The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-05-26
Desert Rose.

u me one when ore was first opened IIp
several weeks back, but the ore taken
out then, compared with the stuff that
is hriny mined now is like couparinr
mill rock with smelling ore Of high
grade. Sandstorm ore was the wondpr
OF the camp six months ago, bnt the ore
that Is coming from shaft No 2 on thu
Desert Rose is fully as rich as the hes;
ever mined on the Kendall lode. This
shaft Is only % feet deep, and in the
bottom there is showing six inches of
quartz and sand along the hanging wall
! that without sorting is assaying better
than $4,000 a ton, and picked samples
OF 1T appear II he more than half gold.
! The gold is coarse, and News repre-
sentative saw the results OF several pan
nings and 1T least So worth Of gold was
saved from the washing of less than "a
half a pound of rock. Some of the coarse
gold nuggets must have weighed as
much as 25 cents worth of the precious
metal. Two shipments have been made
from the strike, but none of the very
rich ore has yet been marketed One
lot of Il little over ton went at the rate
OF ST ,O45. 1t was taken out when the
ore shoot was settled for at $500 a ton.
Alongside the high-grade streak there is
known to he eight feet of mill rock that
will run $50 a ton. Another ore body
has been found in a drift that il being
sacked for shipment and which assays
better than 5000. The shoot was dis
covered on a separate dyke, which will
cut the No. | vein at an angle of about
10 degrees and ut a point 30 feet south
and east of the No. shaft. Here an
immensely rich ore body is almost GER
tain to be found. To cut it at greater
depth a crOsscut is being driven from
shalt No. 3 underneath the ore house
This shaft is down 50 feet and is west
and DOWN the biz. from the cthcr two
shafts. The lease on the Desert Rose is
owned by Zrb Kendall, w. NJ. Lumery
and B. +. Chaudoin. They worked the
ground for over five months before strik-
ing it. All the veins and dykes were
blind ones and they We're compelled to
do great deal of prospecting before
they struck it rich. Their lease has
seven months to run and in this time
enough ore will be taken out by them to
place them on the shady side Of Easy
street for the balance of their lives. A
new gasoline hoist has been ordered and
a much larger ore house will be erected
at once.
Dunn and La Lume, working on block
8 of the same claim south and across the
little gulch from the big find, are max
ing the dirt fly putting down their new
shaft, which is to be 100 feet deep. That
the south extension of one or both of
the veins opened on the adjoining block
to the north will be found is almost a
certainty. The lessees are SO confident
OF success that their lease could not be
purchased at present at anything like a
reasonable figure.
Sandstorm.
The showing on the Lotus and Da-
Wis block of ground is steadily improv-
ing. In the new shaft some 100 feet
south of the main workings a vein car
rying two feet of high-grade ore Was en-
tered last Tuesday. The work of sink
ing the old shaft to the 300-ioot point is
being pushed and shipments of mill ore
to the reduction plants are being sent
out. The showing on block s, which j.
Immediately south Of the Lotus and
Davis, and which is being worked by
Mcdonald aud associates, warrants the
prediction that it will become a steady
shipper in the near future of high grade
ore. The pay rock was struck some
time ago in driving tunnel and winze
was sunk on it to depth of SO feet and
then drift from the bottom was ex-
tended on the dyke south and east. OW-
ing to bad air new shaft had to be sunk
which is down 80 feet, and connections
will be made with the winze by Mon
day There is a good-sized body of ore
From the present outlook, there is no
cause for undue jealousy OF the Sand
storm of its neighbor, the Desert Rose.
Quartzlte.
Joseph Irving OF Diamondheid has
struck it rich on his lease south OF the
main workings and is now workingthree
shifts. The ore body was entered at
depth of SO feet and it is said to be very
rich. The ind was made evidently ON
the south extension OF the big Quartzite
dyke. On the old workings the show
ing must be exceptionally good, as more
miners are employed than for some time
past, and the ore sorters are kept busy.
Water is giving some trouble and it will
be necessary to put il pump when an
other lift is sunk.