The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-07-28

from the Jumping Jack mine since
spring aggregate about 1900 sacks OF
ore, having a gold value of from 5000
TO $500 the ton. The more recent ship
ment consisted of PAT sacks, the ore
grade averaging 5000 per ton.
The company's main working shaft is
down better than 100 feet and the man
agement estimates that IT will tap the
ore body on it's dip at the 150-foot mark.
AS soon as contact with the ledge is
gained it is to be intersected and drifted
on in search of a pay shoot. The vein
sought is the one which is yielding such
generous gold contents on Stray Dog
ground and there is strong probability
that once it is explored similar values
will prevail.
on the former Golden lease a splendid
body of high grade shipping ore has
been opened up at the 4S-foot level. sack
samples indicating it to have a value of
from s225 to $275 in gold to the ton.
Eighteen tons of the higher grade are
piled on the dump and is augmented by
100 tons of $3.50 grade. At this time
about 6 tons per day is the output from
the lease, but under pressure the
amount could be increased to so tons
daily and plans are being made to swell
the bulk of the product to approximately
that figure.
THE STRAY DOG
That the Stray Dog property is de-
stined to de developed into one of the
biggest bonanzas in Southern Nevad is
becoming more apparent with each
round of shots. Each day adds to the
extent of its precious metal deposits and
enhances its value as an asset to the
Manhattan Stray Dog Mining company,
owner. Mining history records few par.
allels at relatively the same period of
development either in gold enrichment
or comprehensiveness of ore bodies. j.
d. Campbell, superintendent of the prop
erty, recently stated that the Stray Dog
showing is the equal of that which OBJ
tanned on the celebrated Reilly lease on
the Florence at Goldfeld in its early
stages, and as Campbell is the man who
developed that phenomenal producer of
high grade gold values, his statement is
worthy of more than passing considera-
ton. The ground is being proved up
both by lessees and on company account
and in each case results are fully in
keeping with the systematic program of
mining effort.
The company is sinking a double COM
partment vertical shaft with the object
of tapping the ore body at a depth of
100 feet and rapid progress is being
made. Campbell will cut a station at
that point and proceed to prospect the
ledge which in lease No. l is yielding
pay ore in shipping lots. He is SAN
guine that his efforts will result in the
location of a large body of shipping ore
and as he has yet to record his first
failure chances are decidedly in his
favor.
Al a depth of 1876 feet in lease No. /
both drifts are in pay grade and in each
development of a 2-foot shoot is in pro-
gress. Gold values run from $500 to
better than 5000 the ton, the average
grade being close to $500 the ton. The
breast of these drifts are more than 10
feet apart and the ore is continuous be-
tween them. In addition to the high
shipping grade an immense tonnage of
high class milling ore is being broken.
the latter ranging in value from $40 to
$40 the ton. A large area of stopping
ground is thus made available, a condi-
tion which assures constantly increasing
production for a long period of time.
THE INDIAN CAMP
With the extending of crosscuts to-
ward the vein system from the bottom
of the Indian Camp shaft, a depth of 100
feet, it appears probable that an ore
body of proportions will be encountered
within comparatively short space of
time as the breasts of each show high
naturalization and gold contents are in
creasing in value. Although not in the
ore zone proper, the shaft has been in
ore from grass roots down, the forma-
ton being .streaked with stringers of
valuable quartz showing considerable
oxidation and naturalization There has
likewise been a very p~erceptible in
crease in gold values as the shaft neared
the objective point, the break of its bot
tom being a trife in excess of IS the
ton.
AT points en- route to the 100-foot
level a 12-inch streak has crossed the
shaft. which holds an average gold grade
of $50 the ton. This stringer is I'M
questionably a feeder from the main
ledge and is indicative of the location of
pay ore once the vein system is well
penetrated. Another characteristic
which apparently presages the finding of
shipping grade at depth is the fact that
placer lessees are taking from 2h to 4
ounces of gold daily from the surface
gravel by means of a dry washer. 1t is
but reasonable to suppose that this en-
richment came from the lodges below
during some remote upheaval of nature.
Wherever prospected at surface the
lodges crossing the Indian Camp have
invariably returned satisfactory PAN
nings and assays and as these values
could possibly have come from no place
save the transmitting furnaces of the
earth there is but one logical deduction.
That is that the gold enrichment of the
Indian Camp vein system will continue
to improve with depth. The question
has been asked in the past will the
veins and lodges IN the Indian Camp and
other Manhattan properties go DOWN."
The most comprehensive reply to this
somewhat name query is that made by
Jim Butler, who said of the famous
Tonpah mine located by himself: TT