Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-06-26
NEWS LETTER FROM
 MIDAS, NEVADA

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 Midas Gold Circle District), New, With an assured high price for sil- yer for many years to come, and the possibility that bonus of $1O per ounce will soon be given gold produc- CTS, the silver-gold camp of Gold Circle is receiving greater attention from mining men and investors, and much new work will be started during the coming summer, as well as an in crease of activity on properties now operating A survey of the camp will show good reason for this and to the newcomer itNis amazing that a dis trict so accessibly located, and with unusual merits easily provable, should be so little known to the general pub lie, as we'll as to the mining fratern- ity. The climate at this altitude per mits work the year 'round-the sum- mers being particularly delightful and Golconda, on the main line of the Southern Pacific, is quickly reached over a good auto road. Midas, the town, is 6,000 feet in elevation.
 The following statements and fig ures will doubtless be a revelation to many mining men who are on the lookout for silver-gold properties, but they should be convincing enough to
 warrant investigation-especially when the fishing and hunting are unusually good When a scope of country five miles in length by mile wide there are no less than 29 mining claims on which ore ranging in value from milling grade to what the enthusiast refers to as "jewelry" or "picture" rock, has been found. '.Colors" will show in "pannings" from several times that number, but on the 29 referred to the ore in some quantity, though number of them are but little developed. It is impor- tant to note that most of the devel- opment has been interrupted not by discouraging results, but because the owners are poor men and could not pay for expensive machinery when depth or water was reached. Lack of sufficient milling facilities has also been a drawback,
 The Elko Prince mine has produced to date approaching $2,000,0Oo the bulk of which was at time when silver was about 60 cents per ounce at present it is nearly double that and has been higher There is still much gold ore in sight and possibilities in the way of the discovery of new ore bodies are by no means exhausted.
 On the Missing Link claims of the Big Chief company controlled by the Berry brothers, who are reputed to have made over $50,00,000 in oil and mining, an ore body has been deVel- oped which, on the 300-foot level, IS over 300 feet in length and will aver age better than $1O0 per ton. Sam- ples across ten inches have assayed S11SO per ton, while a number ot samples across two feet have gone from $2OO to $500 per ton. This ore i body has been drifted on up to the line of the St. Paul (owned by Louie D. Gordon, of Round Mountain fame), and if it proves continuous from there to point directly under where an ore shoot is developed on the 19O-foot level of the St. Paul, it will prove an orebody in the two properties of over 500 feet in length. |
 From the ore shoot on the 13O level of the St. Paul. Gordon shipped a car load of ore that netted $96 per ton when silver was AS cents per ounce, A number of shipments of high grade were made by leasers on the General Grant and Jackson claims, which are also in the Berry brothers Big Chief group, but no record IS available as to their total value. How ever, the rock is known to have been rich and ore estimated to be worth several hundred thousand dollars IS still in these mines above the lower workings, which are comparatively 1 shallow.
 Though not the first location in the 1 Gold Circle district, the first strike oi sensationally rich ore was made D! Dick Bamberger on the group now owned by the Bamberger Mines Co., The ore was so plentifully sprinkled with visible gold that much of it was made in stick pins, cuff links and other pieces of fjewelry. At least $15,- 900 worth was taken from a hole seven feet long, three feet wide and ten feet deep. Two young lady visi- tors from Tuscarora were given spec imens valued at $500 by the generous miners. ...
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