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

Conditions in Camp Are Prosperous and
Good Values Being Obtained

REPORTS from tue oluyke ulStTlct,
located 81 miles northeast of Luning
and 40 miles from Nina, indicate that
the mineral conditions are worthy of
development and that in a number cf
instances pay values are already dis
closed. Attention has been drawn 20
the section by the discovery made by
Davis and Workman on what is now
known as the Goldyke Reef property,
in which United States Senator Nixon,
Governor Sparks, Messrs. Norcross n
Wingfeld, and a number of northern
cattle men and bankers are interested.
George s.. Robertson, a well known
Goldfeld mining man, who returned
from Goldyke a few days ago, is con-
vlnced the camp is to De a winner and
states that development work on an ex-
tenslve scale is now on.
In that portion of the district where
the Goldyke Reef acreage is located, he
says tnat the ore occurs in large intru-
sions of lode p~orphyry which has a
strike east and west. The porphyry IS
cut by a dixie of what is locally called
phonolite, and he is of the opinion that
tins dixie was no doubt instrumental in
the tuIiCHluR VI LnC louc POI DuNIy
veins. Thus far the development f
Goldyke Reef group has been to the
north and west of the dixie, but the
showing of lode ~porphyry is equally
strong to the south and east. A shaft
has been sunk zeal the reef to a depth
of 100 feet and a crosscut driven 100
feet to the north and as yet the limit
of the ore body has not been reached.
Drifts, a~ggregating 100 feet, have also
been run east and west on the vein and
are constantly being extended in ore.
Everything thus far penetrated is min
eralized and carries absolutely free
milling gold values that average 81 per
ton, one seam s feet wide containing
values of from $16 to ST. in gold to the
ton. Alongside of the latter is a streak
2H feet in width that assays bettor
than 800 per ton.
The gold is of remarkable fineness,
and tests made at the San Francisco
mint prove it to be worth from 5000
to $20.45 per ounce, pure gold being
valued at $20.62 per ounce.
For a radius of a mile and a half %
the north of the Goldyke mine, the
mineral conditions of the district re-
semble those of Goldfeld, the country
formation being andesite and rhyolite,
through which projects reefs Of silicl-
fed material of the same general char
acter as prevail here. The mineral belt
is quite extensive, there having been
two upheavals; the latter to the north,
showing that the veins have a north
and south trend and that they contain
copper and galena as a base for their
precious metal values. In the older
belt, which has a strike east and west,
the values are free and the paintings
return a liberal string of colors. Two
strikes have been made during the past
week, one on the Griggs and the other
on the Weiland property, the paintings
in each instance, at a depth ranging
from 40 to so feet, indicating a value
of from $3.50 to 5000 per ton across a
seam Is inches thick.
On Paradise peak there is a surface
showing of copper, carrying silver
values that are quite exceptional. The
outcrop appears to show a vein approx
imately 100 feet wide all of which IS
well m~ineralized. Numerous locations
have been made on this ledge, and a
party of Pueblo capitalists recently Sc
cured, from Wolf and Gardiner, the
~locators, four claims of considerable
promise. Active development of the
acreage is to be started at once, and
Mr.. Russell, who was the agent for the
purchasers, states that a new process
smelter is to be erected at the property
for the treatment Of its ores.
Five miles west from the camp Ut
Goldyke, Frank and Perry Everett,
brothers, nave opened up a silver lead
which they rave developed to a depth
of 100 feet. The vein is from 4 to $
feet in width, and numerous assays IL
dictate the presence of gold and silver
values of from 5000 to $500 per ton.
The metals are found in the character
of brittle and horn silver and bromides
and chlorides.
The country is Wen wooded and
watered and there is plenty of grass
for grazing of stock. Numerous BANS
of wild horses roam over the section,
and cattle being plentiful beef can be
purchased at a nominal ngure. There
are now in the neighborhood of 60 tents
and wooden buildings n the camp of
Goldyke and the cost of supplies is said
to be rather less than at Goldfeld or
Tonopah.