The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-13
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE STATE
Correspondents Te1 Of the Latest Mining Happenings In Thdr
Respective Districts

of them are $50 by 900 feet. The leases
are held and worked by the following
parties: Lease one and two. Hayes and
Monnette and p. c. Reagan: three. J. b.
Prior q Co.; four. F. d. Bradley: hve.
vacant; six, Joseph Tower; seven. Pero
and Schrefer: eight and nine. Colorado
Springs people: ten. Jas. sullivan; elev-
en-. reserved: twelve. George Lynch.
The company workings consist Of two
tunnels. Tunnel No. 1 is in ESQ feet.
Tunnel No. 9 Is in 425 feet. Both n
nels drift on the ledge. In tunnel No.
2 there are two upraises. one at 200 feet
and one at 400 feet. The first upraise
Is IS feet and connects with tunnel No.
1; the second upraise Is about rs feet.
Work is being lone in the face Of each
tunnel and also on the second upraise.
There are four parallel veins and the
Mazuma Hills property on Lookout
claims / and 4. On Lookout No. 2 claim
no work has been done. although in
dications on II are good. Ed. Curtin is
superintendent.
On the Mazuma Hills Extension a
crosscut tunnel is being un.
English IN George finished cutting a
station in the upper tunnel Of their lease
o the Badger claim Of the Fine Gold
Thursday. From this station they are
sinking on a shoot Of ore. Three shifts
are employed.
The power hoist on the Seven Troughs
Michigan company's lease is installed
and working satisfactorily.
On the Seven Troughs Tomboy com
pany's ground Superintendent Maher has
a force of men at work trenching on the
surface to determine the best place to
start the working shaft.
On the Fairview. Buckhorn. Kinder
garten. Therein and all other operating
properties development work is being
pressed with great vigor.
ROSEBUD
The new shaft on the Brown Palace
has penetrated a body of rich ore, al
a depth of ten feet. Work is progress
ing on unnels Nos. / and 2. The work
Ing force will be increased as soon as
circumstances will permit.
two shifts are at work on the Brown
Palace Extension. A tunnel will be
driven to catch the ledge, which gave
good assays on the surface.
The lower shaft on the Golden An.
hor is now 75 feet deep and is going
down as fast as two shifts can sink it
1t has been determined to sink this
shaft to a depth Of 200 feet before turn
ing drifts on the vein. The crosscut
tunnel is now in more han 400 feet
The company at present employs nine
men.
A contract to sink a 50-foot shaft or
h Golden Triangle has been let. Con.
siderable trenching has been done on this
ledge, and the directorate of the com.
pany upon the advice of Manager Henry
T.. Abstein decided to sink upon a 80.
inch vein of SAP ore. This make five
shafts now In operation.
Sinking on the Dreamland's lower
shaft has been etarded somewhat dur.
ing the week by the lack of mining tim
bers. Manager Harper states that the
ore in his shaft looks better with each
foot of depth, and he is consequently
anxious to see it go down.. A carload
Of timbers is expected to arrive within
a few days and work will then be con-
tinued without interruption.
On the Rosebud Nevada Consolidated
Mining company ground a four-foot weir
has been uncovered which carries aver
age values of $50 a ton, in gold and sill
yer. The ore is similar to that found
on the White Alps.
A new body of ore has been encount.
cred on the White Alps mine, ten miles
from Rosebud, on the 200-foot level
The ore is supposed to be similar In
character to the vein of high grade
milling rock that was struck in the
shaft at the 100-foot level.