The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-08
THE BULLFROG DISTRICT


body. There is an open cut through
his vein matter is feet wide. Three
feet of this matter is a soft. soapy tale
similar to the $1,000 tale of the Mont
gomery Shoshone. AT two feet from
the surface this tale matter carried an
assay value of s1.20, and at six feet the
assay value was s3.S0. At ten feet, the
present depth, the assay value is $500.
1t is the intention of the management to
sink at this point a working shaft. A
gasoline hoist will be installed in the
near future and development work will
be systematically ~inaugurated. The
company is incorporated under the laws
of Arizona for 1000 600 shares. The
stock is being closely held by the COM
pany, and none is known to be on the
market.
NATIONAL BANK-The shaft on the
National Bank has reached a depth of
27O feet. The bottom of the shaft is in
highly altered blue rhyolite, n very
hard. Stations have been cut and drift
ing lone at the 100, 200 and ESQ levels.
north and south The drifting at the
1OO-foot level, following the hanging
wall, has opened up the vein for a dis
lance of 41S feet. Crosscuts on the
vein, every 80 feet, show an average
width of from 10 to 16 feet and good
ore all the way. Both drifts are being
worked. At the 200-foot level the south
drift is in $50 feet, the north drift $50
feet. Crosscuts made every 80 feet
show an average width at this level of
IL to &c feet. The bulk of this ore is
of good milling quality, with occasional
rich pockets. In the wall of the shaft,
at the depth of 227 feet, a blind of very
good ore is exposed. This will be
opened from below when the 300-foot
level is reached. Drifting will also be
done on a strong. outcropping ledge
from this level. At the surface this
ledge is four feet wide and carries good
values. The values on this property are
carried in the p%orphyry and quartz,
clearly defined between the blue rhyo-
lite walls. A % Fairbanks Morse hoist
is operated, for the compressor as well
as hosting. Two shifts are being
worked.
YANKEE GIRL-The Yankee Girl
shaft is down $50 feet. The formation
is uniformly porphyry and rhyolite. and
no distinct changes lave been noticed at
any time. Tomorrow a station will be
opened up at the 30O-foot level and
drifting will at once. The
shaft will probably be sunk another 100
feet without prospecting. At that point
drifting will be started for the veins of
the adjoining National Bank. The Yam
kee Girl property embraces three claims
and a fraction, just below the National
Bank and to north of it.
-Bullfrog Miner.
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Mayfiower and Starlight are doing them
selves proud these days and are daily
attracting more attention, as is evil
denced by the steady upward march Of
stock quotations. Double shifts are
working in three faces from the 200
foot level of the main Mayflower shaft.
The north drift is in 80 feet, the south
drift 25 feet and the crosscut, IS feet,
and all are in ore of excellent milling
grade. , The even distribution of values
through the vein matter has been fire.
quently mentioned before, but a few
figures will show plainly how it runs.
At a depth of 100 feet superintendent
Smith took grab samples from each
bucket as it came up, which samples
were thrown into a box. At intervals
of five feet the contents of the box were
mixed and quartered and assay tests
made. The twenty tests mad in sink
ing 100 feet. to the 200-foot level, gave
an average value of a little better than
SIS. The No. 2 shaft recently started
has reached a depth of 25 feet. Three
shifts a been working, but the gas
retained as they get deeper made it
necessary to take off one shift yester-
day. A grab sample from the bottom
of the shaft ran SAL. The vein seems to
be more solidly in place than in the
main shaft, though of the same general
character. Superintendent Smith is of
the opinion hat the main shaft will be
less broken when another 100 feet of
depth is attained. The Starlight tunnel, |
100 feet from the new strike on the
that has gone through ore of the same
character as the Mayflower, running be-
tween SIS and $40. The tunnel now has
a vertical depth of So feet. With refer
ence to the May1ower, the tunnel level
is about eighty feet lower than the col
lar of the shaft. When the shaft has
reached the TUNE level, drifts will be
run on the ore from both shaft and tun-
mel to make a connection, fer the double
improving the air circulation. Every
visitor to the Mayfiower section comes
back greatly impressed with the idea
that every indication points to larger
and better ore bodies as the work pro-
ceeds.-Rhyolite Herald.