The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-12-22
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Goldfeld without a Parallel in the
History of Mining
(Deseret News.)

mere mas oeeh no parallel 10 Ooit-
field in the history of mining. 1t stan'is
alone in the amount of gold produced
for the time of its operation, for the
fortunes made and for its growth as a
city.
But a little over two years ago the
site Of Goldfeld was one of the most
desolate and forbidding spots in the
great desert region of southwestern
Nevada. Today Goldfeld is the second
city in the state in size and population,
having close to 1000 people. Within a
year, it has changed from a city OF
tents to one of substantial buildings,
residences and business blocks that
compare with those of any western city.
The comforts and conveniences Of mod
ern life have been introduced and the
water system, electric lights, telephone
and telegraph service, the railroad, the
automobile, all are at hand to aid n
the transforming of the desert. The
past two years have been years of won
der-working in Goldfeld, all due to the
marvellous discoveries of golu.
These discoveries extend over an
area of Is square miles, three miles
north and south and five miles wide.
The country is mineralized over a
greater extent than that, but thus far
the sensational values have been founi
in the area mentioned.
With vigorous prospecting in the
eastern portion of the belt there is TO
reason why big values should not be
found there. The formation is similar
to the rich belt and should yield the
same values, but thus far the develop
ment has opened up only big bodies IF
milling ores.
The Goldfeld ores are found in sill
cited dykes of rhyolite and decomposel
porphyry. There are two vein systems,
the older and largest running %northerly
and southerly and the younger, easterly
and westerly. 1t is at the intersection
Of these veins that the sensationil
values are found, throughout the entire
district. The north and south lodges
dip to the southwest and a peculiar
thing at the Florence and Combination
mines is that at the water level the be
ginning of the sulphide zone, the dip
changes to the northeast.
What are termed the milling ores
run from So to $40 per ton, while the
shipping ores run from 500 to 100000.
This of course is a big range for values
of shipping ore. Richer ores have been
produced and no finer or richer speci-
men rock has been found in the world
than at Goldfeld. Yet the shipments
have run less thar usually supposed.
All the mines nave made wonderfully
rich shipments but they have been the
exception, the average being nearer
from $500 to $500. The Reilly lease,
one of the greatest producers the world
has ever seen, made its record, averag-
ing sos per ton from the 9th of August
last to the 10th of October. The Sinner
one shipped ore by express running rs
high as $4,000, the richest lot mar
keted by the Jumbo was a little over
$4,000 per ton and this has been
equalled during the past month, when
the Kendall $4,000 ore was stored n
the bank vaults for safe keeping, pend
ing shipments. The writer saw $l2,-
500 ore being sacked at the Red Top
and ore almost as rich as that coming
out of the Florence and the Mayne,
Lotus, Sherman lease on the Sanl-
storm.
The values have not changed in the
sulphide zone, in fact some of the rich
est ore found in the camp comes from
the sulphide zone in the January and
Florence.
While Goldfeld is a sensational camp
in the value Of it's ores and will con-
tinue for some time to come to produce
its wonderful high grade ores, the hope
for the future lies in the enormous
bodies of milling ores. The high grade
streaks lie in lenses feathering out la
orally and vertically. They come and
90 and the small streaks that are fol-
lowed from one tense to another are
usually on one wall of a vein OF mill
ing ore and the entire country for many
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and shoots is impregnated with values
sufficient to make good milling ores.
1t will be in the mining and extracti,a
of the values of these ores that Gold
field will continue a big and prosperous
mining camp for years to come. All
the big companies intend to erect mills
during the coming year and the Com
bination will enlarge its plant, which is