The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-08-29

general average value of the ledge $
greater at the I65 thar at the 30-foot
and intervening levels.
Development at 200 Feet
From the bottom, or 220-foot level,
a drift is being extended on the same
ledge, and values are about on par with
those obtaining above. A large reserve
of mill rock is being blocked out at
this point, and also in the upper work
ings. The tonnage of milling ore al
ready in sight is in bulk sufficient to
keep a 0 stamp mill in constant opera
ton for a twelvemonth. The present
daily output of high grade from the
workings is three tons, of an average
net value of $3.50 the tor.
Something About Big Four
An adjustment of the ~bi-monthly
payday misunderstanding having been
brought about by officials of the local
miners union and those of the Big
Four lease, work was resumed on that
leasehold some days ago. Almost i'm
mediately thereafter was made one of
the most important ore discoveries at
taching to the block. In the south drift
from the west crosscut at the 100-foot
level is exposed a seam of ore which is
~peppered full of gold in the free. There
is no portion of the streak which will
not break in excess of $500 the ton, and
hut very little of it which is not worth
at least 81 per pound. This seam has
been followed for a length of 10 feet
without depreciating in value or in
width. From its similarity in appear
ance with the ore body first encoun
tered within 20 feet from surface it is
deduced that the two are one. Although
decidedly paradoxieal, the foregoing
statement will have to stand as It
reads.
Developing Three Veins
Three veins of proportions are being
developed to good purpose at the Big
Four leasehold, which, by the way, is
unquestionably the most valuable
located on the estate of the Rawhide
Consolidated Mines company. The
block is the repository of an immense
area of milling ore having an average
value of $25 per ton, not to mention
the showing in high grade shipping
quartz. To the mind of your CORE
spondent it would appear as though the
permanent worth of the holding would
be found in the mill rock rather thai
in the high grade, the same statement
applying, as a rule, to lease and com
pany workings throughout the distric.
While a 20-foot ledge of $25 ore does
not read as large in print as a 3-inch
seam of $4,000 per ton ore, the first
mentioned is by far the more likely to
be stable, and is, therefore, more to be
depended upon for profits than is its
more flashy, but less firmly established
neighbor.
Veteran Miller Lease
To the veteran Miller lease, one of
the HrSt 10 really chter the hhohoy III
this camp, comes the distinction of hav-
ing its ores first reduced at the recently
completed Watt mill, located on the
fiat south of the TOWNSHIP. The initial
consignment consisted of 40 tons of ore,
from which was reclaimed a bar of
gold weighing "a ounces. 1t has an
average worth of $40 the ounce, hence
has a total value of 1874. These fig
ures indicate that the ore was worth
about 1874 per ton. 1t was mined in the
south drift from the 65-foot leverin the
old workings, where was recently en-
countered what presents promise of de
veloping into one of the largest de-