The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-09-19

in ore from the time the first shots were put into the rock.
The Cooks and Walters lease, three miles away, has pro
duced more than $4,000 from the eight foot level. The Nor
rissey lease on the Last Chance claim drove an open cut into
the side of a hill, and has never been out of ore since the first
work was started. In an entirely different part of the dis
trict, the Royal lease on Royal Tiger ground, has had a sim
liar experience. Nearing the center of the district, again, the
Kearns No. 2 lease, on the estate of the Rawhide Queen
Mines Company, has a record of shipment extending over
seven months of the eleven months of the camps history, the
total net profits from shipments of ore taken out in the course
of development work, being more than 100000. This lease
promises a production for the month of September of fully
$l50,000..
But even more emphatic than any of these working pro
critics, as proving mines from the grass roots, and as demon
strating the existence of persistent ledge and vein systems
promising enormous production is the story of Rawhide Coali-
tion. On this estate, the most central and one of the largest
in this entire district of great sensations, are no less than
four steady shippers of high grade ore-ore that will average
around 500 a ton in value, and that shows an average profit
on mining, transportation and treatment charges of not less
than SO to the ton.
This great estate consists of eight full claims and three
fractions, giving an area of practically l65 acres. 1t lies in
the very center of the Rawhide district, and the entire town
site. is upon Coalition ground. In its longer direction, from
northeast to southwest, which is the same as the strike of the
principal lodges of the district, the Coalition estate extends
practically 5000 feet, its average width being about 2,4o0
feet. At the northeastern corner rises Grutt Hill, a command
ing, sugar-loaf shaped eminence. At the opposite, or south
eastern corner, Balloon Hill, the seat of the great Kearns No.
3 lease, slopes away to a commanding height. In the south
Western corner HoohRdH Ill.,, al iIhmeust tfuptNt HI
rising several hundred feet above the camp. lies almost en-
tirely upon Coalition ground, while in the northwestern corner
of the estate, Silver King, or Burns Hill, has a slightly lower
elevation.
Ore discoveries over the entire area of this estate have
been made within the last few months, until today there is
not a claim of Coalition ground that has not been proved up
by shafts, tunnels, drifts, erosscuts and wines, and that is
not now accepted by expert mining engineers as rich in pro
ductive possibilities. Some of these discoveries have been of
a magnitude not known since the treasure vaults of the Gold
field Mohawk were opened up. As early as last January one
shot on the southerly slope of Grutt Hill, on the Grutt Min
ing Company $ lease ON Coalition ground, opened up a won
derful glory hole, and from this one shot there were sacked
seven sacks of ore worth $1,000 to the sack. This lease is
today a steady producer, a bottom shipment having been sent
out this week, and the workings showing a constantly improv-
ing condition. A little lower down on Grutt Hill, on Coalition
ground. are two leases that in the opinion of J. q. Flynn, who
was superintendent of the Goldfeld Mohawk when the leases
on that property were making their record-breaking produc-
ton. are the equal of anything the Mohawk knew at a sim