The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-21

ahomaS II =. hikhcy, tue wen KNOWN
mining engineer, spent two weeks in
this section of the desert and made
a pretty thorough examination of the
entire country. He wa accompanied
by VIM. Robe, a Goldfeld operator, and
a number of Salt Lake investors, who
secured an option on the Indian Queen
mine, a property that was worked for
~ years ago and from which probably
100000 worth of ore has been taken.
He is very favorably impressed with
this district which is located some so
miles north and west of Goldfeld in
E~smeralda county. To a News report
er he said:
"The Indian Queen has produced in
Galena ore fully $4,000 900 worth, and
that was done over thirty years ago.
The mine is situated some seven miles
from the nearest railway station and
has been developed by a system of six
tunnels, and from the lower one a WINE
has been sunk 300 feet below the tun.
mel level, and drifts extended from the
tottom on a vein of ore that varies
in width from two to ten feet. During
the early days no attention was paid
to the low grade ore, and I estimate
there is at least 10000 tons of ore on
the different dumps that will run about
20 ounces in silver, SIS in gold and six
per cent lead. There are seams of
high grade running through the vein.
that will run from 5000 to $4,000 a ton.
This vas the kind of stuff that the
former owners were after. A stamp and
concentrating plant was erected there
by them, but owing to litigation which
cost the owners 800 1000, the mine
was closed down and the mill went to
decay. 1t is the intention of my PEG
pie to erect a modern plant close to
the mine, where there is an abundance
of water and timber.
"The property is situated near the
north end of the White Mountain
range, and during the past month
there has. been an influx of prospectors
from Goldfeld, Tonopah and other see
tions with the result that new finds
are being reported daily from all over
the country.
"Probably the best showing that ]
saw outside of the Indian Queen is be-
ing worked by Evans, Stevens and
Van Winkler, all of Goldfeld. They
have located two claims on a ledge of
porphorytic quartz 100 feet wide and
| panned rock from it for y distance
of over 1000 feet and would judge that
it went from 81 to $25 a ton, and from
it's appearance it is a free milling
proposition. The walls of this dyke
apparently dip towards each other and
with greater depth one of the richest
Eodies of ore, of a free milling charac-
ter, that has ever been opened up in
this section of the country, will be
found. The same dyke runs into the
O'Brien and Mason properties which
adjoin it, but the values are much bet
ter here, assays running all the way
from $40 to $50 on large samples. One
mile northeast of the Stevens find an
other discovery has been made that is
even still richer, and / saw assays that
went from $50 to $3.50 a ton. All of
the country west has the appearance
of being highly mineralized, and it is
being respected also, and there is no
trouble at all in finding prospectors
with specimens of ore showing free
gold. Ny people purchased the Indian
Queen at what l consider a very rea-
sonable figure, and it is our intention
to put in at nee a concentrating plant.
Nearly all of the territory in the Sec
tions that l was in is owned by Gold
field and Tonopah people,"
THE PATMETTO