The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-16
SIMON DISTRICT


camps Of Goldyke, Athens, Pactolus.
lone, Berlin, G~rantsville and Gold
en-, all of which have and are now
making showings that give a thrill
of enthusiasm to ever the most con-
sentative of mining men. That re-
gion has its past excellent record to
point to as an attraction for big
capital, and many new enterprises
are being put into shape for ex-
tensive development and the con-
struction of mills that will be turn
ing out bullion within the next year,
according to present plans and OUT
look.
Contiguous to the Olympic mine
are many very promising groups of
claims that have been developed
sufficiently { o give evidence OF
their great merit, and quite a num-
Der of those will soon be under in
tensiye development with new CAPT
tai which is becoming interested
with prospectors and original own
ers.
Among the most promising show
ings in the Jumbo group adjoining
the Olympic, and owned by Chas.
Stevens and r. l.. Morris, two pio-
neers who have spent about seven
years in this district. The Jumbo
vein is about 40 feet wide and
shows a large body of ore that
yields paintings indicating from SIS
to $40 per ton. Development con-
sists of an incline shaft % feet
deep, some short tunnels, and gen.
eral prospecting work.
Stevens and Morris also own the
Clermont group of 16 claims ad-
joining the Jumbo, on which about
the same kind of showings prevail.
Surface values show from $50 to
$45 per ton in free gold, and five
feet of solid ore has oeen exposed.
They also own the Belmont group
of three claims, adjoining the Cor
nucopia Mining company, n mile
south of the Olympic, and nave a
vein 10 to "a feet wide that shows
good surface values. Chunks OF
float ore carrying sensational values
have been found on this property.
The Cornucopia Mining company
is conducting an energetic campaign
of development on its property. near
which is the old desert watering
hole known as Stewart Springs. Fail
values had been exposed in an in
cline shaft sunk on the vein to a
depth of about IS feet. but the
company decided to put down a YER
tical shaft and early i'll June sent
out a 6 horse power Fairbanks
Morse gasoline hoist and other
equipment for this work. The shaft
is now down nearly 100 feet in the
hanging wall formation, which is
blue andesite. When the vein is cut
on it's dip toward the shaft, drifts
will be SEN out for development
but the shaft will be con-
tinued to greater depth. The hang
ing wall formation is now showing
sulphides and good values are an
t~icipated when the vein is reached.
Considerable high grade float, car
rying values up to $500 per ton, has
been found on the surface. nj. M.
WILEY of San Francisco, and Francis
O'Boyle and T. r. Pledge of Luning
are the controlling ia tors in the
company.
One of the most interesting prop
ositions on. the gold-belt is the old
Harvey-Taylor group. about a mile
west of the Simon silver-lead mine,
and recently taken over by j. II.
Miller. p. H. O'Neill, P. A. Simon,
J.. +. Adams and William Waters
under the name of the Nina Gold
Mines company. This section is
highly m~ineralized, the white and
oxidized porphyry yielding good
paintings of gold over widths OF 100
feet. Coursing through the porphyry
are strong quartz veins that carry
much higher values. Several years
ago a shaft was sunk on n or
these veins to a depth of 80 feet.
and three cyanide tanks constructed
in which to treat the ore. which in
stead of being crushed and ground
was merely run through a screen
before being placed in the cyanide.
The values were precipitated on zinc
shavings in watts below the tanks,
and fairly good results were OBJ
tanned by this crude method.
The new company is preparing to
make this one of the big gold pro-
dncars of this region. A hoist and