The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-02-27
GREAT ORE AT
BROKEN HILLS

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: Hills mine at Helena. Inc nrs'
.h,,meut under the new contract went
Fl, Thursday consisted of twenty tons
.a,,z from the incline workings
ill run in the neighborhood OK
.,oo ton. There is plenty of TINS
~ ore broken down in the drifts.
al sacked for shipment, and President
,cxmaek of the Broken Hills com
.a,v il authority for the statement
H., there will be no let-up in the ship
u,,,s until the completion of the mill.
+, the meantime Helena is a thriving
camp and growing steadily. The new
.o,enhoue line will be in operation be
60 ,bc end of next week, in spite of
-. d,lav occasioned by the lack OF
s,n,lies. which compelled the c%ontrae-
tors 10 cease work for a week. The
rv;yes are strung out from Tonopah 70
n.Einnev's wells and the poles are all
:, position for the entire distance.
Linemen are now stringing the wires
from McKinney's wells to Helena, ana
this work should take only a few days.
Big Mine Looks Good
The Broken Hills mine never looked
hotter and the company is now stopping
and breaking richer ore than at any
time in its history. In the bottom Il
the incline they nave sixteen feet that
will run in about 5000 a ton without
sorting, while in the bottom of the
shaft that is being sunk on the new
strike, they have seven feet of ore
4bat will run better than 5000 a ton.
This shaft, which is on the side of the
hill. Just below the main shaft of the
company, is only fifteen feet deep
and is practically ali in ore.
The Broken Hills company has let a
contract for 100 feet of prosecuting on
the 220-foot level.
Another contract has been let for
100 feet of prosecuting on the 100
foot level of the Johnson lease. This
work is being done on company account
and is mainly for the purpose in con-
~nection with the drift from the 5O-foat
level of the incline workings, of finally
determining the trend of the incline
vein, concerning which there has always
been considerable doubt
Bricca Lease
The discovery of a fine three-foot
vein i. the Bricca lease at a depth of
80 feet has raised a doubt as to the cor
~rectness of this theory, it being con
tended by the owners of the Bricca
lease, and by many others that the
Bricca vein is an extension of the main
or incline vein. The Bricca block lies
lust west of the incline workings and
the vein in the lease shaft courses III
rectly east and west. The prosecuting
now being done by the Broken Hills
company is expected to settle finally
the question, which way does the VEN
trend, and as a consequence this work
is being anxiously watched by the
leasers generally and the Florence Con
sollualeu cOHpdHH anu INT biohch iiii'S
Lease Syndicate in particular. The old
Bowles lease block, lying just west and
adjoining the Bricca block, has been
optioned to f.. r. Bowie of the Broken
Hills Lease Syndicate and may be opc-
rated by that company in connection
with its present lease should the con
~tention of the champions of the Bricca
theory as to the course of the incline
vein, prove to be correct.
Gets Good Assays
The Helena Broken Hills lease has
some very high grade ore exposed in its
shaft at a depth of 60 feet, the values
running as high as $1,000 a ton. The
ore is not in place, however, and more
work will be necessary to make the
lease a shipper. 4
The old Belmont lease, on the east
side of the hill, has been taken over by
Phil Judica and will be developed on
an extensive scale. The shaft is down
100 feet and it is understood that Mr..
Judica will install a hoist at once aad
continue sinking.
Negotiations are also unde way for
a lease on the block formerly operated
by Stanley and Guhl, who were forced
to quit for lack of money. There is a
shaft down 20 feet on this block and
tho fppmaflnn 10 worry nrnmlSlnO