The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
LFASERS STRIKE MORE RICHES
ON RAWHIDE COALITION MINE
(By William P. Dewolf, sp'

(Bv William p. Dewolf, Speci;
Rawhide. New, Nov. 19.-lnterest IN
mine development here is centralized
at present on that portion of the loo-
acre estate of the Rawhide Coalition
Mines company which is located on the
south slope Of Hooligan hill, and hnds
iuspiration in the discoveries of re-
markably gold-enriehed ore bodies re-
Gently made 1. the Miller, the Truett,
the Portland and Rickard-Holland lease
holds. So out of ordinary is the wealth
of gold contained in the deposits there
exposed that the people of the camp
swarm the acreage like bees about a
hive, each one bent upon securing a bit
of free gold showing quartz as a SOU
venir. That their reward has been
great is evidenced by the fact that APP
proximately $4,000 worth of ore has
been high graded from the leasehoids
before mentioned during the present
week. The cupidity displayed by some
of the specimen hunters is exasperat-
ing to a degree and would justify the
lease arrangements in barring visitors
from the blocks. As a rule, however,
the encroachments of the avaricious are
accepted with good natured tolerance
as being akin with the RATHER, cent?
pede, coyote, remittance man and other
of the ~hardships which Nature sees mt
to infict upon the mine makers of the
desert.
RICKARD-HoLLAND
just at present it is the Richard
Holland lease, located upon block No.
10 of the Happy Hooligan claim, upon
which the spotlight of interest is
turned, but tomorrow the golden cal
cium is quite as likely TO be focused
upon the Miller, the Truett, the Port
land, the Montana Rawhide, or any
other of the leaseholds that carry the
continuation of the immense Coalition
dyke system. Mining events of magni-
tude follow so closely on each others
HCtiS 40 oCNticP"the
huge ore body it is not at all unlikely
that the attraction of today may tomor-
row excite as little comment and inter
est as did the recent presidential cleo
tion. The ore body exposed in the face
Of the drive from the 50-foot level OF
the Richard Holland shaft is breaking
an average of 40 the ton, exclusive OF
a 4-inch section of quartz which is so
filed with free gold the matrix is in
places lost to sight. Samples taken
from the seam give an assay return as
high as 10000 the ton. There has
been no sampling of the streak that de-
noted a value below $4,000 the ton.
Importance of Find
The Importance of the find lies not so
much in the really marvellous returns
secured by sampling the deposit as in
the fact that by reason of the discovery
a width of ore in the Coalition dyke is
demonstrated for more than 1890 feet;
namely, from the Rickard-H Holland
block to the Portland block. Profitable
milling values obtain the entire dis
lance, with numerous slips of high
grade gridironing the formation. To
the northeast the Rickard-H holland
ledge, which, by the way, lies against
the west contact of the dyke, has been
opened at the Hoodlum property, at the
estate of the Rawhide Mining company
and at the Northern property. Aside
from where exposed on Coalition acre
age the best showing is on Rawhidc
Mining ground. Lessee Morrissey has
IA feet of ore of the same general char
aoter exposed at his leasehold thereon,
as has likewise Lessee Gillilland, while
across the $500 feet intervening be-
tween the Morrissey lease on the Raw
hide Mining estate and the Richard
Holland lease on the Coalition estate,
the strike of this ledge is readily traced
at surface.
Miller and Truett
1t was at the famous Truett lease on
Coalition ground that this immense de-
post was first proved up. Then the
Miller block came in and later the
Portland. Ultimately, the Montana
Rawhide management encountered it
and vet more recently the Richard
Holland. AT the Truett it is blocked
out a length of 305 feet, a width of 50
feet and a depth of 100 feet, the last
mentioned representing the distance
between the roof of the stope at the
70-foot level and the bottom of the
winze at that point. The former is up
so feet and the latter down 40 feet.
There is no portion of the cube blocked
out which does not yield a profitable
milling grade assay return. The sacked
ore has a value of from $45 to $S5 per
ton and an average value approximate
ing sos per ton. The oversize ranges
from So to $40 the ton in value.
Miller High Grade
There is an S-inch ore shoot exposed
in the west drive from the 35-foot level
of the winze sunk in the floor of the
7O-foot level of the Miller shaft from
which any old sort of assay can be