The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-22
Ida PROSPEROUS
Mining Activity Conducive to General
Business Advancement

Mining Activity Conducive 70 General
Business Advancement
No camp directly tributary to Coll.
field presents more visible signs of
general business advancement than
does Ida, the condition in the main
being due to the large amount Of claim
development going on in the adjacent
hills, The closing days of the year are
witnessing a vast amount of assessment
work in all portions of the Southern
Nevada ore belt, but operations at Lila
are by no means confined to the latter
and SAVIOR rather of the sort that result
in the opening up of the country AMI
the establishing of pay mines. There
is a constantly increasing coterie OF
mining men devoting attention to that
section and for some months past the
! results of their efforts have constantly
been becoming more manifest, and
that the new year will be even more
fruitful of success is assured.
Government assistance is one of the
features that is to mark the opening
months of 1906, for it is the purpose t
make an exhaustive typographical and
geological survey in the immediate flu
ture. A call for bids has been issued
by Surveyor General Kyle, and the
scope of the survey covers a vast ex.
panse of mountain and desert lying be-
tween Ida, Kawich and Ash Meadows,
over 100000 acres in all. This con
templated action on the part of the
general government is greeted with sat-
isfaction by mining men for its cul-
mination means the establishment OF
correct township lines throughout that
large area of mineral land embracing
the Bullfrog, Montezuma, Ida, ASH
Meadows, Kawich and intermediate
sections . Former United States Sen
ator Stewart was instrumental in Sc
curing an appropriation of $4,000 for
that purpose, 10000 of which is now
available.
Frank Wallace, an old time prospec-
tor of Southern Nevada, arrived in
Goldfeld this week from Ida and re-
ports that mining operations are being
carried on under the m..st favorable
conditions. He owns a number of
claims in that vicinity and is here for
the purpose of Quitting with supplies
end powder preparatory TO Their extern
si2a development. Tie st,'.s that sew
eral promising appearing la.lges trnv,
crse his acreage and is of the opinion,
basing his surmise on surface pan
MI S. and ASSAYS, that with depth he
cen establish steady pay values.
Or. the Krise GROUP, owned by G. +.
Kr-1 Of this citv 4 number Of rich
le lges have been uncovered, the one
presenting the more favorable indica-
tions of making pay grade being that
showing on the Snowstorm No. 2. A
shaft has been lowered to a depth of
lis feet and better than 200 feet of
prosecuting and drifting accomplished.
Assays as high as $S4 in gold and IL
per cent in copper have been secured
ON a 3-foot ledge. Beginning the first
of the year hat claim and the re-
mainder Of the Krise acreage is to be
Systematically developed.
A large body of copper bearing orc
has been opened up in the New Centen-
NAL mine, assays indicating the pres
ence of As per cent in that metal and
better than $50 in gold to the ton. The
work of sinking the new shaft con-
tinues without interruption, and the
vein IS said to be showing 50 feet in
width. The property is considered one
of the most valuable in the Ida Sec
ton, and it is reported that a number
of tenders for it's purchase have been
turned down by the owning company.
The receiver of the Florida mine is
said to have stated that as soon as the
claims against the estate can be audited
the property will be sold to satisfy
demands.