Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-01
DIAMONDFIELD MINES
MAKE ORE SHIPMENT
Daisy Handles Wagon Load of
Oxidized DaiIy-BIaCk
Butte Looks Good

GOLDFIELD, Aug. s1.-A great deal
of work is going on out in the Dia-
mondfeld section, and considerable
ore is being produced. The largest
output at the present time comes from
the northwest end of the Daisy where
they are producing about a wagon
load of oxidized ore day from drift
on the north vein at a depth of S5
feet This lease has been making ore
for number of months but quite an
improvement has been apparent lately,
both in quantity and quality of the
product. Where for some time the
profits yielded little more than good
wages for those interested 1t is now
doing much better and shows strong
indications of continuing in that way
done with q small gasoline engine and
tripod is used in lieu of gallows
frame. In some places the ore has
spread out to a width of ten to twen-
ty feet In swells in the vein.
A fairly good shipment has just been
made by A. Case from another shall
low shaft alongside the road near the
Daisy main shaft. Case has been pros
pecting and working alone for several
weeks and finally uncovered a nice
bunci4 of ore in an old drift from the
bottom of this shaft. After breaking
his rounds Case fills the bucket, climbs
up the shaft and windlasses the load
to the surface, then descendS to- re-
peat the operation. When this shaft
was sunk several years ago quite a
lot or ore was produced, but the values
finally seemed to disappear while be-
ing drifted on. Case has been sue
cessful in recovering the pay shoot
and is making good wages from his
efforts.
DEVELOPING THE BELMONT
Guy Millard and associates are MAX
ing progress in cleaning out and re-
timbering the caved drift on the 300
foot level of the Belmont to get under
the rich ore shoot which produced
very profitably during the operations
of the Burke lease through the $50
foot level above. Before the expiration
of the Burke lease the Belmont COM
pany started driving the 800 level to-
ward the pay shoot, which is about
800 feet south of the shaft, but fin
ally quit Other parties took a lease
and drove considerable distance, but
did not properly timber the work and
it caVed, causing them to suspend.
Millard and associates took up the
proposition about two months ago and
have been opening and retlmbering
the Crift, which was caVed solid. They
still have about 35 feet Of this work
ahead of them and then about 120 feet
to drive through solid ground to reach
the objective point, where 1t is be-
lieved the downward projection Of the
Burke ore shoot will be encountered.
That they have a good chance for
finding values is shown by the fact
that two wines were sunk about 20
feet deep and 90 feet apart in the
level above, and the ore still continued
downward. Four men, all of whom are
interested in the lease, are at work
and pushing along as fast as condi-
tions will permit. The property has
a fine equipment.
WORK BLACK BUTTE
Cinnity and partners are still peg
ging away on the Black Butte in the
block of ground formerly known as
the Campbell lease, which was one Of
the spasmodic sensations last spring.
Although they are not making a great
deal of noise, they are getting more
or less ore of a fair grade, and con-
sdering the erratic nature of the
Butte, have a chance of running into
something better at almost any time.
They are working up a raise from
the main tunnel level and are prac-
tically under the big water tank that
adorns the top of this black emf
nence which is the most conspicuous
landmark in that section.
The Black Butte is one of the most
notable "blowouts' in the Goldheld
district and has produced more than
half a million dollars worth of ore,
some of which gave very high values.
With the rich ore has been found
an immense tonnage of low grade or
milling ore, which would not be profit
able to ship but could be made a
good product by treating it with a
mill located at the property The high
grade spots have been too erratic and
uncertain for continuous yield of pro-
fits to the leasers, most of the work
on the property having been done un-
der that system. The strong minerali-
cation of the Butte, however, indicates
that somewhere in that section should
be found one of the great mines> of
the Goldfeld district, and many peo-
pie still have faith that the big trea-
sure of the Diamondfeld section will
yet be discovered.
TIMV NEDDIRN AMI