The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-09

ever seem Men will tell you that
quartz will GO $50 a ton. You look at
them surprised and you say, 81 DON
believe it, They tell YOU to take a
piece and pound it up and pan il out.
You do so, and you find it goes from
$50 to 800 a ton, carrying that in
free gold. You go to another place,
with a different formation, within a
quarter of a mile, seing different
quartz, and a mar will tell you, 1--WE
are sacking this, and it is going $3.50
a TOM You seem i~ncredulous again,
and the same operation is gone
through, and you pound it up and pan
L out and YOU hnd that from the
quantity of the gold You get in the
pan 1t must go that; and, in fact. in
many cases you are surprised that
they are so conservative in theI
statements, from the size of the pan
ming you get. Fol instance, to give
you a little instance of how green a
man is in that country: / went over
to Diamondfeld. IA little town two
and a half miles from Goldfield. went
down the shaft of a mine called the
Quartzite, a little vertical shaft &C
feet in depth. One of the leasers
took me in a crosscut, and he said:
Now. here, Ralstou, we are sackins
this four foot of ore on the footwall.
And we walked along. and he said,
1--WE 20 out of pay here We walked
along the crosscut a distance of about
25 or 30 feet, and he said, eve are
sacking five feet of ore on the hang
ing "Well,' l said, what is
that tale in between? How wide is
that horse? That is the full width.
He said. "That ISM any horse ]
said, "What is it?' He said. "That
is good ORE | said, ''What will it
go9' He said, "$4O or $50 ] said,
81 beg your pardon, this is the first
time l have ever been in a camp
where men call ore pay ore what they
coula not afford to ship And that
is the thing that surprises You when
you first go there, especially those Of
US who have been trying to struggle
along on the mother lode with SO. s.
and So rock. and principally IS rock,
and trying to make ends meet, to go
over there and realize the fact that
they work and ship nothing that GOES
less than $40 in Tonopah and $50 a
ton in Goldfeld.
And when you go there first and
see this ore sacked like you see wheat
at Port Costa and realize the fact
that they cant afford to ship any
thing that goes under $50 a ton. it
makes you stop and think of the val
ues that they have extracted already
from that section of the country. No
matter what men may say-''Well,
these are fairy tales that have been
told U.S. they are the facts; they
show for themselves. People are not
going to ship ore for the fun or it
not with the freight rates in that
section of the country. You take the
average man that YOU say anything
to. or that goes over into that coun
try and looks at it. His first question
is: "Will the values go down!
And one of our prominent mining men
whom ] met up there said to me:
WHY, ] don t 90 a cent on the coun
and he said, "What do yor
Know ahoRt whether it wtlis-o doS G
or not?' Now, we all know that no
body can see under ground any fur
thcr than the point of the pick: Ne all
know that no matter how much geo
logical lore we may have, or what
technical education wc may possess
it don't teach Is where i shoot of orc
is when we have lost il. The mair
tHihg We HdNt ANi 10 IpilbN l. TIC
ground ana the kind Of ground we are
In. and i a slip comes in, Of course We
know AMI haze sense enough to follow
that. Bat they sar, cit * 1oral en-
richment; it cannot possibly &c
down. Now, it wouti seem to mr
that the biologists, after the. opinions
that we got on cripple Creek. whcr
thcv said the ores would not 90 down
and live in that formation, and the
statements made that the values in
oroldGet} were simply superficial and
Norld not 90 down twenty or thirty
feet, A. they said in the beginning
woEli erase expressing opinions rs &c
where and how we are going to fnG
gold. because, as: ] have said many
times 70 several Of our prominent cX
perts, after it is all said and done
YOU have got to'come back to the ole
quotation: "Surely there is a vein for
the silver, but gold is where you fine
it And that is. about the size of it,
SO far as Goldfield is concerned.