The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-12-08
DIVIDE
FIND IMPORTANT
ORE OF EXCELLENT GRADE EN-,
POSED IN LARGE
DEPOSITS

R'OlAudy w TIC
a big high grade silver ledge had
been developed in the Tonopah
Divide property at Gold Mountain
which is situated foul miles south
OF Tonopah on the Tonopah-Gold
field auto road.
The s~ulphides contained in the
ore are so heavy and black hat the
dump appears as though a coal
mine had been opened up. The
ledge is reported to be % feet wide
all of which will assay better than
$50, making it one of the largest
strikes ever made in southern Ne
vada. Although no work has been
done other than prosecuting the
vein, there are about 20 tons of ore
Gu the dump, the returns of which
is is estimated will be more than
$4,000. The vein was struck at an
approximate depth of $50 feet
While prosecuting to tap a known
gold vein, the cropping of which
shows on the surface and the find
ing Of this large body of silver ore
was entirely unexpected.
A large ore bin is being rushed
to completion and as soon as 1t is
finished it is presumed thai work
on the big vein will begin and ship
rents of large tonnage will be
made.
The property was originally own
ed by George Wingfield and H. c.
Brougher. About a year G
Brougher bought the Wingfield in
terest and began sinking a shaft on
the Bee Hive claim. The property
is equipped with a small compress
scr and jackhammers.
H. C. Brougher, who is also pre-
sident of the Midway and Monarch
Pittsburg, was here last week and
took over the Taylor-Govan proper
ty. which adjoins the Divide on the
west. Although the consideration
was not made public, it is known
that it was a cash transaction.
Immediately the strike became
known a rush by residents of Tono-
pah and Goldfield to locate claims
began and the brokers received
many orders for Divide stock which
they were unable to fill because of
the stocks scarcity. The stock is
closely held, the large evil
IDENTIFY being content to hold their
stock intact.
AS soon as the news of the recent
strike In the Tonopah Divide Mining
company was spread in Tonopah
and Goldfield, numbers of men
made hurried trips to the Gold
Mountain and Gold Reef districts,
hoping to be able to acquire a few
locations. Most of them, however.
were disappointed, as the choicest
sites had long 6 beer staked off
by mining men who have held their
faith in the districts.
North of the Divide property,
julius Goldsmith and associates own
a group of claims which they have
held for a number of years; and
the reported strike is said to rend
directly into the Goldsmith property.
Grimes and Hansen have been
developing their property for a long
time, and have made several good
Shipments: while James Grimes,
who has expressed his faith in the
Gold Mountain district by C%Ontinu-
ing prospecting work continuously
for several years past, is the for
tunate possessOr of a well-lOcated
piece of ground.
; South of Gold Mountain, and on
a direct course with the Klondyke
district, many properties have been
taken up within the past year,
while several of the older proper
ties have had their assessment work
done for ten years past. On sew
eral of the claims, well defined
veins exist, and with the continue
ton of development work in the
Topopah Divide and other proper
ties in that district, the owners
are making preparations to start ac-
tuul mining operations in their res
pective claims.
The Observation-Disclosures group. in
the Gold Reef district, is n of the
best located group of claims in that
section, and has had the advantage
| CT a 100-foot shaft, which was sunk
one one of the veins which go di-
rectIy through the property. A
great many people were taken out
to the property by the owners while
they we're engaged in sinking the