Show gold M mining ining on kramer M mountain buntain oun tain near golconda bocon da BY WILL C HIGGINS attracted by reports to the effect that gold eold had been found in the mounta mountains ins a hundred miles from nowhere thousands will leave between sundown sun down and sunup sun up for the new eldorado show the professional mine operator and bonanza chaser ore that is full of gold but which has been taken from the 21 ground within walking distance from his domicile and he will not give it even passing attention this is another instance of greener fields beyond and this is what is happening daily at golconda nevada near which place there is good reason to believe mines will yet be developed which will be the equal or the peer of the wonderful mohawk of goldfield the great black hole of chafey or the attractive seven troughs mine in seven troughs district A mile and a half west of golconda is cramer hill from the distance it looks smooth and rounded and yet there is every reason to believe it is one of the banking vaults of dame nature kramer hill is a quartzite mountain traversed by northerly and southerly fissures these fissures range from one to five feet in width which are filled with erosions ero from the walls with infiltrations of surface sediment talc and debris but they evidently have no bearing or relation to the of that section as their occurrence was subsequent to the mineral deposition although some of the vein filling carries gold values strange as it may seem however 1 the gold values occur in the quartzite on oil either side of the fissure and the quartzite is the ore the gold it is believed was deposited in the quartzite at the time of its its transformation from sandstone into its present form and the depo was due to gold bearing solutions coming from thermal springs As a general thing the gold values are found in solid quartzite in the country rock on either or both sides of the fissure and to a distance of from fifteen or twenty feet east and west of the fissure as proven so far by development and exploitation the values ranging from 2 up to 1300 although one sample going as high as has been taken and submitted to test by fire the ore is a pure sli cious quartz free milling and contains but little iron and no base some of the ore shows native gold in abundance and where not visible it will pan freely leasing on kramer hill the principal holdings on kramer hill are owned by the golconda gold cold ledge mining company of american bank T wn 7 lyng lease on kramer hill near golconda photon by b will C higgins hoisting plant and dump of golconda L M co on kramer hill building kansas city mo the company however is not operating its property a portion of which is now being worked by leasers leaders lea sers the heaviest operator on the hill at the present time being the golconda leasing mining company of golconda the company is capitalized at shares of 1 each the officers being J W oswald president J D carroll vice president J W planck secretary and treasurer and C F dearmond manager the company has a lease on by feet of ground on the property of the golconda gold ledge gold mining company and the lease has about two more years to run in mining operation the leasing 21 1 company has sunk a shaft on the fissure to a depth of feet with drifts running north and south on the vein on the 75 and the foot levels from these drifts cutting T out ont into the quartzite to the east and west crosscuts cross cuts have been run and these workings armost or most of them are in bodies of ore the extent of which are unknown which carry good milling values up into a product of fine shipping grade on the dump the leasing company has about tons of ore which will sample from 20 to in gold to the ton which is entirely free milling while in the mine workings according to conservative estimates made by well known mining men from 2000 to 2500 tons of ore are available for breaking down for the mill or smelter this lease is equipped with a fine hoisting plant the power being furnished by a twenty five horse power witte gasoline engine purchased of the salt lake hardware company and which is giving excellent satisfaction is the shaft is timbered in a most substantial manner although in reality this was an expense hardly necessary as in mine operation a stick of timber has never yet been required the gallows frame is thirty five feet in height and the plant has a sinking capacity of feet work is being pushed in the development of the lease in blocking out ore and it is quite possible that at the plant of the glasgow western exploration company near at hand arrangements will be made for the treatment of ore at an early date the lyng lease the lyng lease on the gold ledge claim is on a block of ground by feet adjoining the lease of the golconda leasing mining company on the north work was begun on this lease less than two months ago and yet at the time of the visit of the writer to kramer hill the boys had their shaft down to a depth of fifty feet with a crosscut cross cut twenty feet west in the quartzite where a body of four feet of ore was showing all of IV which was of good milling grade and carrying values going up into the hundreds in looking at the rock as it stood in the unbroken quartzite free gold could d be seen which sparkled like diamonds in the tg candle light going into the workings of its neighbor on the seventy five foot level the and lyng lease boys have done some work running into their ground and from developments made here have haiie taken out a considerable tonnage of 60 ore from these shallow workings a thir ton shipment will soon be made if not already made to the smelters shelters sm elters and this tri trial allot lot will probably go from 60 to to the ton opportunity galore opportunity stalks around in broad daylight on kramer mountain and is unafraid and the dayis day is not far distant when other desirable leases will be taken on this great quartzite zone the greatest portion of which for aught we know may be gold earing bearing and the deeper the better A day of awakening is certainly coming for golconda the business element of which wh ichor or the greatest portion of it at least is as indifferent to the wonderful possibilities existing at their very doors as it is to the currency question in south sauth africa but there is one man in golconda who believes in kramer hill outside of the leasers leaders mentioned above an and d this is B E J delano who long ago recognized the merit and mineral worth of this locality and who besides having interests there is doing all in his power to bring to the attention of mining men and investors the fact that here may be another goldfield another comstock |