The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1910-08-20

| Tiorence OoIunelu company Is author
ity for the statement that the great
stope being opened in the northwestern
| corner of the estate, in what is called
the Reilly lease ground, is daily grow
ing bigger and richer; that it is grow
ing beyond his expectations, and that
the amount of ore practically in sight
there has been almost doubled by op-
erations of the past week. Last week
The News estimated that there was ore
worth approximately $2,0O0,000 gross
in sight there. This week it can be
said with safety that another million
dollars worth of ore has been added
to the amount practically in sight, and
Manager Lawrence is wearing the
smile that won t come off, as this gives
him fine body of ore, easily extracted,
for milling operations while the virgin
ground underneath is being opened up,
and he can take off even more of the
men and machines that have been used
in keeping the mill going and use them
in development work in virgin ground.
1t was outlined last week that an
ore body extending from the 350-foot
point to the surface, and 100 feet in
length, was being opened up in the
Reilly ground, showing an average
widtn Of % feet and breaking one and
one-half ounces of gold to the ton. Ex-
ploration upraises being put up from
the 250-foot level and crosscuts to de-
termine the size of the ore body across
its strike have developed that at about
225 feet depth the ore body has opened
out to so feet in width. The ore here
contains better than one ounce to the
ton where sampled. At the same time,
on the 25O-foot and 350-foot levels the
ore shoot has been opened for an addi-
tion 100 feet along it's strike, proving a
continuous ore shoot more than 200 feet
long, and of great size.
As yet the value of this immense ore
body is indeterminate, owing to the
fact that raises and crosscuts through
il are not in sufficient number to give
any exact knowledge of value or OF
size. There are streaks of immensely
rich ore through the main ore body,
however, that will run $1,000 per ton
and better, some of these so-called
!" streaks'' being from one to two feet
| in width. 1t was this kind of ore that
the leasers took from many places IN
the Florence estate during the leasing
DAYS. leaving the lower grade ore there
for the Florence company to clean NJ
i later 1t is this work that the Flor
ence has been doing for the past two
years
The operations of the leasers on the
Florence. and Of leasers and holding
companies in other parts of the camp
showed that these very rich string
erso of ore, especially where they ap
proached one of the walls of the VEN
in which they occurred, frequently wid
ened out into immense treasure cham
bers of ore the value of which wa
measured in dollars per pound, rather
than per ton. 1t was at the north enc
of this same vein that is showing up Sc
splendidly under development that the
old Reilly lease, in following one OF
these rich "stringers, opened body
of ore from which was extracted one
million dollars in just sixty days time
/ The - stringer'' of thousand dollar ore
had simply widened out until it filled
/ the entire ore channel. And at any
time in this immense block that is nov
being developed on this same vein, jus
! such an enrichment is likely to occur
Say, for instance, that between th
200 and the 150-foot levels, for dis
tance along the strike of the vein of 81
feet, the two-foot stringer' OF $l,Oo'
ore that is now being worked at 2o'
| feet opens to ten feet in width. we
then have a block of 81, 900 ore, 80 feet
long, so feet high and 10 feet wide
containing 1928 tons of ore. AT $l,ooe
per ton this is worth $1,923,0OO gross
or mora than one million dollars net to
the company. And from past perform
ance and from the character OF the vein
that is now being worked in the Reilly
ground and from all geological and
mineralogical conditions, there is
more reason to believe that such an ore
body exists than that it does not.
That Reilly ore shoot, as it is called
locally, has always been productive Of
pleasant surprises and the way it is
opening out is beyond the expectations
Of the Florence engineer.
The ground in this part of the estate