Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-22
GOLDFlELD MINE
OPENS NEW ORE
STRIKE OCCURS ON 1000 FOOT
LEVEL OF CLERM0NT
pIscREDITED REPORT GOLD HAD
PlNcHED OUT
Small Vein of Five Ounces in Yellow
Metal to Ton Opened In Deep Drift
on Consolidated Property. -
Florence Mill at Limit

GOLDFIELD, Feb. 21.-Ore carrying
five ounces gold ton has been opened
In the drift on the 1000 level OF the
Clermont workings of the Goldtlelu
Consolidated. The streak is small yet,
and as it has just been encountered IL
is too early to predict what it may de-
Velop into. These values haYe ap-
pcared at about the point where 1t
was Anticipated the edge of the ore
shoot would be caught on ITS down
ward projection, and it has all the
characteristics of the shoot when 1t
was first struck on the 90 level. Ihe
ore has no copper content.
No official statement has yet been
made by the management, as the ore
has not been developed sufficiently to
base an announcement of its possible
extent and continuity 1t will be sew
eral days before anything really deh-
mite can be determined.
Fulfllment of the confidence of the
management that the ore would be en-
countered at about this point is the
best news that could possibly come for
GCldfield at this time, in view of the
false statements that have recently
been scattered throughout the country
to the effect that the gold values
"pinched out" at the 1000-foot level
and that the Consolidated would be
copper mine below this level, IL any
ore was struck at all.
ExpIodes Bad Reports
Some of the adverse reports have
been to the effect that the mine was
"bottomed" at a little below the 900
level, and these statements have been
reiterated so tenaciously that the east
ern public, overlooking the source and
the motive. has been on the anxious
seat and torn by uncertainty and mis-
giving. The future of Goldfield has
been painted in gloomy colors indeed,
but these reports are now amply re-
futed by the opening Of the golden
channel at the 1000 level.
General Manager Finlay announced
a week ago that the ore shoot had
been opened by raise from the 1000
level, and expressed full confidence
that it would be disclosed BIZ the drift
when the work had progressed to the
point where it could be expected, cal
culating its strike" in the levels
above.
The Florence mill is now running to
practically full capacity and handling
160 tons of ore a day. The work of
overhauling the Buffers filters has
been completed, and puts the cyanide
department in condition to keep up
with the demands of other portions of
the mill. General Manager Laurence
anf Superintendent Willet Barton have
stacles that confronted them in getting
things Strengthened out, and every
thing about the mine and mill is now
running satisfactorily.
High Grade on 500 Level
A fine body of high grade ore is
being opened on the 500 level of the
Little Florence, and 1t bids fair to du
plicate in richness some of the bonan-
"a streaks of the leasing days.
The crosscut to the Reilly ground
which is being driven on the seventh
level is progressing at good speed,
and is penetrating very likely looking
territory. Out in the Daisy Florence
ground the ore body that was encoun-
tered there recently is opening a nice
lot of milling ore from which a good
production will undoubtedly be made.
There is very little change in the
general condition of other portions of
the mine where splendid bodies of ore
have been developed. The reserves of
broken ore in slopes are steadily being
added to and development throughout
the property is bringing most salts
factory results.