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

liar stage of development. These are the Grutt Hill Coalition
and .he Grutt Hill Mint leases.
These two leases have opened up the same vcia, wbirh
engineers declare to be of absolutely true assure forrlarion,
and have proved this vein for a distance of more thar 200
feet, and to depths OF l07 feet in the Gruit Hill Coalition
lease. and 200 feet in the Grutt Hill Mint lease. Starting at
the surface, this vein has widened steadily, and With derih
the values have been persistently enhanced. At the surface
it was three inches wide. At 80 feet il had widened TO 81.
feet. At the l07- foot level it is 4 feet wide. One foot Of the
vein at the lower level is gold, carrying rock, the values being
reported 90 average 1000 a ton, while the remaining 3 feet
give average assay returns of 800 a ton, making an average
value at the 107 foot level for the entire 4 feet width of the
vein of mare than 5000 10 the ton, rs proved by shipments.
The Goldfeld Mohawk never had such a showing as this at so
early a stage of development, because this vein is absolutely
proved for a distance of 200 feet in length and 200 feet deep.
Over on Hooligan Hill, on the southerly slope, the Trett
Rawhide lease on the Coalition is a regular shipper, aud has
been sending steady shipments to the mills aud samplers
since the middle of May. The deepest workings on this lease
block are 30 feet below the surface, but at that depth more
than 700 feet of underground work has been done, and it has
been in ore all the way.
Expert engineers who have carefully examined and sur
veyed the property of the Rawhide Coalition Mines company,
declare ii to be their opinion that the great true fssure vein
opened up on the Grutt Hill Coalition and Grutt Hill Mint
leases, should extend from the Proskey lease, north of the
Grutt Hill Mint, in a general s~outherly direction through the
Wild West, Sunbeam and Happy Hooigan claims of the
Coalition estate, giving to it an approximate total length on
Coalition ground of slightly more than 5000 feet. This vein
alone, should the opinion OF the engineers be confirmed by
subsequent developments, is big enough, and rich enough, to
make kawhtue lOalttlon II OF II golu mlneS Oh u
world, the peer of the Goldfeld Mohawk, the Florence Gold
field, or of any of the great producing properties of Colorado
or California. But the riches of this estate are not limited
to this one vein. The Silver King Hill corner is being rapidly
proved up by work in progress on the Burns and Gold Hill
leases, and recent developments in the property lying to the
north have proved the existence of great bodies of milling
ore that cannot fail to traverse this part of the Coalition
estate. That the Kearns No. 2 and Kearns No. / veins from
the Queen estate, following their southwesterly strike, must
pass through the southeastern corner Of the Coalition estate
is being demonstrated by extensive work in progress on the
Proskey No. ., Victor and Miller leases, which are ag-
gressively developing ground in that part of the Coalitions
vast acreage.
These mines from the grassroots on Rawhide Coalition
ground have proved it to be easily the most valuable ground
in the Rawhide district, a district which, as we have said,
bids fair to surpass any gold mining center the country has
known since the discovery of Cripple Creek, which has pro
duced $24S, 100000 in the precious yellow metal, in a period
of fifteen years, and which is adding to that total at the
rate of $l5,o00,o0o annually. Goldfeid Consolidated, which
is the greatest gold mining corporation in America, never
had such showings at the same stage of development, while
the extent of Rawhide Coalition proved area and the demon
strated richness of its ore bodies, at the depths which have
been attained, far exceed those on the great Goldfeld prop
erty, and cause Rawhide Coalition to stand in a class by IT.
self. &6N sHMN8