The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-04-28
COLD CRATER DISTRICT.
Long Neglected But Now Coming to
the Front.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial COrrespOnuence.D
Gold Crater, SO long neglected, is again
coming to the front by leaps and bounds.
Lying almost within the portals Of Gold
field, it seems strange that a camp with
so much merit should so long have lain
dormant. This can only be accounted
for by the fact that Kawich, lying to the
east of Crater and Bullfrog lying To the
south, have claimed 20 much public at
t~ention. To those familiar with the dis
trict it is a we'll known fact hat even
kawich and Bullfrog possess no greater
possibilities than this. In the early fall
the camp opened under propitious cir
~cumstances, owing to the magnificent
surface showings then made. Follow
ing the discoveries, it seemed for a time
destined to rival even Goldfield; but inn
mediately after the undertaking of de-
velopment work, capitalists and other
men OF interest suddenly came face to
face with the fact that the water supply,
which had been thought abundant, was
too limited to permit OF operations on an
extensive scale. Those most vitality IN
terested, however, have pushed ahead
with bulldog tenacity, until today the
mineral showings are excellect.
Among the most promising properties
in the camp is the Hub, which at the
outset gave surface assays running into
1the hundreds per ton. After the dis.
coveries were made a company was or
ganized by Inman, Murphy, Collins,
rorman and Sanders to TAKE over the
property and since the perfection OF the
organization, active development work
has proceeded with a view of catching
ore at great depth, and the company's
management has no reason to be dis
couraged over the results. The COM
pany has sacked and ready for shipment
more than 70 tons OF ore, all OF which
will average several hundred dollars per
ton.
The next property of Importance,
which gives even greater promise than
that of the celebrated Hub, is the one
owned by Ridge e. Curtis, comprising
the Bodie, Lookout, and half a dozen
other gilt edge claims. At a depth of 30
feet one of the lessees of the property
has encountered two very promising
lodges, running at right angles, one OF
which averages across a distance OF ! feet
better than $3.50 per ton. As soon as
arrangements can be perfected the les
sees will install hosting machinery
and will develop the property to its
fullest extent with a large force of men.
Even with the present limited facilities,
this property today is yielding an in
come to the lessees of at least $500 per
day, and with a full equipment should
yield that many thousands.
There are SO many promising proper
ties in this camp that space hardly per-
mits OF an extended mention OF each,
but it is safe to predict that with a jul
dicious expenditure of a little money
Gold Crater will SOC make a showing
which will astonish those who have
passed it by for far away fields. With
the incoming of the railroad to Goldtield
the camp should offer the investor a
most promising field for investments,
and since water has been developed in
great abundance no one should hesitate
to carefully examine the camp. With
the recent surprising discoveries, it be-
hooves the people of Goldfield and those
coming into the camp to grasp an OPP
p%ortunity which seems as good, If not
better, than anyone heretofore pre-
scented.
II XAe opinion has long prevailed that
the Gold Crater district is limited to an
area of two miles wide and four miles
long, but this theory has been upset by
the splendid showings made on proper
ties lying l1a miles to the southwest OF
the rim of the Crater. Outcrops in va
rious sections of the country, beginning
with the Birds Nest district to the
southwest and extending distance of 10
miles to the east and beyond the Trapp-
man property, recently acquired by Al
bert S. Watson and associates, would
indicate the existence of a mineral belt
almost eqnal in extent to that of the
Goldfield district, with formations ident-
ical with that of the latter.