The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-08-17
CONDENSED NEWS OF THE STATE
Correspondents Idl Of the Latest Mining Happenings In Their
Respective Districts

lease on Gold Run No. ? lode claim Of
the Vernon Consolidated Mines company.
Development work has already been
started and a hugh quartz ledge with
liperyte Gaping has been exposed for a
distance of 100 feet. by means Of a
trench.
1t has been decided to sink q new
shaft on the Backbone lease. located on
the First Fraction Of the Seven Troughs
Knickerbocker company. Two shifts
will be put to work at once.
Preparations have been completed for
h renewal OF operations on the Seven
Troughs Fairview. The shaft. which Is
down $50 feet will be sunk to 500 feet as
rapidly as the work can be done. making
1t the deepest shaft in the district.
Work on the Seven Troughs Kinder
garten property was resumed last Mon
day. after a shut down OF several weeks.
owing TO the strike of miners. Work
for the rpesent will be confined to devel-
opment of the great ledge that was
opened on the 100-foot level.
j. f. Pratt has taken a lease and
bond on a group of six claims in the
Poker Brown district.
1t is reported that a two-foot ledge of
blue quartz has been struck at a depth
Of Is feet on the Wyoming group.
The Humboldt Seven Troughs Mining
company has atarted development work
o n Its property in Burnt canon.
The shaft on the Seven Troughs Tom
boy property has reached a depth Of 40
feet and rich paintings are Of frequent
occurrence.
The Eclipse lease on the Badger prop
erty made a good strike a few days ago
in the bottom Of the winze that is being
sunk from the tunnel level. The ledge
Is five feet wild and shows an abund-
ance of white sugar and blue quartz
that pans freely.
Hutto and Tyler, operating a lease on
blocks 5 and s on the Therien property,
have struck a ledge in a crosscut about
IL feet from the bottom of the shaft.
The ledge has been penetrated for near
ly Is feet and no wall in sight.
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An extra force OF men is now engaged
OF the Brown Palace, trenching above
the point from which the ore was re-
Gently taken for shipment to determine
the true course OF the ore shoot. Tun-
mel No. l is now in nearly $50 feet and
tunnel No. 2 is in 235 feet.
Preparations are being made to re-
sumo development work on the Durango
Girl property on al extensive scale.
Crosscutting the big 34-foot ledge OF
the Rosebud Rather continues and in
dications are that the miner are APP
preaching the footwall of the rich ore
shoot that crops out on the surface.
The upper shaft on the Dreamland is
down so feet and 1t is expected that the
ore shoot will be tapped in about 20 feet
more of depth. The ore shoot has been
proved for 90 feet northeast from the
shaft.
The drift from the tunnel on the
Golden Anchor is in 35 feet and values
are increasing with every foot. When
the ore shoot Is reached there will be
1855 feet of stopping ground.
Development work on the Springfield
continues and a very promising ledge is
being exploited. A bond and lease have
been given by the Spencer brothers, who
own the property.
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Anderson and Holcomb have unk a
shaft on their property to a depth of 30
feet. The sinking is being done along
the footwall and all the shaft is in ore.
II SIdlt oH tnO SottOIitdll has HOW
reached a depth of 81 feet, and If the
vein keeps the same dip as on the sur
face 1t will come into the shaft within
the next few feet. Splendid surface as
says were obtained from this vein and
If 1t show up as well at the depth
gained shipments will be going out from
the property before long.
Jesse Taylor is expected back from
Golconda very soon to begin operations
on the find recently opened up on his
claim. He has three feet of ore that
will average about $40 per ton on the
surface. A 10-foot hole has been sunk
on the vein and the values are a little
stronger than at the surface.
Two men were put to work on the
White Cat claim, prosecuting the slate
dyke, to intersect the ebert vein on
which the owners, Childers & Guerin, re-
Gently obtained an assay of $235.47. A
depth of 25 feet will be attained at the
point which is judged will be the inter-
section.
Charles scossa. who began operations
on the True Vein vlaim last week. has
IN two prospecting shafts and both
of them show the silver plainly. One
shaft has attained a depth of seven feet
and averages $43 across the bottom,
while he has driven the other one to a
depth of -four feet, also in ore.