The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-09-28
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE STATE.
Correspondents Tell Of the Latest Mining Happenings In Thet
Respective Districts

yer Peak IL In 20 feet and is cutting an
iron ledge through which the miners ex-
pect to pass be fore reaching the Lead
edge that Is exposed on the surface.
About 500 claims nave been staked
out at Lappin Meadows. Every creek
within 20 miles of the summit of the
Grant ountai range has been staked-
Almost all the ground shows colors and
nuggets worth from $3.50 to $40 have
been found.
Smelling company has been incorpor-
ated to work the Copper Bottom and
Bell Mule groups of claims at Luning.
A big ledge of copper has been uncov-
cred in the shaft on the Copper Bottom
ground. On the Bell Mule some well
defined lodges carrying gold values
from s1.25 to SIS rave been exposed.
The big copper find on Cat creek con-
tinues to improve and promises to de-
velop into the greatest high grade cop
per discovery I'm the state. Miners are
now at work drifting both way on the
ledge.
A rich ledge of gold and silver ore
has been uncovered in the Lee mine at
Huntoon valley and arrangements are
being made for the installation of a mill
on the property.
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The Ramsey-Ophir shaft is down
nearly 200 feet and sinking will o
tinue until the 5O0-foot level is reached.
The hanging wall formation is showing
a distinct change. The tale has changed
to a pure white and contains many par
ticles of quartz. Water is coming into
the shaft, which is regarded as a sure
Indication that when the ore body Is
reached 1t will contain s~ulphides. No
prosecuting has yet been started.
The Ramsey-Comstock shaft has been
sunk another zoe feet and a station is
being cut at the fourth level. When
this station is completed a crosscut will
be driven through the great dyke.
The tunnel that is being driven
through the dyke on the Daisy group Is
making good Roadway, in spite of the
extremely hard formation. They have
already driven past the hanging wall
but the dyke is very wide and consider
able work will De necessary to reach the
footwall.
The walkover shaft is down so feet
and the vein has widened from eighteen
inches to more than three feet. The
shaft is all in ore and assay run as high
as $500 and 1000 a ton. Grab samples
run SITS to 5000 and all the ore is be-
ing sacked for shipment.
TuscA1o1A
The Nevada Hydraulic Mining and
Milling company Is pushing work on its
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pleted the hydraulic plant will be in
stalled. The 365-foot unnel will be
completed by the time the water is
turned on in the ditch.
The Bonanza Hill mine. which pro-
duced a great deal of picture rock in
the early days Is being worked by Will
liam Dye and Al Gabbert. Samples
from the big quartz ledge show guam
titles of free gold.
SEVEN T1ouo1s
Arrangements ave been made to in
stall a hoist on the Kayler-Disteli lease
on the Delaware property. The shaft
Is to be sunk deeper and the lodges
which have been cut on the upper levels
will be thoroughly explored On the 300
loot level.
The shaft on the Fairview is down 400
feet at which point a station is being
cut. AS soon as the crosscut is well
under way. sinking will be resumed and
the shaft sent down to the 500-foot
level.
The Nevada Mother Lode Mining and
Leasing company. operating on the Gold
Run group. has completed timbering it's
two compartment shaft and sinking has
been esumed. The shaft will be sunk
to the 200-foot level before any cross
cutting is lone.
The Seven Troughs Humboldt Mining
company is to install a complete mine
equipment. including a hoist. COM
pressor. electric generating machine.
etc. A prospect shaft has been sunk to
a depth of 35 feet and has uncovered a
s-foot ledge which assays SIS in gold.
The Stoker lease on the Therein prop
erty has cut the extension of the Kin
dergarten ledge. at a depth of 100 feet
and the ore assays better than $3.50 a
ton. The high values are found in an
S-inch streak of sugar quartz.
AS soon as a few preliminaries are ar
ranged sinking will be commenced by
the Humboldt Seven Troughs Mining
cOHlpduy. Inc SHdlt Will Dc oiOpPCo
down to the 100-foot point before a sta
ton is cut.
/. E. Pratt and w NJ. Black have pur-
chased the Walker-Cline lease on the
Eclipse property. Plans are being made
by the new owners to open up the prop
erty on a very large scale. A 30-foot
shaft has been sunk on the lease and
the ledge which was followed down
shows a width of fully six feet and
carries high average mill values.
At a depth of six feet Messrs. Earl
and Krantz, operating block z on the
Eclipse property. uncovered a three-foot
ledge of ore the assay from which
show gold values averaging 500 to the
ton. The strike is regarded the biggest
yet made on the Eclipse ground and 1t
is believed that further development