The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-26
new STRIKE IS
ONE OF PROMISE
CHARACTER OF SHOWINGS INDI-
Gates PRESENCE OF LARGE
ORE BODIES


tinued to be the main local topic of
conversation curing the last week,
says the Churchill County Standard.
Last Wednesday returns received
from samples sent to Reno for assay
and the results but confirmed the
more sanguine in their belief that this
is the most promising discovery that
has been made in this section since
the days of the Fairview, Wonder
and Rawhide rushes. The first sam
pie which was taken from what is
known as the gold strike gave 52.44
ounces gold and 2G.4O ounce silver,
a total value of s1,061.74; the Sec
ond gave 81 in gold and $1S6.15 in
silver, based on 40 cent silver. These
are the only assays so far received
and while they are not claimed to be
average samples of the entire Lodges
from which they were tken, they
were not picked nuggets.
All during the week the Cirac
boys who made the original discovery
have been kept busy showing visitors
over the properties, and all who have
seen it pronounce it a remarkably
favorable showing for the amount of
development done, which is practical
ly nil, being confined to breaking off
the weathered surface of the cropping
to expose the vein.
AS stated last week the discovery
was made about two weeks ago by
Leon Cirac north of what is known as
Jobs canyon, about three or four
miles east of Desert well and Is
miles northeast of Fallon. The CT
RAGS have been prospecting in that
section for the last couple of years,
being attracted by the quantities of
rich float picked up in the wash of
the canyon, but it was not until a
short time ago that their source was
definitely located. The discovery
was kept quiet until they could de-
termine the course of the dip of the
veins and properly locate themselves.
Last Sunday several auto loads of
F~allonites went out to perfect their
locations made the week before and
to confirm their first impressions.
The writer was one of a party and
this is what he found:
The canyons slope to the west and
are crossed by numerous dykes OF
alternate belts of andesite and rhyo-
lite or diorite running across the
gulches at a tangent north of west
and south of east. 1t is in the crop
pings in the gulches that the discov-
cries have been made. These dykes
average about 200 feet in width. The
ledge at the main strike is about four
feet wide, and from this point Leon
Cirac has had assays as high as $50
in gold and $500 in silver and $34 in
gold and $1O5 in silver at another
point about 100 feet west of the
original discovery on the same vein.
What is known as the gold strike
ecu on a cross vein about 1900
feet west of the main strike. 1t
was from this strike that the assay
of $1,O61 was secured
The original discovery, which lies
to the west of Jobs canyon, is
known as the Rexall group and con-
sists of three claims along the vein
and is owned by the Cirac boys, Hen
nv, Leon, Charles and George. The
extension on the ReXall is owned by
Leon Cirac and DR.. G. M. Gardner.
Other claims on or near this vein are
owned by H. B. Morris, Louis Cirac,
who is operating alone, Rudolph
Stock, Charles and Ira Kent, Harry
Robinson, Milt Wallace, j.. S. Moore,
James Evans w. A. Van VOORHEES,,
C. w. Heady, w. H. Reavis, Fred
Strassburg and others. On the
right side of Jobs canyon l. w.
Greene has two claims, Frank Nc
Dermott and Clarence Dustin have
three and Dr.. C. A. Hascall and E.
l.. Bingham have two.
The country is a big and virgin
territory that has never been pros
pected and as there are at least eight
or ten mineral veins known to ax
list there is ample room for all early
corners. In this connection it may
be stated that there is no disposition
on the part of the original discover
ers to locate everything in sight. On
the contrary, they have shown a de-
cidedly liberal spirit in explaining tC
ell corners what they have learned il
studying the district. 1t is their in.
tention to retain $50 feet at the
original discovery and to lease under
liberal terms the balance of theil
holdings. Already two leases have
been signed, work on which viii
commence Immediately.
Up to the present the district ha!
not been given a name, but will prob
ably be known as Job district, owing
to it's proximity to the well-knowi
peak and canyon of that name. A
present there is sufficient water a
the head of the canyon to operate {