The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-06-29

Manhattan, New, June 26.-Rapidly
recurring strikes of high grade ore
coupled with the fact that adequate mill
ing facilities for this camp are a GER
tainty in the immediate future are act
ing as an incentive for increased mining
effort throughout the Manhattan dis
trict. Not alone are mining companies
who hitherto had worked their ground
In desultory fashion. or not at Al,
prosecuting development on a scale de-
cidedly more in keeping will the pros
pective value of their acreages, but a
marked increase to the lessee list is
apparent, the latter condition being In
a measure probably due to the assurance
they rave Of a local market for milling
grade ore. Credit for this satisfactory
state Of affairs is almost solely due to
the fact that all Of the mining compan-
les whose holdings were operated during
Manhattan's period of travail and cavil
are oficered by real mining men, not
n~ovices, and that affairs at the mine
are in charge of competents. not dull
lards. laggard born. This camp is pecu-
liarly free from Favored relative" Of
the director or officer of it's mining COM
panies and as a result where mining
~ was PoSSiOlC ldS OCCIl
achieved and where it is yet possible will
be achieved.
GOLD CREST
An immediate result of recent valua-
BILE ore finds at the Crescent-Eureka es-
tate is the determination of the Man.
haitian Gold Crest Mining company to
develop that portion OF the rich Crescent
Eureka ledge which traversed its acre
age, although the company had intended
to prosecute mining research on an ex-
tensive scale prior to the finds of high
grade by the Eureka management. Gold
Crest ground adjoins the Eureka and all
surface indications point to the fact
that development at depth will result
in the opening up Of large bodies Of MILL
ing and shipping grade ores. A deep
main working shaft is now being sunk
and at water level the first crosscut to
the ledge will be run out.
BONANZA sKArT
Sinking has been resumed in the main
working shaft on the acreage of the
Bonanza Copper company, one of the
most promising mine holdings in the
East Manhattan section of the district.
This shaft is now down 145 feet and is
to be lowered to water level with all
possible speed. J.. G.. McElvaney, a Man
haitian pioneer and mining man is in
charge of operations. At present sink
ing is being facilitated by means of a
within but a plant of machinery is to
be installed as soon as the objective
point is reached. From surface to a
depth Of SO feet the Bonanza shaft
yields very encouraging gold and cop
por uo1r1oc aud oc tho nra 10 rop6pad In
a large and well mineralized ledge the
location of pay grade in place at depth
is reasonably certain.
CRESCENT EUREKA
A depth of rs feet has been gained in
the Crescent Eureka shaft and from sur
face down there is a pronounced in
crease in gold values. The ledge which
it is proposed to develop at a depth of
100 feet through the medium of drifts
and crosscuts is a contact between por-
phyry and lime. At the 75-foot point
this ledge is well sprinkled with sui
phides and assays from $32 to $4,000
in gold the tor. 1t is expected that a
large body of shipping ore will be en-
countered at the 10O-foot level and that
stopping will follow.
GOLD WEDGE
At a depth of 95 feet the new shaft
on the Gold Wedge property is in pay
ore, sacking being a not unimportant
feature of each days development. A
depth of 200 feet is the objective point
and at that level the ore body is to be
explored by means of a series of cross
cuts and drifts.
THE BLUE JAY
Work has been started on the acreage
Of the Blue Jay Mining company under
the supervision of c.. E. Mayne. The
holdings adjoin the estates of the Verde
and Whale companies and have great
prospective value. Pay ore is showing
on both the Verde and Whale and as the
Blue Jay carries a continuation of their
development of the latter's ground will
result in mining success.
MUSTANG STRIKE
Tons of ore rich with gold and
freighted with sulphides are stored in
the Mustang ore house. Thousands of
tons of ore of like value are blocked out
in the drifts making off from the lower
level. New ore bodies are frequently
scovere in this unquestionably richest
mine at this time in the Manhattan dis
trict. The more recent of a number of
valuable finds was made June 18th n
it's development since that date roves
it to be one of the most important dis
yet made in the workings. A
great portion of this ore is specimen
quartz of unique value n beauty. 1t
breaks from the ledge in punches weigh
ing from a half pound to one hundred
or more pounds and is a glittering mass
of free gold and sulphides. A piece of
this quartz, now on exhibition in Man.
haitian. is so filled and encrusted with
gold in the free and ~sulphides 1t is all
but impossible to distinguish it's matrix.
The foregoing facts epitomise present
conditions at the Mustang property and
stamp it as being already a mine and
one which with further development will
become a heavy producer of gold
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