The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-03-27

From that decision the claimant ha!
appealed to the department.
The only improvements of a mining
character on the claim are a shaft. with
a drift or level from 3 to ~ feet in
length, run in a southtrly direction
therefrom and about So feet below the
surface. This shaft, it appears, vas
commenced in November, 1903. and BY
the end of the following February had
been sunk to a depth of about so feet.
No further excavating, to amount to
anything, appears to have teen done
at this shaft until some times in Nav
or June, 1907, when the drift above re.
ferred to was run. On June Q. 1907.
the shaft appears to have been sunk
about 90 feet deep; but thereafter. and
during the conrse Of the hearing.
which was concluded en- June 81. 1907,
it was sunk to a depth of about 90 feet.
No Mineral There
witnesses for the government tcsti-
fed that they had been recently down
into, and made an examination of. the
shaft and the lrift or level leading
therefrom; that they particularly OBJ.
served the formation exposed therein,
but were uneble to find there any vein
or lode of quartz, or n well-deined vein
of any other character, except a seam
of clay or gouge matter, which was
opened up in the drift; that the lower
part of the shaft penetrated a por-
phyritic formation, considerably de-
composed, and that that was overlain
by a soft sedimentary matter of differ
ent color, impregnated with iron. One
Barnes, an assayer, and a graduate of
the Colorado School of Mines, took a
number of samples from various parts
of the claims and himself assayed them.
Five of these samples were taken from
the shaft at points on or near the bot
tom thereof, the shaft being then about
90 feet deep; one was taken from the
excavation for the basement of the
Goldield Hotel, situated on the claim
at a point about 100 feet west Of the
shaft; one was taken from an excava-
ton near the Presbyterian church,
which excavation would seem to be
about 900 feet, in a northeasterly di-
r~ection, from the shaft. He also took
two samples from the drift leading
from the shaft-one being material con
of quartz and feldspar and con
tanning considerable pyrites, that came
from the top of the seam that was ex-
posed in the drift, and the other from
the clay or gouge matter of the seam
The result Of these assays, as
disclosed by the certificates offered in
evidence, as well as the testimony of
Barnes, was ''gold, none; silver, zone.
Barnes testified that the formation dis
in the Goldfeld Hotel excava-
ton, which is ten or twelve feet deep,
is reasonably solid, but that it is de.
composed rock. Respecting the forma-
ton exposed in the excavation near the
church, he says that il is
probably lake bed deposit, although
there seems to be some solid material
in it.
There has been no mineral in paying
quantities taken from, or discovered in,
.ny claim in the immediate vicinity of
land.
The department is of the opinion,
from all the testimony in the case, that
no well-defned vein or ledge OF quartz
or other mineral bearing rock in place
is shown to exist on the land in ques
ton, to justify the issuance of patent
under the pending application.
The decision of your Office is accord
affirmed, and the application will
be rejected.
The papers are herewith returned.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) FRANK PIERCE,
First Assistant Secretary.