The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-10-25
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aging that the management has put
three additional miners on surface
prospecting with the object of open
ing up other oreshoots. The Bene-
ditti tunnel, now in 307 feet will
gain considerable depth by the time
1t gets under the above mentioned
trench and IL. is expected to find
there a good body OF ore. The NAL
ley shaft Is down 100 feet aud will
be continued 10 the 200-foot point
where a station will be cut and lat
eral work started to develop the
vein opened up in the Oddie shaft.
One who, IL not exactly skeptical,
wished to be convinced that the
ore on the Jose-Davis company's
Sheepherder lease, in which little
or no free gold was visible. was, as
rich as has been claimed by the
management, took his own samples
of the red oxidized quartz at diff
ferent places in the tunnel and had
an assay run by Bellam, or Reno.
The returns showed 1864 ounces
gold and 1850 ounces silver to the
ton-a total value of $6,910.56 with
silver figured at $1.20 per ounce.
1t is not claimed or believed by the
management that much of the ore
now in sight will run SO high Or
anywhere near tit being evident
that the grab sample happened to
be unusually rich rock-but the re-
suit is .cited as evidence that the
claim of considerable ore that will
average $500 per ton is likely to
be within the truth.
The lessees on the Prospector's
Dream, which joins the Sheepherder
on the west, have opened up the
vein sufficiently to have nc doubt
that it is the extension of the main
Sheepherder vein. And the size and
values where it has been uncovered
confirms this belief. On the south
west end of their claim the vein
| shows four feet wide and neither
wall is in sight. No assays were
run during the week but paintings
indicate values up to $50 per ton.
The Ethel group, in the south end
of the Loring district, a mile and a
half from the Honey Bee, is now be-
ing actively worked and it is pos
sible that it will develop into a real
sensation. 1t is easy enough to be-
lieve that specimens now being
taken out, with bromide and chic
ride of silver and gray copper show
ing. will run 500 or 5000 e ton,
and the only question appears to be
whether this grade of ore will be
found in sufficiently large bodies.
The owners Forbes and Loose
brothers, have no doubt it will.
They point to the fact that the
character of the ore is the same as
that of the Queen of Sheba and Art
IONA mines on the same belt, which
produced many millions in the past.
The fact that little work was
done on the Ethel group for several
months after the discovery of rich
ore was inexplicable to some, but
! the explanation is quite simple. The
veins run through patented railroad
land adjoining and Forbes and the
Looses did not want to make much
| of a showing until they had bought
120 acres from the Southern Pa
cific. That s having been accom-
Iplished, they are now getting busy.
There is a big vein on the Ethel
group which runs almost due north
and south and car be traced for
5000 feet. A cloudburst uncovered
a small vein $50 feet west of the
big one and it is here that the
highest grade ore is found and
where sinking is o in progress.
The small vein dips to the east and
the big one dips to the west and it
is figured that a depth of 200 feet
on the former will reach the juno
tion of the two. A sample across
ten inches at depth of ten feet as
sayed S126 per ton-it running 5h
per cent copper. with the balance
of the values in silver.
Colonel Thomas Salter, president
of the Nevada Honey Been. is ex-
pected back from New York next
Sunday. He will Be accompanied by
New York and Boston capitalists of
prominence who have become inter