The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-02-08

On the Mazuma Hills property this
week was made a strike of a magnitude
and richness that dwarfs all the pre-
vious famous finds in the celebrated
mine. Visitors to the scene of the dis
covery. 500 feet northward into the hill
from the entrance of the lower tunnel,
tell almost incredible stories of massive
upright wall of glittering picture rock
that have been exposed for twenty feet
since the strike and of vast contiguous
bodies of shipping ore. Pieces of high
grade purported to come from the shoot
may best be described as nuggets of
gold and silver alloy, mixed with quartz.
II is no exaggeration to say that in
many of the specimens the predominant
weight is in the alloy.
The ore is of the sulphide variety
with a great excess of free gold. which
some times permeates the rock in a
finely divided state and some times oc-
ours in massive streaks or ribbons run
ming through the rock. The metal Is
yellower than is usual here. there being
two ounces of gold for every ounce of
silver. The rock Is a quartz porphyry.
shading into a blue quartz.
The shoot was first struck SIS feet
from the mouth of the lower tunnel by
the force carrying this bore ~northward
through the hill. The miners ave adj
vanced twenty to twenty-five feet since
then and the face of the drift is entirely
in rich ore and exposes a ive-inch
streak of picture rock on the hanging
wall of a character to dazzle a most o
sentative spectator.
The estimated depth Of the find is 400
vertical feet from the surface, a depth
considered ample to vouch for the mag
nitude and p-ermanency of the find. h
actual width of the shoot is still as
much unknown as it's length. Only one
wall, cutting of values. has been found
the hanging wall. On the foot wall
side. a great wall OF frst-class shipping
ore stands up the full twenty or twenty
FIVE feet givir ; no idea as to how far
the ore extends in that direction.
The Mazuma Hills lower tunnel for
400 feet passes through a succession of
rich ore shoots all dipping northward.
The lean streaks between them are said
to be from twenty to thirty feet wide.
From them have been taken some of the
richest shipments of ore to cave the
camp. The shipping streak in them
show values throughout running from
$500 to $4,000. Several of them have
been stopped practically to the surface
to furnish the former shipments from
the Mazuma Hills. In the the W
tunnel sacking is actively going on,
much of the space now being occupied
by laden sacks awaiting the next ship
ment.
This large opening of productive
ground in the mine has resulted in a
new shipping policy. fnaugurated this
week by the management, when the big
mule team took out a cargo Of ore. This
policy is no less than the determination
to send out semi-weekly similar argoes.
amounting to approximately twelve tons
per week or a shipment from Lovelock
to the shelters every three weeks.
STAMP MILL
1t is more than probable that the $780,
600 ten-stamp mill of the Seven Troughs
Kindergarten Mining company, in Seven
Troughs canyon. grading for which Is
practically finished, will be completed
and In operation by April 1, instead OF
May 1, as is required by the terms OF
the contract for it's erection with the
Nevada Engineering Works, Of Reno.
When the contract was awarded. Presi-