Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-21
EXHIBIT SAMPLES
FROM MONTREAL
STRIKE OCCURS ON EMPIRE
CLAIM
FREE GOLD is FOUND IN STATE
GRANITE CONTACT
Mining Men Take High Grade Specis
mems to GoIdfeId from the Mine
Between Nina and
Hawthorne

GOLDFIELD March 2O-H. f. and
7 l. Parker have come in from their
property, the Montreal and Kinkead
tanks, bringing with them quite a
bunch Of high grade gold specimens
from the Empire claim. The property
is located about two and half mics
north of Acme Tanks. station on the
II. 6, G.. railway between Hawthorne
and Nina. Considerable work was
done on the Montreal mine in the
early sos, and quite a large amount OF
money taken out, the ore being treat
ed at the Kinkead mill at Acme Tanks,
which has since been dismantled.
The new discovery was made on the
Empire claim, some distance from the
old workings of the Montreal Spect-
mems show quantities Of coarse and
granular free gold, which occurs in
cleavages in the granite formation
The granite is the hanging wall of a
contact with slate. forty-foot shaft
has been sunk on this ore, which is
promising proposition. There are five
claims in the Montreal Empire group
and seven in the KinkeadE Empire
group, which the Parker brothers ac-
qured about three years ago.
Reports were brought in to Gold
field last week that a good strike had
been made in the country about nine
miles east of town, and several per-
sons have gone out there to investi-
gate. Details as to the name of the
property or who made the discovery
are lacking. but it is reported to be in
the neighborhood of the Blue Gage
group. Considerable prospecting and
development has been going on there
for some time. and the strike is cred
tied to some of those operations.
While prospecting in the south end
of the Yerington district in January
of this year G.. w. Knierim OF Yering
ton discovered a small finger ledge of
gold quartz which panned so well that
he concluded to do some work on the
ground, and he therefore followed the
small stringer of gold down to a depth
of about ten feet The ledge Widened
as depth was attained and the pan
nings of the rock showed increased
values in the precious metal.
This inclined shaft was continued to
a depth of a little over fifty feet, the
ledge widening all the way down, un-
til II Is now nearly two feet in width,
and last week the work done in the
bottom of the shaft showed a foot or
more of as fine silver-lead ore as was
ever seen in any camp. Grab sam
for assay gave returns of 35 ounces of
silver 81 per cent lead and S1,40 gold.
In selecting the samples none of the
gold ore in the foot of the ledge mat
ter on the hanging wall was put in
which accounts for the small values in
gold.
This property lies in the south end
of the range of hills west of Yerington
and is about sixteen miles southwest
of the town of Yerington, in Lyon
county. The trend of the ledgs is
northeast and southwest and the dip
for some depth is at an angle of about
20 degrees, while at the bottom of the
shaft the ledge straightens up nearly
perpendicular. The footwall is a solid
granite, and it is against this that the
foot of galena ore lies The hanging
wall, or what is taken for the hanging
wall Is decomposed granite, porphy~
ry and lime, and in this soft material
is where the gold values are found.