Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-01-29
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was not until May. 1905, when Work
man and Davis made good strike of |
free gold ore on the Goldyke Reef
property that the district received
much attention.
The panic in 1907. the poor results
obtained from milling Goldyke Reef
ore and good strikes in other dist
tricts soon practically depopulated
the district. Since then and up TO
near the end of 1913, mining was
carried on in a disultory manner.
GENERAL GEOLOGY.
The works in the Fairplay district
proper include oudesite. andesitic
breccia and rhyolite. Several miles
to the north of Goldyke there is a
wide lime belt. with some shale
and sandstone, which is cut by in
trusive rhyolite bikes, according to
a report by Jack Tate.
North of this lime belt is granite.
which forms the backbone of the
Paradise range and is the Oldest
rock. The uplift of this granite
undoubtedly caused much of the
fracturing, although there was fault
ing after the eruption of the early
rhyolite and the still earlier andesite,
The andesite is the typical birds
eye porphyry Of the miner, and its
eruption and flow preceded that of
the early rhyolite bikes striking
northwest and southeast and dip
ping to the southwest. This rhyolite
is white, hard and fine grained, Wifi
a shaly texture Going east along
| its contact with the andesite, four
well defined faults are evidenced at
intervals of almost $50 feet. About
1900 feet east, the rhyolite is capped
by the andesite and when picked W
still farther east it as been appar
1 emily thrown to the south.
NEVADA CHIEF MINING CO.
The Nevada Chief Mining company
is Incorporated under the laws of Ne
vada with a capital of $1,250,000 in
an an equal number of shares, Of
which 100000 remain in the treasury
This represents the value Of six full
claims or 100 acres, located one ant
half miles west of the old town O
Goldyke.
The Nevada Chief is in first elias!
condition, having an equipment of I
15-horsepower gasoline engine anC
blower. capable of furnishing air TO
much greater depth than what ha
been reached. However. it may b.
said that the claims are not only il
the infancy OF development and tn
present company proposes to inaugul
ate campaign OF exploitation tina
win bring out the ore reserves in tn
best miner like fashion that extraC
ton may follow with the closest re
gard for economy. An incline shat
goes to depth of 230 feet. On tn
, 150-foot level there is crosscut fror
the shaft and at a distance of rs fee
west from the shaft, on the veir
there is winze and forty feet cas-
I In drift on the vein four-foo
ledge carrying milling values, wit
; occasional lunches of high grade orr
: On this same level an upraise ha
. been driven 40 feet in four feet
over 500 values and Wine "a fee
has been sunk ON this level. shown
the width OF the vein to be fiy
feet In values of $25 ore. two-third
silver and one-third gold, the sam
1 proportions as they find at Tonopal
On the 230-foot level a crosse,
1 so feet has been run to reach II
1 ledge on the i50-foot level At II
J point OF intersection the ledge is nil
] feet wide and has been drifted q
} east and west for a distance OF
feet. a raise has been started Il
feet east OF the crosscut on this lev
!, and Is now up 40 feet at the preset
a showing In the face OF this raj
I, high grade ore. carrying picture roo
. IN vein from four to eight fe
wide shows In strength. assays giviI
as high a. $4,000. In this raise Il
. vein shows an average % $50 o.
- The company has sacked five to
:, Of this ore that viii average 5000
!. ton. nrtfilns 10 now being carst
\, on this vein on this level With
decrease in the siie Of the "
matter From thc lsofoos level /
values have dophlrt ruanins o,
- SO and tss uatn en- ne go les
IA thsy yicld $50
A The property 10 10 eeniact
II phyolite ana ehat d ealled ia rol
pah the early andeslte Fhls coutl
cen b. traced On NE surfaces fof &.
mlles ia an sasierb and ~ssis