Show THE SULPHIDE ORES ORE OF BETTER QUALITY Interesting Lesson on the Occurrence Occurrence Oc Dc Oc- Oc currence of Values at Goldfield WIDTH OF GREAT ZONE Contents of I lime O O ed cl Ores rhu c A h u With tIme tile Py Pyrites Py- Py i rites of I lie hilt Ca Camp III I 4 A correspondent writing willing from Gold Gold- to the lie New Commercial says In Iii no Ito other othel one of the great reat camps ha has there been such lIch conflict of expert opinion as In lit While yet In Its swaddling clothes three years ago It was vas paN passed cd tip up a as worthless by a mining aiming en engineer of or wide world tation It ha has been denounced as n. n l surface camp and a poc pocket ct camp it has been exalted as n n. bonanza Experienced men now say It is the lie best I gold goll old camp in Iii the United States Stales Is a camp of or big ledges cs big values and unknown depth The Time deepest orl workings ln 8 do 10 not exceed feet but values alucs fire are proven pro not to di diminish II- II minish with depth It is a camp too that hunt has hos well rewarded scientific de do- Wherever el the proper propel work vork has been done clono by l' trenching sinking crosscutting and ond drifting ore shoots I have been exposed and this Is true not riot only of or one or 01 two mines but of or a ai i doz dozen n. n Where on the thc other hand the theore theore ore oie shoots have touched the he surface I luck tick has triumphed and anti the thc Ic lessees of or those hose tracts Facts have o taken out fortunes In n a n month The original owners of the time Great Bend seamed and lined the tIme face faco of the hills with trenches and spent two without results years ears cars in the he labor Expert prospectors and miners In lag ng b by the already done went vent onto the tho ground an and almost Immediately Immediately Immedi Immedi- atel found the ore Values Dip Ilp and HI nl c. 11 c. c rite Tho opinion is offered by the thc ma- ma majority of those hose who are arc well vell Informed on that the values lie In a gigantic horseshoe switching north and cast to embrace thence hence south and west a again aln to Goldfield Gold- Gold fiel field There now appears appealS to o be bo no war war- rant ant In tile the formation of the thc mineral minerai belt which is responsible for the Ito mines mimics for or aal any such theory It Is more reasonable reas rens- enable to believe that there is a vast continuous mineralized zone having havinga a wid th of or approximately five 11 miles in daces with an occasional bend to castor east cast or west with its line of or strike It happens happens hap hilp- pens Pelts that geological conditions force this his belt to show shin its wealth at the neat near surface In places anti and It also happens that hat at nt Goldfield where the tha values showed bowed at the thc lie grass grasi roots tile the zone was vas also in Iii one of o Its swells of great great- greatest est cst st depth The course of this zone ZOilO would be therefore sometimes at great gleat depth as at sometimes be true truo that n narrow and It would also so like Ike the course of a whale In the thc ocean It t would sometimes rise to the surface as at nt and amid again dip to unknown unknown un un- known depths It partakes therefore I of a continuous dike AI Argument Comi COli I mid Tho The values and extent of the thc bodies of low grade ore ote contained In iii that I of oC time the camp cam represented b by bythe the he Combination Red Herl Top rop Florence I amid ind Mohawk mines can be established Lessees and amid owners ar arc arp not paying al- al lion to low ho grade Erade ores ores sa save sae e as a means of assisting theli itch work In iii the of the thc ore shoots were It ll necessary ary to 0 do so Goldfield could rove Its prominence as a n. great Icat camp b by pointing to the sIze Izo of Its ore bodes bod bod- Ics es In iii addition to their richness The Ihle most convincing argument that can be offered In respect to 0 this camp lies In lii Inthe Inthe the fact that hat the tho values on half hair a dozen doz tIes en leases arc are being extracted from froni Unaltered un- un altered pyrites or sulphides as they are arc commonly called And since many mamy camps which have showed phenomenal assays at grass grassroots grassroots roots and among amon the thc oxidized portions 1 or of f veins near time the SUI face degenerate In n value when the tile sulphides arc are reach ed cd It may may ho bo well wel to mention the fact that It Is li the thc value of Its sulphides that I makes male great In other words It t is not a surface camp |