Show LATE DOINGS AT GOLDFIELD the immense values on the bowes ker nick lease on the jumbo has stirred many people to action says a correspondent of the tonopah miner on tuesday a foot block including the old harvey shaft was leased to uri B curtis and roy ridge who immediately commenced operations with three shifts of men the work is in charge of S M casey A gasoline gas cline hoist has been purchased and will soon be in operation the lease ease was granted for only four and one half months and curtis and ridge intend to waste no time in their effort to extract a fortune from the jumbos treasure box A crosscut arcin the fifty foot shaft on the bowes kernick lease has been made and while the values of the ore at this depth are not equal to the phenomenal results obtained at the surface there is a wide ledge of very high grade ore exposed an engine will also be installed on this lease within a few days work is being hurried on other ether leases along the jumbo ridge including them the vermilyea Bar bartlett richard ard ara ar A d zinn leases and all are showing gcoy results at 12 noon on thursday a general salute was given to the goldfield district b by the steam hoisting engine on the january this marks the advent of steam power in goldfield the gallows frame is being erected and the new heist will be in 0 operation pe ration by the last of next week in the in meantime the janavry continues to ship ore running as high as 1000 and the ing dump is rapidly increasing in size operations at the combination continue as usual and the big freight teams seen almost daily loading combination high grade ore make no perceptible change in the number of sacks on the dump and like th the e january the mill dump grows larger and larger A hoisting engine has been purchased by sweeney dugan and others the lessees lessels on the florence every foots increase in depth shows greater values and with better working facilities there is no doubt that the florence shipments will prove a I 1 that is expected the returns from the first shipment of thirty tons netted or per ton the shaft on lease no 1 of the algae claim has reached a depth of twelve feet and the high values continue it is the intention of smith fuller and sanders the lessees lessels les sees to sink fifty feet and drift when if present values continue the algae agae will become one of the big shippers ot the camp good values are being found by duran ath earn elkins and poster foster on the algae lease 4 which is the extension no of no 1 tile th lessees lessels on this block are also making prep pren orations to sink to a consider considerable abe depth on 11 three other leases on this ela claim 1 m work is b hp 0 ing vigorously prosecuted and the indications are good smith kernick the owners have granted a lease on the sunflower another claim ot the spearhead group to N A darcy the lease in question lies abacut feet northeast of the algae and is on the main spearhead ledge good values in free gold have been found in the crop pings of the ledge at this point sinking has already begun on the mcclelland lease on the st ives claim lying just sauth of the algae the shaft will soon reach a depth of 50 feet achere crosscutting will begin jf if the values found at the surface are found below there will vill be some heavy shipments of high grade arom rom the mcclelland lease the work on I 1 his lease and on the algae is being watch id with much interest for both leases are an n the same led ledge ge and only about feet apart and the resu ts will affect the several blocks of ground along the same ridge development work continues on the commonwealth mon wealth group and good results are being obtained one of the most important events of the week is a strike on the tinhorn claim owned by C lr preble this claim lies about abou talf alf a mile southeasterly fram the common wealth health group and being about one and a I easterly from the janavry Ja naury seems 0 o prove what Gold fielders have been hoping for that eastward the course of empire takes its way which hope is based on the act that to a aj I 1 appearances the richest ion of the mineral belt lies east prospecting being 0 yet only in its infancy it Is impossible to predict the future of this reat belt there has been so little development on the tinhorn claim that the width of the ledge t is yet undetermined but it is definitely defit known that there are several feet of high grade ore |