The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-09-26
STRIKE At LUCKY
BOY IMPORTANT
FRANK MANSON VISITS PROP
ERTY AND TELLS OF GREAT
DISCOVERY

FRANK n. mduoOns hldho6Ci VI nv
Western Ore Purchasing company,
has returned from a trip to Lucky
Boy, where he went to inspect the
recent strike in the Lucky Boy tun-
mel, and he brings back a very OPP
timistic account ow the showing.
which is apparently one of the most
important mining disclosures made
in the state for some time, says the
Reno Journal. Mr.. Manson states
that at a distance of about 4400 feet
from the mouth of the tunnel, and
while driving on what seems to be
the main contact vein. a body of
high-grade lead-silver ore ranging
from one to two feet in width and
averaging better than 800 per ton
was encountered, and this has been
opened for a length of 1870 feet.
At this point the ore narrowed for
a short distance. but the face of the
drift is again showing ore dissent
mated across the vein. and it is ex-
pected that almost any round of
shots may bring in another fine body
of solid ore. The ore closely re-
sembles the high grade of the To-
nopah district. consisting of gray
copper, ruby silver and galena, and
is of the same character as that
mined from the Hubbard and McCor-
mack leases on this vein several
years ago, when the Hubbard lease
alone produced nearly a million dol
lars worth of ore within a few
months after first encountering 1t.
The present strike is under the
Mccormack and Spencer lease blocks
in the center of the town of Lucky
Boy, and has a vertical depth of over
600 feet. The Hubbard shaft is
about 400 feet further ahead of the
face of the tunnel, and there is good
reason to believe that the interven-
ing ground will prove to he richly
m~ineralized for almost the entire
distance.
Under the operation of the Hub
bard lease the shaft was sunk to
about 500 feet, and under other leas-
ing and company operations was con-
tinued to 900 feet. with exceedingly
rich ore showing at the bottom, but
the heavy flow of water hat was en-
countered proved too big a PROPOSE
ton to attempt to cope with. Work
was accordingly suspended in the
shaft, and when the old Alamo COM
pany was taken over and r~eOrganized
by the Jesse Knight, Chas. F.. Knox,
NH;IIo, orl AIor1o onI Othnr intnr-
ests, and additional properties
along the trend of the Vein secured
the big tunnel was started from neal
the foot of the hill between Lucky
Boy and Hawthorne.
A stort time after insecting the
Vein by a crosscut from the tunnel,
a cross vein was struck at about A.
900 feet. This carries a large streak
of lime spar or barite. which shows
almost exclusively gold values run
ming up to about 5000 per ton. the
gold being disseminated through the
barite. Independent of other met
ais. This was not the objective
point for which the tunnel had been
projected, however, and the bore
was continued with the result of the
more recent developments.
Ore bins have been erected at the
mouth of the tunnel and stopping has
been inaugurated on the big body OF
silver-lead ore, while the tunnel
which is now a drift on the vein, is
being continued ahead.
All of the ground between the face
of the tunnel and the Hubbard work.
ings, a distance of v e 1000 feet, is
virgin ground to surface. The pres
ent vertical depth is over 900 feet,
and additional depth will be gained
rapidly for several thousand feet
along the trend of the vein, which is
a contact between lime and granite
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