Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-01
GLITTERING COLO
IN MINING CAMPS
ANOTHER BIG BONANZA STRIKE
AT G0LDFlELD
Marvellous Showing Made by the Flor
enee Leasing company-Assays
Run from 1907 to $1o,t5e
to the Ton

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awaited succession of strikes that were
to make of Goldfeld the greatest min
ing camp of this or other times, has at
last arrived Almost simultaneously
with the announcement that the Rob-
inson e. Vickers' Little Florence lease
and the Mohawk Consolidated had
struck bonanza ore bodies, comes abso-
lutte assurance that the Florence Leas-
ing and Mining company stockholders
have entered into their reward.
Ninety feet from the 5S5-foot level
of the shaft, drifting in q northerly
direction, ore was encountered on the
11th. 1t was a narrow seam and 1t
returned scarcely shipping values, but
it steadily grew In size and richness
Even now the workings DO not display
a footwall.
Assays taken revealed the following
tremendous values Across thirty
inches, 1907; across twenty inches,
$1797; across eight inches, $10,156.
This is one of the most magnificent
showingS ever made by mine, espec-
tally as there was no attempt to secure
specimens, but an honest sampling
across the distances mentioned was
made. If Mr.. Argersinger had de-
sired, he could have gotten returns up
to six figures, for free gold in big mug
gets is visible, while tellurium is to be
found in almost solid chunks, similar
to that in the Hayes e. Monnette lease
in the Mohawk, but in wider seam.
Mr.. Argersinger is secretary and resi-
dent manager of the company. He has
spared no money in developing this
property, which evidences the most
faithful of management. At the 2S5-
foot point he cut the apex of the same
vein encountered and shipped 400 tons,
but at that point it was not nearly Sc
rich as in the lower level. 1t Is his
intention to rush q WinZe and upraise
to connecting point and stope out the
ore body, meanwhile hurrying the shaft
down another hundred feet to where
the ore shoot is probably richer and
larger. At all events the holders of
Florence Leasing and Mining stock are
assured of ample dividends.
Twenty-nine sacks of ore from the
rich streak, aggregating a ton and a
half and valued at SIS 900, were placed
in the vault of the Sub-State Bank and
Trust company.
Manhattan never looked as good as
it does today and I know of nothing
that can keep the northern town from
being a big producing camp, and that
in a comparatively short time. There
are thousands of tons of milling ore
in sight in the various mines that have
been opened to any extent; there is
every reason to believe that not one
half of the mineral resources of the
vast area about the camp have as yet
been even discovered. All Manhattan
needs to make it one of the biggest
mining camps on record is mills, and
in very short time the camp Is going
to have one forty-stamp plant in opera
ton, probably several plants" This is
what Charles Kielhofer, one of the old
timers of the northern camp who is in
Goldfeld has to say of the prospects in
the north.
"The Mustang strike" he continued,
"is one of the most wonderful I ever
saw. Just before I left camp I went
down in the mine at the invitation of
the Superintendent. All he did was to
show me where the richest ore was and
I grasped a chunk at random. When
I examined it found that it was liter
ally covered with free gold. They have
a three and a half foot ledge at that
point, from which their lowest assay
was over $3.50 and the highest $3.50, the
average across the whole ledge being
about $40O.
''The Stray Dog I believe to be the
Mohawk of Manhattan. was through
the mine just day ago, and what l
saw there certainly surprised me, al
though I have heard stories of the ore
that has been discovered there all Win
ter. I went to the crosscut from the
2O0-foot level and picked up a piece of
rock the size of q walnut and when
panned 1t got 80 cents in gold from
it, The superintendent told me that
the rock was not all like that, which
would figure out to $1,000 a ton, but
they have a five-foot ledge there that
will average over $3.50 ton from con-
servative figures"
A telephone message from Manhat-
tan, received by G. S. Johnson, the sec
retary and treasurer of the Manhattan
Whale Mining company, was to the
effect that new ore body some three
or four feet across has been opened up
at depth of 125 feet, which showed an
average value of from $18 to $25 per
ton, with an additional four-inch streak
of sulphides which showed values of
from $1OO to $3.50 per ton. This ore
body seems to be entirely distinct from
any of those previously opened up on
the Whale territory and is considered
by the management to be of the utmost
Importance The intention is to con-
tnue the development work without in
terruption and to provide for the deeper
mining as quickly as possible.
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