The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-02-09

(Trom our own Representatives..
Ramsey. Feb. A few years 9
when 10 was thought Nevada's mines
were worked out and her future looked
dark, she was Stunned by the pros
pector as well as the man with money.
The people little thought that being al
most within the shadow OF the Did silver
mines in the foot hills near the valleys
there were gold mines which stand a
chance OF rivaling the old silver mines
of the early days
Goldheld is only ten miles from the
old camp of Montezuma where mines
and mills nave been operated for forty
four years. Manhattan, covering one of
the largest areas of IN camp in the
state, is only three miles from the old
camp of Manhattan. fourteen miles
from Belmont. for years the county seat
of Nye county, prosperous camp for
over forty years. Round Mountain,
with her rich lodges Of specimen ore
and placer ground recently found on the
Round Mountain Combination c~ompany's
ground which bids fair to even rival
the great placer fields of Alaska in rich
ness, is only four miles from the old
camp of Jefferson, which produced mill
lions of dollars.
Beowawe, with rich gold outcroppings,
is only -four miles from the old camp of
Bullion, and many others that could be
mentioned. But the calnp of Ramsey, in
the opinion of the writer. is the most
wonderful of them all on account of Its
~closeness to the old camp of Virginia
va -. 49, =. CarnafAak lode
produced its five or six hundred million
dollars. More wonderful because 1t is
in the same mineral zone as the old
camp and in the direction (only Is miles
~northeast) where the thousands of pros
pectors that would naturally have gone
out from Virginia to look for another
camp. Similar to what was then the
greatest mining camp on earth how they
overlooked the new camp now called
Ramsey is a mystery. where the lodges
stand towering twenty to twenty-five
feet above the ground, and as is the case
on the Ramsey Comstock Mining com
pany, Walkover Mining company, and
other properties show free gold in places
that pan and assay from $1,000 to $780,
900 to the ton on the surface.
Although this camp was only discov-
cred last summer there are now thirteen
properties with milling and shipping
ore in sight and many others in the
large area of six miles wide and eight
miles long, awaiting the capitalist to
invest a little money to show by devel-
opment that they have valuable mines.
The following are a few of tie great
properties now being opened up: The
Ramsey Comstock Mining company.
mentioned before, has an ore shoot not
surpassed IL equaled by anything found
in the Goldfeld mining district with the
same amoun of development. They are
row equipped with a large gasoline
hoist and nave a shaft down 200 feet, a
crosscut will soon be started on the
second level, which has reached the sui
phide zone. The crosscut OF the first
level showed the vein to be eighty-one
feet wide, every foe carrying either
shipping or milling values. The ship
ping part of the vein lies near the hang
ing wall and carries values ranging
from 800 to $4,000 per ton. The COM
pany has just started shipments, in
tending to ship three cars a week, the
shipments to be increased as the devel-
opments progress. keeping all the time
a large reserve so the shipments can be
made regularly and when developments
enough have been made to warrant it,
they will erect a large mill with a
capacity of from 500 10 1000 tons daily,
hoping to have one of the large mines of
the world.