The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-09-22
NEWSOF MANHATTAN DISTRICT
fspecial correspondencel
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Butler Mining company. located four
miles north Of this camp in the re-
Gently established North Manhattan
mining district. is being prosecuted
along systematic and economic lines
and the comprehensive plan Of develop
ment is being furthered by means Of a
series of tunnels and shafts. The COM
pany's acreage is the most extensive in
the Manhattan district and comprises SIS
claims which are traversed by 20 known
lodges. the vein matter in which is com
posed OF p~orphyritic quartz very sim
liar In appearance to that obtaining in
the high grade mines az Goldheld.
The entire aggregation OF claims are
contiguous and in their entirety form a
mining estate of 1900 acres stretching
across the country for a length Of 4
miles. The greater proportion of the
claims were acquired by merger and In
cluded i'm the consolidation Is the Brey-
foggle group, crossed by a parallel vein
system Of eight veins. This portion of
the acreage is being developed by a tun-
mel by means of which each OF the eight
lodges will be tapped in succession at
depths of from 400 to 1000 feet and
within a distance of 1900 feet.
On the north end of the property a
tunnel has pierced the hillside for a dis
lance of nearly 500 feet and at the 200
foot point intersected n ledge Z feet in
width which returns gold values as high
as $40 the ton. The entire deposit Is
free milling and the company is CON
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of erecting a
stamp mill at the mine. The property
is controlled by a syndicate Of Pittsburg
and Cleveland coal and iron magnates.
including I. T. Coppack of the P%ittsburg
Coal
WILL INCORPORATE EDITH
The Edith group of claims In the East
Manhattan section has been purchased
from j. III. Rose by Messrs. McElvaney
and Torpey of Manhattan who purpose
Incorporating the Manhattan Edith Min
ing company for their exploration. The
group adjoins the Toquima Copper COM
pany's claims on the east and its vein
system returns very favorable paintings
and assays at surface and nominal
depth. Little in the way of develop
ment. other than testing out the various
lodges. has as yet been done but the new
owners are preparing for an extensive
and systematic campaign of exploration.
MANHATTAN MINING
The hosting plant recently installed
at the cellar of the main working shaft
on the Annie LAURA claim of the Man
haitian Mining company is working with
the regularity of a clock. and now that
il is in commission sinking has been re-
sumed and Is to continue until a depth
OF 500 feet is gained at which point
the greater proportion of development is
to be carried on. As the shaft is low
cred stations are to be cut at each so
foot interval and crosscuts run out to
the main ledge. At surface and nomi-
nal depth this ledge has yielded some of
the richest and handsomest free gold
specimens unearthed in the Manhattan
district and once the vein system is well
entered from the various levels there is
every reason to believe that pay values
will be found in place.
MATTE ETHEL LEDGE
E~ndlining the Annie Laurie claim on
the east Is the Matte Ethel claim of
the Manhatt Portland Mining COM
pany. Some weeks & a horse was en-
in the extension of the Annie
Laurie ledge in Matte Ethel ground and
with it's appearance gold values depre-
ciated very materially. This week,
however, the horse was cut through and
the lead recovered. The gold grade is
again increasing and now uns as high
as 500 the ton. The point of develop
ment in the north crosscut run on at
the foot of the 40-foot incline shaft. A
force of six miners is employed.
BIG PINE VALUES
Taul and Burton are securing assays
as high as 1913 and $113 in gold the ton
from their lease on the Big Pine COM
panys acreage. The ledge is showing
strong in well defined walls and presents
promise of making into a permanent de-
posit of shipping grade quartz at depth.
Five feet of the ore pans freely and will
mill at profit and along the
hanging wall there is a 10-inch streak
which some times assays well up in the
hundreds per ton. In the gulches below
the Halliburton workings there is an
abundance of placer gold.
MANHATTAN COMBINATION
On Manhattan Combination ground
the miners are working in an immense
deposit of mill grade rock and ASSOC
ciated Herewith is considerable high
grade quartz showing gold in the free
and sacking at better than $500 the ton.
1t was on this estate that Sol Camp, the
man who opened up the million dollar
ore shoot in the Elkton mine at Cripple
Creek, found the pay crack at grass
roots. The ore is from 5 TO 7 feet in
width and is premier milling quartz in
its entirety.
MANHATTAN AMETHYST
Development of the estate of the
Manhattan Amethyst company is being
furthered by means of two shafts and
a third is to be started within the week.
There are six claims in the acreage and
each is traversed by regular and well
defined lodges. The property Is located
in proximity to the well known Pay
master mine and carries the same vein
system from which the latter is mining
high grade ore. Milling values of from
81 to SIS in gold the ton prevail in the
lodges both at surface and in the under
ground workings n in each instance
the leads show clear and true in well
defined walls. They vary in width from
2 to 4 feet.
MANHATTAN MIzPAH
A very promising ledge has been
opana1 ~ In fba f,tpnaI hU Of