Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-15
BEATTY STRIKE
IS SENSATIONAL
CONFIRMATION OF FIRST RE-
PORT BY EXPERTS
Great Dixie Of RhyoIIte Quartz Shows
Ten Feet Of Ore In the Town-
site-GoId GuIch Is
Rich
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
BEATTY, New, April 14.-Experts
admit that the find made last week on
the Beatty Townsite is turning out
better than expected and the possibili-
ties are now that q mine will be de-
veloped on ground included in the
townsite. A tunnel driven under
great dixie of rhyolite quartz now
shows ten feet of ore. Many fine gold
specimens have been found and can
still be found on the dump. An average
sample over the face of the tunnel re-
turned $26 in gold. A selected speci-
men ran over $50. Saturday morning
the miners were still working in the
ore without indication of a let up.
1t was amusing to witness the ex-t
element caused by the display Of the
free gold samples before the crowd on
the porch of the Montgomery hotel. 1t
required but an hour to draw every
man in town to the spot and Just be-
cause the strike was made so near
town many were inclined to disbelieve
their eyes and proclaim the free gold
copper mica and a dozen other oddi-
ties. Some one brought around a NOR
tar and another a vial of acid. Through
the smoke and noise of these tests the
gold came out bright and unimpared
and the copper mica" man withdrew
from the field.
Many visitors have called at the
property since the strike, many of
whom were well known mining men,
and without dissension of opinion
agreed the ground capable of produc-
ing mine. Messrs. Hoyt, Phillips and
Meyer, the owners, have ordered a
hoist from Los Angeles and upon ar
rival it will be installed about so feet
west Of the ledge and the ore caught
on it's dip at depth of $50 feet.
Gold GuIch Wonder
Gold gulch is out with another
strike-one that promises to over
shadow all the discoveries made in
Bullfrog in the last six months. The
last property to develop into a mine Is
a group Of unincorporated claims
owned by E. e. Palmer, Jim Dee and
Pete Brown, all of Beatty. Early last
week the dixie was struck and panning
material-a milk quartz-was found in
stead of the worthless jasper. Friday
evening ten feet of the ledge had been
cut into, showing ten feet of milling
ore, rock that will pan literally in
coarse gold. The tunnel is being con-
tinued and it is thought that the en-
tire forty feet will prove to be a mill
ing product.
The news of the strike created in
tense excitement not only in Beatty.
but in Rhyolite, and a number of per-
sons from both towns drove out to the
property. The change from barren
jasper into rich quartz at a depth of
less than fifty feet is remarkable and
suggests to everyone the possibilities
of the hundreds of great dikes that
outcrop all over the district.
The Borax Railway
Splendid progress is being made on
the Borax road, and there is a possi-
bility the line will be in Beatty by
August The advance camps are just
about 100 miles from here and the in
tervening country is about as ideal for
railroad building as can be found any
where. From the start the I. & T.
has not ceased operations, and with
the amount of material now on hand
there is every reason to believe there
will be no cessation of work until this
point is reached.