The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-03-09

STRIKE in
CORNISHMAN
Lucky Lessees Again Open Up
Ore in COrnishman of +
Florence Estate
VEIN GOES $500 TO THE TON
Shoot Has Been Proven Up 40 Feet.
Vein Is In Place and Uniform Be-
tween the 100-Foot and 300
Foot Levels

Peer and Pugh, two of the luckiest
lessees in the camp, have again demon
strated the fact that fortune is still
with them by opening up another body
of high grade ore in their lease on the
Cornishman claim of the Florence
estate.
The find was made this week In the
150-foot level about 10 feet from the
shaft and it's proportions exceed any
ever before made on Florence acreage
save in the main workings and in the
former Reilly lease-the latter having
produced some of the richest ore ever
mined in this or any other camp.
The shoot has been traced a distance
of 40 feet and the limitation of the pay
area has not yet been reached. Values
are being obtained as high as $1,000 in
gold to the ton, and 3h feet of the
rock holds general average of $30e to
the ton, the balance of the 5-foot ledge
being mill grade assaying from $40 to
$50 per ton.
Additional Importance attaches to the
strike from the fact that the vein is in
place, that the gold grade is uniform,
that yellow pyrites prevail in the ore
thus assuring the permanency Of lead
and values-and that the shoot is con-
tinuous, from the 100-foot to the 200
level. it having likewise been. opened at
the latter point this week. The rock
shows some free gold and pans, but the
string of colors do not in any sense in
dicate the assay value of the ore.
Wednesday night force of miners was
placed at work stopping from the $50 to
the 100-foot level.
Oa0-foof laval he Stoof+ bur
but just been entered and it's merit has
yet TO be- proven. 1t appears probable,
however, that it will be fully as rich in
yellow metal as it's neighbors in the up
per stories of the mine, and it is possi-
BILE that even higher values may obtain.
Wednesday at point about 4 feet west
from the bottom of the shaft a stringer
of pure white tale was encountered back
ed by a wall of porphyry. The drillings
indicate that behind the porphyry there
is a ledge, and Mr. Peer believes that
the latter will be found to be a continu
alton of the shoot opened above. The
prevalence of white tale he considers
especially encouraging as wherever
like condition appears in the Combina-
tion workings phenomenal values make
their appearance, the stuff at times be-
ing nearly half gold. If the lead opens
we'll at the 20O-foot point stopping will
be taken up there and the shaft will be
lowered to the 250-foot level and an
other drift run out to the shoot.
To thoroughly strip the ledge in the
three levels mentioned Mr.. Peer in
tends to pursue method of exploration
which has proved eminently successful
in both the Florence AND Combination
mines. 1t appears that at times very
high grade values are secreted in what
is generally supposed to be the walls OF
the lead-at least such has been and is
the case in the Combination and Flor
ence-and in order to get all that Is
coming to him as the result of capable
mining perseverance he intends to cross
cut to the blue porphyry on either side
of the lead
High grade tonnage is being sacked
and piled up on the dump at rapid
rate and on March 20, three cars and
possibly five cars of ore will go out
from the mine. In the 100-foot level
there is vast amount of mill rock and
considerable shipping grade showing.
An electric pump is TO be installed to
handle the water in the lower workings.