The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-08

Silver Pick ground is being as ae-
lively developed as any section of min
ing territory in the camp, and while
shipping values do not yet prevail,
surface exploration and development
at nominal depth, point Enthusiastically
toward the opening up of pay grate
with the deepening of shafts and the
running out of crosscuts. The recent
surface strikes on the property have
led to an increased demand for leases,
which are being granted as rapidly as
pro. ision for them can be made. A
number of contracts have recently
been signed up among them being Al
Ian Archer, Robert Woodruff, Charming
& Fletcher, Woodruff & Rae, Reilly
and associates, Frederick A. Bell, and
Erickson and Speaker. In each instance
active development is progressing.
Charming and Fletcher have a lease
adjoining the company workings on the
south and the January Jones block on
the east. They have uncovered a
strong ledge 8 feet in width at a depth
of 10 feet and are securing fair grade
assay returns. A shaft has been
started and is to be sunk 20 a depth Of
100 feet before prosecuting is COM
menced.
Cormack has lowered the shaft on his
lease, one of the most promising on the
entire acreage, to a depth of 40 feet
and when the 50-foot point is reached
the vein is to be proved up. The entire
bottom of the shaft is in ore of IN
average grade of $42 and both values
and ledge matter are standing well the
test of development.
Woodruff & Rae are operating on d
block adjoining the Jones lease on the
east, and have a force Of men at work
open trenching for the ledge. AS soon
as located and prospected, a shaft is TO
be sunk to a depth of so feet and the
ground proved up.
A depth Of 80 feet is the objective
point of Brown and Wise who there ex-
pect to cut the ledge dipping from the
Jones lease. They are pushing work
with vigor and the shaft is being low
cred with rapidity.
Satisfactory conditions prevail in the
Jones shaft and this week paintings
and assays demonstrate an increase IN
gold values. Like the Cormack block
the holding is early asserting it's worth
AM it seems probable that pay ore n
place will be discovered at no great
depth. Operations are being prose
cuted in an aggressive name and
with most encouraging results. The
shaft is now down 80 feet and is in a
solid body of quartz, a condition which
has prevailed from the 10-foot point
down. Mr.. Jones believes, and his
opinion is shared by many other prom
inent mining men, that at from a depth
of 100 to 200 feet large bodies of ship
ping ore will be found in Silver Pick
ground, and he is bending all his efforts
to get into the pay zone.
A within has been installed at the
collar of the shaft being worked by the
Royal Gold Mining company on the
Pipe Dream claim on the Silver Pick
estate. The depth attained is in the
neighborhood of 120 feet and at the
1oo-foot point crosscuts are to be run
out to the four points of the compass
in the effort to locate pay ore bearing
lodges. At the 100-foot level a small
stringer was cut which returned fair
assays and paintings.
The Hoff-Shears lease on the Silver
flck claim, one of the more recent
granted by the owning company, is be-
ing vigorously worked, but as yet de-
velopment has not advanced suf-
fciently to demonstrate the value #
the block. n shaft is being sunk and
has just penetrated the wash and en-
tered the solid formation. 1t is to be
lowered to a depth of so feet when
crosscuts will be run out and the ledge
explored. Today gold values became
more pronounced and a number of pan
nings were made that returned a liberal
string of colors.