The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-12-05

Ihdluihd iiiis. lHcse are NOT tests Out
actual mill runs, with the records to
show.
The Wihuja lease is taking out the
ore from the 1s5-foot level, having been
interrupted by the flow of water at the
265. In a day or two, they will be
working in the lower depths again,
where they have the same rich ore, for
they have controlled the flow by a No.
Cameron pump, and a go horse power
gasoline engine and an air compressor.
In the Wihuja they nave gone down on
an incline shaft to the 1s5 and from
there have sunk a vertical shaft. At
the water level they have encountered
the sulphides, which are rich with free
gold. This is one of the greatest leases
in the camp, and it is now, perhaps, the
best equipped.
There were four new strikes in the
district during last week. The biggest
of these was on the Florence lease of
the Seven Troughs rhine. At the 200
level they encountered three feet of ore
which averages $65 a ton. The lease is
on the Fairview claim of the Seven
Troughs, where the 100000 was taken
out, so there is no telling what is ahead
of the Florence. The rich ore of the
Fairview, or rather, ore identical in
character and value, was also found In
the Wihuja lease and in the Mazuma
| Hills mine.
The Buekhorn also made a new
strike, or rather, a decided improve
ment in the value and width of its pay
shoot. A seam Of tale not more than a
knife blade in width, had been en-
countered on the footwall, and this
week it has widened to five inches,
with values averaging 800 a ton. They
have besides in the drift, three feet OF
good milling ore, and nine feet on the
hanging wall which goes from eight to
ten dollars a ton. The Sandifer lease
on the Therien struck the ore at the
$50 level, but almost Immediately after,
the water rushed in and covered up the
strike. The ore, according to the own
ers, was of high grade.
The Anna claim in the Wild Horse
canyon was the scene Of another strike.
They had run a tunnel into the hill ten
feet when they encountered the ore, and
for the last 20 feet they have been
sacking high grade. The strike gives
great promise.
Still another mill is coming TO the
camp. The English eorge lease has
ordered a Huntington, which has a
guaranteed capacity of rs tons a day.
The lease is on the Badger Hill prop
erty, and has DON considerable under
ground work. They have one tunnel
which is in $50 feet, and connected with
a tunnel above for air. The ledge here
has been opened up for 400 feet, with a
width of from two to eight feet.
Streaks occur which assay into the
thousands, but the majority of the ore
will 90 from $12 to SIS a ton. The
upper tunnel is in 120 feet, and has a
vein which is % feet in width, all of
which will mill, according to assays
and paintings taken from all of it that
has been exposed. There is still an
other vein on the ground from two TO
four feet in width, which goes SIS or
SIG a ton.
A shaft has been sunk to obtain
water for the mill. This is Town 100
feet, and from that level a erosseut is
to be run to catch the vein opened up
in the lower tunnel, giving the leasers
$50 feet of backs. w. r. English and
James A. George are the original leas-
ers of the property, and the develop
ment represents the work of 10 months,
at which time they came into the camp
without a cent, and have made the
lease work for them ever since.
The Reagan lease on the Mazuma
Hills has cut the vein on the 265-foo'
level, and drifting is to commence thii
week. They are still drifting at the
1875. where the ore is as rich as ever
| G. II. Hayes of Hayes and Monnetts
fame is down 800 feet on his lease on
the Mazuma Hills and has just started
. a crosseut. Mr.. Hayes is a believer IN
deep mining as he demonstrated in M
lease ON the Mohawk Of Goldfeld, and
he is going after the ore to the depths