The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

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Mint, Proskey No. 2, or Grutt-Hard
blocks no difficulty is experienced
in tracing the course of the dyke across
the entire distance intervening to Hool-
igan hill.
Sutherland Lease
The shaft at the Sutherland lease is
down 200 feet and is in ore from the
107-foot level to bottom. Which means
that the ore body stands in the shaft
to a depth of SO feet. The entire de-
post will pay to mill, and much of it
has a value of from $50 to $25 the ton.
Sinking is to continue until the ledge
dips from the shaft and at that point
the ore will be crosscut and drifted on.
Where exposed in the drive from the
107-foot level the ledge breaks to a high
milling average in its entirety and is
streaked with many stringers of high
grade. The quartz from the latter
screens and sacks as high as $3.50 the
ton. As soon as the deposit is proved
up at the point where it dips from the
shaft air drills will be installed and
stopping begun.
The Mint Lease
From surface to bottom, a depth of
20 feet, the incline shaft at the famous
Mint lease on the Coalition is in ore. 1t
is following the hanging wall down, and
as yet the foot wall has not been To-
Gated. The crosscut run east from the
1S5-foot level is in ore for a length of
20 feet, all of which breaks to a high
milling average, while that standing in
the shaft has an average value OF SO
per ton. Near the face of the crosscut
a raise is up 10 feet in high grade mill
ing ore. The drives north and south oil
the ledge are likewise in high grade
mill ore. Gridironing the formation are
streaks of shipping ore of varying
width that have an average value APP
proximating $3.50 the ton. Last Mon
day morning the main drive north
opened up the famous shoot of high
grade that was encountered ON the 145-
foot level and which brought the lease
hold into prominence. 1t will be re-
membered that this shoot wa first dis
covered at the 50-foot level, where it
Welded some of the richest and most
beautiful free gold specimens ever dis
covered.
Grutt-Hard Lease
Development at the Grutt-Hard lease
is, as usual, associated with the ex-
traction of a considerable tonnage of
ore having a value of from $175 to $3.50
the ton. The drive south from the 80
foot level is out a length of 20 feet in
quartz having an average value of SIT
the ton across a width of 13 feet. AS
ISOLATED Herewith is a streak of ship
running behind on ore shipments and
was considerably in debt. Now, how
ever, all debts have been paid from
funds secured on shipments and there is
a substantial balance in treasury. At
the 50-foot level the miners are stop
ing in 3 feet of quartz, no portion of
which yields a gold content below 1925
the ton.
The Proskey No. 2
At the Proskey No. 2 lease on the
Coalition an ore shoot has been opened
at surface southwest of No. l shaft for
a length of 80 feet. The ore sacks an
average of $135.37 the ton across an 49,
inch streak. The higher grade portions
of the streak have a value as high as
81 900 the ton. Much of the ore shows
crystalized gold, the most beautiful
form in which the yellow metal obtains
in the free state. The ledge dips into
the hill, has a strike about north and
south and presents promise of being one
of the most valuable of the paralleling
assures which are confined in the Grutt
hill dyke system. At the Proskey No.
2 main workings the shaft is down 40
feet. From it's bottom a crosscut is be-
ing run east to contact with the Mint
ledge. The face of the cut is in from
the station sill a distance of IS feet.
The Victor Lease
The main working shaft at the well
known leasehold of the Rawhide Victor
Mining 4 Leasing company on the
estate of the Rawhide Coalition Mines
company is down 200 feet, where a sta
tion is being cut preparatory to cross
cutting south a distance of 20 feet to
contact with the ledge opened up at
the 150-foot level. This ledge is a
cross assure making into the Coalition
dyke from the Balloon hill section. 1t
has a strike almost due east and west
and appears to be the continuation of
one of the lodges which pass from the
Nat G. Goodwin leasehold on the
Queen estate into the Kearns No. l
lease ON the same acreage. At the 150-
foot level of the Victor shaft the de-
posit has an average width of 8 feet
and an average grade of $1S the ton. In
addition thereto there is an 1S-inch
section of 800 the ton ore. The latter
is sacked as fast as broken. Two ship
ments have been made of that grade
ouarfz and another is beino pranared