The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-11-02
FAIRVIEW NEVADA HILLS
IS BIGGER THAN EVER

II Is conservative to state n a every
foot Of depth IN this Wine prove up
$50. 900 In high grade alone, to say moth
ing of milling values.
Nevada Hills Is now working 90 men.
the largest pay roll In its history. The
increase Is largely due to the fact that
the main working shaft taken over from
the leasing company Is working full
blast. and great production Is being
maintained at that point. with a rail-
road to Failon the working force of the
mine would easily total $50 and possibly
$50. The mine Is now equipped with a
big ho.sssng plant, In addition to b
tunnels Nos. I and 5 from which the
stopped product Is brought. There are
three ore house and sorting rooms. and
ten cars OF ore per day could be handled
expeditiously and economically with no
additional equipment. and the putting or
OF more men alone v~ses>s -
TIE HOT ONION
The Hot Onion is once more the scene
of excitement.
P~-ophesies regarding the probable
outcome of the search for ore there have
not been iGie; that II is about to be
transformed from a bright prospect into
a big mine Is too evident to declare
such a condition a probability OF the
next few days.
We may go further. and state as a
fact that the ore shoot expected to come
In with prosecuting and drifting at the
200 level Is already encountered. and
the faith of the camp In this property
from the time OF the surface discovery.
one year ago. is amply justified by the
present showing.
The latest strike there is in the west
drift at eos feet below the surface: fol-
lowing up the vein OF sulphide ore en-
countered last week the values have
gradually improved until on Thursday
the face was entirely shipping ore. and
four feet of high grade ~sulphides were
exposed. : =
When the shaft dropped into this
body at the 195-foot level numerous as
says rave returns from $3.50 to s75 per
ton, which encouraged the general belief
that the higher values would be devel-
oped as soon as the hanging wall was
reached. The crosscut to the hanging
has not been completed. but the ship
ping values were encountered in the
drift to the west. and but a few feet
from the bottom of the shaft. Even
more impc Kant discoveries are expected
at this level with further development
work.
The Hot Onion is a remarkable prop
erty, not alone for its individual merit
but for the demonstration it's ore body
makes with reference to the mineral
zone of the district. Located two miles
northeast of the Nevada Hills. Eagle
Nest. Dromedary Hump, Cyclone and
other mines In the heart of the camp,
with Its vein running parallel to and In
the same general direction with those
OF the older mines. 1t adds materially to
the proving of a vein system that has
no equal in the state. With the Hot Onion
two miles north. the Nevada Fairview
FIVE miles south. surrounded by such
showings of ore In place as have been
made on the Gold Crown, Mizpah. Al
manto. Ingersoll and other estates. the
present shipping mines are In the heart
of a zone of mineral that will eventually
prove up mines extending over a dis
lance of seven miles.
What other mineral zone in the world
can boast such extent. particularly
when proven to be traversed ~diagonally
by numerous veins, many of them con-
nected by cross assures The great
vein system has long been the wonder
of every visitor to this camp. and pow
that the various workings are proving
up the ore shoots in the veins, with
values that will ship. and also great
tonnage of milling ore 1t places Fair
view in the front rank and gives 1t an
individuality for the opportunities of
fered to the investors who want to make
mines. Nowhere else I'm the world is
there such an opening for capital as in
Fairview, the New Comstock" of the
resurrection period.
With so many properties showing up
with surface and underground strikes
at various points in the district. and
sensational discoveries to attract the at
tention for the time being. the depres-
sion In prices nipping ev~erybody's toes.
banks suspending. values shrinking and
the end not yet in sight. II is a good
time to contemplate the condition of
affairs on Nevada Hills. where no Of
fcial daily reports are sent out, no in
formation heralded except every three
months when the dividend checks are
distributed. but where the work of max
ing these dividends continues with
cIock-like regularity and where 80 min
ers, under the direction of Manager w
II. Weber are dclving every hour OF
the "a for the marvellous riches that
are yielded by the worlds greatest gold
and silver mines.-Fairview News