The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-11-24
zouED MOUNTAINS

Round Mountain. New. Cor 19-High
gold values. from ledge and placer rival
each other in the Round Mountain
country and together they make up an
output whose gold enrichment is un-
equaled in the mineral belt lying to the
north of Goidheld. 1t is doubtful II even
the great Mohawk mine, maker of Cold
field, mining history and ~millionaires.
can show more beautiful or valuable
free gold specimens than are mined in
the holdings of the Sphynx. the Red
Top, the Daisy and the Fairview: and
certain it is that Goldheld cannot lay
claim to a badger who made his bed on
a slab of gold e~ncrusted quartz as did
the now historic animal to whose bur
rowing Instincts are due the finding of
the rich ledge IN the Round Mountain
Antelope property.
HIGH PLACER VALUES
Tom Wilson. the man who discovered
the high commercial value of the aurif-
erous surface dirt on the S~unnyside and
Sphynx estates, is cleaning up from
$500 to $1,000 daily by running the
gravel through dry washers. and is
working every man who applies for a
job. The deposit is quite as rich on
Sphynx ground as on the Sunnyside, and
Wilson recently estimated il to have a
gold value Of $1,000 No claim has
thus far been made for Sphynx ground
as placer, but that it is worthy of more
than passing mention as such is evi-
deneed by the statements of Wilson.
MILL A SUCCESS
The Moore & Chapman mill-not to
be COMPOUNDED with the two-stamp plant
of the Round Mountain Mining company
lis working to it's full capacity and is
saving better than 80 per cent of the
values. The first run of the plant was
decidedly satisfactory, the returns being
a trife better thar the assayed value of
the ore. A run of % tons of ore from
the Munholland lease on the Daisy Frac-
ton, recently made, gave returns of
$500 net. For the past few days the
employees nave been engaged in cleaning
up the plant preparatory to making a
run on a sacked lot of very high grade
quartz from the same lease.
FREE MILLING ORE
A feature of the run which is received
with great satisfaction in the Round
Mountain country and in mining circles
generally is the demonstration that
Round Mountain ores are absolutely
free milling and that a Huntington can
be depended upon to save the maximum
per cent of values secreted in that char
acter or quartz. In the runs so far madr
nearly all the values were saved in the
batteries, very little gold being taken
from the plates, and the tailings assay
ing but a trace. The management is
naturally very much pleased at the
showing; so much so in fact, that it in
tends to at once install another battery
OF five-stamps.
TONNAGE AT MILL
There are now at the mill letter than
200 tons OF ore from the Sunnyside
claim, a portion of which has already
been treated. The quartz was mined in
the lease of Campbell and associa
Better than 1900 tons of high grade mil
rock is showing in the workings, az pf
which is to be treated at the Moore
Chapman plant. The Antelope company
has three bins full Of ore and a sacked
lot of high grade at the mill. the
Sphynx people have closed a contract
for the handling of their mill grade out
put, and the Red Top and Fairyiew man
~afe1nents are preparing TO follow suit.