The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-08-17

tBy w. +. Dew OH, special representa-
tive of The News.)
Manhattan, New. Aug. 15.-Mid-sum-
mer finds more lessees at work at vari-
Gus points in the Manhattan mineral
gone than ever before in the history Of
the camp. Signs of his industry are
everywhere In evidence and, what Is
more to the point. the majority Of them
are working under mineral conditions
which bespeak ultimate success a
cially. AT a dozen leases the miners are
working In pay ore. either mill or ship
ping grade-often both.
No class of men connected with the
mining industry have lone more, or are
doing more to place mining in the front
rank of the country's chief commercial
enterprises han the lessee. He is as
important a factor in the earlier devel-
opment of a camp as Is the capitalist.
and hundreds of regularly productive
mines owe their origin to his common
sense and practical knowledge of ore oc-
-FOUR lessee, as a rule, knows
little of high sounding neurological
terms and phrases, but he does know
ore, and Is somewhat more than moder-
ately successful in locating that class
of ore which is associated with high
grade gold values.
The lessee was directly instrumental
in making Cripple Creek the greatest
gold camp in the world of a decade
Who Is there will assert that Goldield's
unique supremacy in the output of gold
is not due to efforts of lessee and leas-
ing company The foregoing are but
two of scores of instances that could be
cited where the lessee is the important
factor in the making of a camp; and yet
IL Goldfeld were the single instance in
which he had made good he would still
occupy a position of almost isolated
in the chronicle of mining
achievement. We of Manhattan well
the advent In force of the lessee.
We believe he is the harbinger of fnan-
cial success in the camps mining enter
prises and that when his sturdy arm
has blazed the trail the later day oper-
ators will have but little difficulty in
following the course of the auriferous
lodges that rib the hills of this district.
MITIGATION x1xx LEASES
Litigation hill continues to rule
strong in favor with the lessee. and here
again his good Judgment Is in evidence,
as the ore bodies are yielding high grade
shipping and high grade milling values
at nomina depth. 1t appears probable
that the section will ultimately become
an abundantly productive of gold as
that in the vicinity of the Florence and
mines at Goldfield. The
foregoing is a strong statement. but
Litigation hill lodges lay bare for the
inspection Of those who care to verify
1t. For the depth attained the veins are
better defined and their gold yield is
greater than was the case in the Gold
field section referred to at the same
stage of development.
THE DI0 No0UL
At the block of Union ground being
operated by the Big Mogul Leasing COM
pany-formerly known as the Harmon
Cromwell lease-the shaft recently
started is in a profitable grade of mill
ore from surface to bottom, a depth of
AS feet. Associated with the mill rock
are punches of shipping grade quartz.
and the entire mass is not infrequently
permeated with gold in the free. No
waste whatever is coming from the
shaft. The entire product will average
$40 in gold the ton. 1t is to go to mill
as soon as the plant of the Manhattan
Ore Reduction & Refining company Is
completed.
PIoMEE1 LEAsuN0
At a depth Of so feet the Pioneer
Leasing company, operating on a block
of Turtle Dove ground adjoining the
lease Of the Mogul company, are cross
cutting for the hanging wall of the
ledge. This ledge was first encountered
in the shaft a few feet below surface
and has since been a permanency there
in. The entire body is high grade mill
ing ore and is ~permeated with stringers
and seams of high grade shipping
quartz. Specimen ore of rare gold value
is occasionally found as the edge is de-
veloped. The entire product is to be
treated at the local mill.
o'B1IEN-xA LINE LEASE
Every pound of ore broken from the
ledge being worked in the O'Biren-La
Lime-Dudley lease on Litigation hill is
sacked. The onnage is rapidly accum-
ulating on dump but is to be held until
the local stamp mill is ready to treat it,
Where undergoing development at the
40-foot level this ore body a a width
of more thar Z feet. Twelve inches of
the deposit paralleling the footwall has
an average gold grade of $500 the ton.
The remaining 6 feet is $40 per ton mill
rock. Sinking has been resumed with
the object of again opening up this ore
body at a depth of 100 feet.
10U-NA11 x1A11
Adjoining the lease of O'Brien and
partners. Rose and Nash are engaged in
shaft sinking with the object of prov
ing up at a depth of so feet the ledge
exposed at grass roots. Where opened
I0uMMV tn IT.