The Fallon standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1920-1958, 1924-03-05
Goldbasin Mines
Show Up We'll
Local People Visit and
Report on Work On
Many Claims

mining camp east of this city, con-
tinues to be of the most encourag-
ing nature. There was a plan on foot
last Sunday to send a number OF
auto loads of Fallon people to the
new diggings, but owing to the un-
favorable weather only a few made
the trip.
Among those who visited the camp
was Sheriff Crane. He has followed
has been in most of the western min
ing booms and has better than an
average knowledge of mining and
new camps. In speaking of Gold
basin. he said:
Eyes, II looks good to me. / saw
more gold in the pans than I expect
ed and some of the paintings were
almost sensational in their richness,
stretching clear around the pan. The
best part of the camp Is that 1t is
not confined to any one claim or set
of claims but seems to be pretty
we'll distributed over the district.
From the foot of the gulch to the
top assays and Mornings are being
taken, while claims are being de-
veloped on the lode or vein proper
ties over the entire section and some
very rich rock is shown by the pros
pectors and claim holders.
II consider this poor mans camp,
as 1t is a gold producer and that is
what the poor man can handle. 1t
looks like the making of real min
ing camp in a territory that has
hardly been touched. A pleasing fea-
ture is that hardly a day passes but
that some new strike is reported and
the claim owner Is able to show the
rock that carries the values.
Every man In camp is busy, and
IL sounds like old times in Rawhide
when the boys commence to shoot
before quitting time. The bang of
dynamite at a score of places shows
the activity that Is going on. l am
convinced that Goldbasin will make
a gold camp before this summer has
finished"
Others who visited the camp re-
port favorably on what is in sight.
Aside from the Wilson placer strike,
which first called attention to the
camp, the lode claims are coming in.
Work on the Wilson ground under
lease by Mulcoy and Riddle is show
ing up vein of better than mill
grade ore. They expect to sink so
feet before they start their crosscut
to the main vein.
Wilder and Robinson have an ex-
cellenr showing on the big porphyry
dyke northeast of the camp. Miller,
Drake and Hunt have milling values
on the Hank Knight property and
they will sink deeper.
Hursh and Finn are leasing on
Wilson ground and property.
Figuring on a small mill to treat
custom ore is the latest news from
the camp by an Oakland outfit that
recently visited the camp and looked
over the situation. 1t is expected
that representatives of the company
will be in the camp again this week
to check up on assays and estimate
the available mill ore In sight. 1t is
figured that the placers alons would
keep a small mill busy. Recent as
says from the gravel deposit show an
average value of s16.60 for the bed
rock grade and s7.26 per yard for
the second grade gravel. Assays have
been taken running as high as $50
per ton from the bedrock diggings.
Assays from several of the lode
claims indicate that a custom mill
could be accommodated with ore that
would net returns to both the mill
people and the miners of the district
A date is to be set upon weather
conditions when II Is expected that
large delegation of people from this
section and western Nevada will
make a day at the new camp.