The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-07-25

q Nhtth AVto u ~ totttA RoAN -
the month.
The starkey Lease
Since the fling of last weeks dis
patches a strike of Importance has been
made on the lease holding of starkey
and partners on the Rector estate. The
main working shaft is down "a feed
where was encountered a 4-foot ledge
OF high grade shipping ore. Values
range from $50 to s175 the ton, and
average close to s1Oo the ton. On the
banging wall side Of the ledge the
values are principally in golc, while
along the footwall the contents arc
largely in silver. In structure the vein
material is a close grained quartz
which presents strong mineral indica-
lions OF holding values to great depth.
Twenty five tons of 800 per ton rock
went out from the lease early this week
and another shipment of corresponding
tonnage and value is to 60 out the lat
ter part of next week.
The st. Ives
Neurological and geological signs IN
the face of the erosseut being run out
to contact with the Kearns No. 2 ledge
at a depth of 200 feet in the st. Ives
shaft on Balloon Hill woul3 indicate
that the objective point is not for
ahead of the miners. The breast of the
drive samples an average of SIS gold
the ton across two feet of the gangue.
A cut is now being sent out to the
west at the same level to determine the
permanent worth of an ore find made a
few days since. 1t appears probable
that the discovery in question will
prove the best thus far made in tho
workings, with the exception of the
high grade shoot opened north of the
shaft some months ago, and around
which it was found expedient to build
n fence that some portion of the prod
uct might be saved to the leasing com
pany from the hands of avaricious
amateur high graders. Judging from
present indications in both drives the
chances are strongly favorable to the
discovery of two rich ore shoots at no
distant date.
The Grutt Hill Mint
1t is not improbable hat the holding
Of the Grutt Hill Mint company on the
Wild Yves. claim Of the Coalition COM
pany is to prove as fertile a source Of
gold supply as is the famous Mohawk
claim at Goldfeld. 1t has for so long
been the habit of certain mining new
writer's to class every new ore discov-
csy of any importance with Goldfeld's
premier property, it is probable the
foregoing statement will be readswith
considerable skepticism by not a few
persons. The statement is made adj
v.sedly, however, and with a thorough
appreciation of its comprehensive char
'%acter. To mai on the ground at Raw
hide comes no question but what the
Grutt Hill Mint is to prove the peer Of
the Mohawk, both in tonnage bulk Of
shipments and in general average
worth of ores. Stacked against the
wall in the Grutt Hill Mint company's
ONCE are 100 sacks filed with ore
having a gold worth as high as $3.50
the pound, not a single pound Of which
will assay below $40 per pound. This
quartz is as well filed with gold in the
free as is any ever mined in the Mo-
hawk, Florence, Jumbo, Red Top, or
any other of the numerous high grade
lessee and company workings at Gold
field.
Prevails at Depth
The ore is continuous from the IL to
the 150-foot point, and at the greater
depth the numerous stringefs If free
gold enriched quartz are mfxisg into >
single body of high grad gre. There
is not a pound of wat coming from
the drifts being ser ont along the
ledge at the $50 levo nsaher l. there a
pound of quart feinaf mined at that
depth which does NOT yield a shipping
content. Nor t.agAlRrade milling con-
tent, mind ycu, ut shipping content.
There is no ~portton of the product com
ing from tue lower level which does not
average at least t125 gold the ton, the
greater pertion having a value in ex-
cess Of 4300 the ton. No inconsiderable
portion has a value of 5000 the ton in
tonaoke lots. The day of uncertainty
lS<garding the future worth of the
Grutt Hill Mint holding is as much a
thing of the past as it is at the Mo-
hawk. The truth of the foregoing as
sestion is as well grounded as are
Natures metalliferous laws. 1t can no
more be changed by the pessimistic ut
teranees of the skeptics han can be al
tered the auriferous structure of the
hill on which il located this premier of
all Rawhide lease holdings, the Grutt
Hill Mint. They have the gold, gentle
ment; and they are mining it in as wen
defined and permanent appearing n
ledge as ever gave a destitute lessee
the wherewithal with which to become
eligible for classification as a malefac-
tor of great wealth.