The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-06
NEW bUCkH0RN
DISTRICT
AN INTERESTING DESCRIPTION
OF THE RECENTLY DISCOVER
ED GOLD CAMP IN NORTHERN
PART OF EUREKA COUNTY.

A Goldfield CORRESPONDENT of the
San francisco journal of Commerce
gives some new information regard
ing the gold district recently dis
covered in the northern part of
Eureka county, which promises at
tracing the attention of mining men
and capitalists. Writing under date
of September 25 the correspondent
says:
Present indications are that the
ne district of Buckhorn in Eureka
county will prove to be the largest
area of low grade gold bearing ores
ever discovered in this countrp and
it is attracting the earnest attention
of capitalists and Mining men, who
are already getting in there on a
large scale.
J.. P. Lotus and Richard M. Jones,
the mining engineers, have Just re-
turned from there after a four days
trip, in which 500 miles were covered
by auto. The nearest railway point
to Buckhorn is the station of Alpha,
so miles south Of Palisade, on the
Eureka & Palisade railway. From
that station the station is due west
about 20 miles across open country.
This ground was discovered afew
months 6 by a man named Lynn"
said Mr.. Lotus today. while vros-
pecting, he found gold in the gulches
and traced it to its point of origin on
a plateau. The region presents uni
que features in the annals of mining.
Nothing like it vas ever seen here or
elsewhere. AS far as nov can be
seen, the gold bearing body strikes
strongly through the country, having
a total width of 100 feet or more. 1t
does not outcrop except at one or two
points, but seems to be overlaid by
the general wash of the mountains.
The overlay is fore than WI feet
deep. The ore bearing body seems
to be a highly decomvosed andesite,
somewhat silicified, and SO friable
that it can readily be handled with
a pick, and shafts can be sunk at
cof~varatively small cost. The ground
supports itself admirably, and little
or nc. timbering is required.
There is but one shaft yet sunk
in that region, and that region, and
this is to a depth of 30 feet, with
crosscuts about 80 feet. This shaft
is on the ground recently bonded by
George Wingfield for 500, 900. Be-
fore taking over this bond the
ground was carefully sampled by
different versions, and finally by Fred
Seibert, who made two samplings for
Mr.. Wingfeld. We were told that
the last sampling across 80 eet show
ed an average value of 11.S7 per ton,
and the results of MI. Seibert's work
led to the taking up of the bond. This
80 feet does not represent the extent
of the deposit, for there are no walls
in sight, and it may be 100 feet or
more in width. We visited this shaft
and while not making any samplings,
the conditions observed seem to war
rant all claims made for it.
THE adjoining ground to the
Wingfield proposition has been taken
over by Lotus & Davis and Mr..
Jones who have spent some time on
the property previous to this visit
On this ground the ore bodies SAM
pied at a depth of two feet average
1920 per ton cross a width of 10
feet. which was the width of the
hole. In fact, it is said that the
surface anywhere in every direction
between the walls shows values of
from 81 to Sc, and in the one shaft
above referred to the values have
steadily increased with devtn, rising
from 81 to $12 at a depth of so feet.
Should anything like the present
promise of the region be realized,
here is a field that may soon witness
one of the greatest gold productions
of which anything is known. Unlike
G~oldfield, it will never be a region
of high grade ores, but vresent in
dications are hat it will be the larg-
est area of low grade gold bearing
ores ever found in this or any coun-
try.
The impression has gone out that
it is a free gold ore. This is ture
only in part. Some of the gold is
free, and the rest is associated with
it in a form as yet Undetermined, but
that it is an admirable cyanide prov
osition has been proven by actual
tests. A twelve hour treatment shows
an extraction of So per cent, indi-
eating a much higher extraction
during a period extending "a hours.
THE ground is already staked for
miles and it would be Hnwise for any
one to go to the camv with the ex-
vocation of locating claims. There
is plenty of water for domestic pur-
poses near by, and for mill operation
and treatment THERE is one large
spring in the vicinity. Freighters
are already arranging to haul sup
plies from Alpha to the camp, and
are now breaking road. PIeminary
equipment for Mr.. Siebert, we un-
d%erstan, is being prepared, and the
Lotus & Davis people will assemble
theirs as soon as possible and put it
up. Operation on the property will
for the present be in charge of Mr..
Jones'"
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