The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-11-17

Section is the Scene Of Marked Mining
Activity with Encouraging Results

Activity with Encouraging Results
Over in the Montezuma district, To-
eatea Ia miles west Of this camp, min
ing affairs are picking up apace, and
F. G.. Blood, superintendent of the Ida
Goldfeld Mining company and the Will
Transport Mining and Milling company,
states that it is the scene of more
marked activity than any Of the sur
rounding camps aside from Goldfeld.
The hills are dotted with tents, pros
pectors and operators camps and devel-
opment is being prosecuted with favor
able results.
Prior to the demonetizatlon Of silver
Montezuma was a prolific producer OF
the white metal, but since that time,
until recently, the section has been
practically deserted. Now that it has
been demonstrated that the silver-lead
deposits there can be mined at profit a
regeneration process is on, and a num-
Der of former producers of bonanza
silver values are once more being
worked.
The properties of the Montezuma
Mining and Milling company are, per-
haps, the point of the most extensive
operations and they are oeing prose-
cuted to good purpose. Whitecotton
and associates, leasing on the Arizona,
are saeking silver-lead ores and sent a
six-ton consignment TO a Goldfeld
l---.-l-- .-1.,- Ia - o&t,xat.1 that tko
rock has a valuation of from $50 to
$175 per ton.
James Faulkner and partners a
taken a lease on the New York mine
and started mining operations this
week.
Mr.. Blood established a permanent
camp in the district this summer, dur
ing which time he made several trips
east for the purpose of securing money
to develop his holdings. He was sue
~cessful in interesting Pennsylvania
capital in his enterprise and has pur-
chased eleven claims, all of which had
been patented and developed by the
former owners. Nine of them ave been
producers Of shipping values.
The Baltimore group of four claims
has been included in the acreage of the
Ida Goldfeld Mining company, and
they are being developed rapidly. On
one of them three shifts are employed,
and sacking is in progress both there
and on the two adjoining, the ore COM
ing from the old workings. The rock
makes a most desirable flux and that it
is wanted by the smelter people is EVIL
denced by letters received by Mr..
Blood from the management of the Sell
by Smelling company. The remaining
claims in the group of eleven pur-
chased, are the property of the Will
Transport Mining & Milling company,
a Pennsylvania corporation. A six-ton
shipment is to be made from them with
in a week and development OF an ex-
~tensive scale is to follow the return to
Montezuma in December of Mr.. Blood,
who departs for the east in a few days
That gentleman, aside from his inter
est in the companies referred to, also
owns from a quarter to a half interest
in some fifteen new locations, the last
of which was made less han sixty days
ago. FROM the latter they are sacking
at a depth of Is feet on an eight-inch
streak which is gradually widening.
Assay values run at the rate of $144.33
in silver, 4 per cent copper and 9.45 per
cent lead. On the other acreage values
have been obtained in the past all the
way from 10 to 10000 ounces in silver.
Thinker and Inghram, who have as
ISOLATED with them DR.. Robinson of
Goldfeld, are developing a new location
under suspicious conditions. They be-
gan operations at surface and at a
depth of about 20 feet are sacking ore
of an average grade of better than 5000
in silver to the ton, the rock also car
rying copper and lead values. They
have already sent out one small ship
ment and are preparing another.
The upper strata formation of the
~ulstrict is lime, through which the sill
ver-lead deposits were elected, at the
points of least resistance, during some
internal eruption of the earth. As a
consequence the reefs are erratic in
their course and values are pockety.
1t is the opinion of experts who have
visited the section, however, that when
the contact between the lime n shale
is reached enormous bodies containing
permanent silver-lead values will be
found in place. The depth at which
the contact will be reached is somewhat
conjectural, but the general consensus
of opinion is that lies about 500 feet