The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-26

600 netted from a glory hole on the
Northern claim. the excavation being
thirty feet wide and sixty feet deep.
Now there is a very similar. showing in
the lowest workings, $50 feet deep, while
at other points there is exposed a VEIN
width of from one to W. feet. averaging
800 per ton, silver-lead. Exploration
energy is confined chiefly to the driving
of tunnels and crosscuts. though several
comparatively shallow shafts have been
sunk, all in ore.
On the Daniels lain of the Northern
group. formerly christened the Sage
Hen, there is exposed a three-foot lead
of average $50 stuff. From the Lookout
claim, another of the group of twenty
one. rich ore in quantity was marketed
by the old-timers. There is there a
great blowout whose ores yield from 80
to 800 ounces of silver per ton. Another
claim is the Kentucky. where furnace
returns run to $40 silver and 80 per cent
lead. Ten to forty ounces silver and 81
come from a big iron dyke. contact be-
tweenl ime and %porphyry, outcropping
on the Iron Savage claim. Another iron
blowout, found on the Southern claim,
is good for as much AGO ounces silver
and the East Dip used to ship $500 ore
when Ii was first worked as the Ace of
Spades by the earlier operators. The
lime and porphyry belt from which
such values are taken on the Northern
group is about th-ree-quarters of a mile
long. boldly outcropping all the way and
everywhere showing more or less gem
erous values. A total blank anywhere
along the grassroots has never yet been
found. Grassroots suggests the fact
that in this section of desert Nevada
there is abundance of wood and water
and a fine grazing range, there being
thrifty ranches in the immediate vi
entity.
Some of the Northern's neighbors
which are being thoroughly p~rospected
with a view to future production are the
adjoining group of -four claims owned
by Lloyd Mount. Col. Mounts son, the
Hillery, the McGilver yand the Jackson
Rhine groups on Green Eyed Monster
creek. a mile and a half south of Chlor-
ide, and the claims of Harry BEDFORD
and others on Silver Creek, a mile and a
half north. On both these creeks the
values are gold, silver and copper,
though the formation is identical in APP
| pearance with that of the Northern.
| Within the past few weeks, there has
been a wild stampede to the district,
which is fast filing up with prospectors,
working on their own account or staked
by mine owners who are waking up to
the possibilities of Chloride, whose
nearest ~postoffice is Antelope, Nye
county, five miles north of the district
headquarters, the camp of Chloride on
Northern territory.
One of the most powerful influences
making for the renewal of development
is the certainty of one and possibly two
railroads to be built this year to points
respectively within eighteen and twenty
five miles of Chloride. One of these pro-
jected lines Is to extend from Battle
Mountain and Austin, via Smoky valley
and Manhattan. to Tonopah. thence to
way of Goldfeld and Rhyolite, by rela-
ton with the Tonopah and Tidewater.
Its nearest station to Chloride will be
eighteen miles west of that camp. Hot
| Creek, % miles southeast of Chloride,
is on the route of the road to run from
Ely. Chloride mines can now play a
trif1e better than even by shipping to
Eureka, So miles, and Tonopah, IS
miles. 1t is obvious that the reduction
o fthe haul to IS or 25 miles will make
a big dicerence in the profits. With the
completion of either or both of these
roads will come the complete ~rehabilita-
ton and permanent establishment of
Chloride, the resurrected Danville.