The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-07-27
MANHATTAN FAST GROWING
INTO BIG MILLING CENTER

grass roots to bottom. Quite a tonnage
of sacked ore awaits shipment. The
Pioneer Leasing company is pushing
work In It's shaft on blocks IL and IL
on the Turtle Dove claim. The foot-wall
of a very rich ledge running at right
angles with the main ledge Is being fol-
lowed downward and sacking is a fea-
ture of each days development. Three
shifts of miners are engaged in sink
ing the shaft on the Union No.
. claim at a point near the juncture of
a cross ledge with the main ore body
traversing Litigation hill. At a depth
of IS feet they are breaking and sack
ing high grade ore.
CRESCENT EuREKA
A depth OF ITO feet has been gained
in the Crescent Eureka shaft. At that
point the ore body continues to carry
the high grade milling values first dis
covered nearer surface. The average
gold grade is a trife in excess of $26
the ton, streaks in the ledge returning
a gold content as high as $1,000 per
ton. 1t is the intention to continue
sinking until water level is reached and
at hat point to crosscut and drift on
the ledge.
TIE PAYNASrE1
The Paymaster, one of the first prop
critics in the camp to produce specimen
ore. Is again in high. grade. The find
was made by lessees In the bottom of a
60-foot shaft and from the character
of the ore II appears probable that the
Paymaster is to make good at depth
its earlier promise at surface. Speci-
mems taken from the md are we'll filled
with gold in the free, the precious metal
being foliated over the surface of the
quartz in a delicate tracery of Natures
handicraft.
TIE oTEHo
Sinking is progressing much fore rap
idly in the Otero shaft now that the
machine plant is In operation and
guarantees the early tapping of the ore
bodies below water level. A peculiar
and highly satisfactory feature of the
Otero shaft is the fact that while no
attempt to follow the ledge Herewith
has been made it has, nevertheless, ex-
posed more ore than any other shaft
in the district at the same depth. From
the 100-foot point down the shaft is
one immense deposit of profitable ore
and from the 100-foot level to surface
is filled with veins of high grade ship
ping and high grade milling ores. The
last ore body cut is identical in char
acter with that discovered in the
Thanksgiving workings at like depth.
but gold values are not as high as OBJ
tanned in the lodges opened above. The
quartz is well ~impregnated with sui
phides and is in general Indicative of
permanency at depth.
THE FRACTION
Al a depth of IL feet Jim" Shay,
leasing on the Midget Fraction adjoin-
ing the Stray Dog claim. is sacking
shipping ore. Every pound of rock
hoisted is of that grade and much of it
is specimen ore. The product is sacked
as fast as broken down..
THE PUrNEY LEASE
A large body of sulphide ore has
been opened up at a depth of 10 feet
in the Putney lease workings on the
Black Jack claim adjoining the May
flower. Two shifts of miners are en-
ployed in development work and are
making good progress considering the
primitive method utilized for hoisting.
A considerable portion of the product
is being sacked. 1t is the intention to
sink to a depth of $50 feet before drift
ing on the ledge.
W0LFToME EXTENSION
Satisfactory progress is being made
in sinking the double compartment shaft
on the Wolftone Extension property.
from time to time paintings of the
dirt from the bottom of this shaft yield
very encouraging gold values. The
| wolftone Extension shaft is one of the
best and largest in the camp, but ow-
ing to the character of the ground 1t
is necessary to timber every foot as it
is driven downward. From paintings
of the surface dirt recently made is
probable that much of it could be worked
with profit as placer.