The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-01-11
CBy w. p. De Wolf. Special Represent
tive of The News.)

CBy w. p. De Wolf. Special Representa-
tive of The News.)
Manhattan. New, Jan. 7.-Preferred
prospects are to the fore in this district
just at present and are vieing for hon
ors with the mines and near mines. The
present month has thus far recorded a
number of strikes OF Importance on
acreages of more than average mineral
merit and yet which are not sufficiently
developed and well proven to permit
CHASING then. GO Stner han before men
toned. The points at which such find
have been made are widely at variance.
extending from the Litigation hill sec
ton on the east to below Central on the
west. The Importance of the discoveries
in their bearing upon future exploration
of the acreases affected is decisive.
MANHATTAN VIRGINIA
Manhatt Virginia acreage is the
scene of one of the more promising of a
number of promising gold strikes recent
ly made Virginia ground is located just
east OF the valuable Granny estate and
is traversed by a pronounced and well
mineralized ledge outcrop. 1t was in
the outcrop that the find in question was
made. For the purpose of holding the
ground free from jumpers the miners in
the employ of the Virginia company are
cross-sectioning the outcrop with a
series of open cuts. These cuts have
demonstrated the ledge to have a width
of from IL to IA feet and to carry a
gold content sufficiently high to war
ant ore shipments to local mills. Lack
of funds Is the obstacle which has con-
fronted the management for a number
of months 1t is as much a stumbling
block in the pathway of mining success
now as in the past. and unless removed
threatens development inertia Vir-
ginia stockholders are. however, en-
deavoring to remove the incubus and
hope shortly to place the company
treasury in more satisfactory condition.
Their tentative efforts to that end are
meeting with success and would appar-
emily presage the inauguration very
shortly of a campaign of exploration at
depth. The estate is well worth the eff
fort, and it is to be hoped that no I'M
toward circumstance will prevent it's
being put in effect.
TIE MLvE1 PICK
The locators of Silver Pick acreage
were guilty of no misnomer in thus
naming the claim, nor were the incor-
porators of the Manhattan Silver Pick
Mining company in naming that corpor-
alton after the claims. Since date of
location the estate has yielded high
values in silver and lead. and with
smelling facilities at hand would long
since have become regularly and abund-
antly productive. The ledge in which
the argentiferous values are foun is a
true issure. cleaves the formation with
the directness of attack of a Destroyer
and can be traced across Silver Pick
ground and well on into the n~eighbor-
ing acreages. Recently additional value
has come to Silver Pick by reason of
the of an auriferous deposit
the hanging vail of the vein.
The gold yielding seam is wide and
rich. 1t is acting as a stimulus for in
in mining exertion. The location
of the recently discovered ore body. it's
present gold carrying qualities and the
character of it's naturalization
the prediction that the Silver
Pick company is about to enter into it's
own.
THE UNITED STATES
Free gold is showing in the breast of
the tunnel on the acreage of the United
States Gold Mining company. Contact
with the ledge was gained at a point 1875
feet in from the tunnels portal and at a
depth of 900 feet. Considerable sui
phides are associated with the vein
hence the probability is strongly
favorable to the property's making good
at even greater depth. 1t is the inten-
ton of the company to prosecute devel-