Show goldfield s chapter of rich strikes during the past few weeks the development made at goldfield nevada have been in many instances astonishing some immensely rich ore has been found there the current issue of the goldfield news which has a reputation for conservatism contained a chapter of new strikes important among which was one made in the jumbo mine where it has since been ascertained gold ore as rich as 16 per pound has been found the news says in a week replete with sensational developments in the mines and prospects of goldfield the biggest is in another lease on a property that is evidently well named the jumbo this time it is on what is known know nas as the kernick bowes lease the ore was first opened up just before going to press last week but the strike has been showing better with every hours work since assays essays of the ore go from the hun deeds to several thousand dollars per ton in many cases and panning show long strings of colors which are very convincing as to values the gold is not only in the seams but is mixed clear through the quartz and even the loose sand on the surface pans big five feet of the ore will pay to ship and the lessees lessels are already sacking A shaft which is being sunk in the porphyry is now down thirty feet and the ledge will be crosscut cross cut at fifty feet extra just before going to press attorney S E vermilyea of tonopah To made a panning at the news office from a small piece of the jumbo rock and the amount of gold fine and coarse fairly staggered him said he if I 1 should tell a man of that panning without he was present when it was made and he should tell me I 1 lied I 1 blame him it is almost unbelievable on the richard cowing and burns lease the lessees lessels are drifting from the shaft to tap the rich ore shoot that was opened up on the surface last week probably the richest ore yet found in goldfield was opened up almost at the surface by george mcclelland in his lease on the saint ives A two inch streak has ore as freely speckled with visible gold as the healthy boys face is with freckles this is a decomposed quartz and some of it will go 6 or 8 per pound from the handrock hard har drock rock alongside this streak a specimen was broken off and it assayed per ton the specimens ciment hunter became so numerous that mr mcclelland put a man on guard until he went to tonopah and got sacks tools etc to handle the output in an economical manner he will resume work in a day or two and further developments will be watched with interest the other lessees lessels on the saint ives are sinking before crosscutting to the ledge on the algae claim of the spearhead group owned by smith kernick the saint ives ledge was opened up monday by smith sanders and fuller lessees lessels les sees here it is ten feet wide and the values are well distributed throughout some of the bannings pann ings indicate values of or per ton and it is thought a good percentage of the ten foot ledge will pay to ship sanders and inman have taken another lease and several more will be granted the coming week the rich ore shoot on the florence lease no 3 has been again tapped on the foot level and the values are fully maintained at this depth the combination continues to show up better ore daily A rich streak nearly the full width of the shaft has just been gone through and the values go from to per ton eight tons which were sacked one day will go in the neighborhood of 2000 per ton 1 I 1 per pound there is now no question but the combination has tellurium ore the shaft is down feet and a level at this point will be started at once there are 1600 sacks of shipping ore now on the combination dump the lease of kendall reilly jones and patrick on the january continues to improve in the west drift at the fifty foot level the showing is immense the shipping ore is from three to eight feet wide and runs from to per ton the same drift at the eighty five foot level has seven feet of ore of about the same grade at the foot level they are stripping rich ore in a ledge seventy feet wide with no walls in sight at the bottom of the old incline shaft feet in depth a crosscut cross cut will be run to determine how wide the ledge really is shipments are made nearly every day but still there are over sacks on the dump A steam hoist has been ordered and will arrive shortly when the production will be further increased |