has been sent to the county commissioners asking for a segregation of a mining district to embrace several new finds situated about 36 miles southeast of here. The new district has been named Mohawk. It is stated there are from 30 to 40 men working claims in the new field, some of which have very promising showings. Captain McKinley has a shaft down 50 feet, with a big body of ore exposed that averages in the neighborhood of $30 per ton. The richest section of the vein samples better than $100. -Rawhide Press-Times. The recently announced discovery of large gold deposits in the East Humboldt range, and of which Tiptop is the center, is attracting a big crowd of prospectors and investors. They leave the Southern Pacific railroad at Mill City, 200 miles west of Cobre, and are whisked rapidly into Tiptop, 12 miles to the southeast, in automobiles and stages over a level roadway. This thoroughfare is now alive with all other kinds of vehicles, freight teams, pack trains and fortune-seeking men afoot, all eager to be on the ground as early as possible. L. A. Friedman, general manager and owner of the Seven Troughs Mining Co., reached Salt Lake City from San Francisco last week, Mr. Friedman has been on the coast selling the rich car of Seven Troughs ore which has been under process of settlement for several weeks past. The shipment was composed of 31 tons and 341 pounds of ore, for which the company received net the sum of $43,200. While the shipment did not run as high as many had predicted for it, the fact that no care was taken to sort the same speaks highly of the resources in this Seven Troughs property. Even had care been taken to pick out the best ore in the mine, and the shipment had netted the sum of $43,200, it would stand as one of the really spectacular consignments of gold ore from the Sagebrush state. The company received about $7,000 less than would have been secured had a mill treated the rock instead.