White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1921-06-26
NEW SPRING VALLEY DISTRICT
HAS GREAT MINING POSSIBILITIES

County Clerk r D. Oldfeld and c.
T. Armand made trip last Sunday
to the location of the big strike made
by John Tilford last week in Spring
valley. The county clerk and NJ. An
nand. with w. NJ. Macnichol of Balti-
more. are owners of two claims south
CT the Rex claim. owned by John Til
ford. Dick Millick, Arnold Millick and
Jack Krotzer, where tile original dis
covery was made.
According To the report made by
Armand and Oldfield. who returned
Sunday evening after visiting the To-
cation where the picture rock bear
ing tho high values in gold and silver
was discovered by John Tilford, the
fissure on which the find was made
is being explored and has opened up
vein of ore of the same picture
rock for a distance of over seventy
five feet
AS described by the visitors. who
declare they cannot give 1t In tech
nical terms, the rich ore comes up
through Gaping of peculiar looking
lime, which is described by some min
ers who have seen it to be a por-
phyry. In some places the seam can
be seen on the surface and by forcing
a pick under the ore strata il is lifted
from the wall like slabs of ginger
bread. Following the wall of the
slip, which is as smooth as the blade
of knife. IL can be traced to the
lime Gaping. where the vein disap-
pears. and by removing this Gaping.
which is only about three inches
thick in places, the vein again ap-
pears and the ore is seen in the same
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John 1ilford since making the first
discovery has uncovered this seam OF
rich ore for Il distance of about sew
enty-fye feet, with only few places
where the ore does not show the
same uniform thickness, which IL
about two inches. In places where
the seam narrows down the wall can
be plainly seer and the narrowed
seam carries rich-looking quartz
which will pan gold The slip con
tanning the ore can be traced to the
big quartz ledge which crosses the
hills about twenty-five feet from
where the original find was made. II
is declared by some miners that the
ore in the seam Is a replacement and
that the big body of ore lies against
the ledge. The quartz ledge is the
same big ledge which can be traced
for miles and which runs in a north
westerly and southeasterly direction
with westerly dip. The seam car.
rying the high grade ore extends
from the ledge about due east and
west and the wall of the seam lies at
an angle of about forty-five degrees
Following the seam OF ore down
the hill. where the Gaping was light.
Tilford has exposed the vein for
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ii up the hill to within twenty-five
feet of the ledge. where the Gaping
Is heavier and covered with soil
owing to the protection offered by
the projecting ledge.
Tilford is now running a cut about
fifteen feet north of the lower ex-
posed end of the seam with the ex-
pectation to cut the vein and follow
1t TO the point where 1t intersects the
ledge.
Dick Milliek. joint owner in the
claim. is of the opinion that the fact
that the walls of the vein have a de-
cided cleavage is an indication of an
earth movement, and that the ore
was forced up from a depth instead
OF being leached into the seam. The
fact that the ore, in addition TO the
high values in gold and silver. car
ries about 10 per cent copper
strengthens this theory and is a
strong indication that the ore was
forced up through a seam from rich
deposits below
The entire ledge ON the secondary
hills of the Schell Creek range, from
Mccoy creek on the south to Bassett
creek on the north. distance OF
about five miles and on 20 the north
for about three miles to the piermont
mine, is located