The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-15
BUTLER
STRIKE ON COWBOY

Manhattan, New. Sept 13.-The SEN
sation of the week is the finding of
specimen ore on the property of the
Manhattan Cowboy Mining company.
The rich strike was made on the western
end of the Iron King claim on a new
vein just opened from the surface. and
from present Indications. will prove the
bonanza of the camp.
Samples were taken from the ledge
when first opened, and the first assay
returned $15.26 per ton in gold. This
was at a depth of four feet. The vein
was opened up, and proved to be between
six and seven feet in width. and at a
depth of seven feet, the specimen rock
was broken into. 1t is the superstition
that this vein is the same as that of the
Union No. 0 and Little Gray, as the
quartz is identical, and the ledge can be
traced in a straight line across the hill
to the properties above named. The re-
markable feature of the strike is that
the Cowboy company will have fully
1000 feet on the rich ledge. Tint ore
will easily assay SIS per ton in gold.
This new vein is undoubtedly the one
from which the rich placer deposits
came, as ii crosses the gulch where the
placer machines were working, and only
a foot or so beneath the wash where the
placer work was done.
There is something peculiar in the
finding of this rich ledge at so late a
date, as the leasers on the Cowboy dug
holes all around 1t. and not one opened
it up. j. Ness, the leaser "a Nc. 8 on
the Iron King, sunk a 35-foot shaft
within five feet of this rich vein, and
at that depth decided to crosscut to the
north. Had he gone to the south he
would nave had the rich vein within ten
feet.
Ed Mulcoy and Jack Stinson are the
boys who in the interests of the com
pany, found this wonderful ledge. Null
coy took lease No. 8 on the Iron King
of the Cowboy company last February.
and has been conscientiously at work
ever since. Stinson was put on the sur
face last week, and found the ledge
after a few lays work. Mulcoy, who was
at work on the lease, told Stinson he
knew this ledge cut through the ground
along there, but was unable to find it.
The mpa put Mulcoy at work with
Stinson, and together they are rapidly
opening up the vein. Another shift will
be put on at once, and sinking pushed
ahead rapidly.
The tunnel on the Georgey group of
the Manhattan Nevada Gold Mines COM
pany at Central is showing up fine. Ore
has been exposed in the face of the tun-
mel and in the face of the drifts, which
are being run from the tunnel in both
directions. The ore in each place is of
a good milling grade, and pans WE'LL, and
there are large quantities of 1t. The
predictions of mining men to the effect
that If a mine is to be found in that
section of the district, it would be in
the Georgey Hill. are rapidly coming
true. for the property is certainly max
ing a record for itself. Assays have
been obtained as high as $4S per ton in
gold.
Two shifts will at once be put to work
on the Georgey tunnel, and 1t will be run
orwar with all possible speed, cutting
all the ore bodies in the hill. AS fast
as favorable veins are encountered new
men will be put to work to drift in
each direction. In fact the company In
tend to open up a mine in the Georgey
Hill, and are going at 1t in the right
way.
The c~ompany's expert engineer is now
on his way to Manhattan with a view
to thoroughly going over the Copper
Farm and FL Dorado claims of the Man
haitian Nevada Gold Mines company,
with a view to selecting a suitable spot
on one of the numerous lodges which
have been opened up on that part of the
company's holdings, to sink a shaft to
open up the ground.