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

follow until a depth or 900 feet Is
gained where a station will be cut and
the vein system be proved VI through
the medium Of a series of crosscuts and
drifts. The main ledge OF the Annie
Laurie has been opened up at surface
for a length Of 1000 feet and has been
tested by means OF q number of pros
pect shafts. varying in depth from 80 to
100 feet. The average width of the ore
body is 6 feet and IL is all high grade
free milling product. The break of the
mine shows gold values of better han
$50 the ton. and a silver control as high
as IS ounces per on.
A large tonnage Of high grade free
milling ore is accommodating on the dump
which in due course of time will pass
under the stamps. In fact, one OF the
improvements contemplated by the com.
pany is the erection of a plant for the
treatment of Annie Laurie ores. The
mill Is to be equipped with at least two
5-stamp batteries and 1t is quite prob
able that an additional battery of g.
stamps will be installed.
sExLE1-Ku1xPH1Ex
A corps of % miners is engaged in de-
veloping the property OF the Seyler-
Humphrey Mining company and the pro-
fciency of the work. together with the
character of the ore being mined has
placed the estate in the front rank of
Manhattan mines and assures for 1t a
long era of productiveness.
On the War Eagle claim the miners
are working in 4 feet of ore which aver
ages $40 in gold to the ton its full
width in the face of a tunnel but little
more thar Is feet in length. The ledge
is composed of a highly siliciied lime
quartz i~mpregnated with quartz string
ers which carry gold in the free in flake
and loaf form. A winze is now being
sunk on this ledge and as 1t is lowered
there is no decrease in values. Twenty
tons of this class of rock has been
sacked and piled near the dump and
each day 1t is being augmented by other
sacks, piled tier on tier like bags of
grain in a Minnesota wheat field.
Tunnel Nc. s, located on the west
slope of April Fool hill at a point SOC
feet west of the other workings, is also
in ore and a winze is being sunk on the
deposit 100 feet in from it's entrance
The winze is down 40 feet and its bot
tom is filled with vein matter which as
says from 5000 to 81. 1000 in gold to the
ton.
No. 8 shaft, located about 100 feet VI
the hill from the main tunnel. is down
lis feet and at the 105-foot point a sta.
ton has been cut and the work OF
drifting for a ledge located is feet east
of the shaft has been taken up. Surface
values in this vein are of excellent mill
ing grade and with depth should make
into shipping grade.
YELLOW HORSE OPERATIONS
Plans for the development of Yellow
Horse acreage at depth are being fur
thered by the sinking of two shafts, the
intention being to test out the vein sys-
tenn simultaneously at different points
through their medium. A depth of loo
feet is the objective point in each and
when it is gained crosscuts and laterals
will be run and the ore bodies be thor.
oughly explored. With each foot OF
depth gold values are improving and are
now of exceptional mill grade.
VALUABLE AS PLACER
The Little Grey. Joker. Cowboy and
Stray Dog are 10 longer the only Man
haitian properties which are being
worked as placer. Joe Williams, an ex-
perienced mining man from New Yea.
land, who has lease No. 6 on the Cres'
cent and lease No. 5 on the st. George
acreage, is washing the gravel in the
gulch which crosses his Crescent hold,
ing, and is meeting with success in his
operations.
The gravel is extremely rich in gold
and at points yields as high as 81:
worth of the yellow metal to the cubic
yard. Fair sized nuggets are found not
infrequently, and as a rule the gold is
coarse and heavy. williams has two
strings to his bow, for he hopes by
working the gravel to lay bare the ledge
which has enriched 1t.
1t appears very probable that the
Joker will make good it's appellation
and turn the trick which will win its
owners a big pot of money. Already
the game is well In hand and as it pro-
ceeds the chances for success are en-.
HANGING.
THE PEDRO GROUP
AS development of the Pedro group of
six claims. located in the Timber hill
section. proceeds the chances for the
ultimate finding of gold values of high
n mill grades in place are enhancing.
Operations were taken up three weeks
g but since that time they have been
and are furthered with system and in
miner fashion. Considerable prospect
ing has been done at surface and this in
turn has been followed by shaft sinking
on one of the more promising of the
several promising lodges which cross
the estate.
GRANNY DEVELOPMENT
The Granny is not as old a property
as its name might imply. but with
greater age and attention it is more
han likely to develop into one of the
most talked OF propositions in the camp.
Already II is showing marked improve
ment under the influence OF systematic
mining efforts and is maintaining a gold
average of SAG the ton.
Development is confined to the north
end of the claim where a ledge was re-
Gently carrying the values re-
ferred to. AS depth is gained there is
no depreciation in grade m the lead is
widening throughout and shows a little