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Show ABHOWHEAD HE ! HAS BONANZA DHE j Whole District Is Thrilled I With Excitement of Sensational Sen-sational Strikes. Ely People Taking Large Part in Development of ! Region's Resources. Iil:t:-aoruir.ary activity precai'n ct Ce new Arrovhoad district, sensational developments de-velopments in which have attracted the attention of fee mining" world from tho Tun op;; h Divide. f:mon and Birch Creelc districts to this newest Nevada camp, viiiMh lies 123 mil'js from Ely and sever.ty-j sever.ty-j five miles from Tonopah. A rush is on, I according to J. Henry Goodman, an Ely j business man, who is a truest at the Kcw-! Kcw-! house hotel, and boom conditions pre-j pre-j vail. Dozens of automobiles loaded with I miners, prospectors, promoters and capi-! capi-! talis ts are arriving in the desert camp. Mining; men who have inspected the showing at tho Arrowhead mine and have examined the geology of tho surrounding country, predict that Nevada's newest sensation will become a second Tonopah, says Mr. Goodman. Rich as the first ores found at Go Id field and Tonopah mines were, it Is said that the ore taken from the Arrowhead mine between the 100- and the 175-foot levels will compare very favorably with any produced pro-duced by the first-named camps. So great Is tho Interest In Ely that 80 per cent " of the Arrowhead companies are financed there. Within sixty days thirty companies have been financed to operate in the new district. Originally the Arrowhead Mining company com-pany surveyed a townslte of 200 lots, but so great has been the rush that it has been found necessary to survey a space for !0o lots, and these have all been taken, it is said. Sixty-five buildings have been erected fflnce the excitement began, and accommodations for the influ-X of visitors are being rapidly provided. Geology Described. Generally speaking, the geology of the district consists of rhyolite, andesite and dacite flows, with Intrusive porphyries traversing the formations. Erosion has ! exposed many veins in the rhyolite. These veins, u Is said, are well defined and can be traced for thousands of feet. The ore bodies seem to occur actually In the rhyolite and not In the andesite. according accord-ing to Ralph A. Meyer, San Francisco mining engineer. The vein matrix consists con-sists of quart and calclte containing iron oxide and pyrites. The main vein series of the district has a north west-southeast strike. but another series and equally important has a northeast y nd southwest strike. Veins vary in width from two to twelve feet, the average being five feet. Plotii hanging hang-ing and foot walls are well defined. The ore bodies indicate considerable cross-fracturing cross-fracturing and faulting. Persistence Repaid. Again the persistence, mining knowledge knowl-edge and faith of a veteran prospector has been Instrumental in the discovery of great mineral possibilities. For several sev-eral years Peter Fox, a well-known southern Nevada mining man. had prospected pros-pected the district systematically. In yea re gone 'by considerable high-grade oxioizeu ore naa oeen gupnerea rrom tne surface, but no depth prospecting had been done. About eighteen months ago Mr. Fo secured a bond and lease on the Arrowhead mine, according to Mr. Goodman, and prospected it for gold values val-ues in the oxidized zone above the 100-foot 100-foot level. Finally he abandoned this well-exploited aone and began an exploration of the sulphide zone. At a depth of ao-proxlmately ao-proxlmately seventy-five feet Mr. Fox struck sulphides, all of which contained values in gold and silver. One remarkable remark-able fact about the Arrowhead mine is that all of tlie development work has been done in ore, the poorest of which Is a milling grade, it is said. Practically no waste can be found on the dump. At the 100-foot level a drift was run east. At twenty-one feet from the collar of the shaft very rich sulphides were encountered, en-countered, according to Mr. Goodman. At this point a winze was sunk on a rich shoot of ore. In this winze there is five feet of ore, all of whir-h Is rich shipping grade and some of which shows sensational sensa-tional values. In addition, in the face of the oast drift, which has been extended 100 feet from tho shaft, there is at least four feet of high-grade ore, it Is paid. The ore In the winze occurs between defined walls In a rhyolite closely associated asso-ciated with quartz and calcite. the latter predominating as depth is attained. Wherever Wher-ever the richest values ar found the calcite is very evident, according to Mr. Goodman. The values in the ore, which is said to resemble the Comstock ores, are found in horn silver, " vuby silver and gold. 175 Foot Level Strikes Shoot. The drift east from the shaft on the 175-foot level I"; as struck the same ore shoot encountered on the 100-foot level. The shoot at this depth shows increased values and a width of eight feet of hUh-grade hUh-grade ore. Inasmuch as the winze from the 300-foot level has been sunk thlrtv-fivo thlrtv-fivo feet all in ore, it is almost a certainty cer-tainty that these showings connect, according ac-cording to Zlv. Goodman. : The ore in the face of the 100-foot drift is strengthening up. Fully 0 per cent of the ore obtained from both the development de-velopment work In tho winze and the face of the 100-foot drift is immediately 1 sacked prior to being hoisted. , When Mr. Fox had mr.de his sensa - i tioual development he found it necessary to induce capital to aid him in the devr-1- ' opment of his find, lie inter-ated Judsre i ti. J. Johns a;:d George Kernick. both I of San Francisco, and Zed Kendall nf j Tonopah to finance the development. Since that time development has been steadily pushed. Soon after tlie excitement excite-ment broke loose and the surrounding country- wad staked out by enterprising prospectors. '.Mr. Goodman was the second sec-ond man to do rrusmes.-: in tlie new J:s-tri'jt. J:s-tri'jt. lie immediately acquired the property prop-erty now owned by the Arrowhead Consolidated Con-solidated Mining company from W. S. Hydo, a pros pe-.-tor. who had been in the district mining periodically on h:'s claims -or twenty-five years. With Mr. Goodman arc associated James McKay of Tonopah and W. C. Goodman, also an Elv busines-man. busines-man. The Arrowhead Consolidated company's property is southwest of the Arrowhead mine. A vein with a strike parallel with the main Arrowhead ledge is being developed de-veloped by a shuft with an incline of X5 degrees. At a depth of eighty-four feet I sulphides wiro encountered. At th" ; seventy-foot Unel a drh't for thirty feet in an easterly direction has been driven. About twenty fr.---t from thy shaft a wins.-, has been sunk for twelve feet, which 'is showing a well defined vein two feet wide carrying a small pay streak of silver Sulphides. Tlie company has installed an eighteen-horsf-power gasoline hoist, compressor and machine drills and five substantial buildings. build-ings. Two shifts are being worked steadily. Water for the camp is hauled a distance of flvo miles. Later, If develooments warrant, a pipe line twelve miles iong will furnish a supply of water adequate for mining and milling operations, it Is said. Power can be obtained from thefa-mous thefa-mous old camp of Tybo. A line to furnish fur-nish electricity to tho latter camp now Is being built from Tonopah and will be completed com-pleted by the firs: of January. Several large eastern interests have purchased property In the district. Recently Re-cently J. N. Popham, who represents among several other large interests the Costa Kica Union Mining company and the United Fruit company, purchased the claims of tho Arrowhead Munson Mining company from Mr. Goodman, who had purchased them himself from Clarence Munson only a few days before. |