The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-26
MINNESOTA MEN
VISIT CONTACT
INTERESTED IN COMPANY OWN
ING TWO PROPERTIES IN
DISTRICT

There arrived in Contact a week
ago a party of men with whom the
future of the camp is certain to be
associated. Living in Min
nesota, they have long held proper
ty in this district and during the
past ten years have made several
trips into the camp in connection
with their holdings, looked after as
sessment and development work on
two groups of claims that today
give every promise of becoming great
copper producers
These gentlemen are S. G. Ander-
son, president of the Contact Cop
per company, and Sam G.. Anderson,
Jr., both of Hutchinson, Mimi, and
William Schultz of Biscay, MINI.
Two groups of claims comprise the
holdings of this company. The Lucie
group, which recently went to pat
ent, consists of eleven claims, and
the Blue Rock, which is under sur
vey for patent, has nine. The prop
erty lies in the great fissure area to
The SOuIu anu WCot VI 4oOAS hAONh
tain, and two immense assure veins
traverse the Lucie group the entire
length of five claims, a distance Of
700 feet each. Varying in width
from 60 to more than 200 feet, they
crop boldly from one to the other.
More than 500 has been spent in
development work on the Lucie
group, which consists of a shaft 145
feet deep on Lucie No. l, a 5O-foot
shaft on Lucie No. Z, with several
shafts 10 to 20 feet deep and numer-
GUS tunnels and cuts. On the Lucie
No. l carbonate of copper ore in a
loose decomposed gangue is shown
all the way the full size of the
shaft. At the bottom of this shaft,
145 feet, the vein Is about 10 feet
wide and ore is shown on both
walls.
Lucie No. 3, in a 20-foOt shaft
shows a strong vein of oxidized cop
per ore averaging 8 per cent, the
vein being about SO feet wide at this
point.
With vein groupings for more than
three miles, averaging over rs feet
in width, the possibilities of the
Lucie are almost beyond computa-
ton, and practically the same may
be said of the Blue Rock group, on
which the Messrs. Anderson and
Schultz expect to center considerable
work in future. Strong veins bisect
each claim from end to end and every
location is made on ore. Two shafts
have been sunk on the Blue Rock No.
/, one so feet deep, showing a fine
shoot of ore of teaching value, while
the other, 30 feet deep, follows the
ore on a di poi rs feet. In a short
drift from the bottom a face of ore
seven feet wide samples 81 per cent
copper and is getting larger as the
drift is extended. This ore shoot
shows over 500 feet long on the sur
face.
On No. 3 a 3O-foot shaft shows
three feet of fine red oxide ore in a
quartz gangue which by sorting will
make a good smelling product, but
can be leached as we'll. The vein on
No. 2 shows a strong p~orphyry-flled
fissure. A tunnel 100 feet long and
two other shallow shafts comprise the
development on this claim.
The vein can be easily traced the
full length of the Blue Rock Nos. 6
and Z, and also across No. 5. Two
per cent ore is shown on No. s, the
vein being over 80 feet in width,
%traversing the full length of the
claim, also on No. 8.
With a permanent vein of ore from
wall to wall a shaft has been sunk
on the Blue Rock in oxides all the
way, with a showing of sulphides in
the bottom, and while the plans of
the Minnesota gentlemen have not
been fully matured, it has bee their
intention for some time to carry this
shaft on down to the permanent sui
phides, a probable depth of 500 feet.
r. H. Tevithick of Belgrade, Mont,
an expert miner and a man who has
spent his entire life in the business,
accompanied the Minnesota men to
Contact. Mr.. Tevithick for many
years has been closely associated
with copper camps, having spent
several years in Butte and is at pres
ent working a copper property near
Manhattan, Mont. = Contact Miner.
Former Resident Dies
Mrs. Eta A. Britt, wife Of o.