The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1906-08-25

some fine stun. Three assays recently
made run 500, $3.50 and 1878. These ex-
cellent values show that the Red Fox
must soon be moved up several notches
in it's comparative standing with other
good prospects of the district This
company has from So to 20 acres, on the
Red Fox hill, which has up to this time
been but slightly prospected. They
have been working along quietly but
steadily and the good report coming
from that section is very gratifying. A
car and track has been installed. They
think they have struck the formation
which. outcrops above the tunnel on the
surface. Chas. Nihart is superintendent
and w. H.. Eddy This COM
pany is a Patrick promotion.
HoMEsrAKE EXTENSION - The
Herald mentioned two weeks ago the in
corporation of the Homestake Extension
for the purpose of developing a group
of claims in the Gold Bar and Home
stake section. This property possesses
an ideal tunnel site, which has been
taken advantage of and a tunnel started
70 omen a vein outcropping or the sur
face The tunnel should tap 1t at a
vertical depth of 420 feet by driving
500 feet, making almost foot for FOOT,
with the great advantag in favor of the
tunnel over a shaft proposition on ac-
count of the great saving OF time,
money and labor. The ledge on the sur
face is shown to be about sixty feet
wide giving values across 1T from a
trace to $12 in gold. About 1900 feet
distant values nave been secured in the
float as high as s12S. They are pros
pecting to find the ore shoot in place.
DIAMoNDFIELD-Supt. Lynch while
prosecuting the big ledge on the Dia-
mondfeld this week, struck a pay streak
of tale and quartz plentifully sprinkled
with ~anganes The stuff pans well
and the one general assay made ran $50.
A picked sample sent to the home Of
flee at Goldfeld is reported to have run
clear into the pictures. Another shift
was put on today. The crosscut will be
completed to the hanging wall, when a
raise will be made to the surface and
a vertical shaft sunk straight through
the big ledge.
GOLD BAR-The Gold Bar is opening
bodies of ore, more wonderful than any
yet encountered. Mr.. Bedford says the
changes taken place during his short
absence are quite remarkable. On the
15O-foot level a big body of very high
grade shipping ore has been encountered
and at the 25O-foot level the drift has
exposed a very large body of high grade
milling ore. The Herald recently pub
lished the statement that the Gold Bar
had blocked out $4,000, 900 worth of
ore with an expenditure of only about
S4S, 900. These new strikes will add to
the gross amount of ore very rapidly
and will add in like measure to the fame
of this already wonderful mine. A
shaft has been started for the purpose
of developing water to supply a mill as
well as the mine, and three shifts are
at work upon it. superintendent Bed
ford is confident that this will be en-
tirely successful. A pump and engine
are already on the ground. Several men
have been added to the force of miners
this week., and development work will be
pushed with even greater vigor. A visit
to the Gold Bar is always most convinc-
ing to the visitor from out of town.
SHOSHoNE MILL-Western machin-
cry houses are still figuring on the job
of erecting the big Shoshone mill and
the contracts have not been awarded at
this date. MI. Turner informs us that
the tests made during the past three
months have shown the best process
of treatment of Shoshone ore to be a
simple one, combining amalgamation,
concentration and cyaniding. They con
slider that it will successfully treat any
of the ores of the district, as we'll as
that of the Shoshone. 1t will be so in
expensive that any grade of ore may be
treated at a profit. The water for the
mill will be taken from the Bullfrog
pipe line at the south end of Montgom-
cry mountain, where a pumping plant
will be erected, and the water elevate
to a tank above the millsite on Shoshone
ground. A new three-compartment shaft
is soon to be started near the black
smith shop, and as soon as completed
the old one will be abandoned. A much
larger plant of machinery for hosting
will also be required. The development
at the mine goes steadily on, with most
satisfactory results.
STARLIGHT-Tunnel No. 1, on the
Starlight is in IS feet and is still in
good milling ore. The ore body was en-
countered after driving six feet and they
have been prosecuting it since that
time without as yet finding the hanging
wall. They expect to cut it at about
100 feet. Tunnel No. 2 is in AZ feet and
has cut the Mayfower vein. In fact
they have been in it for the last fifteen
feet. with values running from SIS to
$40. The width of the vein is not
known. The opening up of this vein is
a very important matter in that section,
as it demonstrates a continuous miner
allied vein for a distance of about 5000
feet. The ore is of the same general
character as that taken from the May
flower shaft. The vein has been opened
at both ends of the distance named and
in the middle. w. A. Stevens. of Pied
mont, Cal, president of the Mayfiower