The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-05-29
GOLDEN ARROW DISTRICT GIVES
SPLENDID PROMISE FOR BIG MINES

Over in the Kawich range, nearly so
miles east of Tonopah, the promising
little mining camp of Golden Arrow is
just now beginning to attract renewed
attention on account of the probability
that within the next year the proposed
Goldfeld- Ely railroad will nave been
constructed through the center of the
district, thus giving it transportation
facilities for the shipment of ore, and
making it easily accessible to the out
side world. Preliminary surveys which
have already been made run directly
through the camp and over Warm
Springs pass, a few miles distant, and
have established not only the feasibility
of the route but also the fact that it
is probably the only one which offers
a desirable grade in crossing the range
between Goldfeld and Ely.
In a mining way, the district offers
a great deal of interest to mining men,
The proven portion covers a wide ex-
panse of miueralized territory in which
good values in gold and silver have been
developed, beginning at the surface and
continuing downward to the lowest
depth yet attained, which is about BOO
feet. Values range from a few dol
lars up to several hundred dollars a
ton, and are quite persistent throughout
the work that has beer done. In places
remarkable paintings arc secured on the
surface, and assays show a strong min.
~eralization throughout practically all OF
the lodes of the district that have been
prospected or developed.
Last Sunday the mining editor OF
The News made an auto trip into Golden
Arrow from Tonopah, taking in "Sals
bury Wash on the way. In the party
were DR.. A. IL. Elftman, l.. l.. Gilman
Capt. w. G. Cotter and w. M. Gotwal@r
of Tonopah. There are probably d
people in the camp, and prospecting ane
systematic development are being earn
estly carried forward in various part'
of the district.
Cotter Group.
The most extensive development !
on the Cotter group, in the north enc
of the district, where gold values pre-
dominate. Capt. Cotter and ASSOCIATE
have Is claims, on all of which ar
strong lodges o~utcropping PROMINENT.
in a rhyolite formation, and carrying
large bodies of quartz that assay frou
a few dollars to several hundred pc
ton. There is an abundance of $40 u
$40 ore, and also a strong showing o.
ore that assays from $75 to 5000 per to'
bv mine sampling. The main working
shaft, located on the Confidence ledge
is 305 feet deep, and the vein is abou
ten feet wide at the bottom. This prop
erty is equipped with an ls-h. p. West
ern gasoline hoist and a gallows frame
and has about 1000 feet of develop
ment on four levels. At the presen
time drifts are being driven north an
south on the vein at the $50 level, an
a erosscut is also being sent out to tn
west to explore the country and pie
nm another vein which is believed I
be near. At this depth the orr is
sulphide carrying free gold, AMI ca
be easily treated by "a mill without tn
use of cyanide.
The Cotter Mines company has abon
5000 feet ON the Page ledge, the mrs
one located in the district, and ais
about 1900 feet on the Geneva iedg'
Two shafts on the Gold Bar and Code
Anchor claims are each down 100 fee
and "a number of other prospect hoi'
have also been sunk, tracing oth'
Lodges on the estate. This company h;
six men on the pay roll, and has e
~tensive development outlined for pro
ing up the ore bodies. 1t is estimate
that there is about 100000 worth
paw ore now blocked out In the ma
workings, and Capt. Cotter is arran
ing for the purchase of a small m
which is located about o u miles fro
: the mine, for treating this ore.
|, some time in the early future he e
poets to erect a mill on his group
claims, which will put the property
a good paying basis and also furnish
mill for the treatment of other orr
of the district which it may not !
found profitable to ship.