White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-19
Veins Running 5000 in
the White Metal Pres
sage Operation on a
Large Scale.
Elv Citizens Secure Good
Locations. -Townsite
Is Started in Once
Famous District.

Reports from the new camp of
Arrowhead, in Nye county. located
between Ely and Tonopah. indicate
the most important mineral discovery
made in Nevada for many years.
This district was we'll kAown in
the early days of the silver rush and
vas made famous by the old Gila
nine which produced at that time
more than half million dollars In
high grade silver The new strike
IS about four miles from the old
workings and is located on the ande-
site-porphyry contact which lies be-
tween the malapai formation on the
north and The quartxite on the south.
sith zone that Ia from mile to
nile and a half in width cut by two
strpng fissure veins with northeast
md southwest trend.
TWIN Springs. the nearest water, is
Iweln miles distant. but Big creek.
carrying plenty OF water. ia located
,ess than twenty miles distant, and
sbunoant wafer can readily he so
cured by piping.
A number OF discovery shafts are
being sunk in the distric. and four
new companies have recently been in
sonporated. Peter Fox. who made
the discovery, has formed a company
Of ronopah mining men which Is now
carrying on operations on the original
strike The main shaft Is down ] SO
feet from which rich ore iF being
mined. running 1000 ounces in silver.
Chunks OF ruby silver are encounter
Nd in the high grade sulphide silver
ore that Is being taken out
Some of the veins exposed are Is
feet In width and assay across the en-
tire vein over $26.70 and running
as high as $500 in silver
Goodman and Mckay of Ely have
secured several good locations and
are working now in shaft that is
only eighty feet down but is already
in rich sulphides.
Charles Osteriund. Walter Watson.
Charles Webster. Harry Damn. Ieck
krotzer and r. l.. Rigsby, mining
men OF Ely. have also secured good
locations in the new district.
A townsite has been located, lots
laid on and already number have
been sold to investors who are pro-
eeeding Ia build town. The town
Is situated about eight miles OF the
main road or Midland Trail near Twin
Springs about seventy miles south OF
Ely.
According to the Tonopah Miner.
H. b. Chessher. president of the
fonopah Stock Exchange. in company
With Joe II. Kendall Of Goldhlde
and Herman Budleman, superintend-
ent of West End Consolidated COM
pany. have been looking over the Az
rowhead property.
Mr. Kendall cut a sample across
'hree and one-half feet of the drift
on the l00-foot level which retupned
sS2 In gold and $199.10 in silver
making a total of $221.10 in values
Another sample taken by Mr.. Bud
eman, which included waste and ore
Tor a distance OF four feet, assayed
siol.25 In gold and silver. These
samples were taken as cold-blood-
eo proposition to arrive at the foun-
dation for the reports of The rich
strikes.
The Arrowhead Extension Mining
company has group of claims ad-
loihing the Arrowhead on the south
east. The surface showings have
peen remarkable, considering the
TACT that no development has been
carried on. Assays show values
ranging from s4.35 to $67.75.
The Sunshine property has shaft
"own seventy feet and is cutting a
sood ore body There are dozens OF
.'her properties already preparing
'or extensive operations.
According IN lie statement given
~" oy Joe d. R-rdall. the entire Ids