The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-01
RICH ORE AT KAw1cH
High Grade Values Are Being Obtained
in the Gold Reed Mine

In the Gold Reed Mine
High grade gold values, in some in
stances the rock assaying $4,000 per
ton, are reported as being secured in
the Gold Reed Mines company's estate
located in the Kawich district about 20
miles east of Goldfeld. The rock is
free milling, is well oxidized and is
literally sprinkled over with free gold.
o. X. Reed, one of the original locato-s
of the Gold Reed mine, is in charge
of operations.
The original location shaft on the
claim was sunk to a depth of $50 feet
and drifts run out to the southeast and
west without result of moment. Opera
tions at that point were hen aband-
oned and an incline shaft sunk at a
point 80 feet south of the first men
toned. A 20-foot ledge of well oxi-
died ore has been followed from grass
roots to a depth of $50 feet and reports
from that section indicate that it is IN
pay grade for the entire distance. IT
is from this vein that the remarkable
assays spoken of are said to have been
obtained. Arrangements are now being
made to freight a small sacked con-
signment into Goldfeld for treatment
and a well known Kawich resident who
is now in this city states hat it is ex-
pected to return very high grade
values.
The same peculiar oxidized condition
prevails at the 150-foot point as at sur
face and appears to be due to what was
probably two flows of the andesite. The
first having cooled and cracked, the
second filed in the crevices and de-
posted therein the oxide and free gold.
The latter is not of the fiaky, floury
sort, but is said to predominant in the
form of little punches of cubes, which
indicate that excessive heat was
largely instrumental in its location
there. Work is being prosecuted on an
extensive scale both in the shaft and at
surface and in each instance the same
high grade values are said to prevail.
The formation of the entire Kawich
section presents many peculiar char
acteristics, and to cite an instance, it
appears as though Quartz mountain on
the west and the Belted range OF the
east had acted as anchors during some
great eruptive period, and that they
had held and faulted the main vein,
pushing it to the north. The dixie
from which it appears to have been
separated has a northeast n south
west trend and can be traced at sur
face to the slopes of the Kawich range
some two miles distant.
The general indications of the Ka-
witch district tend to the belief that it
is a highly mineralized section and that
as the gold values are found in an erup-
tive dixie the rock will all be found to
be free milling until the main range IS
reached, when the sulphides will make
their appearance. Considerable pros
pecting is being done in all portions of
that section and the camp of Kawich is
reported to be in a fourishing condi-
ton. Water for milling purposes can
be secured at little expense and a small
quantity of timber for mine purposes
is available some eleven miles distant.
In the Belted range a number If
veins have been located in place and
assays as high as 800 to the ton Sc
cured. Seven miles south of Kawich a
large number of claims have been To-
Gated and although LIT little in the
way of development work has been
done on them they present indications
o. containing gold values of merit. As
says on the f1oat have returned values
as high as $4,000 per ton. Specimens
of the $4,000 rock found in the Gold
Reed property were brought to Gold
field this week and are on exhibition in
the office of The Goldfeld News.