The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-05-23

George NJ. Vogle, secretary and treas
urer of the Gendron Wheel company, of
Toledo. These gentlemen have pur-
purchased, in the interest of themselves
and other Buckeye" people, the ia
nous Selover-Smith lease on the Wild
West claim of the Rawhide Coalition
Mining company. The price paid has
not been made public, but is known to
have been substantial, the original
owners retaining a generous interest in
the holding. Plans for future develop
ment of the block have not as yet been
perfected, but that they will be compre-
hensive and vigorous is demonstrated
by the fact that a powerful hosting
plant is already being installed. The
Selover-Smith lease came into enviable
prominence some weeks ago by the dis
covery of a 5-foot body of 800 ore at
the 100-foot level. This ledge has been
drifted on to considerable extent with
out depreciation of gold contents.
Royal-Regent Plans
Plans are practically completed for
a comprehensive campaign of develop
ment at the estate of the Rawhide
Royal Regent Mines company. In fact,
so near f~ruition are they that June /
will mark their Inauguration. The com
%pany's acreage consists of two full
claims adjoining the famous Car claim
in the Regent section. High grade ship
ping ore is being taken ont at two leases
on the Gar, and as the well-deined,
well mineralized ledge from which 1T
is being mined can be traced by its out
crop across the estate of the Regent
company, the chances are strongly fav-
orable to the prevalence of like grade
ore within its confines. Paul steven
son, one of the best practical and
theoretical mining men in the camp,
will be in charge of development work.
Gold Quartz in Money
One of the big strikes of the district
has been made on the acreage of th"
Rawhide Gold Quartz Mining company,
which adjoins the rich Royal and Tiger
claims on the north. In driving a tun-
mel to contact with the Tiger ledge a
/ blind lead was cut which assays an
average of $S4 gold the ton across a
width of ~ inches. 1t was tapped at a
depth of so feet. The gangue is a heav-
lily silicifed rhyolite, dark blue-gray in
color, and resembling in many respects
the quartz being mined at profit in the
Kirk lease workings. The tunnel is to
be continued, and the blind ledge tested
and proved up by means of a lateral.
The latter has already been extended
for a number of feet under decidedly
favorable mineral Indications, as the
vein is widening, is now standing al
most perpendicular and is maintaining
the same average gold content as where
first tapped.
Cripple Creeker Strikes 1t
Pike and associates, leasing ON the
March Rose claim of the Rawh,de
Queen Mining company, have encoun-
tered a body of ore 5 feet wide at a
depth of 5 feet which breaks to an
average of 800 gold the ton. They
have proved up the ledge for a length
of 600 feet by a series of open cuts
and at no point where p~rospected has
it failed to yield the average gold con-
tent before quoted. The vein matter
is a breccia of decomposed porphyry
and silicious rhyolite, permeated by
punches of a hard, compact rhyolite,
the latter being shot full with free gold.
Pike is a Cripple Creek pioneer, one of
a number who cleaned up a stake dur
ing the early days at Victor. His pres