| Show SURFACE DIRT IS RICH news goldfield nev the weeks development on the gardner oddie and duffield lease on the sandstorm show that the strike as reported last laft week wonderful as it was did not exceed what the facts justified the only error was in reporting the lease as being on the sandstorm claim when it is really on the kendall an adjoining one and belonging to the same group and company this weeks operations at the lease lea se have been devoted to screening and shoveling up the surface dirt and sacking it for shipment this sounds strange but will hardly be caled so when it is known that this dirt is worth a ton eight men are at work and la last st night there were sacks of this rich top stuff piled up about worth the ground is being cleared over an area of about 40 feet square and all the bannings pann ings made are rich some fabulous leaving the bottom of the pan plentifully sprinkled with small nuggets it really looks like a placer mine besides this there is a well defined ledge running through the ground 18 inches of which is shipping ore with streaks running through the vein which are nearly rich enough to be minted it is so wonderful that few would believe without seeing and many have seen since the strike was made the sandstorm group the first locations made in the district is owned by J L butler harry romsey J W douglass geo S nixon tom kendall and george wingfield it is stated that mr butler has given to E L mims co an option on his interest in th this is property ore worth 1000 a sack is being taken from the drift on the level of the bowes kernick lease on the jumbo in this drift a body of ore has been encountered which at present shows 5 feet wide and will wl 1 assay a ton wonders it seems never cease with the grea great t jumbo and this is the greatest of all it means stat that the figures of as the production of the bowes kernick lease given in the news two weeks ago were not an exaggeration it even looks as if they will be exceeded thousands of sacks sa acks of ore are now piled up around the ore house at this lease and a large number of men are kept busy sorting and sacking all the time the jumbo is the wonder of the mining world the marvel of the greatest gold camp ever known |
