The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-25
BULLION DISTRICT WILL MAKE GOOD

opened up a vein fully -four feet wide
from which ore is now being sacked that
runs about 1000 ounces silver and about
three ounces gold. The Gray Eagle,
located in the granite at the northerly
end of the district, was recently pur-
chased by George Fl. Pearce, formerly
of Colorado, but more recently con-
nected with the Original Bullfrog.
Pearce had considerable difficulty in
putting the old workings in shape, but
he finally succeeded and now mas a fine
body of lead silver ore. several feet in
width, shipments averaging more than
81, 900 per ton.
The greatest activity among pros
pectors recently has been in the north
erly part of the district, occasioned by
the strike of rich gold and silver ore in
the 'Black Rock property. The Black
Rock vein lies against an immense dyke
or reef of rhyolite or altered quartzite,
the hanging wall being porphyry. 1t
has been opened by surface cuts the
length of three claims. The ore at the
surface is quartz fragments embedded
in tale. The average width seems to be
about eight feet, but future develop
ments may prove it to be much wider.
Numerous assays show values ranging
from 1854 to $3.50. the average being
about $3.50 per ton. mostly gold.
The gold belt of the district extends
northerly and s%outherly over low foot
hills a distance of perhaps fourteen
miles, with an average width not to ex-
coed two miles. From a point a mile
south of the town of Tenabo it extends
n~ortherly beyond Bald mountain to
Corral canon, where 1t seems to dip
under a heavy flow of malapai. The
country throughout this area is shale.
cut at frequent intervals with dykes or
reefs of highly silified quartz and oc-
casionally %porphyry and some lime. At
the Dutchman property there is what
some of the Cripple Creek prospectors
are pleased to call phonolite, but which
is porphyry and altered quartzite. All
the ore bodies hus far discovered, with
the possible exception of the Dutchman,
lie against the dykes and have a north
erly and southerly strike. Usually they
are rich in gold at the surface. much of
it showing free and the values nave not
diminished with depth. The Gold Quartz
vein is the largest and strongest yet
opened up, recent developments show
ing it to be fully twenty feet wide at
the depth of thirty feet. Mr.. Anderson,
the superintendent, who is himself a
practical assayer, gives the average
values of the oxidized ores at 5000, all
in gold. While the sulphides, which APP
pear in small quantities at thirty or
forty feet, run about half as high. The
company is subdividing into leasing
blocks and several sets of lessees are
starting on pay ore from grass roots.
The only property in the district car
rying copper in marketable quantities is
the Little Gem. lying north of the Gold
Unfortunately his property is
closed down by litigation. The vein is a
strong one. carrying 80 per cent con-
per. so ounces silver and 2 ounces gold.
The district is reached by daily stage
from Beowawe, a station on the South
ern Pacific about half way between
Ogden and Reno. The distance from
is south "a miles. The district
offers excellent opportunities for pros
p~ectors. miners and investors