The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-07-07

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hearth, the drying hearth will be
finished shortly.
Manhattan Consolidated
Based upon the verdict of every
visitor to the Manhattan Consoli-
dated Mines Development company
on Wednesday and Thursday of this
week, the mine has uncovered on
the 30O-foot level the most sensa-
tional showing of gold ore thai has
been recorded since the famous Mo-
hawk at Goldfield developed its
enormous deposits of gold that ran
thousands of dollars per ton and
made ~millionaires overnight of those
who we're interested in it.
Many mining men of note autoed
over to Manhattan Immediately
after superintendent Mark Page
brought in the first samples, pan
nings and assays, on Wednesday
morning, and all have confirmed
the report as to the phenomenal
richness of the ore in the footwall
drift on the third level.
A few pounds of ore PANIED by
Mr.. Page brought to light nuggets
and wires of gold ranging from pin
head size to hat of a pea, while
samples exhibited around town
showed the bright metal fairly
spattered over the quartz and i'm
ORIGINATING the rock through and
through.
The rich discovery was made on
Tuesday night, and at that time the
back holes driven in the face of the
footwall drift had just broken into
the rich ore. On Wednesday an
other round was shot into the
showing for a distance of 6 feet and
manganese ore that has been the
prolific source of values in the
White Caps mine adjoining the Man
haitian Consolidated to the south.
Away from the footwall, the vein
area is of soft material, and as
work was extended in the drift the
ground kept crowding in the drift
until it's face now measures about
10 feet in width. Some assays have
been taken over the entire width,
have gone $500 to the ton, but
the company's official assays rang
ed from $3.50 to $500 across the en-
tire face.
Union Amalgamated
In the Amalgamated property,
the footage gained during the week
from the 60O-foot level is reported
as follows: The east drift has been
extended 16 feet for a total distance
of 364 feet from the shaft: east
drift from No. 1 cross-cut or
fissure vein, 2 feet; No. 6 north
cross-cut west, 8 feet, a total of IL
feet. The west drift has been eX-
tended 6 feet, now out 1856 feet west
from the shaft. The total weekly
footage gained is 33 feet.
Development in the east drift was
retarded during the early part of
the week due to a heavy flow OF
water encountered upon striking a
longitudinal fault carrying good
gold values, evidently the edge of
an orebody, the same shoot as en-
countered in the Earl company
shaft, about so feet from the sur
face. When the east drift has been
advanced sufficiently so that cross
cutting will not interfere with the
drifting work. both north and south
cross-cuts will be started to develop
the above described oreshoot, and
an important orebody may be ex-
pected.
Meanwhile the east drift will be
continued with all expedition to
open up the country in the zone OF
the downward extension of the a
ious orebodies developed from the
Earl shaft. The oreshoot explored
by the Swanson lease in the early
days of Manhattan is the most i'm
portant one to be looked for al
though there were several more ore,
shoots developed on both sides OF
the Swanson fault that produced
good grade of milling ore from the