The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-06-23

EMPIRE.

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1t is only question of few weeks
before this property will begin ship
ping. The pay rock was discovered
SOME time ago hy w. D. O'Brien when
he was working n portion of the
ground under lease, but on account of
differences that arose between the di-
rectors of the company and the les
zee work was suspended after II few
tons of ore was broken. Finally the
7, company purchased the lease and last
week commenced work under the di-
rection of P. j. Lynch Only a small
force are employed and they are en-
gageu in surface trenching and sink
ing shallow prospect hofes for the Vur-
pose of. determining where perma-
nent working shaft is to be sunk. In
the old OBrim workings there is
nearly 9 feet of good ore showing IN
the bottom of the shallow shaft. The
| extension of the vein and ore shoot
has been uncovered in a number of
places for a distance Of over 100 Feet
and all the rOck pans we'll.
GREAT BEND.
This is one of the companies that is
prospecting it's ground in miner-hhs
| fashion and as a result ore Is being
found and there is little question but
that it will be found in the list of
shippers bng before the year is over.
The company is the owner Of 1l2 acres
short distance northwest Of Dia
mondfeld, on the same ridge as the
Triangle, Jumbo Extension and tho
Daisy Syndicate. Super interct21t
l:lird is working Is men on the prop
erty and night force will be pNts On
the coming week. At present the.work
is confined to sinking shallow shafts
and trenching ON different portions of
the ground, and later on deep work
ing shaft will be put down. The old
| incline shaft will be sunk an ndditional
100 feet In the bottom Of II there fs
| 4 feet Of quartz showing ana s.rcass
Of orc run through It chat assay als
high as $1,000. IN a dazer OF moro
de a<s paAsss orc that assays Pay has
"a found ON the snrfaoe but not ia
paying quartities- The company has
| an assay Office of its own on SAs
grc1nd. A gasoline hossG was on1sfea
from Ban Francisco some time ago.
| The controlling interest in the stock
ls held by Salt Lake people.
SILVER PEAK (
The surveyors have completed their
work on the new townsite and the
company will sinh n number Of wells
at once. Water will be found and
plenty of it, at a depth not to exoeed
90 feet The company intends to kp-
ply for a patent rs soon as tho Hee-
essary amount Of wort! is 'l"re, to pa
isfy the government requirements.
I Valcalda brothers have about q -
p,eted the sale of their mine to eha
ern investors and the consideration
was $4,000. On this property 3
stamp mill has been in operation for
several months and enough of the ore
has been run through to prove It TO
be good mine. The new owners VAL
at once increase the number of stamps
to ten
| Some good strikes are being made
on territory surrounding the Palmetto
company s group of five clai"s two
! miles north OF town. The Palmetto
company secured patents for their
ground 90 years ago and only the nee
essary work to secure patent On them
was done. 1t is reported that work
is to be started by this rich corpora
tion in the near future. It il known
that pay ore exists on the group.
CALIFORNIA-GOLDF
Work on the Cllifor nia G oldfeid
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