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Show GREAT BEND STRIKE IS WORLD BEATER Goldfield. the hub mining camp ot Nc-vnda, Nc-vnda, has not stnrtlod the world since tho Little Florence nnd Rogers-Syndicate strikes t)f several weeks ago. They are proving two of tho blgge3t things the mining world has heard about for a long time, but not sufficient to maintain the r)utat!on of "the greatest mining camp on earth'" indefinitely. It was necessary that something entirely novel occur and It has occurred. Great Bend has now entered the. limelight lime-light and the property promises fair to maintain Its position in the center of the stage for aomo time to come. Messrs. Ioftus ft Davis, in their lease on the GrcaL Bend, has encountered one of the fattest bonanzas that the mining history of Vouthcrn Ncvadn records They have doveloped a ledge ranging from one to two feet in width, that carries values all the way froh $10 to 514,000. and which will easily hreak J200 a Ion for Its entire height, length and breadth. In the Great Bend the leasers have developed an ore shoot for a distance of 125 feet on the 300 level. A winze has ben sunk f0 feet in ore and another drift liaa been run In the bonanza stuff at the350. The string of assays since the ilndiug of the bonanza lens reads like an Aladdin tale. There arc returns in two, three, four and five llgures. and I it is very modest to state that a couple of hundred dollars Is all that the shoot will overage. Great Bond Is located In the Diamondileld section of tho Goldfield dlHtrtrt and is an lntlnmto neighbor of the Daisy, n mine in Itself. IJut the Greut Bend ore differs somewhat some-what from that In the Daisy mine. Inasmuch Inas-much as It contains certain bases which the Daisy can not boast of. li has the freft gold, even tbe'sylvanite, but It has moro. The silver enntonts alone would make It worth while. Then thero Is te-trnhedrlt te-trnhedrlt In abundance, while the bulk of the basn is blackjack, a zinc and lead formation that is worth more a byproduct by-product than it could possibly steal from the noble metallic content In the course of 'reduction. Gold has Tormecl an alliance with the zinc in the Great Bend, for where the blackjack crystals exist in the greatost number, there are- the gold vnl- ; ucs highest. From 311,000 lo SH.000 is tho usual return when a fine blackjack specimen !. assayed. Messrs Loftus .-. Davis noL only own this lease, but they have control of ihe capital slock In the Great Rbnti conifmny . Itself, and recently they have noibf.n' averse to purchasing- any blocks that i might Iiiiao been thrown upon tin mar- ' kct. Then gentlemen entered upon th? , l business of making a mine of the Great ' Bscid. and they hava backed their confl- ! deuce hi the project with their cash i whenevor any weak holder insisted upon I I dumplnr the stock. The lease will be-! be-! gin Khlpplng .Monday morning ami will , continue to do so Uninterruptedly, for the backs are proven for not. on!v the wlnzo depth, but well toward the surface, sur-face, and to the depths, aa tho slrlk was made In virgin ground. This strike in the Groat Bend carries with it a significance not fully apprcc'l- 1 ated until all the conditions are known ; as It opens up n hlthf-rto undeveloped and' I unproven section of the. district, and nlsy i conclusively proves. that tho ores of the i Goldfield district 'are not superficial do posits, but extend to the depths Incidentally it may bo stated that several sev-eral wise brokers In San Francisco got tholr fingers well humid by shorting Great Bend stock when It hovered aroun tho 45-cont mark. They are finding it axtromely difficult and expensive to get under covw on the present rising market --Goldfield News. |