The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-23

custom mill for the treatment of Man.
haitian ores and unless they miscarry.
which is improbable, there is no doubt
but what the plant will be in operation
by fall. Middle west capital is behind
the proposed enterprise n their inter
esfs at this end of the line are being
cared for by Messrs. Arkell and Boards
ley.
A few DAYS ago z. VI. Mead. of Salt
Lake City. arrived in Manhattan for the
specihc purpose of investigating the
mining properties of the camp and the
~adaptability of IN ores to amalgama-
ton and concentration processes. He Is
greatly impressed with the possibilities
of the district and stated hat he con"
sidered the field as one of the very best
free milling propositions he had ever
examined. He further stated that he
Intended to recommend to his clients
the erection of a 20-stamp mill at this
point provided the mine owners would
enter nto contracts with the owning
for a definite number of years
to supply the plant with ore.
Mr.. Mead has gone to Salt Lake to
confer with his associates n in the In
term prior to his return to Manhattan
Messrs. Beardsley and Arkell are to con-
suit the mine owners with the object OF
getting then to agree to send their
product to the plant under terms
which provide for ore treatment at $40
per ton.
A party of prominent business and
mining men of Carson City visited Man.
haitian Monday and Tuesday of this
week en- route on a tour Of the mining
camps of the state in a high power auto
mobile. The gentlemen were George
Corning, cashier of the Nye & Ormsby
County Bank at Carson. II. A. Lennon.
manag of the Nevada Press Printing
house, George T. Mills, chairman of the
Republican state central committee and
State Senator Brougher.
Prior to their advent to this camp the
party had visited Fallon. Fairview.
Austin, Miilett and Round Mountain.
From here they journeyed to Tonpah en-
rote to Goldfeld, Bullfrog and other
Southern Nevada camps.
The gentlemen inspected a number OF
the larger mines of this district and
were a unit in the belief that Manhattan
is entering upon an era of mining pros
perity u~nequalled in the history of the
state. Speaking for the party Mr.. Lem
mon said:
eff you call these quiet times in your
camp, / would like to have seen you
when you were busy. You certainly have
a magnificent array of mining properties
and will soon be one of the most produc-
tive camps in the west"
CAT bird
Coon progress is being made in the
crosscut tunnel which Is to open up the
several lodges showing at surface on
Cat Bird acreage. A number Of quartz
stringers carrying high grade gold
values have been cut during the course
of extending the bore n basing the
promise on this characteristic, there is
no question but wha pay ore in place
will be encountered when contact with
the vein system is reached.
The Cat Bird Is unquestionably one of
the foremost prospects in the camp and
presents exceptionally favorable indica-
tons of becoming one of the districts
largest and most productive mines.
LITTLE GREY DEVELOPMENT
over on Little Gray acreage that
choice piece of mineral bearing ground
adjoining the Union No. 9 and the Gold
Wcukc CidlfnS, INdyCTdlI anu mClAdlH dIc
developing their lease under the most
satisfactory conditions. The shaft is
down to the 16S-foot level and at that
point drifts are being extended in both
directions on the ore body.
The ledge is s feet in breadth and car
ries a high grade of mill ore clear
across. Samples of the quartz assay
above 500 the ton, but the general
average is a little better than $40 per
ton. 1t is all free milling product and
is being hoisted to surface and saved
until such time as it car be sent to mill.
During the course of sinking the shaft
two very rich shoots were encountered,
one at the 50-foot and the other at the
130-foot level. Both yielded handsome
and valuable free gold specimens. Every
man who can possibly be utilized to ad-
vantage is placed at work exploring the
trend of the big ledge at the 16S-foot
level and as the drifts are extended
gold values show an inclination to i'm
prove.
The block is capped with one of the
most pronounced outcrops in that sec
ton of the Manhattan pay belt and is
p~ermeated with fair grade free milling
quartz throughout its length and
breadth. The veins from which high
grade is being mined on Union No. 9 and
Gold Wedge territory pass across the
Raycraft-McLain holding and when they
are proved up at depth on the latter the
chances are strongly in favor of their
making into shipping ore. thus assuring
a regular and profitable output.
PINE NUT MACHINERY
Everything is in readiness at the Pine
Nut property for the installation of the
big 50-hoTse power steam hosting
plant. and the centrifugal pump now in
transit from Austin. The ground has
been leveled off and graded n the ce-
ment foundation constructed for the en-
CINE. The gallows frame is in place and
the shaft house in readiness for the ma
chinery. The plant is one of the largest
thus far ordered for a Manhattan mine,
and the fact that steam instead of gaso-
line is to furnish motive power bespeaks
the confidence the owners have in the
~permanency of vein and values. The
hoist has a lifting capacity from a depth
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