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Show ANOTHER GROUP OF FREE GOLD CLAIMS LOCATED Special to The Tribune. CALIENTE, Nev., July C John Fur-ness Fur-ness of Boston, a member of the firm of Wllberforce & Furness, stock brokers, went through camp today with Henry Grogan and Mike Blackmail, the two latter prospectors?, to Los Vegas. Thence they go over the desert about twenty miles to a strike recently, made by the prospectors, where they have located lo-cated a group of free-gold claims, which Is found in most singular fdrmitlon. Grogan says that they struck float going go-ing upwards? of $150 a ton, and followed It to a small out-cropping, where they found the values run In a pure white quartz, but wnich was frozen to a spar ledge, and on sinking they found fair values also in the spar. On attaining a depth of forty feet the character of the ledge changed to a dirty yellow quartz heavily oxidized and small particles of spar all scattered through the vein. The gold here was foundvin the oxidized quartz and not a particle of gold proved up In the spar. At a depth of 120 feet the vein changed again back to the white quartz and widened from seven inches to two feet, while the values decreased to $65 a ton and the gold became coarse and several sev-eral nice nuggets going for an ounce to two and three-tenths ounces wero found lit small pockets and the deposits are now found at a depth of ISO feet In similar sim-ilar formation. Considerable work has thus far been done on these claims, and If they show up well to Mr. Furness ho will Invest considerable capital in opening open-ing them up in first-class shape. H. R. Sibley, one of the owners of the Grand View group, located twenty-nine mlley west of Caliente, brought some fine samples of gold and silver ore Into camp today, taken from a six-foot ledge on the No. G claim. He Is? sending It to Salt Lake City for assays. ' Mark Hartley, formerly consulting engineer of tho Le Roy Mining company of Rossland, B. C, and later chief engineer engi-neer for the Independence mine of Cripple Crip-ple Creek, Colo., passed through camp today Jn company with Miles FIndlay, who located the Green River group of gold-copper claims near Mesqulle, twenty-four miles south of Moapa, last fall. These claims, ten in number, are located In a group of hills, having for their formation a thick capping of limestone, lime-stone, underlaying this is a sub-strata, of about twenty to one hundred feet of porphyry, and cropping out in one of the gulches, FIndlay found a six-foot ledge of granite, copper stained, Into which he tunneled for two hundred feet. After getting in fifteen feet the ledgo became more pronounced and showed up regular formation widening to twelvo feet, and In forty feet further the ledge was decked throughout with native copper. cop-per. Here FIndlay croswut both ways and found his ledge seventeen feet wide and assaying 1C per cent copper. When in 115 feet, he again cross?cut and found his ledge twenty-three feet wide and assays of from lS to 23 per cent copper were fpund. Here he struck a black oxide of copper with the nntlve and sunk a winze eighty-five feet, at the bottom of which his orfe went 28 per cent copper and $C in gold. He has done mpre than COO feet of work on the different dif-ferent claims and all enow high values iji copper with development. The group Is now under bond to a New York sydicate, of which Mr. Hartley Hart-ley in expert, and the option pr,ice of $80,000 will be paid in three equal Inc stallmenti) within the next six months if the expert gives a favorable opinion. h John Burns and Mike Brennan came in from the district south of Moapa to day with the richest samples of froe gold ever found In this part of Nevada, They located eight claims about 20 miles southwest from Moapa last month, and In running an open cut on the Gray Eagle in a porphyry formation he encountered en-countered a crosss vein twenty feet In, which was five Inches wide nnd run $G0l per ton in free gold. Specimens from the vein show chunks, of freo gold the size of a pea, In. a decomposed white-quartz, white-quartz, honeycombed and filled with hematite. The ore crumbles readily and Is very free milling. Tho locators had with them a mortar and pestle and pounded out twenty ounces oN gold, which they have with them. They then followt-d the blind lead northerly and txmtherly, and while It did not Increase in width northerly It widened to fourteen inches when in twelve feet on the drift and retained the values. From near the breast of this drift a chunk of gold was taken weighing weigh-ing one ounce and four pennyweights. These pieces are found in a kind of white quartz mixed with silica, crystal-ized crystal-ized and very fragile. The lead docs not crop out and the locators lo-cators have followed It In the drift twenty-four feet southerly, with no change from the average width of fourteen four-teen inches. On the Cactus claim they 1 tin In on a two-foot ledge of porphy-retlc porphy-retlc quartz carrying values" of $23 In freo gold. At tho breast of this tunnel, which Is now In thirty-two feet, the ledge had wfdened to thirty Inches and the value remained the same. This ledge lies between shale and lime wallo, and Is broken at intervals. On the Moapa claim they have run in nn open cut twenty-one feet on a twenty-eight Inch ledge of free milling white quartz, showing values of $G In gold nnd 28 ounces silver In a lime formation for-mation showing iron oxide. Burns and Brennan went to Salt Lake thl afternoon to get assays made of their gold-silver ore taken from different differ-ent parts of the ledge on the surface, and will go from there to Denver to consult con-sult with Blake & Fisher,, their associates. asso-ciates. Cbarle3 R, Weston of Crlpplo Creek passed through camp today en route to the "Vesten group of mines located In February by his brother, Phillip, from which some high grade gold-copper ore haa been taken. Samples of this oro wont $1S gold and 52 per cent copper, taken ta-ken from-a four-foot ledge at bottom of a forty-foot shaft. These claims He twenty-three miles southeast of Moapa In a granite formation, and there Is about 200 feet of development work completed on six claims. These gentlemen gentle-men Intend making a shipment of a sample carload of ore early in August to Salt Lake smelters. They have an abundance of timber and will put in a pipe line to convey water to their elaima a distance of one and one-half miles, if the shipment pans out to suit them. Jack Winters, an old-timer In Nevada Neva-da and New Mexico, brought In three sacks of sample ore taken from a claim which he located June 10, two miles from the Grand View claims, which lies twenty-nine miles west of Caliente. He struck a ledge of copper ore five feet wide, showing black oxide and native copper, and says that he believes his ledge Is a true fissure, as it lies between granite walls, the values running in what he terms cyanite. He ran in twenty-eight feet on the ledge and found it of uniform width and values. He Is taking the ore to Salt Lake for assay and says it is the richest deposit he hns ever seen in southern Nevada tor tins ciass 01 ore. ie win go on to Cheyenne, Wyo., after having had assays as-says made and will return this month accompanied by Col. W. D. Kimball, a big cattle owner, and his brother-in-law, who grub-staked him for this trip. |