The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-01-15
ROCHESTER MERGER
STRIKES RICH VEIN
ORE OF EXCELLENT MILLING
GRADE INCLUDES SEAMS OF
GOOD QUALITY

ROCHESTER, New, Jan. Ga
hew and rich ore-shoot has been
struck in the drift on the Rochester
No. 4 vein in block 2 Of the Orig
inal Rochester group of TIE PochCs-
ter Merger Mines company. Sam
pies of the entire face of the drift
return $23.S0 gold and seven and
one-half ounces silver. A 10-inch
streak on the hanging wall assays
SI0S.40 gold and "a ounces s:ive,
This is apparently a very important
discovery and adds greatly tic the
outlook for this property. This
block of ground adjoins on the south
the noted Boughton lease, and was
formerly operated under lease by
Ferry & Sampson.
Drifting has been commenced o,I
three of the most promising veins
so far exposed in the Pitt tunnel of
the Merger company, which should
soon cut the Rochester No. 4 vein
under the Boughton workings, at a
depth of 500 feet. The tunnel has
recently been procee ling through a
hard, silicified dyke, heavily impreg-
mated with iron pyrite, and the face
now shows a network of quartz
stringers. 1t is probable that Ihc
vein may be entered within the next
few days. The tunnel is being driven
by two shifts with machine drills,
and is now in approximately 20
feet.
A point under the az ex vein will
be reached at 969 feet. The for
nation in the face of the bore is
standing practically vertical. In the
Boughton workings the vein is Is
to 20 feet wide, carrying large bod
les of ore varying from milling grade
to 1925 a ton in carload shipments.
which gives reason for excellent eX-
pectations when the tunnel cuts the
vein at a depth of 500 feet.
All drift faces in the deeper work
ings of this block of ground show
commercial ore in widths of two and
one-half to eight feet, but no fur
Their work will be done in that por-
ton of the ground until tapped by
the Pitt tunnel.
Timbering in the raised working
shaft on the Sunflower claim of the
Merger company has been complet-
ed, and bucket slides places. Clear
ing of the accumulated ore and waste
in the drifts al the foot of the raise
is now in progress by means of "a
whip" line, and development and
production will be pushed in this
working. There is about three and
on-half feet of ore here that will
ton, and a strong streak on the hang
ing wall samples $3.50 to $500 a
ton in gold.
The present severe weather pre-
vents work on the headframe on the
new working shaft on the Sunflow-
er claim and also in underhand ston-
ing in the open cut on the main
Sunflower claim. About 10 tons ore
running $50 to $50 a ton are nUW
on the dump. This ore is strong in
geld, and the vein shows about four
feet and a half wide.
Surface t%renching on the East
vein of Rochester hill has progress
ed for approximately 400 feet on
the Crown Point Extension ground
of the Merger company, and com
mercial ore is exposed in cuts on
this vein. Surveying and mapping
of all veins entering this property
from the north is now being done.
The tunnel on the Widow Flor
ence group is being continued by
hand drilling, from the easterly end
of the Widow Florence No. 5, run-
ming southwesterly under the hill
covered by the four other claims OF
about so feet.