The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-04-13

(From our own Representatives..
Manhattan, New. April e.-Manhattan
has shaken off the shadow of financial
III luck which since the San Francisco
diaster of April 18th. 1906. hung over
the camp like a hoodoo and now stands
forth in the rays OF her Industrial re-
f~ulgence.
One. and possibly two stamp mills
for the treatment of Manhattan ore
are a certainty by the middle of sum-
mer. The more important project to
that end, and one mentioned recently
in these dispatches, Is that having the
backing of a coterie of San Francisco
capitalists who are financially interested
in the Anglo-California bank of that
city. J. c. Sartorious. their representa-
tive. arrived in camp on his second visit
a few days ago and announced to your
correspondent that ground would be
broken for the foundation of the mill
building within a week. He states that
a 40-stamp mill and a cyanide plant have
been purchased and that he is now nego-
tiating for the purchase of sixty addi-
tional stamps, thereby Increasing the
crushing capacity of the plant TO 100
stamps. More than an adequate water
supply for milling purposes is to be
conserved at the mill site on Wolftone
Extension ground. Mr.. Sartorious also
states that the plant will be in opera
ton within 40 days.
1t is understood that j.. IT. c. Wolf.
Manhattan pioneer, has purchased a To-
stamp mill for use in this district. 1t
is not unlikely hat stamp mills for the
treatment of company ore will be erected
in the near future at the Hindocraft.
Buffalo, Stray Dog and Manhattan Con-
solidated estates.
RECENT RICK sTRIKEs
The more recent of a number of i'm
portant strikes is that made on the
Thanksgiving estate. adjoining the Mus
ting mine on the west. At a depth of
230 feet a %sulphide carrying ledge 8
feet wide has been encountered, values
ranging from SIP to $500 and 5000 in
gold the ton. Superintendent Mott states
that despite the fact that this vein has
been intersected for 8 feet there is as
yet no sign of the footwall. Thu ledge
matter is a dark colored quartz heavily
im~pregnated with %sulphides and showing
considerable gold in the free. Traces
of lime are discernible, evidently
leached from the higher stratas. Assay
returns of quartz showing no free gold
run from $500 to $500 the ton. Ledge
matter containing visible gold yet not
in the Thanksgiving specimen class,
runs better than 5000 the ton. The
main ore body yields an average gold
grade of $3O4.96 the ton. 1t is
that the entire ledge will yield concen-
trates having a value of 81, 900 in gold
the ton.
orEno GOLD VALUES
Another BODY of high grade ore has
been encountered in the Otero shaft.
The first ledge encountered has an aver
age width of 3h feet, but dipped out of
the shaft at the 25-foot point. For the
next 10 feet, a porphyritic quartz
streaked with rich seams was passed
through. At a depth of 40 feet the
entire bottom of the shaft is in porphy-
rite quartz heavily ~impregnated with
gold in the free. The average grade OF
the ore is well above the average ship
ping mark for the camp and portions of
the deposit average better than $50
in gold the ton. Al this time the body
has not been developed sufficiently to
determine whether it is a second and
parallel ledge or one of numerous
masses of rich ore distributed at random
along the line of contact.
LITIGATION HILL TAN0LE
The Litigation Hill consolidation con-
ference held a few days agoaat Tonopah,
was permeated by a spirit of harmony
and prospered better than the most OPP
timistic dared hope. The gentlemen
present represented the interests that
have been in litigation for the past year
and at their first meeting in conference
amicable terms of adjustment were prac-
tically agreed upon. 1t seems safe TO
state that so far as the legal representa-
tiyes of those various interests, together
with most of the principals are con-
cerned, the Litigation Hill controversy
is a thing of the past. 1t now remains
for the directors of the interested COM
panies to ratify the good work done at
the conference. 1t is believed that raw
orable action will be taken in the premi-
ses within two weeks.
If this prove true a VIII I'M
mediately be formed embracing all the
Litigation Hill properties involved IN
legal ENHANCEMENT. The proposed COM
pany is to be capitalized in the amount
of 1000, 900 shares of a par value or
81 each. OF the capitalization, 100000
shares will be placed in treasury. The
properties included in the proposed mer-
ger are of such known value that mining
operations will be conducted on a very
extensive scale. Included in the machin-
cry equipment will be a stamp mill for
the treatment of the output.
DExTEE PLANS
Following close on the heels OF the
Litigation Hill conference comes the
announcement that the Manhattan Dex-
ter people will take up development at
once on the acreage of the parent and
subsidiary companies. A. d. Nash and
A. C. Raycraft. officers and large stock