The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-16
WHITE MOUNTAINS.
Another New Excitement in Country
to the Southwest.

to the Southwest.
Hundreds of claims have been stalk
ed in that portion of the White Noun
tains about 5 miles west of Pipers'
ranch during the past two weeks and
the rush of prospectors from Goldield,
T~onopah, Ida and other camps to the
new ~diggings continues. This latest
excitement on the desert is some IS
miles southwest of Goldfield in Mono
county. California. The now famous
Lookout mine in Fish lake valley is
only about : miles from the new camp.
A one-half interest in this mine was
sold recently TO John McKane and AZ
sociates and the consideration is said
tn have been $4,000 cash. One year
ago the mine was bought by Efinger
and McClelland for s $1,000, aud ever
since they have been working quite a
force of miners opening up the proper
ty. a few shipments of high grade
has been made and 1000 tons of mill
ore good for from $50 to $40 ~ ton
which will he treated on the ground
as soon as a mill is erected. Lookout
shaft is down 200 feet and drifts have
.i.en cHtended on the vein at the diff
+ .,cnt lev els for Il considerable dis
tancc. 1he pay portion OF ,he big dyke
~ ii feet wide. Other discoveries have
been made in the immediate %ncighbor-
hood Of the Lookout but no other ship
pers have vet been found that will
compare with it.
The parties who have made the re-
cen. locations Z miles distant are in
clincd TO the belief hat it is in the
same district and say the formation is
similar to that of the Lookout section.
4 little romance of a "Lost Mine' is
also woven in the story. Thirty-six
wears 400 this summer Alexander Faw-
cett %prospected through the White
mountains and found quartz that
showed free gold in abundance, and
after returning to civilization he had
a number OF assays madc on the ore
and all went away up in the hundreds.
After his prospecting trip Mr.. Fawcett
returned To his old home in Georgia
where he had fallen heir to q planta-
ton. He settled down to farming but
the strikes in Southwestern Nevada
and Southeastern California in the
past few years came to his notice and
the memoir Of the mine he had found
away back in 1869 induced him to
come to Goldtield a few months ago.
He started out and found certain sec
tons he had visited aud one especially
was familiar. On the ground was an
old deserted dugout which helped him
TO get his bearings. The cabin was
Stin there and practically in the same
repair as when he saw it nearly W
score years ago. He made six loca-
tions in the immediate neighborhood
on well defined lodges of gold bearing
quartz. After doing the assessment
work he got H. w. Bruner, w. ii.
Parkinson, Alexander Schwalbach and
others Interested in his discovery.
These gentlemen paid q visit on an
automobile to the property the first of
the week. They made scores of pan
nings and got colors in every pan and
they brought back about 30 pounds of
the ore and in some large pieces of the
quartz free gold could be plainly be
seen by the naked eye. Two assays on
ore which did not show free gold went
$1,000 and $130.4O. Coaldale, 40 miles
distant is the nearest railway shipping
point. There is an abundance of tim
Der and water close to the new camp.
Claude Lund of Goldfeld has made a
number of locations also on lodges
that crop showing from 3 to 5 feet of
quartz and obtained assays that went
from $50 to as high as 800 in gold
and silver.
A ten-stamp mill for the Lookout
mine was loaded on wagons at Tono-
pah ON Tuesday last.
James Butler, of Tonopah fame,
claims to have struck it rich again near
Piper's ranch in the White mountains.
He has associated with him in the
new venture g. number Of Philadelphia
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