The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-07-06
HIGH-GRAOE TALE
OF DISCOVERY
IS TOLD
REPORT SAYS NEW BONANZA Is
OPENED NEAR dAW-
THORNE

The lost ledge of the old La Pan
ia mine, which was known as a
richer high-grade producer than any
of the fabulous valued mines in
Goldfield has been found, accord
ing to John H. Miller, who has sam
Piles that fairly dazzle the eye and
stagger the imagination. The val
ues run as high as $4,000 a sack
without any apparent weakening of
the vein from which the stuff is
taken.
The discovery was made about a
mile and a quarter southeast from
the former La Panta mine, in the
Pamlico district, IL miles south
east of Hawthorne in Mineral coun-
ty. The find was made by a pros
pector named Williams, who had
been working a g~ood-looking copper
vein from which he had shipped five
carloads of copper ore.
The vein suddenly faulted, and
while Williams and his associates
we're bemoaning their hard luck
they concluded to sink to see if
they could not pick up the broken
ledge. They were down only 80
feet and had gone another five feet
when they broke into a dirty-looking
quartz that appeared to them to be
nothing better than pyrites Or mica.
They were looking for copper and
that was all they wanted.
In a few days after the stuff had
been going over the dump one of
the boys thought he would test it
anyway just to see what the rock
contained. His surprise may be i'm
agined when he found they had
been throwing into the discard stuff
running all the way from SIS a
pound to $4,000 a sack.
The strike was made 10 days ago
by Williams, who came in with some
friends from National, where they
had been working for the Stall
brothers. They opened a copper
ledge which about paid expenses and
ran from $3.50 to 50 in gold. In
sinking below the point where the
copper values broke off three shots
grade gold lying underneath and
striking up the hill at almost right
angles to the copper ledge vas cut,
with a width showing now four to
five feet.
After finding the nature Of the
new strike several tons were taken
out that ran $500 a ton. The, high
grade streak lies on the hanging
wall. Samples shown in TOnopah
by John H. Miller are so rich that
their bullion value may best be es-
timated by deducting the dirt. One
specimen weighing tx ounces runs
at the rate of 1920 a pound. The
district has been located and relo-
Gated a score of times since 1880,
when it was the scene of extensive
operations.
The ore is found in a well-defined
monzonite, lime and %porphyry. The
district is 20 miles from a railroad
via Hawthorne, but arrangements
have been made to mill 100 tons at
the old La Panta mill, which is I'M
der bond and lease to John H. Mil
Ter. Since the story got out there
has been active field work done be-
tween the Garfield and the strike,
where there is an extended stretch
of territory covered with malapai.
The La Panta was located in the
eighties by "Clubfoot" Adams and
Tom Bradley. The latter went back
to Ireland, where he died. The
mine was sold to Knapp & Laws
and H. M. Yerington, who took out
hundreds of thousands Of dollars
before they sold to an eastern syn
dictate. The same combination
owned the Pamlico group.
Neither mine was worked below
the 800 level, owing to the difficult
ty of getting power, since there was
no gas or electricity available. A
tunnel was run to strike a depth of
300 feet below the apex of the hill