The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-20

work, and getting in readiness for the installation of his
machinery plant, which is now en- route here from Gold
field.
Topping & Goldsworthy have their shaft down IL feet on
their lease en- the Sunrise claim of the estate of the May
flower NORTH Extension company, just south of the Puritan
shaft Of the Puritan company, and are in a formation Of
promise. The shaft is started down directly on an out.
cropping ledge of breecated, silieifed rhyolite, with a por-
phyry contact, part of the rock heavily bearing hematites
Of iron, and the ~porphyry country rock adjoining the orc
channel stained with chlorides.
Bryan to Repeat Success
J. X. Bryan, the man who developed the Pioneer lease
into a sensation, and his associates have a lease ON the
Boulder claim of the Los Angeles Bulfrog Gold Mining
company $ estate, and are starting a double compartment
shaft which is down about 25 feet. This shaft is right in
the heart of town, and some expert opinion is that it is
located in a likely place for reaching the ore.
VIM. Mckay is starting men at prospect work on two
leasing blocks, one on the Jim Dandy claim of the Sierra
Orc estate and the other on the Gold Hills property.
Of the five leasing blocks on the Indiana claims, all have
been signed up by leasing parties, and the owners, Messrs.
Milliken and Giles, are holding the balance of the claims
for their own use. At the shaft which they are putting
down they are preparing for the installation Of a power
hoist, have lumber for ~timbering on the ground, and have
blacksmith shop and tool house, etc., erected.
jolly Jane Operations
+. s. Giles of the Pioneer Extension Mining company
has let a lease on the lower end of the Jolly Jane claim Of
the Pioneer Extension estate, this claim adjoining the Bi-
metai1c claim NO. Il Oh the Pioneer estate and also the jim
Dandy claim of the Sierra Orc company. The Jolly Jane
Mining and Leasing company has been organized to work
the lease. DIR. S. W. Greene is president of the company
and 7. NJ. $. Rhett of Goldfeld is vice president and attor-
ney. John S. Spencer, Jr, has been doing work on the
property for some weeks and has been named as superin-
tendent and manager of the leasing company. This is one
of the first leases to start operations, and after prospecting
by open cut work and a couple of shallow shafts, the work
ing shaft for the lease is being started on a brecciated rhyo-
lite intrusion with p~orphyry contacts. The shaft is now
down 25 feet, and values of better than $4 are now in sight.
J.. A. Mofat, the stock broker of Rhyolite, and Ed
Herkelrath of Pioneer have a lease on the Valley View
claim, which lays just north of the Pioneer lease, side
lining the Bimetalic claim on which this lease is located,
in fact. They have started a tunnel into the side of the
mountain, on the ledge, and have ore which in general
character and values is similar to the ore taken from near
the surface in the Pioneer lease. They are making a good
showing.
A block of ground on the Bullfrog Pilgrim estate,
owned by Boston parties and managed by Z. s. Giles, J. 2.
Kelly of Goldfeld, and associates, have secured a lease, anil
have commenced prospect work. This property is to the
southeast of the Pioneer lease, on the other rim of the
crater in which it appears that the camp of Pioneer lies.
Pioneer Northern Gets Ore
On the north side of Pioneer mountain, the crew of the
Pioneer Northern Mines company, which is operating four
claims of the old Corona group, is busily going after the
ore, and after having driven a tunnel in the hillside for
some distance in the nature of prospecting to catch the
drift and pitch of the vein, have started their shaft down
ward, and at a depth of IS feet ran into a very promising
formation of brecciated rhyolite, showing hematites in "A
highly crystallized and silicifed form. The rock shows low
values, and between the vein matter and the porphyry con
tact there is a greasy, talcy formation.
The Bullfrog Gold Reef company, of which VIM. A. Otis
of Denver is president, is doing extensive work on the
Merry Widow claim of the company's estate, and aside
from a 3oo-foot tunnel, has a working shaft down so feet,
and some drifting has also been done. This work has been
practically all of an exploration character. The property
q of tho MayhoWer property. and yalue-boldiup veins
of rhyolhe with ~porphyry c~ontacts-low grade-have been
cut.
The leases which are being signed up, while guarantee
ing a fair amount of development on the properties on
which they are given, are very generous in their provisions,
the royalty provisions being based on the value of the ore,
on a siding scale.
Mill for Ores
In view of the fact that the Sp~ringdale mill, but six
miles away and down hill all the way for the loaded teams,
will purchase all ore which runs 81 per ton or better from
the leasers IN the Pioneer district, the leases are starting IL
under most suspicious conditions short haul and low
values taken at the mill. The Springdale mill will soon be
in a position to handle a large amount of ore, due to new
processes which are being worked out there. There is some
talk of a custom mill being erected in the heart of the
district as soon as the work of the leasers have demon
strated that the ore bodies are continuous and of such ex-
tent as to give a good business basis for the erection of a
reduction plant.
The Jim Dandy
It's going to be one of the biggest mines in the camp, >
is the almost universal opinion expressed as to the Jim
Dandy mine. on the Sierra Orc estate. This is being devel
opod by D. Barnes, formerly of the Mountain Crown lease
in Goldfeld, and a tunnel has been driven 140 feet straight
west into the hillside, and heading directly for the Pioneer
lease which is just across the shoulder of the mountain.
AT this point, and after the tunnel has cut through a vein
of brecciated rhyolite for 80 feet, then through a ten-inch
stratum of tale and into another rbyolite vein in which the
tunnel ends. a station is being cut, and from here an upraise
to the surface will be cut, to form the main working shaft
of the property. The ore streaks which has been cut is
carrying values which would pay to mill had the property
its own mill on the ground, and the leasers believe that
they will soon reach the shipping class.
Robson in Camp