Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
GOLDEN GEM MINE
 PROVES ITSELF BONANZA

KiNGMAN, Nov. 24 The Golden Gem mine, at Cerbat, is in great ban anza. The change from l0 feet of low grade ore on the 600 to high grade 10 feet deeper IS fair illustration of .the evolution of mine. The Gem has an interesting history. Pay ore was first taken from this property several years ago by Col r. l.. Ayers. lt was like receiving money from an unexpected quarter. Mir and Mrs. Ayers, with two children, lived and delved n long time in the shadow of inc pay shoot before finding it, but it was there all the time for the dig
 ging. After finding the ore inc Col. onel lost no time in getting it to a shelter and the money in his pocket.
 His net was over S1OO,000 in seven months. The ore then scattered and became milling proposition. Then it got lower grade. The Ayers packed
 their turkey and hicd to the city by the Golden Gate where they invested
 their earnings from the rocks in sur
 face indications and it won again. The daughter and son married among the high grades of San Francisco and good fortune has attended them all since the day when one more shot dis closed the wealth of the Golden Gem.
 When the shipping ore pineaed the Ayers concluded that they would let i others take the chance of finding moro | Without consulting the spirits, chas. | D. Lane took a whseh at it sinking the shaft deeper into the unproduetive
 zone and drifting. The next grass root miner 'o put in money was Henry
 Mckay. He also confined himself to
 the unfriendly zone. Each time Ayers
 got a good piece of money and the
 mine back. Along about there times
 the Ayers family wore perpetual
 smile Money all the time. Each out
 6t got little deeper down but not
 below the rise and fall of the tide.
 It was a theory believed in by every
 man on the dynamite line that the ore
 was below. The present company,
 with O. r. kuencsr as consulting en.
 gineer, put up a 30-ton mill and stamp.
 ed everything in sight. Then as the
 treasury run low it became manifest
 taat the ore was deeper if at all This
 was Kueneer's opinion. It takes mon ey to go down into natures storehouses
 and the panic was on. li was harder
 to raise money than to lift yourself
 up by your boot straps. The money
 had 10 be raised, no use talking, it
 was sinking money or good mine
 would again stand idle. They rustled
 s3J,000 and put that expert miner,
 Joe Morgan at the head of the job
 to retimber the shaft down @ ir
 greatest depth, 400 feet At \ depth of 100 feet the bigaesi values obtain able was ~ n ton, From that to .
 single O. Ii was casting all upon a
 die. At 4l0 the high rock run ts.
 The shaft was entering friendly ground on the hanging wall side. Next test was ounces in gold, sI4o. From this point to the present depth, 500 , feet, the values have gradually h..
 creased until at the 500 they are 20
 ounces in gold per ton, s4oo per ton. Not only tnat hut nature has not
 stinted the quantity. At this writing, Monday, a width of five feet had been !, cut in the ore with no foot wall In sight. In the upper workings the best
 ore was on the foot. After the sta ton Is cut at the 800 and short drifts } made from the shaft sinking for the GOO will be resumed with vigor. A ' starter of 30-foot stump aas already been made below the 500
 The Cerbst range has produced mil lions of dollars from various mines l. down Co depth of from 100 to 200 J feet in yariably ensountering the water leashed zone with it's low grade ores. The Golden Gem Is th first Of z all the many deep seated Assures of ' that region to have it's enriched zone '. tapped. Prom now on sailing tho orc
 channel will be smooth. A long con
 tended theory has been proven. NJ
 more interesting taing exists than the d evolution of a dug out prospect into mine. Like everything else th' r stsyer wins and the quitter loses.