The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-06-16
NEWS OF MANHATTAN DISTRICT
A NEW

The population of Manhattan Is on
the verge of another wild stampede for
a new mining district. b ten days
ago a miner came into town fairly
loaded down with samples of ore. He
bore marks of having come quite a dis
lance. He was tired. Nevertheless, he
Immediately went to the nearest assay
office and left his samples. The next
morning he was dancing around the
streets like a child, for in his hand
flashed an assay certificate indicating
that his samples assayed $435 per ton
in gold. When asked where 1t came
from, he assumed a mysterious air. and
said: IF / told you. you would know
as much as 1 4 do" and no more Informal
ton could be obtained. He was not
seen on the streets the following day,
and 1t was learned that he left with a
team very early in the morning. The
next day he again appeared in town with
a Wagon DAD of the precious ore. Other
assays were taken, and values as high
as 500 obtained. He says as soon as
he perfects his locations he will let out
the news. Then the stampede will be
on for fair. The miner says he will
D the grand rush. in a few days.
RALsroN xIHE RELOCATED
Irwin Peterson, the man who recently
made an important strike in the granite
belt near Indian Springs, has discovered
and relocated the Ralston mine. The
Ralston is a former bonanza of the desert
and about 35 years ago many thousand
dollars worth of high grade gold ore
was shipped from the property to
Austin. Later, values deprecated,
work was abandoned and eventually
even the site of the mine was lost.
Peterson has found the pay crack from
which the former operators mined a
fortune and it seems probable that the
old veteran is to regain its former pres
tige. The discovery was made. as gold
finds often are, by accident. While a
corps of prospectors was following a
belt of hematite ore southwark from
the Empire group they came across
what appeared to be a slide. Careful
examination revealed the fact that the
APPARENT fault was the dump of some
long abandoned workings, and further
research resulted in establishing the
identity of the property as the long lost
Ralston mine.
BUFFALO EXTENSION
Within the past week development of
the mining properties in the East Man
haitian section has been taken up on a
more extensive scale and mineral In
dications point to monetary success for
the operators with further exploration.
On the estate of the Buffalo Extension
adjoining the Manhattan Blf-
falo acreage on the east, a working
shaft is being sunk on a vein of por-
phyritic quartz which at surface re-
turns fair grade mill values. With
every foot of depth gained there is a
marked increase in gold grade. The
ledge is 4 feet wide and running through
ii are stringers of quartz that yield
very high assay returns. The prospects
for tapping q big shoot of pay ore with
in a depth of SO feet are above average.
LITTLE GRAY
The Raycraft and McLain lease on
the Little Gray is down 1913 feet. and
they are now drifting in both directions
on the eight-foot vein of high grade
milling ore. A hoist has been installed
to raise the ore to the surface. This
eight feet will mill better than $40 per
ton in gold. In sinking this shaft, two
rich shoots of ore were encountered, one
at the 50-foot level and the other at the
130-foot level. Both these shoots yield
ed very fine specimens of free gold. No
work is at present being don on these
shoots, all forces working on the big
vein at the bottom of the shaft.