The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-10-13
Especial Correspondence

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Fairview. October 1O.-H. r. Lind. OF
GoIdneId was in Fairview last week and
after looking over the Nevada Hills mine
said: The reports sent out of the
wonderful values found in the three
tunnels of the Nevada lille mine are
in no way exaggerated. in my opinion
the property has the greatest showing
of any in the state. The stope above
tunnel No. 2 is producing. as before,
the same soft. blue-black tale, charac-
~teristic of the high grade surface values
of the Fairview zone. The ore taken
from this ground runs around 5000 to
the ton. II is freely stained with cop-
per and the rock upon being fractured
shows up wonderfully well in horn sill
yer. For 1900 feet the ore shoot has
been traced east and west along the
Nevada Hills ground. Tunnel No. 4
which is the latest portion of the ground
to surrender high-grade values. now
probably produce the richest rock taken
from the entire mine. giving returns in
the n~eighborhood of $1,000 to the ton.
This rock is in fact so uniformly rich
that ii is being sacked Immediately as
ii is removed, without Undergoing any
preliminary sorting.
At the present time considerable diff
Guilty is being experienced by the man
agement in shipping: the teams coming
into camp ann keep pace with the
output from the mine. East of Tunnel
No. 4 the formation of the ground
changes in a very marked manner. and
the theory is held that on further ex-
ploration 1t will be found hat a big
faulting has occurred in the ledge and
that instead of continuing IN in an
easterly course, it runs more towards
the ~outheast. There are of course no
conclusive indications upon which such
a conjecture could be based. and that
there is more than one opinion enter
tanned on this point is evidenced by the
extensive exploration work now being
accomplished by both the Nevada Hills
Leasing company and the owners of the
Lookout group of claims, properties inn
mediately east of the Nevada Hills, the
ledge of which is believed to traverse
their ground.
A quotation of the actual figures will
probably convey a better idea of what
wealth the Nevada Hills is now pro-
ducing. The last shipment to the Salt
Lake smelters netted the company some
$50, 900, and the total value of the out
put for the last month will amount to
little less than 800, 900.
The chief interest of the camp at the
present time centers upon the develop
ments about to occur in the lower tun-
mel, known as tunnel No. l, which is
calculated to strike the vein at a depth
of something less h a 200 feet. The
striking of the ore shoot, its character,
and the promise of ~permanency that
favorable results would hold out mean
much to the camp generally. The COM
pany is now about 80 feet into the ledge,
slow head way is being made however
on account of the extremely hard char
acter of rock encountered.
Nothing can be said to detract from
the consistently favorable nature of de-
velopments on the mine up to date. That
it is to prove of the great properties
of the state and of the west there can be
no doubt.
FAIRvIEw EAGLES.
Substantial preparations are now be-
ing made on block z of the Fairview
Eagle Company's Boulder No. 8. claim
for extensively developing the ground
from which such big values have been
secured. At the present time the work
of sinking the shaft, which is now down
to 80 feet, has been suspended in order