Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-22
GREATEST STRIKE
IN MANHATTAN
MINERS STIRRED TO INTENSE
ENTHUSIASM
$500 Ore Found on the Thanksgiving
Property on Mustang Hill Pro-
duces Interest That Spreads
Like WiIdfire

The miners of Manhattan, ev., are
confident that their district has en-
tered the category of really permanent
mining areas. In their opinion, and for
that matter in the estimation of oper-
ators of other districts, the late strike
of a sulphide vein at the 230-foot level
in the Thanksgiving mine absolutely
assures Manhattans future. This vein
is fourteen feet wide and carries values
in gold that range from $100 to $500
per ton. The vein has been sufficiently
opened up to show that there is a big
deposit of this sulphide ore.
The ledge matter is quartz of dark
color, yet with traces of lime evidently
leached from higher strata. Some of
the rock shows free gold, but assays
of rock containing no free gold show
between $400 and $500 in value. The
whole ledge, it is said, will produce
concentrates easily worth at least $1,000
per ton. Many samples have been taken
by disinterested parties desirous Of sat
isfying themselves of tie a.tual assay
value of the ore and the average results
from these samples is high.
Intense Enthusiasm
The characteristics of this strike have
stirred the Manhattanites to an intense
enthusiasm, for they show the possi-
yond even the most sanguine expecta-
tions. The way appears to realiza-
ton of every prediction that Manhat-
tan would prove me of the greatest
and most enduring mining camps in
the west. Mining engineers claim that
the Thanksgiving discoveries have add
ed 1000 feet to the depth of Manhat-
tan's ore bodies and at least third
of a century to the life of the camp
From now on water levi and the
sulphide zone will be the objective
point of all mine operators. Every
owner of property with surface indica-
tions similar to those occurring on
Mustang hill is sanguine that he will
encounter the same rich sulphides in
depth. Manhattan finds itself today in
the position occupied by Coldf1eld a
year or so ago. Goldfeld has it's OK
idized zone with it's rich, though err
ratio, ore bodies. Rich deposits above
water level produced considerable gold,
but so erratic and non-persistent were
these that mining men had little faith
in the permanency of the camp. Every
body was waiting for the other fellow
to put down deep hole and accertain
the exact conditions below. 1t fell to
the lot of leaser to open up the first
extensive body of sulphide ore, and
from that time on s rface gophering
was put aside while mine owner and
leaser made for the sulphide zone.
A few of the Manhattan operators
profited by Goldfields past and sunk as
rapidly as possible to water level, with
the result that Manhattan, only little
over a year old, finds itself entering
upon a period of activity which bids
fair to rival that of the great bonanza
camp.
Mining men who have studie' closely
the veins of Manhattan district have
frequently predicted that the discovery
of rich sulphides below water level was
inevitable and that once such ore
bodies were opened up the real pros
perity of the camp would begin.
Manhattan-Maln Progress
The Manhattan-M Main Gold Mining
company, q corporation largely con-
trolled by Southern California capital
and one of the principal operators in
the Manhattan district, is meeting with
gratifying success in the development
of it's properties, comprising three
groups of claims in different portions
of the camp. Work is being diligently
prosecuted on it's Golden Rule and
Morning Star groups the principal
progress being made on the latter.
where the shaft is nearing the 100-foot
level When the 100-foot point has
been reached a cross cut will be run
to again tap the vein encountered in
the cross cut at fifty feet. This vein
showed values ranging from $50 to $50
per ton. There appears to lie no reason