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TELLURIDE NAMEOF NEW DISTRICT IN LANDER COUNTYOro Deposit Greatly ResemWes tlie ^ Grout Bodies in ColorncloTerritory \“Give Nick his due/' I have -been'm * • •in camp for two weeks . and have given much examination eo the new discovery in Rock canyon -and the surrounding territory/ It looks and shows for the good. The spirited development work by the prospectors maintains the importance of the original discovery throughout the district. Prospect -holes on new. lead® opened through the Rock canyon belt return similar values in. gold’ and_silver by pan test and by assay returns efs those, sampled by Kearns and associates.Properly speaking,. the formation of the district is a ■grano-diorlte and black lime, with porphyry quartz 111 Lings. This .body again, is crossed or cut with a series of fissure and contact veins. These mineral lines are capped very much with' a. deposit ofloose boulders and earth, the. resulto.f Jong-time 'erosion, and movement.But at.points this series of lesser leads crop and thus by numerous trenches and cuts the .gold and' silver leads have been determined; for continuity.The main- ledge shows the strong outcrops, This lead .has been determined .most systematically for a distance of two miles and wherever the.• • ■prospector has opened it, It shows theearmarks of mineralization. The lead along its trend shows the te-Hurium features and wherever tested returns gold values and some silver contents. These values vary from 80' cents to $1648 per tori.A long-time mining experience convinces me that Tellurkle district, as the miners at a public meeting have named It, has the making of mines. The similarity of the'deposits to those •first discovered at Cripple Creek, Colo., and where I was a ^prospector in early days and later -handled mining properties,, assures- me that this is a*, good field and will make good. Thei jprospect showings are fine.stead; • of Dollar campor ;• Rock-canyon. . So bea.r' in mind that Tellurideis;fourteen miles south; from ydlmystatich, on the So uthe rh- 'Pacific, \ah clabout, twenty-two m 1Jes. southwest of Battle Mountain. Mail’.at present Is via .iattj? Mpdntai-ri’-St bfie/Hlt;use. ,l At the( jame meeting the following scale of wages was .‘adopted vfor tiJe camp:. :..Four dollars per day for drifting, and stdping and ,$,4.60 for sinking below, twenty feet. At .this;meeting it was dcckfed to build a road from thehead -of Cottonwood to’ Camp Tellu-vlde, thus affording a good roadway to Vainly,’ fourteen .’miles from the camp. •;. Tellur Ide, from ariy standpoint that I. size it up,, is to thcCgood'for a-substantial mining opportunity -and for the -prospector, offers' fiiie advantages. With pick, with shovels and-; pan I •have convinced myself of the correctness of this statement. The surrpund-.Irvg country .has its. record as a producer. In all directions.from .us are prospectors -and operators at work and to my. mind the future of Tellu-rlde, Nev., as a gold and other metal producer, Is a' fixed fact. To use a miner's term, “the-stuff is here.’*- Colonel. Thom a® Ewing, a veteran contractor-and mining man,. Is in our mid3t and getting-hold of some choice •propositions, lie looks with fav,or •upon our prospects andi in accord with his- judgment is becoming, .interested, Colonel Ewing Is one of the historic characters of the West, As railroad builder and mine -operator he has been in every section. . His base of operations is Denver, Colo,, but his headquarters are under his -hat. Whatever that may point him at. He ia 8 5 years old, but as frisky and enor-; getic us a man of 25.—John J.'Healy; in Humboldt Star, iCONTINUAL SHIPMENTS ARE REGULAR DIVIDENDSA' dividend, paying property always is -a pleasant ^“feature to note in amining community. *■ a - . • . %The National Mines company on the first distributed Its regular dividends among the fortunate. v.stock holders!••The-checks that/went out* were simply Thomas Kearns and associates have reminders or the exkelieVit inLnin^ diSy■ trtic ti - .of wh i ah -vth eM Nat-] o n a l* he ■ i ssueh a signal' rem'thderl1'c o m m on ced ^ op e ra t i on s on t ho Do! 1 a r gvoup % with threc shif Us . at the bat. Sinking is In progress, The entirebottom • of the shaft is iii fine values• • • • *and the rich 14-inch. streak lying along the woII improves with- depth. From this enriched sireak the values run frorm $1100 lu $1600 per tori. The• balance bf the Jcklge runs $30 per ton..It certainly looks as though the ''Kearns people- had a good thing.- 7\O t*h er m i n es* In*e'-‘ be i ng.cleve 1 o pod i 31 the district, 'aiid .ifieAcoiystant hum-nierliifc of ihe/brVfep^cfot is .opening..t i. i.\*j ‘ • J*. f: • r-. .new : leads’ A hat ';-fointr».to rich. lt;-pay streaks al^f^r^rL1 Jwithin the .National district.• .“A niimberw'of i.i(Vur i n g prospects' are j the resale of such, work front Flat creek into E’iglif JVflki/'anri -if forecasts■John Salsbury .lias- an option bond j mean' anything-th^n tlie present fine on the four claims to the east of, the [ record of the National district will beGold Dollar group or Kearns operations. He ’ha* commenced work with one shift on development arid prospect work,.1 Messrs, Thomas and Kaufman are working one shift on the prospect lying to the west of the Kearns operations.Messrs. Truax and Meager are developing some promising property north of the Kearns claims,Frank McQuivy is doing work and •getting some fine pannings at the head'-of the canyon. He also has-some likely claims adjoining the Kearny and Thom as-Kau;'man holdings.J. C. Grinned, an Idaho operator, has secured a group of claims ’here and is now out securing -provisions, tools, -powder and other necessaries with which- to push work. He will work three shifts. The group he has.outclassed MmefTover.With H. A. Foss', departure for Chicago ' ' went over '$90,000.of.buMion lov delivery lo .the United . Stales assay oiflcb at Suit Lake/ That .hi ‘itself is not so bad. But a week previous a carload-.of concentrates from the tailings of which prior bullion was extracted were shipped to Salt Lake, returning in addition the sum of $36,000.And so it goes at National .combining production with dividend^ and as the vulgar saying is, Money talks,-so with pride can the youthful National district point to the strong fact that the dividend record, hereabouts!talks welt and strongly in behalf of northern Humboldt, The; .National iVfjnes has 'about .^completed its excavation for the setting of Lho machinery that will be'used in the'Improved mill. ... ; /All’s well with tills concern And the'bonded Is about one mile northeast I *‘:ame watchword applies lo other pro-from the Kearns properly. { grossivo undertakings jaf ihe district.A meeting o.f the claim owners-was ^Hbrein-are :matchless features..hekl four days ago and the camp was .officially named ToIIpride, by which name it will -be known hereafter in-ACTIVE DEVELOPMENT INRftTTI FQMAtfF niRTRiP.T
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Nevada State Journal
Reno, Nevada, US
Sun, May 07, 1911
Page 6
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