The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-03-14

w. King of this company, made unoer
date of February 18th. follows; Claims
The property consists Of three iun
claims and one fraction. namely, the
Iitfsator. Commodore. Commercial anu
,.ra,or Fraction. the total acreage
haing seventy-two acres. Location
Tho nronertv is located on the north
east slope of Balloon Hill In the Raw
h,aa mining district. 1t adjoins the
pawbide Consolidated Mines Company
The south. the Balloon Fraction and
the March Rose on the west. the Crys-
tal eroup on the north and the Raw
hide Reward on the east. Work lone
A shaft is being sunk on the Litigator
claim and is now down to a depth OF
about twenty feet, and I have been 40
ing prospecting work and trenchihs
on the surface or the Coninhouoi' 80
the Commercial preparatory to sinking
a working shaft to develop THESE two
claims On the Balloon, March Rose
and Balloon Fraction there are eighteen
,easers working and of these eighteen
there are ten that are in ore OF a gooo
Grade These are on veins that are
running into the property of the Bal
loon Hill Mining Company. On the
Early Bird claim of the Consolidated
adjoining your property on the SOUTH
there are sixteen leases, including the
famous Murray lease. This lease Is
within 600 feet of the shaft being sunk
IN the Litigator claim, and is in ore
clear across their shaft. running $500
to the ton. The Kearns lease on the
Balloon claim has a shaft down eighty
feet and they are now prosecuting the
ledge and have nine feet of ore of a
very high grade, and have not yet
reached either wall. AS above stated,
the shaft on the Litigator claim is
down twenty feet. and the assays taken
from time to time run from $14 to $50
taken clear across the vein. Geology
The country is porphyry and rhyollte
with several systems of veins crosscut-
ting the formation. The vein material
is in an altered andesite and dacite.
The vein so far opened on YOU prop
erty is the Kearns vein, striking in an
easterly and westerly direction, and
is directly across the Balloon claim,
the March Rose, the D. D. and the Litiga-
tor claims a distance of 1000 feet. Par
allel to this is the Howard vein, which
can be traced for nearly the same dis
lance and goes across the north end
Of the Litigator claim, and striking in
a northerly and southerly direction Is
the main contact vein, which is a con-
tact between the ~porphyry and rhyo-
lite, and transverses lengthwise of the
March Rose, crosses the side line of
the Balloon, crosses the side lines Of
the Diabase and continues on through
the Commodore claim. This vein is
opened by several leases on the Bal
loon and March Rose claims. Paral-
is the Pix vein. This strikes length
wise through the March Rose and Mis-
| souri, Fraction, crosses north through
the Litigator fraction and Commercial
claim, and is opened up by six leases on
the Balloon and Missouri Fraction, and
is one of the most pronounced and de-
fined veins in the district. Values-As
above stated, in the shaft of the Litiga-
tor claim the assays run from $14 to
$50. and very rich pieces Of float are
found all over the surface. Paintings
taken from the outcrop of the Pike
vein, which traverses the Commercial
and Litigator Fraction, give very rich
paintings in free gold, and I am expect
ing to have enough surface prospecting
done in a few days to locate an ore
shoot in this ledge. The contact vein
has been UNEMPLOYED. but is very likely
looking. Observation-Disclosures I
have been in camp 1 nave received many
applications for leases on your prop
erty. and I would advise the survey into
blocks of 800 feet zach and leasing
alternate blocks. This method will in
sure to you a thorough and complete
prospecting of your ground, and at the
same time you will have the major nor
ton of the ground developed and intact
at the expiration of the leases. I would
further advise a continuance of tbe