Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-02-16
GREAT VALUES
in The MUSTANG

No strike hitherto made in the
brief but sensational history of Man
haitian has created excitement and
favorable comment in this camp the
equal Of that which attaches to the
discovery of sulphide ore carrying
bonanza gold values in the Mustang.
For several weeks stringers of high
grade were encountered in the work
ings from time to time, and last
Sunday the ore body from which they
emanate was encountered at a depth
of 21O feet.
The ledge has an average width of
3h feet and assays are obtained as
high as $1,000 and $4,000 in gold to
the ton. These values prevail for a
length of IL feet along the strike
of the vein and to all appearances
the shoot is of large proportions.
The miners are still drifting along
the ore without depreciation in gold
grade. To all appearances Superin-
tendent Jack Humphrey tapped the
ore shoot at its apex, as little quartz
of value is found along the roof of
the drift.
In appearance the ore resembles
closely that mined in the famous Mo-
hawk bonanza at Goldfield. So
closely in fact that the person is in
deed an adept in differentiating min
eral bearing quartz who can distin-
guish specimens from the two prop
critics. The rock is closely grained
and compact and shows free gold
an pyrites in quantity. Gold values
are disseminated generally through
out the quartz, occurring in the
planes of cleavage and t~ransversely
in the assuring. Cubes of the yellow
metal are distributed in punches in
all portions of the ore, precluding the
possibility Of a surface deposit solely.
and assuring the treatment of the
entire body at profit.
A case in point is found in the
rich deposits of the Mohawk mine at
Goldfield, the most marvelously rich
gold-bearing mine in the world.
There, as at the Mustang, the bonan-
"a values are found in the sulphide
zone. The sole point of difference is
that the gold values in the Mustang
are found in siliciied slate, while the
Mohawk values occur in porphyritic
quartz. The close resemblance of
the two ore bodies taken together
with the fact that high gold values
prevail at depth in the Mohawk, is in
dicative of the permanency of ore
grade and ledge at depth in the Mus
tang, and that other deposits of
like grade and character will be
found in other portions of the Man
haitian district as we'll.
In speaking of the Mustang strike
and the Importance of its bearing
!, upon the mining industry of the
! camp, w. o. Pray, the man who OPP
! ened up the rich ledge on the indie
pendence Consolidated, { and who has
established an enviable reputation
. as a mining engineer, stated a few
days since that he considered it the
: most momentous strike made in the
history of tho Damn
i THE ores in the Mustang" saic
he, have at depth been found to be
8 freighted with sulphides carrying fire,
gold, and they are characteristic o
10 the main Manhattan ore zone tina
has been traced from the ~Independ
ence Consolidated estate below Cen
# trail to the Manhattan Mammoth pro
perty well over in the East Manhat
10 tan section of the camp. Rich sur
IN face values have almost always beel
w found along the trend of this i'm
m mense lode line, and the many min
n ing men who have examined the or
are highly elated over the prospect.