The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-01-19
IIIE WHEN UVULUEN
JOINS THE SHIPPING LIST

The New Year is less than one week
old before the announcement is made
that the Golde Boulder IS ready to ship
ore, and the management Is borough
satisfied that IL has a big mine. Here
Is a property of which very little has
been heard. but which has been worked
Systematically from the start. without
a break in the progress since the first
shot was fred All through the sum-
mer and fall months OF the year just
closed the slow and tedious task of
making a mine has been on. and the
News man has visited 1t time and time
again, only to meet with a polite reply.
nothing If interest doing today. thank
you. Nevertheless the knowing ones
of the camp have had firm convictions
that the Golden Boulder would come
in big in time. and their expectations
are certainly justified by the present
status of development.
Surface assays as high as 1850 nave
been had from the Golden Boulder vein.
in an open cut. Starting in this cut
an air shaft has been begun. and mined
lately great values. running as high as
800, were encountered; at q depth OF
Is feet the vein matter widened and
now completely fills the shaft. With a
depth of Is feet in this shaft. which
will connect with the main tunnel.
there are Ave tons of shipping ore on
| the dump, and since the vein has wild
med the amount of ore being taken out
is materially increased. As soon as the
air shaft is completed a deep shaft will
be put down from the tunnel, on the
vein. The ore will be followed. In the
meantime stopping will begin. and the
Golden Boulder will be the next ship
per. There is a roadway of 500 feet to
work out and this will be completed
by the time the county roads to Fallon
are in condition for shipping.
$4,000 o1r on D1olC1DA1Y HUME
1t is authenticity n persistently
rumored that a big strike has beer
made in the Dromedary Hump tunnel
where an assay of $4,000 was had early
In the week from a streak of quartz
which two days later widened into q
breast Of ore thai will enable the man
agement to ship. The News is unable
to s~ubstantiate the reports, but believes
the statemen here to be the facts
as the source of the information is per
fectly reliable. There has never beer
a doubt in the minds of Fairview''
best informed citizens but what thu
Dromedary Hump will ultimately de
velop a mine. and there is much rejoic
ing in camp today, because of the lates
news from that property.
rAInvIEw CENTRAL TUNNEL
Superintendent ]. w. Clegg reports
splendid progress with the big work
- &n-1I ~, th. LNoiryfaur Central
The deep snow has finally driven thu
workmen from the surface work, bu
in a few days this will be taken III
again. and 1t is hoped by thorough pros
pecting on the surface to open up orr
in place on some of the veins that viii
be cut at depth by the 450-foot workins
tunnel. The exceptionally fine Showing
on the Golden Boulder and Dromedary
Hump have a great bearing on the Fair
view Central. and it's management
should be stimulated to greater efforts
thar ever by the developments on its
n~eighbors this week.
THE IDA n.
The big working tunnel on Ida NJ
No. 8, is going ahead with forceful
regularity and is To- in about rs feet
At the present rate of progress 1T will
not require many weeks to reach the
intersection of the two lodges, at which
1t is driving. The work at the surface
on No. 5 is materially hampered by the
continual snow falls. With the advent
of better weather conditions it will be
possible to push this division of the
development, and to crosscut and drift
on a vein there that promises well,
Three shifts of men are engaged to
prospect on the surface and under
ground at the north end of the estate.
THE NEVADA C0NDoHs
Wallace Macgregor, superintendent OF
the Homer Wilson Trust company prop
critics. has just returned from an ex-
tended trip to Greenwater, and will
from now on give much attention to
the work on the Billiard group. owned