The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-05-19

GrBRALTAR.-The crosscut on ledge
No. . in the Gibraltar has come into
high grade values after exposing fifty
feet of good grade milling ore. The
quartz this week is alive
with free gold. and pans like wild FIRE.
superintendent Nelson has had no as
says made, but places the value of the
ore at the conservative figure of from
$3.50 to 5000 per ton. This shoot has
been opened for fifty feet in width and
is rich enough throughout to break down
for milling. which is also true of the
long drift. 10 feet, that was run on the
east wall before the crosscut was
started. Ledge No. 2 has been developed
into one of the bonanza milling PROPOSE
tons of the camp, and the end is not
yet. The present indications point to
the fact that a body of shipping ore is
being developed in his immense ore
shoot. The two levels on No. 4 ledge,
which have never been out of milling
values and in many places exposing
high grade shipping values, are being
extended steadily into the big mountain,
the levels having reached more than $40
feet. The vertical depth at the face of
the lower level is more than 800 feet.
HOMESTAKE.-The Homestake Con-
solidated has made a touchdown this
week. The crosscut from the drift at
the 20O-foot level has opened Is feet of
high grade milling ore, with a streak of
shipping grade that will run from SIS
up to big values. Superintendent Gle
ment is too conservative to place the
average above SIS, yet specimens have
been taken out that will run $500. The
crosscut is being run at a point rs feet
southerly from the shaft, the drift hav-
ing followed the hanging wall and ex-
posing good milling values every foot.
The extent of the deposit will be deter
mined by pushing the crosscut to the
opposite wall. This is the same shoot
from which the Gold Bar company is
sacking $500 ore, the Gold Bar shaft
being within a few feet of the end of the
drift, and only about 20 feet outside of
the Homestake endline. The Homestake
shaft is down $50 feet, and has exposed
milling values from the surface.
SKOoKUM.-Judge L. o. Ray, vice
president of the Skookum Bullfrog, and
J. p. Nelson, of the Gibraltar, made a
visit to the Skookum property on Tues
day and brought in some rich samples
of ore. The ledge has been opened up
to a depth of 10 feet, by means of an
open cut on the Tum Tum claim, and
has also been opened up on the surface
for a distance of 500 feet. Mr.. Nelson
discovered a large boulder of ore at the
bottom of the hill weighing more than
1000 pounds which could be broken up
and shipped. Some of the ore coming
out of the mine is rich in bromides,
black metal, chlorides and copper and
will run from 1000 to 1900 ounces in
silver, from 81 to an ounce in gold and
5 to 20 per cent in copper.
wONDER.-While it has been ad-
mitted by all who have in any way in
formed themselves on the Keane Won
der mine that there was a large ore ton
mage blocked out averaging about $40
per ton, gold, and that there were TWEEN
ty other lodges partly developed show
ing good milling values with an inn
mense tonnage, it would SEEM, from a
report made by E. II. Widdekind, super
intendent of the National Bank mine,
that the story is but half told, for not
only is there a large amount of milling
ore, but high grade ore abounds in all
parts of the mine and on different
claims as revealed by the following
average assays: Four feet and one
half averages SIC! another four feet
runs SIS; seven feet averages $50; an
other seven feet goes $36, and four feet
in another place assays $42.
-Rhyolite Herald.