The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-07-28

THE FLORENCE.

THE FLORENCE.
Work on this old favorite of the
district is being steadily pushed and
today it is probably tine model mine
Of the camp in its underground work
ings. In another week or two when the
new ore house is completed it will be
close to first place in the matter of
surface improvements. At the 35O-foot
level, the deepest in the district, drifts
are now being extended both ways on
a. nice streak of ore. 1t carries good
values in gold and the copper percent
age is on the increase. Pieces of the
sulphide show both gold and native
copper. A shipment will be sent out
soon from the mine where the smelters
will allow for the copper values. 1t is
a rule of the smelter trust not to pay
for copper unless it runs per cent and
on quartz carrying this percentage the
shipper is allowed $2.75 for each unit.
It's going to be quite an item from this
below the water level on the Florence.
The presence of copper by all mining
men is looked upon as very favorable
indication that the ore shoots will con-
tinue, to great depth. Superintendent
Oliver is one of the men who halls with
delight the copper values.
On the Reilly lease, on the north end
of the property, a steady production of
high grade. is being made and although
the lease has less than three months to
run the shaft is being pushed down for
another lift.
THE LONE STAR.
If the Lone Star company's ground
was located at some point where water
and fuel was in abundance it would
soon take it's place among the big
mines of the country. The large acre
age has been only slightly prospected
but wherever any work has been done
large bodies of low grade ore have
been uncovered. Occasionally small
seams of high grade have been encoun-
tered and several shipments have been
made from three shafts on the ground
The biggest body of low grade that has
been proven up is ON the Patrick lode
where crosscut has been driven for
a distance of $50 feet, at a depth of
$50 feet. All of it without any sorting
whatever will run Sc in gold The
shaft will be put down an additional
100 feet, or to the water level. before
any further prospecting will be done.
Oliver Mathews, the manager of the
company, is confident that one of these
days an ore shoot will be found that
will rank with the best in the district
DIxIE's ORE BODIES.
AS further development progresses
on the Dixie mine the big ore bodies
show steady Improvement. The shaft
has attained depth of 80 feet, where
station has been cut and a drift
southeast is being extended. At this
point the ledge is as clearly defined as
any true fissure could be and the gen.
eral average Of the ore is somewhat
higher than that found above. In the
drifts that are being run from the
levels above the ore bodies aresholding
an average width of from to IL feet.
Occasionally stringers of very rich
quartz appear but it is the general av-
erage of value-from $40 to $65 ton
that the management expects to
maintain production. With little
more depth it is expected that water
will be encountered and then a marked
increase in values is looked for. If
sorting was resorted to shipments
could be maintained at the present
stage of development, but it is the
announced purpose of the management
to market the output just as it comes
from the mine. In view of this fact
the ore will be left standing until the
completion of the big electric plant at
Bishop Creek, when it is expected a
lower milling rate will be obtainable.
GOLD BAR OF GoLDFIELD.
One shipment has been made from
this new bonanza consisting of ore TAX
en- out in sinking the ledge, and the
returns were not bad when it is known
that the shaft is going down in coun-
try rock as well as in vein filling. The
ore was sorted and shipped in two
grades and went $101.40 and $500 re-
spectively. The shaft has now at
tanned depth of 40 feet and will be
continued to the 5O-foot point before
drifts are extended on the ore shoot.
In the meantime the ore sorters are