The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-04-10
HISTORIC GOLD MOUNTAIN
RIVAL Flush at TOkOp
Has Interesting History

The Royal Flush group at fokop' In
,hs Gold Mountain district.
what deliver into the legends OF "los'
u;nssn that form part of the romantic
ristory of Nevada has not heard OF this
f,mons group of mines that only a few
montbs ago burst into fame through
The discovery of a glory hole OF high
Grade. the like of which had been
Fan before, or since, for wonderful
richness.
s;,uated but a comparatively few
,,;ss from Death Valley in the heart OF
- Gold Mountain district this prop
..,v was being worked mainly by leas-
and then two of them in following
a,r;pger struck a vein of ore which
:, few feet netted over $4,000 in the
,oIlow metal. Some Of this, very lit
ia reached the owners of the mine and
cha ASSAYS from this returned almost
nnbeard of values. Yet these tests
we're made by a man whose reputation
as an assayer was high and he stated
that the ore gave returns of $~329,00O
ner ton or $164.5O per pound Of all the
ore that this glory hole produced, but
very little was ever seen, but the com
many. within the last few weeks, has
AGAIN started work on the stringer that
produced the great specimen rock and
this time will follow it in the hope
that the lead will bring them again
into a greater ore body of similar rich
ness.
Many were the stories that had
their birth through the discovery of
this wonderful deposit of gold. And
then it will be remembered, came a
professor of the Nevada State Univers
ity, Miss j. 4. Weir, who was also the
secretary of the State Historical society
and after visiting the scene of the
find declared that she was certain that
one of the mysteries Of the desert for
over so years, was a mystery no long
er. She declared that the lost mine of
John ~Breyfogle, searched for since
1864, the cause of many a daring pros
peetor leaving his bones to bleach on
the desert, was none other than the
present day Royal Flush mine. To sub
stantiate this, she showed some ancient
mining tools that she had found in an
which was a iron tamping stick used
in the "black powder days. long be-
fore the invention of dynamite. All
the relics showed an extreme age, and
they are now hanging in the museum OF
the Historical society.
This has become the property of the
Frances Gold Mountain Mining com
pany, whose president was DR.. Frances
Williams, one of the pioneer women of
Goldfeld and a woman who has owned
some of the biggest producers in the
state. AS a shrewd judge of a good
mine DR.. Williams had no peer and the
Frances Mohawk and other Goldfield
properties were named for her. Since
her death the various properties have
had at their head, her son, j. p. Will
liams of Chicago, a. business man of
many years experience in that city, and
it is his intention to carry out the
plans of his mother and vigorously push
the work of making a mine out of the
Royal Flush. There mas been consid-
cradle development work done so far.
A number of tunnels have been sent in
and there is also the shaft in which
the big strike was made. In this shaft
the lead was only followed by the
leasers for a distance of Is feet and
none of the tunnels were opened up far
enough to tap the junction at which
the formation should become a ore
maker. Recent surveys have been made
which show that at a depth of 200 feet
the ore will be struck and immediate
work will be begun to reach that depth
and turn the Royal Flush into another
record breaker to be added to the
many that have made this state the
greatest gold producer in the world.