Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-11
FANCY GRADE
FOUND AGAIN
FLORENCE ANNEX SHOWS ITSELF
WORTH WHILE
DAISY AT DIAMONDFIELD HAS
BONANZA
GoIdfleId Is Now Producing 100000 a
Month In Gold Bricks Besides
What Smelter Trust
Receives
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
GOLDFIELD, New. Nov. 10.-Not since
the days of the Hayes & Monnette lease
on the Mohawk, when nearly four mil
lion dollars worth Of ore was taken out
in few months has there been ore like
that on the Florence Annex company 8
ground, on the south end of the Cornish
man and the north end of the Firelight,
both properties being owned by the
Goldfeld Florence company. Ore has
been in sight for the past two weeks, but
it was just ordinary quartz that did not
go better than $400 a ton as 1t was shot
down, and this would be considered high
grade gold in any portion of the world,
as it went at this rate just as it was
shot down in running the drift at the
300-foot level. The rock was not thrown
over the dump, but only few shipments
were sent out, although stopping is 60
ing on.
The drift was continued until the stuff
that makes a millionaire out of man in
very short rorder was entered. The
phrases of a ''jewelry shop" "ore that
only lacked the stamp of the govern
ment and the eagle have been used so
often that they have become little tire
some, and the better way would be to
say that it is very high-grade ore The
ere showed free gold in a small way,
ton, and the other $6240
Those assays were somewhat encourag-
ing, and the miners went at 1t harder
Than ever. Every piece of the rock
shows free gold, and select pieces run
100000 ton. The rock is similar in ap-
pearance to the high-grade stuff mined
on the -Monnette and Frances-Mo-
hawk leases on the Mohawk. and the
very best that is being broken today on
T MI
of this high-grade will be or the length
of the shoot will only be determined by
further work.
Overlooked a Good Thing
This block of ground was worked by
Truett and associates, who sank a shaft
500 feet. They overlooked the fact tha,
an ore shoot is seldom entered in sink
ing and failed to do any systematic cross
cutting or drifting. They disposed of
their lease to the present owners, VINO
decided that depth enough had been
reached and began cross-cutting at the
200-foot level toward the west and 25C
feet away from the shaft the ore shoot
was entered. 1t parallels the Little
Florence vein, an ore shoot at dis
tance of about 150 feet. The crosscut
was started at the 400 and 500-foot levels
on the andesite dyke, and the ore shoot
VIII De tHlcIcu llcdl Cl " Tic olldll
than at the 30O-foot level, as the dyke is
pitching to the east at an angle Of about
30 degrees.
Three shifts are employed on the work.
The lease has until the first of March to
run and the leasing company realizes the
fact that production will tax the capa-
city of the hoisting plant.
A cross vein of high grade ore from
twelve to twenty-four inches wide has
been opened up in company workings of
the Daisy mine at Diamondfield. The
strike was made In the southwest drift
on the 210-foot level near where the man
vein was struck in the crosscut and the
values run all the way from a few dol
lars to $1,047.56 a ton. A drift is being
run on the cross vein, under the direction
of General Superintedent c. w. Geddes,
IN order to thoroughly develop the bo-
nanza streak
The Nevada Southern Gold Mining
company, owning 145 acres on the south
slope of Gold mountain, forty miles
south Of Goldfeld, is going to enter the
shipping list in the near future, even if
1t is necessary to haul it by wagon to
Bonnie Claire station. An adit tunnel has
been driven on a cross vein into the hill
distance of about 600 feet, where the
breast is 300 feet below the surface. In
driving this tunnel to cut the main ledge
ore has been found at different points,
but the policy of the company has been
to pay very little attention to ore en-