The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-01-11
HAYSTACK RESFM-
BLES CRIPPLE CREEK
(By Frank l.. Reber)

HayStack gold district with ats
proof work is like the skylark-on a
natural upward gain. Gold is always
an interesting incentive, and under
it the Haystack Mines Company is
attaining results which promise more
than the prospect. The work reveals
the mine qualities of the district and,
as outlined, its proof is to the good.
with pay ore at various points over
the four claims now being explored
and which can be worked at a profit
with the installation of economy ap-
pliances.
The conditions of the property are
most interesting and in line with the
quality of determined gold camps of
known production and enormous pro-
fit. Haystack has the GRANTEES, crys-
talline schists and basalts or intru-
sives so prominent at Cripple Creek.
Like unto that famous gold section
the numerous openings and veinlets
are filled with ore, and in instances,
though small, great values of gold
are deposited Herewith.
The stronger vein explored shows
$50 ore to deepest point of 50-foot
shaft. Most astonishing is the over
looking heretofore of the metasamotic
influence, as same affects the wall
rocks. Only recently Manager Smith
determined this important feature of
the gold dissemination. He left the
trodden path of earlier work, driving
ri int hn hn
similar to the Cripple Greek condi-
tons, that metasomatic replacement
had done its work; and when his
assays showed $18 per ton, SIT 40
gold and 60 cents silver, his theory.
based on Cripple Greek conditions,
was proven, notwithstanding the as
tonishment at what other workers
had missed.
This discovery is real Cripple
Greek key and indicates that develop
ment will uncover very large ore
bodies and of as high profit oppor-
tunity as that on which the fame OF
Cripple Greek is based
Three samples taken by Manager
Smith showed at bottom of shafr n
footwall quartz returning $40 so in
gold and 40 cents in silver. A quartz
streak of about foot with $33 values
in gold and 80 cents in silver and
another taken from the altered gran
and 40 cents silver.
Smith, the manager and insistent
force as regards the merit Of the
property, is an old-time Cripple
Creeker, and says:
Besides the metasoma now being
exposed and the very similar geologic
conditions as l found them in the
great gold camp beneath the shadow
of Pixies Peak, ] always felt at home
at Haystack with the series of paral-
leling and intercalated veins, in close
relation to the basaltic intrusions.
The cracks and assures are like at
Cripple Greek, we have linked zone
wherein valuable bodies of ore, in my
opinion, will be determined to great
depth, from that of the narrow fis-
sure and crevice to the vug and me-
tasomatic bodies, so large and richly
profitable in Cripple Creek.
These considerations with tellu-
rides of the brown and silvery hue
add to the reason why these gold
deposits will go to great depth. and
the deeper the larger and more re-
sourceful the gold deposits.
Like in the great Colorado camp,
the conditions have been influenced
by recent disturbances and applicable
heat action enforcing more extensive
dissemination of the gold-bearing So
lutions and consequent replacement.
"Our present work is furnishing
the key to the richer and larger ore
bodies and bringing about what, no
doubt, will be an era of prosperous
development and the exposing of in
teresting gold-bearing veins, veins of
replacement and not open gaps. Our
situation now is that of delving and
digging and blasting and proving ore
deposits upon which to found ade-
quate treatment facilities.
Notwithstanding our strong show
ing, we are still l. the position If
offering the combination of high-class
chance and opportunity rare in min
ing, and which comes only once in a
lifetime. upon which to build profit
and secure fortune. | am convinced
as to our future, and the task before
us will be fulfilled and the rewards
accordingly realized. as we aim the
work for real deep revelation"