The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-08-10
NEWS OF MANHATTAN DISTRICT
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CIV. p. Dewolf)
Manhattan. Aug s.-Litigstion hill
continues to he the Mecca toward whica
the lessee directs his footsteps Within
the past few days several new leases
have been granted by the mining COM
ranies owning acreage on its au-;ferols
slopes. tie more important being those
passing into the possession of r. Wal
lace Mcneil and Miss b. n. Wilson an I
associates. Mr.. Mcneil has begun WORK
on his holding. located up the gulch
allow the Rose-Nash lease on the Union
No. 4. and Miss Wilson has a force Of
miners employed on two lots of ground
on the Turtle Dove claim. The mineral
showing at surface on these three
blocks Is far above average and would
indicate the opening up of bodies Of pay
ore at no great depth.
Two feet of ore on the loot wall that
will average 5000 the ton is the recent
record established at the OfBrien-La
Lime-Dudley lease on the Union No. 4.
II is needless to state that this ore IL
sacked as fast as broken from the ledge.
Morris B. Dudley purchased q half In
terest OF La Lines interest in this lease
On July <ttUs anu the lOtiOWtuB uay thS
rich discovery above referred to was
made. This fact would tend to the de-
duction that Dudley is somewhat Of a
mascot. The strike was made at a
depth Of As feet ind since then the ledge
has been crosscut a distance of more
thar Z feet without disclosing the hang
ing wall. The break of the deposit is
high grade mill rock and punches of ore
shot full of free gold are frequently en-
countered.
8Ia xoouL
just west of the shaft of the Pioneer
Leasing company the Big Mogul Leas-
ing company has a shaft down 35 feet
all in ore of high milling grade. At Il
depth of so feet the smooth hangins
wall which hitherto had been 0 feature
in this shaft dipped sharply to the east
and in its place is disclosed n body or
ore running GEAR a ross the shaft. The
entire product is u very profitable grade
of milling quartz. Both at this point
and above the deposit is filed with gold
in the free, much of which carries ship
ping values.
The Pioneer Leasing ompany operat-
ing on a block Of ground on the Turtle
Dove claim at a point just across the
line from the O'Brien-La Lime-Dudley
lease, has a shaft down better than so
feet and Is working three shifts of
miners. The foot-wall of a ledge carry
ing ore identical in character with that
being sacked by O'Brien and associates
has been followed. C~rosscutting the
ledge is now on. A second shaft has
been started at the other end of the
lease, and a surface cut run. the latter
proving the vein to be IL feet in width.
Stacking is a feature of each days de-
velopment.
UNION no. 4
At the Rose-Nash lease on the Union
No. 4 a new shaft has been started with
the object of cutting the ledge opened
up on the lease of O'Brien and partners.
Contact is expected at a depth of so
feet.
Crosscutting is in vogue at the Malley
lease. The shaft on this claim
Is down so feet in ore of profitable gold
grade.
Interest in the Gold hill section is
centered at present on the estate Of the
indian Camp Manhattan Mining COM
pany, one of a number of meritorious
mining enterprises in this camp con-
trolled by the ~reorganized Sullivan
Trust company of Goldheld. A new dry
washing device Is in operation at that
point at the lease of ]. B. Giffen and as
sociates. Its alleged capacity Is from
so to 75 tons of dirt per day and con-
siderable speculation is rife relative to
its making good. 1t has been in opera
ton but a few days and thus far APP
pears to be the real thing in the way of
dry washing. Plows and scrapers are
utilized for tearing up the rich surface
dirt and dumping it alongside the new
gold saving device.
WILL 1EsU11E WORK
C. E. Mayne. a prominent mining man
with extensive interests in Manhattan,
returned to camp a few days ago from
a business trip to Salt Lake City. He
that the residents of Salt
Lake are again coming to a realization
Of the mining possibilities in Manhat-
tan, and in justification of this asser-
ton he states that operations will be
resumed within six week at every one