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

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per contact and the st. Ives and Prosky
leases on the lower. The Kearns No.
l is on a cross ~fissure. The Murray
lease on the hill by that name, is also
a cross assure running about parallel
tact of rhyolite and porphyry is cut
in many by cross assures.
The big contact vein on Balloon hill
passes into the Red Top Fraction, 1.
X. l.. claims, the Queen Bethenia into
the Poor Boy and on to the Last
Chance. The vein that enriches Grutt
hill runs due north and south through
the town, and on to Hooligan hill. Be-
tween Hooligan and Balloon hill and
connecting them, are cross assures, on
which are the Prosky lease, the Raw
hide Victor, Murray Big Four and the
Heinz lease. Hooligan hill is cross
fissured, although the main vein sys-
tenn follows the contour Of the hill.
Down the hill there is heavy mineral
~ization. Here is the Owl claim of the
Roseberry group, which has been such
a rich producer, and where, as related
above, so much placer gold was taken.
There is cross assuring also on the
Hoodlums, Last Chance, Black Buttes
(Which by the way was bought last
week by Joe Kalfus of Goldfeld) and
other claims, which lie west and south
of town.
THOUSAND DOLLAR ORE.
l liked Murray hill in some respects
better than any other section of the
camp, for there / found unmistakable
evidences which proved to my mind,
the permanency of the camp. The for.
nation on this hill is somewhat differ.
ent from Balloon or Grutt hills. Here
they were raising from the 95-foot
level, great chunks of brown porous
quartz that proved to be petite. This
ore IS very rich, the piece I had as.
sayed going over 81, 900. The values
are all through the pores of this rock
There is some free in it., quite a bit OF
tellurium and some silver. Mr.. Muir.
ray asked me if / wanted to see a 200
foot ledge, all of which would run bet.
ter than $35. He took me about &c
feet from his shaft, and showed me
a big strong ledge, which has beer
stripped for 200 feet, and a lad wal
still uncovering it with his shovel al
one end while l was on the ground. Mr.
Murray showed me two or three places
In the ledge, and challenged me to put
my glass upon it, which / did, and saw
free gold in several places. 1t is petz.
lite ore which will probably go well
toward the center of the earth, and il
likely to be as good, if not better al
depth than near the surface. This pet.
zite ore convinced me that the values
in the Rawhide district were deposited
by an ascending solution, and there
fore the liberalization is deep. All
through this country there are hot
springs, and the mines are likely to be
very hot at depth like the Comstock
In fact there are several points of sim
ilarity between the two camps. Raw
hide has silver like the Comstock, hu,
not in the same ration. The gold pre-
dominates to a larger degree in Raw
hide. Grutt hill ores run about three
parts silver to one part gold. The low
hills to the west of the town have 3
high silver ratio at the surface. Hooli
gan hill is all gold. Balloon is near
ly all gold, with slight silver values
Some of the leases found ruby silver
but it finally turned to gold. Over or
the Royal Tiger ground, two miles from
Rawhide town, slabs of silver half a.
big as ones hand were taken out tha,
was so pure that it would bend in the
assure. 1t is these silver values that
make me believe more strongly thar
anything else in the depth and perma
nency of the Rawhide ores. Nearly al
gold-bearing solutions carry more OF
less silver and that is generally de
posted farther down in the veins.
Everyone who goes to Rawhide anf
pans the district will have to admit
that there is more surface gold ther,
than in any other camp in the coun
try. There is so much gold that one
has a hard time believing that it will
continue with depth, and the in
credulous will say, ooh there i,
plenty of gold on the surface, but will
it go downf' This is the skeptica'
query one hears on every turn, about
Rawhide.
ORE GOES DOWN.
OF course l don't know whether
these enormous values are going to sta,
with depth, but for reason given above
/ believe the ore will 90 down. But
what if these high values DOM hole
out; what if they are only a half or 8
iuaitci as SOou dS tuty are at the sur
face, they would certainly be wortl
mining for, especially as the bodies o.
ore seem to be increasing enormously
in size with depth.
But in the deepest workings on Bal
loon hill, there seems to be no diminu
tion in values, for at the bottom O.
l20-foot shaft on Kearns No. / lease
the deepest workings in Rawhide, tn
ore is better than at any other poin
in the shaft, and that is saying a grea
deal, for the Kearns No. / has ha
some of the very richest ore in tn
camp, running into the thousands. Thi
does not look as if the values wer
disappearing with depth. Besides thi
rich ore, the Kearns No. /, which, b
the way belongs to the Original Raw
hide company, of which George vo
Polenz, James MCGOWAN, John Holly
Tom Kearns and other Goldield me
are the largest owners, has one OF tn
biggest dykes in the camp. They hav