The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-08-11
IN FUNERAL N
Large Improvements Planned for Echo
District.

Over where Funeral range dips down
toward Death Valley to the southwest,
T. l.. eddie and associates promise to
open the eyes of the mining world and
create another big gold mining district
in the desert, says the Rhyolite Herald.
Two properties in the Echo district
have recently been bonded, previous
mention having been made in this pa
per. the Hick and Leavitt property
being under bond to Mr.. Oddie ct al
for $150,O00, and the Iron Clad group
to Charles Schwab, John Mckane and
Pat O'Brien for 100000.
1t is up to Senator Oddie to do the
work, and he is doing it. The Iron
Clad group is the north extension OF
the Hicks & Leavitt, and the property
of Bradshaw and Paymal is the south
extension. Mr.. Oddie is opening up
the lodges, and the other fellows are
awaiting developments. Mr.. Oddie
will pay $4,000 on the first of December
and the balance of $145,0 900 will be due
one year later. Messrs. Schwab, Nc
Kane and O'Brien will pay $4,000 the
first of September, and must pay the
balance of $95, 900 the first of Deem
Der of this year. The Bradshaw & Pay
NAL property is not under bond but
there is a deal pending. The owners
demand a cash payment of $4,000.
The Hicks & Leavitt property is To-
Gated IS miles southeast of Rhyolite,
on the opposite slope of Funeral range,
overlooking Death Valley. But the pres
emit wagon road via Daylight Springs
the distance is IS miles. The property
consists of nine claims. The formation
is quartzite, schist and lime. Numer-
Gus veins of quartz traverse the
ground, cropping for thousands of feet
upon this group and the two groups
endlining same. There are six veins
more than II feet wide on the aver
age, and several veins that are two,
three or four feet wide.
Eight surface samples of $50 pounds
zach gave returns from 81 to $3.50 in
gold. In every instance where any
work has been done, the. values have
increased from $15 to 800 per ton at
the slight depth of from 10 to IL feet.
The principal work of Hicks & Leavitt
---.x- e N So .koff fro,,
which a crosscut was run, exposing 25
feet of ore running $35 in gold. Be-
tween two and three feet Of this ore
assayed from sos to $109. Out of a
dozen or more openings from 10 to IL
feet, samples were taken, the average
being $40. Samples. taken from the
surface and underground workings av-
eraged $25.
The new work now in progress by
feet. An average of the ore from the
bottom of the 6xs shaft shows values
of SIS. At this depth a station is be-
ing cut, and a crosscut will be run to
reach the schist wall. The ledge on
which this work is being done runs
from II to 80 feet in width and crops
for 500 feet without a break.
When all of these gold bearing lodges
are developed, it is reasonable to pre-
diet that the Hicks & Leavitt property
viii become a big milling proposition,
while its neighbors, which have these
same lodges and the same surface val
ues, are in line to be just as good.
Bradshaw & Paymal have opened the
ore and values as Hicks & Leav-
lit. One of the lodges crops for 1000
feet on the Iron Clad group, and an
average assay from the groupings
shows values of 81. The three groups
are traversed by a net work of quartz
veins of a very silicious nature, carry
ing some manganese with which the
best values are present. The Iron Clad
group was bonded after being exam
incd by Pat O'Brien, who is largely in
terested in the Bullfrog Consolidated
and other properties in the Bullfrog
district.
Mr.. Oddie and associates are con-
templating the erection of a mill, the
construction of a wire rope tramway,
and the establishment of an electric
power plant for the mining and treat
ing of the ore from the Hicks & Leav-
lit. The mine is five miles from the
Amargosa river where an abundance
of water may be secured at slight
depth.