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

the use of a single small dry washer
were enabled to take out considerably
better than wages and this was taken
out of a relatively small amount of dirt
owing to the limited capacity of the
machine.
Under the hydraulic system which
Mr.. Wilson will employ a large tonnage
will be washed zach day and it is be-
lieved that the result will prove highly
profitable.
As stated in last weeks Nugget pan
nings made in a small egg pan showed
results of about ten cents which in a
regular gold pan would be the equiv
alent of about n dollar to the pan.
The entire ground seems to be well
peppered with gold which will make a
good average soil to work, enriched
with particularly rich spots and streaks
which are constantly being encountered.
Lease in High Grade
The Wade lease on the Mariposa
claim which belongs to the Round
Mountain Mining company is in high
grade.
Kenneth Wade, who is operating it,
ran into a series of exceedingly rich
pockets during the week. One chunk
of rock nearly as big as a mans head
was literally plastered with the yellow
metal in the shape of large leaves.
The shaft has been bored into Steb-
bins hill for a distance of four hundred
feet and now a winze is being sunk on
the ledge which goes down on an incline
of about eighty degrees.
The ore is absolutely free milling and
there is already a big dump of it ready
to be reduced. Mr.. Wade is enthus-
iastic over the prospects and in speak
ing of it said: ~ believe that l have
ont of the very best propositions in the
camp. In fact 1 am so firm in this be-
lief that / would not trade it for any
other works now in operation. l have
been drifting on the ledge during the
entire work of tunneling SO that every
thing / have taken out has practically
been ore.
cit is now my intention to sink on
the ledge which l will follow and | be-
lieve that it will continue to increase in
values as / go down. The high grade
which / encountered was found in the
winze which | have started and which
is down as yet less han a dozen feet.
/ shall go down for fifty or a hundred
feet in order to ascertain the value of
the ledge and then if it makes good its
present promise | shall start to stope
up and mill the ore just as fast as l
take it OUT
Associated with Mr.. Wade in this
lease is w. II. Paul, until recently an
officer in the Denver and Rio Grande
railway. Mr.. Paul, a short time ago re-
signed his position in order to devote
his entire time to the mining interests
he has been acquiring in Nevada.
Williams Lease
The Williams lease on the Rogers
claim is getting better with each day of
development. The shaft is now down
one hundred and ten feet and the
values in the ledge have been i%ncreas-
ing with every foot of depth.
As stated in a prior issue of the Mug
get, the shaft is going down on a per
pendicular ledge about three feet wide.
This shaft, through a stroke of good
fortune, CHANGED to drop directly on
this after getting through the wash.
1t is a free gold proposition and Mr..
Williams has recently made some ex-
%cellent paintings of the ledge matter.
The gold is quite coarse, pan returns
showing it to be as large as grains of
rice.
The ledge has maintained an average
width of three feet up t. the present
time but to all appearance it seems now
to be very gradually widening.
Mr.. Williams is more than pleased
with the outlook ana III is also tne Opin'.
ion of local mining men that this lease
is destined to be one of the producers
in camp.
The Williams lease is a stock com
pany, there being ten shares, each OF
which is held by an individual. The
shares are being paid for in monthly
installments, the process being used in
4Lo Ioualnnnunnt work