Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-11-08
RED TOP VEIN IN
'GOLDFIELD LEASE
ORE Is FOUND ON COLUMBIA
MOUNTAIN
Daisy Employees Are Paid Wages Sued
For Rich Rock in Cherokee
Atlanta Reported-Mill SUI
perintendent Resigns
Especial Core 7oondence,)


GOIDFIELD, New, Nov. 6.-The
prospects for making a mine on Co
lumbia mountain are bright. B. e.
Thomas, who has a lease on a portion
of the ground of the Columbia Noun
tain Mining company, has discovered
some very rich ore on the surface,
which is alive with free gold, but bet
ter still has developed a thfee-foot ore
shoot which breaks $40 a ton and
which promises something better as
development work progresses. The big
Red Top vein heads directly for the
mountain and the out-crop is clearly
marked along the ground covered by
the Thomas lease. There seems to be
every reason to expect important de-
velopments in this section of the dis
trict. Time was when Columbia Noun
tain shares were held in high esteem,
and the company at one time drove
tunnels from both the east and west
sides, which were to have been con-
nected, but work was stopped before
that was accomplished. The tunnels
were driven too high up, in the opin-
ion of mining men, to get the ore zone,
but that was during the time when
the sensational suEface deposits of the
Sandstone, on the north end, were
still fresh in the memory of man and
everybody searched the surface for
high grade stringers.
At the base of the mountain on the
south side and but q few feet from
the Thomas lease the Booth Is being
explored for a continuation of the rich
ore. shoots found in the north end of
the Red Top. Work was temporarily
stopped because of the tragedy which
took away the life of Webb Parkinson,
but arrangements are being made to
continue operations.
The employees OF the Daisy, who in
stituted suit for their wages, have
been paid from money received from
the sale of personal property OF the
company, but the $4,000 judgment OF
Frank Horton has not been settled. No
one seems to know what Horizons in
tentions are nor what steps the COM
pany may take to settle the indebted
ness.
Rich Ore in Cherokee
1t is quietly whispered around that
rich strike has been made In the
Cherokee lease on the Atlantic, and 1T
is said that some of the ore has been
exhibited by those interested. The
lease is down 635 feet and has been
driving a cross-cut to cut good look
ing vein which was cut by the shaft
below the 500-foot level. The discov-
cry of an ore body of commercial value
in the Atlanta WOulu IHedn LluCh ~
the district, and everybody who hears
the report hopes it is true.
That the Grizzly Bear lease on the
Jumbo will get the Clermont ore shoot
on the dip at depth of probably 1000
feet is the belief of many mining men
who are conversant with conditions.
The lease is owned by officials of the
Nevada Goldheld reduction works.
Mill Superintendent Resigns
H. G. Morris, superintendent of the
GoIdfieId- Florence mill, has rendered
his RESIGNATION to the company effec-
tive December /, and will go to Mex
leo to take charge of a plant there.
Mr.. Morris has been with the COM
pany eighteen months and made fine
record in the construction and oper-
alton of the mill, which is now one OF
the most effective plants in the state.
His successor has not yet been an
nounced.