| Show GOLD STRIKE IN MOUNTAIN VIEW DISTRICT by al H martin RENO nev april 20 discoveries of high grade ore shoots and large veins of milling ore on the golden crescent mine in the mountain seiw district lids has started a wave dav of excitement throughout the state the gold is found in a massive dyke which averages fully feet wide and is traceable for more than a mile covered by a lime averaging I 1 around eighteen inches thick the dyke lies between walls of lime and altered granite with seams of rich ore and bodies of mill ling fing material exposed for a width of approximately feet and values proven to extend for more than 1500 feet along its length b particular interest centers on a shoot which has widened from three inches at surface to more than three feet at a depth of thirty feet with the west drift from the shaft bottom stated to be in ore sampling around per ton numerous assays essays taken along this shoot give values ranging from 97 to over per ton with the workings apparently entering a large body of high grade quartz at another point a twelve inch shoot assays essays at surface and a little deeper has widened to over eighteen inches with as says averaging 6 around and running up to at other points assays essays ranging 6 tl from 35 to have been taken and bannings pann ings at many points on the halfmoon half moon and halfmoon half moon no 2 claims have yielded values estimated at to per ton several large veins have also been uncovered beneath the light 6 capping with one fourteen feet wide as assaying sayin and another five foot vein assaying b the owners have arranged to strip off the capping near the center of the halfmoon half moon claim and several sets of lessees lessels are also preparing for comprehensive mining the dyke dips southerly into the lime and engineers who have inspected the property state the deposit has every indication of persisting in depth the discovery is hailed by mining men as the most sensational made in nevada since the bonanza days of goldfield and a rush to the district has started from reno tonopah and other points the huge dyke traverses the halfmoon half moon claim its full width extends the length of the halfmoon half moon no 2 and continues through the adjoining moneymaker money maker group into the big swede claim of the packsaddle mines company the original discovery was made in the fall of 1921 but the owners withheld all news of the strike until sufficient work could be performed to more definitely demonstrate the extent and value of the deposit the ore is free milling the golden crescent and moneymaker money maker are controlled by W E casson of carson city a and fid associates new disclosures in goldfield claims the discovery ofa of a new in the silver pick lease on the red top mine of the goldfield consolidated has electrified goldfield the vein was found in the hanging hangin wall of the red top vein and trends toward columbia mountain marking the first important ore disclosure in this section of the district the ledge is fully twenty feet wide with the ore said to average better than per ton the was uncovered in territory previously considered unproductive and may mean rejuvenation of the goldfield district through development of important veins extending into arinto columbia mountain the silver pick discovery was made at a depth of feet the company is shipping to tonopah mills and reports each carload is netting 2000 exclusive of royalties paid to the goldfield consolidated the cracker jack company has taken a five year lease on territory adjoining the silver pick lease and directly on the trend of the new vein other goldfield companies are negotiating for leases and also preparing to vigorously explore territory adjacent to the silver pick lease |
