The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-11-17

estates in the Manhattan mining district
are being developed with greater success
than are the Stray Dog. Indian Camp,
Jumping Jack and As-You-Like-It
properties. In fact these four acreages
comprise the larger portion of that rich
mineral bearing area Known as Gold
hill. Allied closely with these proper
ties both in location and in ledge system
is the Union No . claim OF the Manhat-
tan Dexter company, n in conjunction
the five represent nearly all OF the more
valuable portion of Gold Hill.
AS has been stated before In these
dispatches a deal is pending for the
merger of these valuable acreages into
one estate. and If accomplished holdings
in the integral companies will be worth
considerably more than at present The
phenomenal conditions at Goldfeld.
where hundreds of thousands of dollars
are now being made in a day. has de-
ferred somewhat the consummation Of
merger plans owing to matters at that
point demanding the attenti.n Of the
owners of the control. but they are snap
ing up rapidly and the DAY OF their
~fruition is near at hand.
Excellent progress is being made in
blocking out ore and IA opea ne up new
ground. and the latter Is proving cutie
as rich in its gold yield as is thas por-
ton of the acreage when drst called
the attention of the mint u public 10 the
valuable deposits of this camp.
Lease No. / on the Stray Dog-Hud-
son and Vermilyea-was the one which
created the first rush to the camp, and
prior to it's being purchased by the
Stray Dog company many thousands of
dollars worth of high grade gold bearing
ore was mined at nominal depth. When
the company assumed control they pro-
ceeded to sink a deep main working
shaft and from its bottom they are now
drifting over to the ledge from which
Vermilyea, the attorney. and Hudson,
the mule skinner, mined a fortune. This
same ledge has been opened up at fire.
quent intervals on other portions of
Stray Dog ground.
THE SANTA LOLA
The estate of the Santa Lola Mining
company, located about a mile south
west of the famous Union No. 9 and
Stray Dog claims. has a prospective
value second TO no acreage in that Sec
ton of the great Manhattan pay belt.
In all the company owns 100 acres of
mineral bearing ground all of which is
traversed by a series OF lodges in much
the same manner as the meshes obtain
in a screen.
Work at this time is chiefly confined
to the King Oscar claim where an in
cline shaft has been sunk in the ledge
to a depth of 20 feet. From grass
roots to bottom there is an increase Ia
gold grade and paintings and assays in
dictate the quartz to have a value across
Z feet as high as los the ton, The entire
deposit is a commercial grado OF mill
ore and is being piled on dump until
M time as the camp is supplied with
milling facilities. The ledge is well de-
fined and cuts the formation, being read
lily traced at surface almost the entire
length of the acreage.
A vigorous campaign of development
work is being conducted and its furths 81
ance the entire vain system is being
tested at surface. So far as completed
explorations have demonstrated that the
grass roots deposits can be shipped to
mill at profit, and as there are thousands
of tons of that character of ore in sight
the future of the company does not de-
pend solely on the finding of high
grade.
AS is the case at other properties con-
siderable difficulty is being experienced
in securing miners and operations there
for have not progressed as rapidly as
the management could wish. The pres
ent working corps consists of nine men
but it is the intention to increase 1t to
fourteen men as quickly as possible. 1t
is the intention of the company to pro-
vide winter quarters for the men at the
mine and in pursuance thereof a large
bunk house is being erected.
OF late mining attention has been at
tracted to the section of the camp in
which Santa Lolo ground is located by
the finding of encouraging values and
promising lodges on adjacent estates,
notably that of the Desert Queen com
pany, and now that the Santa Lola is
itself in commercial grade ore it is be-
coming more strongly in favor.
STRIKE ON WHITE CAPS
Another important strike has been
made in the east end of the pay belt and
with its full proportions as yet to be
determined it is safe to predict that it
will rival in value that made on Con-
solidated ground less than three weeks
ago. The find was made or that portion
of the White Cap group of the Man
haitian Dexter company which is under
lease to Mikulich and Smith, the point of
its location being the crosscut run out
from the 1S5-foot level of the main
working shaft. The ledge has been en-
tered for better than 7 feet and the
average break is a trife better h
SIS in gold the ton. Neither wall is yet
in sight and the ore body is continuous
from surface down.
The Importance of the find lies in the
fact that Messrs Mikulich and Smith
have caught the continuation of the big
Consolidated assure, and once they tap
it at the 200-foot point there is
little question but what values will per-
tain as high as these now prevailing in