Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-12-17
SATURDAY, DECEMBER II, 1904
NEW FINDS IN GoLDFIED.
Salt Lakers Interested in Camp
Properties Feel ,Jubilant,

eleven feet across, with no wall in
sight on either side. The highest
values seem to be on the east side
toward the hanging wall-a body
about four feet wide. In this body
is a ten-inch streak that returned an
assay of l79 ounces of gold-$3, $50.
To the west of this line is a nine-foot
body of good mill ore, about $50 to
$50 per ton.
The richer or lower ledge was
opened yesterday by a small pop
shot, and a half ton or more of ledge
matter loomed up. Through the rock
every piece Of 1.-THE gold runs
plentifully, easily seen by the naked
eye. One piece brought to this
office, says the Salt Lake Tribune of
the 9Th inst, not especially selected,
it was said, would run $50, 900 to
500, 600 a ton. Mr.. Lotus says OF
this ledge that it is probably four
feet thick, and its strike is such that
it will form a junction with the upper
ledge in a distance of fifty feet. Be
fore the shot was fired the surface of
the ledge was carefully sampled over
IA surface four feet square, and
showed a value of 81, 098 20 to the
ton.
Visitors are swarming to the find
all day long, and, by those qualified
to Judge, it is the opinion without ex-
ceptiou that this will rank easily
among the best mines IN the district.
A popularity, seldom before seen
here, Is the occurrence of the metal
lie gold in the quartz itself, not in the
seams or assures.
In the presence Of Judge LIE Fevre
of Denver, l.. L. Patrick and others.
Mr.. Davis on Wednesday PANIED
from about four ounces OF rock, taken
at random from the lower ledge in
the presence Of the party, about half
an unc Of gold-one OF the most re.
markable paintings ever seen in the
district-$40 a pound, $50, 900 a ton.
The lessees are unable to do much.
Tent buildings have been put up and
a guard established. A sorting house
is building, but there are no sacks to
be had for love or money in the camp.
Shipments cannot begin till sacks are
brought in.
AS showing the influence on values
in the vicinity, Kaedlng & Pettigrew,
who ten days ago bought No. 4, the
adjoining lease to the north, for 81.
800, yesterday refused $40, 600 for a
half interest.
The lessees on the January this
week opened up a new body of high
grade ore which will materially add
TO their bank rolls during the remain
ing few weekso of the lease. The strike
vas made in STOPPING up from the
fifty-foot level, and it Is apparently
an entirely new ledge with a reverse
dip from the other two lodges pre-
viously opened up. The whole face
of the stope is in ore which will all
run well. A streak, twelve inches
wide, is full Of the white. speckled
which always runs well in the Janu.
airy, and paintings Indicate that this
body is the richest ever found in the
mine. With a fat treasury from
royalties and rich ore opened up in
three lodges, the Goldfield mining
company viii be in a position to pay
steady dividends after they begin
operating the mine for themselves
next January.
The rich strike on the st. Ives, en-.
countered in the tifty.foot level on
Harrington Glover lease last week,
continues to produce high grade ship
ping ore, some of the sacks returning
values Of 81, 300 to the ton. Besides
the rich chute of shipping ore, the
ledge shows several feet of milling
ore running from $22 to S97 per ton.
These values alone would be eonsid-
cred rich in any other camp but
Goldfeld, but here, where the assays
so often approach the values of the
pure gold, mere milling ore is apt to
be regarded with indifference. A
drift is being driven north along the