The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-08-26
HORNSILvER DISTRICT

braced in the Silver King property.
The acquisition of the Silver King
] group at least doubles the value OF
the former company's holdings, Civ
ing it $500 feet IN extent on two
of the three main vein systems OF
the district and a part of the third.
DIR. A. H. Elftman, manager and
directing engineer for the Horn
Silver Mining company, has made
an exhaustive geological study OF
the Silver King ground and with
his associates has taken over the
property with a view to c~onsolidat-
ing it with the Horn Silver COM
pany's holdings.
On the Horn Silver property the
main shaft has been sunk to a depth
of $40 feet, a new 45-horsepower,
Fairbanks-Morse hosting engine and
and a 42-foot Oregon pine head
frame have lately been installed and
the foundation prepared for a COM
pressor. Power drills will be re-
quired only in prosecuting, as the
vein material breaks easily. This
property is patented and covers the
Hornsilver vein system for 5000
feet. Active work is in progress
and J. d. G. Knapp is superinten-
dent.
Since Manager Elftman resumed
work on the property this spring,
approximately 500 feet of develop
ment work has been accomplished
in drifts, cross-cuts and raises on
the 10O-foot level and work in this
ground totals about 5000 feet.
Levels have been opened at the
100. 800 and 5OO-foot points in
the shaft and good mill ore, assay'ng
up to SIG per ton, is exposed at
many places, with encouraging pros
poets for ore of shipping grade.
The Hornsilver vein, the same as
the Great Western, is 20 feet wide
in places and has been cross-cut
at several points, showing large
bodies of mill ore. The west drift
on the 100-foot level has advanced
200 feet and within another so
feet should cut the ore-shoot eX-
posed neal the surface in what is
known as the Bullsnake cut, where
the ore-shoot. is opened for a length
of 100 feet, showing mill ore for
that distance and for a width of
six feet, with seams of high-gradc
on the walls and in places W feet
of ore ~assaying up to $35 per ton.
On the 500-foot level the drifts
saow punches of sulphine ore in
the otherwise oxidized vein mat
ter, carrying gold, silver, lead, COP
per and zinc. This is the only ac-
tual showing of sulphide ore in the
district, which indicates persistence
with depth for the ore deposits,
and it is the plan of Manager Eft
man to sink at once another 200
feet, where it is believed a solid
sulphide ore will be found, with pos
sibilities of water for milling pur-
poses. At this depth it is planned
to cross-cut north, to prospect the
series of veins in the territory west
of the Horsilver fault.
Silver King Property
Inc OllNeT Ming Sndll, hCu 'hO
center of the property, is we'll equip
ped and is down 200 feet, with
about coo feet of lateral develop
ment. This work has exposed three
distinct veins, showing quantities of
coed nil. ore, and with favorable
Indications Of h~igh-grade in the
p~resense OF horn silver in con-
siderable quantity. The main Sill
yer KinS Orleans vein has been
opened by a number of open cuts,
shallow shafts and a tunnel, for a
+ distance of 1000 feet, all showing
gold-siiver ore. One cut produced
ore acsaylpg $35 in gold, and nea"-
~ e,ety h,le on this vein has yield
ed specimens of rich silver ore.
in the forth central part of the
property tGe veins have been open
ed at many points in a depression
known as kattlesnake basin, where
the main vein ppear to form n
series of overlapping lenses in 4
highly mineralize zone from so 70
100 feet wide. The vein is read
lily dCcu III thio PioPCity
feet and is the same vein from
which the Hardwick-Reid lease is
extracting bonanza ore. The series
OF veins comprises four distinct fis-
sures, exposed at the west end OF
the Silver King ground, all con-
tanning ore of excellent grade.
Andy Carton, operating a lease
in Rattlesnake basin, has been ship
ping ore of high grade, the last
shipment of "a ton averaging $43.-
so in silver and gold. This ore was
stopped above the 25-foot level and
was shipped without sorting. The
ore continues strong in the shat tC
the 36-foot point and Carton is
sinking to the 100 level to stope
the ore from this depth. The Horn