The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-14
CHAFEY DISTRICT
LOOKS PROMISING

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The hum of activity in and around
the Black Hole continues undated,
says the Chsfey News. A force of
sixty mea are employed at the present
time and more are to be added as soon
as conditions will permit. The pipe
line has been completed to the boiler,
the hoist is connected and in place and
nothing remains to start operation of
the same but the lack of timbers for
the gallows frame, which is expected
every day. The pipe line is $500 feet
in length and is one and one-half inches
in diameter, carrying a flow of $500
gallons daily.
The face of the main tunnel as well
as both raises and Slopes continue in
high grade ore, which is gradually in.
creasing in value, ore shipments which
have been suspended for the past week
in order hat the tunnel could be TX
tended and the chutes put in place, will
be resumed the coming week. During
the time shipments were suspended
some of the higher grade ore was mixed
with the low grade and run through the
mill, running the average up to $40 per
ton. 1t was found impracticable, how
ever, to use all of the highest grade in
this experiment and that which was put
aside will be sent out in the first ship
ment to the reduction works.
1t is a great sight to the stranger to
watch the ponderous freight wagons
drawn by twenty-four horses and
mules swinging up the hill from town
loaded with lumber and machinery for
the mines.
Gill Is a Booster
II. E..Gill, formerly of Goldfeld and
one of the most prominent and sub
%stantial business men of that camp, ar
rived in Chafey last week prepared, as
he said, to be disappointed and ready
to discount the reports he had heard of
Chafey. His qualification at finding the
reverse is better expressed in his own
$50 many exaggerated stories
come from new camps in the state which
wish an influx of strangers to boost
their towns that it makes one who fol-
lows these excitement chary about cred
iting them, or, at least, he comes pre-
pared to divide by the figure 4. When
/ started for Chafey | fully expected to
find conditions in general grossly mis-
represented and therefore was never
so perplexed in all my mining camp ex-
perience to find conditions so under
rated as they are. After examining the
different ore bodies of the district /
was thunderstruck with their greatness
and it dawned on me that l had found
what / had been seeking for several
years in this state-a camp that would
grow and make it's people rich beyond
the peradventure of a doubt
Aud Lang Syne
1--WE have three shifts of men work
ing steadily on the Aud Lang Syne,'
said w. H. Hart to the News last Thurs
day morning. "The first cave is en-
tirely cleaned up, giving us $50 feet of
open tunnel. An average of twelve
feet daily has been accomplished since
work was started. About 249 feet of
vein is exposed and after the cave in
the last stope is cleared out we will
have 5S5 feet of tunnel opened to the
facing. After accomplishing this, which
is but a matter of two days, | will com
mence sampling and then the Aud
Lang Syne mine, which has lain idle
for the past twenty years, will again be
in operation"
This property was worked In the
early days of the camp and was known
as having produced a half million dol
lars above the tunnel levels. Among
men it is looked upon as a mine
that will prove to be one of the great
producers of the camp. The present
is working with great
rapidity to place it on a producing basis
and we are informed that no money will
SHARED in its DEVELOPMENT.