The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1909-10-20

stone. Late arrivals from that country
show that they are still prospecting
and that some new districts have been
opened which promise to uring out
mineral sections that will rival some
Telegraph.
The Buckhorn district is one of the
new discoveries in Eureka county, and
from prospecting that has been carried
on it bids fair to become one of the
great low grade gold producing Sec
tions of the Sagebrush Sstate. J. p.
Lotus and r. M. Jones have just re-
turned from a trip to that country,
which they made after travelling sew
eral hundred miles overland in an au-
tomobile. The nearest railroad station
is Alpha, about twenty miles due west
from the camp, on the line of the Eu-
reka & Palisade railroad.
This ground was d%iscovered a few
months ago by a man named Lynn"
said Mr.. Lotus. while prospecting,
he found gold in the gulches and trac-
ed it to it's point of origin on a plateau.
The region presents unique features in
the annals of mining. Nothing like it
was ever seen here or elsewhere. AS
far as now can be seen the gold bear
ing body strikes strongly through the
country, having a total width of 100
feet or more. 1t does not outcrop eX-
cept at one or two points, but seems to
be overlaid by the general wash of the
The overlay is more than
two feet deep. The ore bearing body
caap,C m bo a HIGHLY 1nonrnnnca6 anda-
site somewhat silicified, and so friable
that it can readily be handled with a
pick. and shafts can be sunk at COM
paratively small cost. The ground sup
ports itself admirably, and little or no
timbering is required.
.'There is but one shaft yet sunk in
that region, and this is to a depth of
fifty feet, with crosscuts about thirty
feet. This shaft is on the ground re-
Gently bonded by George Wingfield for
500, 600. Before taking over this bond
the ground was carefully sampled by
different persons and finally by Fred
Mr.. Winfield. We We're told that the
last sampling across thirty feet show
ed an average value of $11.87 a ton,
and the results of Mr.. Seibert's work
led to the taking up of the bond. This
thirty feet does not represent the ex-
tent 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 n samplings,
the conditions observed seem to war
rant all claims made for it.
"The adjoining groud to the Wing
weld propositions mas 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 sampled at a depth of
two feet averaged $4.20 a ton across a
width of ten 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 one shaft above
referred to the values have steadily in
creased with depth, rising from 81 to
$12 at a depth OIL fifty 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
Goldfield, 1t will never be a region of
high grade ores, but present indica-
lions are that it will b. the largest
area of low grade gold bearing ores
ever found in this or any country.
The impression has gone out thai
it is a free gold ore. This is true 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