Weekly journal-miner., 1909-05-26
ANOTHER STRIKE OF GOLD
 MADE AT WINCHESTER

WINCHESTER, May 22.-Another gold strike was made here Thursday which gives every promise of being the big strike of the district because the free gold opened up shows. a great big body of ore and the pay streak, which is in twenty-foot ledge of gold quartz, is about two feet wide. No great amount of the rich ore has as yet been taken out because the rich free gold was found late in the afternoon. How ever, some two hundred pounds have been taken out. No assays have as yet been taken, but it is estimated the gold will run over 5000 per ton. It was found on the Oversight group of claims, which are located on the north side of the Desert mine property and about half way from town to the Ana conda and Mary G., both of which properties have made rich gold strikes during the past week. The new strike was made right along side of the great andesite- dyke which cuts across the country and can be traced for miles.
 Earlier in the day the Oversight group was sold by the loeators, who located the. claim less than two weeks ago, D. F. Putnam and P. Pfeiffer, to J. D. Mitchell and A. Mathews, who are representing an eastern syndicate in the deal. The rich strike was made only about three hours after the deal was closed. However, the property was sold at a good figure and the locators have no reason to regret the sale ex- eepting they could have gotten a big price if they had waited day or two longer.
 Another big deal was closed today when the same parties who bought the Oversight also bought the Sitting Bull property belonging to Barney Quinn. The purchase price was not given out, although it is understood handsome price was paid for the property. The north end line of the Sitting Bull joins on the Oversight and all of the claims will be thrown into one group of four claims and called the Sitting Bull. The Sitting Bull mine south end line bor- ders on the big rhyolite dyke just above the old Desert mine and the new property now belonging to Mitchell and Mathews extends from the big rhyolite dyke on the south to the an desite dyke On the north. The west side line of the property joins onto the Desert mine property. The two deals taken together are the largest transac- tion which has as yet been made in the district and shows that. confidence has been. restored in the Winchester dis trict. ---
 The Sitting Bull is one of the most interesting properties in the district and has all the indications of making a great mine. Crossing the property there are two large diorite dykes and also two great basalt dykes, and the latter are highly mineralized; in fact, all the ore on the mountain has more or less basalt in it, showing that the basalt is more or less responsible for the naturalization. This property has two big distinct lodges of gold bearing quartz, one over 150 feet wide and the other about 100 feet wide. In fact, careful assays of this hill show that the entire hill is rich in gold and sil- yer and will make a great big milling proposition with everything carrying values and the rich pay streaks occur ring throughout the property running away into the thousands of dollars per ton. Considerable development work has already been done. There IS one tunnel in 125 feet and an open tunnel or trench along the side of the noun tain about 300 feet. Besides this there are several smaller open cuts, all of which show rich ore. SampGng assays taken from the ore in sight bring the average up to over $50 per ton.
 A contract has already been made with the Desert mill, which will be ready to start up in a short time, to treat the ore from the Sitting Bull. Miners will start in tomorrow taking out ore and piling it on the dump un- til the mill is completed. A tram road will be built from the workings right around the hill to the mill, about three hundred yards distant.