The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-04-28

White the people generally are losing
some Of that feveri h excitement over
Fer uson old discoveries, there Is tax.
in Is lace that firm and conf 4, Mt
feeling about the district whic is
usually characterized by strong intent
Of purpose that always musters the Ia
tent energies to lively struggle It e
in it" when the opportunity of ptih, a
lifetime pr ents itself. Men who come
back from Ferguson now are all in a
hurri, an as soon as they get such SUI.
p lie ss y i'll enable Them to ursue " .
ua ic pro p c'irg and developing, they
are of again. Everyone who comes from
the new dis ct give. an encouraging &C.
coun Of it, and all PREDICT for il great
future.
anon, the test arrivals from Ferpu-
son MIR. :. I. Code. who has been
there for some time, but was called away
IN jury duty. Knowing that Mr..
Cobb g judgment is held in high esteem
on all mining matters, he was sought by
an attache of the RECORD and asked to
relate what he knew OF the mines in Fer.
guson District. and what he thought Il
he camp in general to which he replied
Ferguson is all right. have ssen
goo | many camps that have been blown
up great deal and when you went to
them ,ou didn't fad what you expected
to find aud would come away disap.
pointe ;; but here, in Ferguson was
asreeably surprised, and that is saying
considerable. have been nearly all
over the district and seen all the best
prospects.
'In the April Fool mine. they have
run cut about twelve or fifteen feet
below the first outcrop. which proved a
vein at that point Of fiftv.6ve inches in
width, carrying over Sl.l00 in gold be-
sides the silver; fair average of the vein
will 90 pretty well in silver. because
there is four inches iuclu led in the 6fty-
five inches that assays 10000 ounces
silver to the ton. Besides the vein itself
they have three or four inches on the
hanging wall that samples $24, in
gold. There ia three or four feet OF soft
picking ore in the vein, and in each wall
of the ledge there is three or four inche.
of the qu,rtzte that is literally spatterpd
with gold and richer than the vein
matter itself OF course this gold in the
quartzite has worked in from the fissurs.
The walls are more or less impregnated
with gold for fifteen or twenty-five feet
but it would not he proper to include a. /
that in the width Of the vein, because
the ledge is comparatively a narrow
assure with its dips. spurs and angle,
going off into the walls quite distance.
When its owners get fixed for handling
low.grade ore there may be twenty feet
Of the wall that will pay to handle.
The walls are rich in gold, and for t
tie way in they run up into the thou
sands If d,llars per ton; but then, sfol
some distance out. it would average low
The ore chute as Indicated by the open
issnre is shown to be three hundred feet
long; hey opd that the assure is closed,
and there is no signs of mineral. I don't
think they can get an assay beyond
where the assure il closed. The April
Fool is issnre cut ing the bed of the
country at right angles to the dip, Just
ike the fis-ures are here 10 Phoebe. rhey
are fi'sures breaking from one porphyr,
lyke to another porphyrv dyke, although
he dykes are 10 quartzite.
"The Magnolia Is the same character
'f vein. There i now on this ledge q
/ ,haft OF twenty-five feet, and the weir
'as improved regularly as FAR a. il goe,
l"wr. Thew have in the ho.t m Of tn
hafr about five feet of ore, and the wall,
IRE divrrg'ng in the l"ttom. The v.ir
has been stripped about three hundred
fe.t on the surface and ore found I'll tn
'av, uroving the chute three hundred
feet long. Ahout three bu, dred fee
north, d. wn the h'l', another shaft ol
he NJ ,pn liza has heen started tina
hnws the ore channel ~ be ali ut tn,
same as it j. o. the to of the hill 10 tn
discovery shaft. But then, the Mag, oil
assure will, in all ohability, run 70
miles, have found posphyry an,
9uartzite contact three mills and hal
south Of their shaft; but you cannot t. &C
it all the way because 1t is mo stly covere
with wash.
~. B. Clinton is said to have a nc
claim that he gets good gold psnninl
from. and understand that a gen'lams
named Howell fr m Salt Lake offere
him $6, 200 for it inside Of thirty day
and 500 down, and the offer was r,
fused. have not seen his cl.im, how
ever, and could not say anything d.fini,
about it.
"Messrs. COIN and Wilson own
claim called the Ferosa that they thi,
is going to turn out tic. 1t is a hu,
ledge ifty feet wide, and they say j. vi
assay aboat $50 in gold per ton. But
is imp' ssible to tell what big ledge
a or will be in q week or two. II
i Fereso Is near to aud in line with I
:, Magnolia vein.