The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-11-03

CIV. p. De Wolf. Special Correspondent
Manhattan. New. Nov. IA strike
was made a few days g on the prop
erty OF the Manhattan Consolidated
company which in its bearing upon the
mining industry of this section n the
future production of the camp cannot be
overestimated. as IL does the continuity
of the big Consolidation Pin Nut ledge
well down into the permanent ore Rome
without depreciation of gold values. The
find was made in the crosscut run out
from out OF the two hundred feet level
of the new double compartment main
working shaft and the ore Is Identical
In appearance and in richness with that
mined at a depth of fifty feet at an earl
Ter period in the property's development.
The miners are now well in to the ledge
and are breaking and sacking high grade
with daily regularity. The average
grade of the quartz is upwards of s2OO
the ton and is associated with ridways
seems carrying an even higher gold
grade.
VALUE OF THE FIND
The Significance of the find lies not
not alone in its value to the owning
company as an asset but in its relation
to the future development of mineral
bodies of the district. There
have been people h visited this camp
some of them expecting to pick gold
from bushes as one does gooseberries-
who were sufficiently sceptical to pre-
diet an utter disappearance of both
veins and values at a depth lower than
so feet. This theory of the dyspeptic
propagendists has proven u~ntenable
sometime since. and now comes the
further Demonstration that the lodges
of the camp and their values do posi-
lively obtain from grass-roots to a
depth of 200 feet. This fact established
it is but sensible to presume that they
can be depended upon to add yearly to
the worlds gold supply long after their
detractors have been rounded up by the
fool killer.
MINING CAMP PEssIMrsTs
In this connection it might be we'll
to state in parenthesis that a former
generation of mining camp pessimists
predicted the utter loss of all ore in
below the first contact. They
are now mining pay ore in the third and
fourth contacts in the big carbonate
camp. The writer recalls a coterie of
those hotel corridor experts who in
tested Cripple Greek in the early days.
caving and mounting their dismal
prophesies regarding the ore occur
rences n their absolute unstableness.
confident of nothing save the value of
their own agotistic opinion. Cripple
Creek has added upwards Of 800, 000. 900
to the worlds gold supply and is min
ing pay quartz at a depth in excess of
LOCO feet. Goldfeld was cursed with a
corps of knockers of like it, long since
lost to sight and hearing in the prop
erty which attends mining operations
in that wonderful gold producing belt.
They gravitate through mining sections
of the country like a drove of ghouls
and held a post mortum at the birth"
of each new camp. Son day, some
where, somehow a long suffering public
will be avenged and the misanthropic
voice of the knocker will no longer be
heard in the land.
EXTENT OF AREA AFFECTED
The extent of the area affected by the
strike on Consolidated ground is
bounded by the Ralston desert or the
east and the flats vest of the Belmont
estate on the west, the big outcrop of
the Consolidated-Pine Nut assure being
readily traced across the intervening
country. w. o. Pray, the we'll Known
mining engineer, in a recent interview
with your correspondent stated hat he
had in person followed the strike of this
Immense ledge from Seyler-Humphrey
ground OF the point where it is buried