Mohave County miner., 1914-04-04
Mines and Markets.

Advices received in New York this week were to the effect that the Flor ence Goldfeld Mining Company ship ped 20 tons of very rich ore to tho Western Ore Purchasing Company a week ago Wednesday. Assays made from samples of this ore ranged from 5l6$ to l,3S2S a ton. The ore con- prising the shipment was extracted from the find made about two weeks ago in the raise from the main north drift on the l50 foot level. Samples from the face of the high. grade streak, which has been varying from one to two feet in width, have yielded re- turns of from 1928 to 7,500$ a ton. Ore on the footwall side of the vein, exclusive of the high-grads streak, assays from 5$ to POS a ton, while that on the hanging-wall side gives returns of from POS to 74S ner ton.
 In the work of following the streak of high grade ore, some of it became mixed with two separate 100-ton ship msnts of rock from the hanging and footwall sides of the vein and caused the general average of the shipments to run high. One of the l00 ton ship ments, containing about ten tons of the high-grade ore. gave an average return of 57.60S ton, while the sec. nnl ni,rr nhonf ha a of the picture ore as the first, yielded an average of 94.1OS Thus far this month the shipments from the mine have approXimated 400 tons, exclusive of the twenty-ton high. grade shipment of Wednesday a week ago.
 Superintendent Harry B. Clapp, of the Florence, was interviewed as fol- lows. He sad:
 Toward the l00 foot level the main raise from the l50-foot level above the main north drift was originally ex- tended about i've feet into the hang ing wall of the vein. Recently a branch raise was started from the main raise toward the footwall side of the vein, and the disclosure of the new high-grade ore resulted. After taking out the high-grade shipment made Wednesday, the streak looks as promising as ever. and there is at least twenty more tons of rich ore in sight at present, to say nothing of the low value ore adjoining on the foot and hanging walls of the vein. Thus far operations have been confined as near ly as possible to mining the high.grade streak, it being the plan to leave tho ore on the walls for future extraction. However, in sackng the high grade, some of it became mixed with the ore from the walls, extracted to facilitate operations.
 When the north drift on the l00- foot level was originally run, it fol- lowed along the hanging wall of the vein and missed the rich ore on the footwall. Work recently done has proven the continuity above the lOO- Ioot leVel or the rlch ore body reveal ed in the branch raise off the main raise from the l50 foot level. Outside of proving it's continuity, no work has thus far been done on the new find above the l00-foot level, but it is the intention to prosecute such operations in the near future."
 Superintendent Clapp further stated that from six to fourteen feet of los to lo$ ore is being broken down from a footwall streak of the vein in the old Sweeney stope on the l50-foot level On the 35O,toot level a new north drift from the main north drift has been started on about three feet of ore as. saying from I 40$ to los a on.-New York Mining Age.