The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-29
WHITE PINE COUNTY'S NEW
GOLD CAMP, BLACK HORSE
A Representative of the News Makes Visit to What Appears to be
One of the best of Nevada's Many New Mining Camps.--
New Workers Getting in on Ground Floor

these claims are very rich. many OF
the assays going as high as $4,000
per ton.
Adjoining tn Black Horse group and
the San Pedro group also are the claims
of the Mabel mpa owned by salt
Lake people, headed BY illard 5. Sny-
der. what is known as "The Glory
Hole" on one of the Mabel claims has
four feet of oxidized phonolitic quartz
which yields at the rate Of 100000 per
ton. Arrangements are being made to
ship a car of ore from this discovery,
which will go GU next month.
By that time it is expected the rail-
road will have been completed into Ely,
n freight for Black Horse will then
be handled via this route. and IL will
also be a cheaper route for ore ship
ments.
The automobiles that have been ply
ing between Cobre station and Ely and
later between the termini of the Nevada
& Northern railroad and Ely, will be APP
piled to the service between Ely and
Black Horse as soon as the railroad
company shall have inaugurated its
passenger service into the Ely station.
From the Buchanan mine the owners
are taking shipping grades worth on an
average of $500 per ton. There are also
a dozen other claims on the main ledge,
as it is called, which will be making
small shipments within the next three
months at the latest.
Free gold is visible to the naked eye
in the samples obtainable from all these
prospects. A large part of the ledge
has fallen away at many points and lies
in crumbled mass or the ground below.
This mass assays on an average sl2
per ton over an area of a quarter of a
mile If squared, and is known to be
forty feet deep over it's greater part. 1t
makes the most gigantic cyanide propo-
sition known anywhere in the state.
Drainage from this crumbled and OK
idized mass undoubtedly is what made
the placers below and that were most
| strongly marked at Osceola.
The Black Horse district is 20 miles
long and fifteen miles wide, and is all
marked by similar lodges to the one
now being opened up. The surface in
| dicaticns on the other lodges are sim
liar in many respects. but the few mer
who have been prospecting Throughout
the region this summer have not beer
able to ever scratch the promising
| areas hundredth part.
There are eight business buildings II
the town, and others are going In as
rapidly as the lumber can be secured
The population is about 800 and Is
housed in tents and tent houses.
To the north and south of the golc
belt are gold, silver. lead and copper
belts wherein extraordinarily large
dykes are plainly marked as being ricf
in these metals, and appeal to the pros
pectors who are coming in now from al
directions, at the rate of ten to twenty
per day.
Until the gold discoveries in the re
gion named, however, it was absolutely
virgin ground. never evidently sus'
pected even of carrying values and die
service to man merely as pasture fol
sheep men of the Snake valley below.
We invite some of the Goldfield peo-
pie to pay us a visit whenever they con
clude that some new world should be
conquered.