The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-31

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most satisfactory. On Union 8 four
~leasers have made good money, the
most successful being the Shea lease,
from which the last run of 1872 tons
gave a bullion return of $31 900. The
Briggs Evans ore from this property,
300 tons, gave a bullion return of
$s7 900, and from the same property
Milo Plemenaz has taken out over $780,
600.
The Rose-Nash lease tool out $4,000
on Union 4 and thought they had gut
ted the property and stopped work. Re
Gently. when water was wanted for
placer work on the Big Chief, and when
the water was lowered in the shaft the
Rose-Nash people thought they would
sweep the slopes and make a final clean
III, and to their surprise n satisfae-
ton they found a body of ore of the
hanging wall, and also that instead of
the ore body being vertical and pinch
ing out, as they thought, it dipped at
an angle of 45 degrees with the forma-
ton, and now this lease is better and
gives more signs of ~permaneney, than
ever before. They have now a little
over four feet of ore that gives an aver
age assay of $42 to the ton in gold, and
have 400 tons IN the dump.
The Wilson-MeNeill lease on the same
- -. 4 oan ~, a N tho dunn and
more thar that amount blocked out,
ready to take out, that will average 500
to. the ton, with streaks of high grade
that is being sacked.
On the Merger ground three leasers
are in ore, and one of them, lease 3. has
three feet of ore on the 50-foot level
that averaged 5000 to the ton, and they
have 6s sacks of high grade worth, on
an average, 81 a pound, which has
been placed in the vaults of the Nye
County bank for safe keeping, all taken
from development work.
On the Big Chief and Toro BlaEco
they have two lodges of between three
and four feet in width that averages
500 and $34 respectively.
On the Seyler-H Humphrey the McAllls-
ter lease opened up 7 feet of s12 ore.
On the Dexter Crown two leases have
the Thelma silver ledge that runs from
100 to 500 ounces in silver and from
to 21a ounces in gold. Ore of this same
character and grade is opened up on
the Thelma.
! The Consolidated has discovered a
new 16-foot ledge from which they took
out IS tons in sinking the shaft which
gave a mill return of $32 per ton.
In addition to the old known mineral
belt of this district has been added
what is known as the "northern belt
and which has disclosed the largest
body of the highest grade in the entire
district. The belt is only two miles
north of the town of Manhattan and is
a rhyolite and p%orphyry formation,
This belt has only been worked during
the present year. Beginning on the
west WIN tne MOTHlHS otoi Sio"P 49,
have Az feet of ore that pans clea1
across, and 2 to 4 inches of gouge that
is worth 800 to the ton. The Sherman
property next, to the east, is stopping
ore from their tunnel and have D to !
inches of ore that is worth So a pound
and SO inches of ore from which they
have made three mill runs averaging
$74, 1854 and $32. East of this is the
Wild Bill, which has some OF the sam
grade and a large body OF low grade
milling ore opened up, and next east OF
this is the Panion-F Faulkner ground re
Gently taken over and Incorporated al
the Sunshine Mining company, whlef
is a continuation of the same belt and
which has 4 feet of $40 ore.