Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
GOLDFLAT BOOM
STEADY AND SURE
DEvEL LOPMENT PROVING MIN
ERAL RICHNESS
FAY MINE HAS REACHED $4,000
ORE BODY
Town Is Growing, Shafts Are sinking,
and Water and Power Plant
Is Under Construc-
ton

T. e. Buchanan, pioneer anu pio
moter of Goldfiat, Ariz, the infant
mining camp of Mohave county, Is in
Los Angeles for a short stay at the
Hotel Johnson. Mr. Buchanan came
loaded with samples of the rich rock
that is beinL thrown out OF all the
shafts in the rapidly increasing region
of discovery. These samples are at the
office of the company, S11 H. w. He'll
man building, and "Buch" was busy
yesterday demonstrating how any old
sample will pan a good string Of the
yellow metal.
"Goldfat is ten weeks old" said he,
''and is able to sit up and look about.
1t is a wide awake infant, too, and
doesn't cry bit The town is chang
ing so rapidly that l hardly dare to
tell what it was when L left 1t, for
when 1 get back it will be entirely
different. But, seriously, is has all the
mercantile institutions of much
larger and older place and the real
estate boom is hardly exceeded by that
of Los Angeles in it's balmy days.
Material is being shipped in daily for
the new buildings that are going up
and another ten weeks will find it a
bustling town of several hundred"
One Veins Showing
Speaking of the mineral development
he took one vein for a text. On this
particular vein the Nagooruk Mining
company has a shaft sunk thirty feet
and has crosscut at this depth and
finds an average in a width of twenty
seven feet of $17.77 in gold. About 1000
feet north of this shaft a streak of ore
samples over $500.
This vein is traced over four miles
through the fiat and about two miles
from the Nagooruk mine, at the Holy
Moses, the shaft at seventy feet depth
is In rich ore. Every piece thrown out
is rich in visible free gold. A mile
and a half further south on this vein
at the White King mine is showing an
average of $27. so in gold. These claims
are owned by the Goldfat Mining
and Milling company.
At the south end of this vein is tie
Fay mine, owned by the Col. Morgan
Con-, which is crosscutting at the bot
tom of a 200-foot shaft and showing
high values. Some of the samples show
$50 ounces of gold to the ton-about
$4,000. Near the Fay mine is the Pay
master on the same vein in which an
open cur has been run by Kent and
Ingraham and is showing free gold
without the aid of a glass. Mr.. Bu-
chanan thinks this is a splendid show
ing for this vein. There are thirty-two
distinct veins in the Goldfiat district,
and most of them are being worked.
New Wagon Road
A road between Goldflat and the
wagon road to Gold Roads is being
built and this will be a great help to
the new town. The townsite has been
incorporated and NJ. J. Spencer of Los
Angeles will begin work tomorrow on
the water system for the place. This
water will be brought from Walnut
creek seven miles distant, and is am
pie in quantity for all purposes of
milling, domestic and power uses.
Among the new strikes made at
Goldfat is that of E. j. Murphy,
whose ore at a depth of siXty-eight
feet shows values in excess of 1900 in
gold. On the Dalmatian group, owned
by Willard, Fisher, Leonard and
Blakeslee, fine specimens of ore with
visible gold have been exposed, but
assays have not been completed.
DR.. A. L. Derbyshire of San Diego
who has extensive interests in Gold
fiat, with Buchanan, Chittenden and
Leonard, has gone on flying trip to
Alaska, where he has a dredging outfit
at work in the Nome field. He ex-
poets to return without delay and push
the work on his Goldfiat properties.
There are number of old Nomers
in the camp and they are very enthusi-
astic over it's prospects.
Thomas Welsh has made a recent
rich strike in white quartz at the north
end of the fiat but has had no assays
Mr.. Buchanan says there are 50C
men in the territory around the fiat
and that every day brings additional
testimony to the rich mineral charac-
ter of the country.