The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-23
(By Joseph s. Jordan.)

22.-The Big Dipper Mining company,
Of which Judge Frank Egan is the con
trolling spirit, opened up this morning
Is inches of ore at a depth of eight
feet from the surface, which averaged
clear across, $131.30 a ton. The prop
erty of the Big Dipper company is just
north of the Boilermaker claim, from
which there has beer taken very high
grade ore. Judge Egan will leave here
for the east the latter part of the week
to finance his company, and upon his
return he will open the ground up for
all it is worth.
The English George lease. on the
Badger Hill is opening the eyes OF the
good people here in the development
that is being shown up since the Hunt
ington mill on the property has been in
operation. The leasers had declared
that they would be content with ore
that went $15 a ton, but the ore that
has been coming out of the mine has
put that figure so far to shame that 1T
is forgotten. They do not mention s1j
any more. There was hardly a spot IN
the property that did not pan, and the
values were merely guesswork with the
~leasers. Now the values in the mill
are running to $50 and so and this is
not by any means the representative
values. On the 14-foot vein upon
which they have been working they
have struck a streak of high grade
which goes from $500 to $4,000 a ton.
They have besides a vein 4S feet in
width, which itself will go all the way
across, better than SIS a ton.
Harris Lease
The Florence Mining and Leasing
company, better known as the Harris
lease, from present developments, fap-
pears to be the biggest thsg in the dis
trict. They are -1yking there on the
200 level, and while they are sinking a
winze, they nave also started an up
raise. Meantime they are continuing
the drift. In the winze they are get
ting the most remarkable returns. Since
last Thursday, they have had three feet
of ore which, independent of the high
grade streak goes 500 "a ton. The
high grade returns picture values.
Then in the upraise they are taking out
ore which goes $3.50 a ton, and the ore
in the face of the drift goes better THAI
800 a ton. They are now getting a
shipment ready for the kindergarten
mill, but it may be a month before
they can get a turn at the mill. They
are to nave another test run of the
Fairview ore, and it is possible that
the Wihuja lease will have a run be-
fore it comes to the turf of the Flor
ence.
Strike On Reagan
The Reagan lease on the Mazuma
Hills mine has made another strike,
and they are taking out the prettiesr
looking ore that has yet come out of
the hill. The last strike was made on
the outside of the big shoot that they
uncovered and from which they sent
out 100000 between the mill and tn.
smelter. They continued the drift be
yond the shoot, and then started an
upraise. Drifting on this upraise, they
came into another rich shoot, from
which they are getting two feet of ore
that will average $40 a ton, and there
is besides, a streak of from -four to SIX
inches which is picture rock, going up
into thousands of dollars a ton.
The Seven Troughs Merger has also
struck it big. This lease lies between
the Wihuja and the Reagan leases, and
they have opened up % feet of a vein
the characteristics of which are iden
teal with the ore of the two leases
mentioned. The last two feet of the
vein is particular worthy of note fol
the reason that the whole thing will %
$S5 a ton, and there is a streak in i,
which assays $S77.33.
Fine Surface Showing
The Seven Troughs Contact compan.v
of which A. ID. Myers of Goldfeld i,
president, has just completed a survey
of its property lying south of the Hero
Nevada mines, and a system of devcl
opment has been outlined by their en-
gineer, j.. X. Turner, who has just
visited the property. Mr.. Turner state.
that the company is well prepared witt
finances to thoroughly develop it.
estate, and from the high gra |,
" float ore recently found ON the sur
face of the Dividend claim of the;r
group there is no question in the minds
of those familiar with the ground bu;
that the making of a high grade prop
erty lies hidden but n few feet under
meath the .'lava flows
The Desert Kings, owned and being
developed by a Denver company, is
showing up remarkably well in a 100.
foot vertical shaft being sunk on a
4-foot vein, which gives every promise
of a mine maker.