The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-04-25

Eugene Gruft, enc of the founders
of Rawhide. had business in Goldield
this week He said to a News repre-
sentative:
1.-THE camp from a mining standpoint
ia better than ever. Fourteen hoists
are already in operation, while thirty
seven have been ordered in addition 4
believe that the total number viii be
brought up TO sixty before long
"On the Consolidated estate the Lii
Ian lease is down e~ight-fve feet and is
in picture ore They have cut two rich
.streaks on the bag porphyry dyke, the
first on the forty-ive-foot level show
inc eight inches of $4,000 ore. On the
seventy-foot level they found three
feet that run $3.50 and another shoot OF
two and one-half feet was found, the
values averaging $500. All the inter
xenine section will mill from $40 to $50
n ton. Fifteen tons of high grade are
now sacked for shipment.
son the Big -Four the main shaft is
down fftv feet and a crosscut has been
run for i04 feet, all in the big dyke
Cold blooded sampling, leaving out the
rich lenses, show 5000 for the entire
distance.
"Shaft No. 2 is down twenty-five
feet and is opening a rich ore body fhat
shows from three to four feet IN thick
ness. Ore that runs $500 is being
sacked.
..The Murray lease is on the same
dyke. 1t is an immense porphyry IN
t~rusion, silicifed throughout. The en-
tire working is in ere. Two rich shoots
have been encountered, each over two
feet wide. The stuff will ship. The
entire mass is breaking 1920.
"Kearns No. l lease on Rawhidt
Queen is down 100 feet in shaft No. 2
The bore has entered the andesite dyke
and followed a feeder to the main dyke
which has widened to fourteen inches
The ore is breaking from SIS to $1,4Ot
TO the ton. At $50 feet a station vii
be cut and a crosscut driven to the malr
ore channel which was exposed in shaft
No. / to a depth of ninety-fve feet
and showing forty-ive feet in thu
~rcrosscut. An average of careful samp
ling is $23.70.
HOn.the Kearns No. 2, the same prop
erty, the shaft is down III feet and I
crosscut has been started. At a deptf
of forty-ive feet the intrusive DYKE
was entered and at sixty-fve feet nin'
feet of ore was cut. The average value
is $115. Two and one-half feet of thu
ledge will run $500. E. w. King
president of the company, broke dowI
in my presence a sample weighing
fourteen and one-half pounds. 1t wa
taken to the company's assay office an
panned, where the resultant goit
weighed 1850, or about So a pound
or $4,000 a ton.
cit is a stipulation with PRACTICAL,
all the leases in the camp that NJ
stopping shall be done under 100 feet
and for this reason all the importan
leases are being sunk to the depth.
GA depth of 100 feet has been at
tanned in the Ogilvie-R Reynolds SHAFT
High grade millino ore is exposed. A
the ninety-foot level there is two fee
that runs '$92. so. The shaft will b
sunk to the 150-foot level.
"On Grutt hill the Grutt MlninI
company has two shafts, each eight.
feet deep, both equipped with hoists.
"From the surface these shafts hav'
been in the intrusive dyke of %silicife'
porphyry. For the past twenty-on
days daily samples have been taken am
everything hoisted averages $40.
"The -Grutt Hill Mining company, !
which Captain J. A. Hassen of Gold
field is Interested, is driving a big Dor