The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-12-12
ATtAMTA BIDS FAIR
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and copper. On Monday morning
the streak was two and a half feet
wide and yielded returns of $3.50
per ton, distributed as follows:
Gold. "a ounces; silver, 1.6 ounces;
copper, eight per cent. This morn
ing the streak measured three feet
in width. Assays are now being
made upon samples taken.
ION account of necessary repairs
to the Grizzly Bear pumps at the
1375-foot level in the Merger shaft,
we we're compelled today to use the
balers in handling that portion of
the water usually taken are of by
the former. In consequence, we are
not hosting any rock today and we
will not shoot in the face Of the
new drift into the ore body again
until tomorrow, by which time the
Grizzly Bear pump repairs will have
been made. t' rsia"5
Difficult Conditions CIT
I'm keeping tab on the develop
ment of the new find, the public
must take into consideration the diff
ficulties under which the work in
the new drift is being prosecuted.
AS soon as the ore body has been
sufficiently developed to permit, it
is the intention to raise to make a
connection for air with a crosscut
driven into Atlanta territory from
the eighth or 140O-foot level of the
Grizzly Bear workings of the Gold
field Consolidated Mines company.
winze and put up a raise simultan-
eously. .
The discovery of pay ore at this
time in the drift was really a sur
prise. The drift is advancing through
latte and We did not expect to dis
close al orebody until it had reached
the latite-shale contact, which is
now about fifty feet distant from
the face of the drift. Significance
attaches to the geological conditions
attending the discovery, which are
identical to those connected with
the revelation of the big ore body
on which stope S07 above the 1926
foot level of the Grizzly Bear
workings of the Goldfield Consoli-
dated has been extended for more
than a year. In one years time, it
produced approximately 100000
net and is still being extended. The
drift from which the stope was put
up was started on a two-inch streak
of ore in the latte. Within thirty
feet of drifting, the contact of latte
and shale was exposed and the ore
shoot had widened out to more than
twenty feet"
Inspect New Find
w. c.. Rannells, a mining man of
wide reputation, who held the posi-
ton of manager of the famous
Hayes-Monnette lease on the Mo-
hawk during its most productive
period, inspected the new discovery
In the Atlanta Monday, and he had
no hesitancy in declaring that he
was much impressed with his OBJ
servations.
Charles D.. Wilkinson, manager
| of the Yellow Tiger Mining COM
pany; H. c. Cutler, a mining man of
Reno. and H. B. Lind and w. s..
Elliott, local mining men, visited
the workings On Tuesday, in COM
pany with Manager Darcy. They
all expressed the opinion that IN
usual significance attaches to the
discovery and that the property mas
the earmarks of a great mine.
Mr.. Wilkinson said:
The new ore body in the Atlanta
shows thus far five or six feet of ore,
of which about three feet is heavily
mineralized. l should think that
the new strike is the lower portion
Of a shoot, while tie original dis
covery made last spring by the main
southwest crosscut is the upper r:r-
ton of another and distinctly sep
arate shoot. The new strike, like
the original find, has been made in
the latte. but it is being developed
toward the tlatite-shale contact. I
consider the discovery very sig
%nifcant, as it establishes still further
/ thc thOOls VI ICSulISAl OlS SIOOlS Ou
the contact or close to it."
Mr.. Cutler said:
"Our party first went to the 1926
foot level of the Grizzly Bear mine
of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines
company and made note of the CON
ditions that attended the discovery
and development of the big ore body
on the latite-shale contact. on which
the company is now and has been
working for a long time. We then
went down the Merger shaft and
crossed through the long southwest
crosscut into the Atlanta ground to
the new strike. The vein is in the
latte, which is we'll mineralized
with a good break favorable to, ore
deposition.