The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-05-11
NEWS OF MANHATTAN DISTRICT

This strike IL accepted as proof that
the properties In the flat between the
woIftone and the Breyfogle and the
Mustang Extension are traversed by
lodges which may equal in values those
on the hill sides.
From the East side comes a well
authenticated report tina still more
Thanksgiving ore has been found. The
ledge giving rise to the hope Is located
on the Mineral Hill property in East
Manhattan. where a shaft Is being sunk
on the same contact that yielded the
deposits tina have turned all eyes again
towards Manhattan. A crosscut at 20
feet showed a s~ix-foot Ledge the greater
portion of which is not unlike the
Thanksgiving output.
Among those who are persuaded that
the Mineral Hill has the goods is Sup
erintendent Mott of the Thanksgiving.
who said that the sample shown him
was Identical with What he encountered
and followed to water level. where
the large body of rich ore was found.
If development proves this to be true,
the territory embraced within the high
grade zone will be immense. The con-
tact lead upon which these operations
are being conducted runs for miles from
east to west.
LA1oz onE BODY OF orE1o
Nc mine in the camp has shown such
large ore bodies as the Otero. depth
and development being considered. The
shaft which is down 100 feet and re-
Gently widened to double compartment
size. is still in ore. and for the last
twenty feet the entire product is profit
able milling quartz For upwards of
forty feet the ore assays from IL to
$50 per ton in gold.
The ledge encountered at the 130-
foot level in the south drift of the
Manhattan Verde has been crosscut
twenty-five feet without reaching the
hanging wall. Values in the ore body
range between s12 and $40.
1t is proposed to drift both ways on
the ledge as soon as the crosscut is COM
pleted.
NEW COMPANY YMco1Po1ATED
That San Francisco is again taking
an active interest in the Manhattan
district is demonstrated by the rapidity
with which new companies. composed
exclusively of residents of the metropo-
lis. are being formed to exploit local
ground. The latest Of these is the Ex-
celsoir Amalgamated Mining company,
which owns some excellent property in
Belmont. r. II. Hillen is president;
A. H.. Stephens. vice-president: William
Douthitt, secretary and e. H. Wise,
treasurer. The directorate includes. A.
II. Stephens, superintendent of the Rail-
way Mail Service. at San Francisco;
Raleigh Hooe, secretary of the Board Of
Education, San Francisco. and DR.. E. r.
Berges of the French Hospital Of the
same city.
The property owned by the company
includes nine claims at Belmont. Two
shafts 70 and 80 feet deep respectively
and two hundred feet of tunneling con-
stitute the work lone on the claims to
date. Some remarkable ore bodies were
uncovered by the development work.
Two general assays of rock taken at
random from a four-foot face in the
tunnel went in one instance as high as
$2S4.30 in n instance to the ton and
in another $314.94 in gold.
The FIVE companies composed of San
Francisco men that have been organized
to prosecute work on local holdings dur
ing the month are merely a fore runner,
according to good authority, to a much
larger number that will come into the
district during the Summer. Manhattan
is the favorite camp of the moneyed
men of the coast, and but for the great
disaster, would have undoubtedly been
we'll on towards recognition as a great
camp in other sections of the country by
now.
STEADY WORK COUNTS
After persistent work for a year. the
tunnel being driven by the Manhattan
Mammoth is seven hundred feet into
the mountain. Nc time was wasted
drifting on the lodges uncovered. 1t
being the purpose of the management to
explore the extent of the holdings. when
work drifting on all the lodges will
go on simultaneously. Some of the
lodges give excellent values. all averag-
ing near t~hirty-fve dollars to the ton in
gold.