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southern Nevada
<;ase have their for
an take up permanent
street. The owners are
erclval Nash and J. R.
ien made a careful sampling of
ps on this lease. V The result was
yrlse.',-;.The . entire . tonnage ; will nun
$50 per ton. >: ! _¦ ¦ ' . • '¦'¦•' •-'
x'he Cram-La Lime lease on this prop
erty is equally as rich. They have dis
fi covered | that \ they : have :¦ been ¦ throwing
out as waste ore that assays $54.69. These
if. gentlemen have an ore body eight feet In
£ width. Two feet of this Is high grade and
Sis- being sacked. ; It runs from $300 to $700
to the ton. :•:-.,'¦¦¦„ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ \. r '•¦'¦' '¦'¦¦'¦
The lease on Union No. 9, formerly
I operated by Douglass & Kendall, Is now
I being worked by L. IH. Davis, Jim Shea,
"W. E. Stanley and :C. L. ¦ Putnam.' They
% have forty tons out already that is worth
(S3OO per ton. The ledge is three feet wide,
¦*i on 5 which there is an eight-inch streak
A. that will go $1300 per ton. •",;'•" V: ¦ ,
»JK The | Curtis dry washers on Union No.
I are cleaning up $58 to $80 per day. I Thalr
'# first 5 shipment • of bullion to . the . Carson
mint gave returns of $14.92 per ounce. Mr.
S Curtis ha« sent for a 1 new engine, to come
is, by express, and work will be prosecuted
)3 under il high -: pressure ¦ until bad weather
stops them. / . . . . > ¦
L : 53!1n all there are fifteen leasers operating
"; in this camp with flattering prospects.
'¦, v' • ' -. • Resume Wark ¦ , >¦'
"Work jls!to'; be ; again . resumed on ' the
I Toquima | Copper. 1 ¦: The ; officers and some
of the principal stockholders of the com
pany have decided to take up a block of
v& the | treasury : stock \at : a figure that \ will
, create a fund ample to sink another 100
feet When work ; was t discontinued ¦on
I this 1 property ; last spring the : shaft | had
M reached | a | depth of . 175 feet, I and at , that
time, the wettest period of the season, a
flow of t. 800 ] gallons of ; water daily was
too much for the equipment. During the
next four months, 1 , the dry season, it is
i& believed '¦. another 1 100 j feet - can . be • gained
§ without serious hindrance by water. - " , '.
The showing at. the bottom of the shaft
9in percentage of ore is good. For the last
100 feet the copper values are such as to
I Indicate a' well paying mine, ' even at . the
"Jj present \ low : ebb ;of i copper , prices. Dis-
Bemlnated rhalcopyrito occurs . regularly
"4 and i continuously. : In • the last ' few 1 feet
H the vein matter Is much softer and the ore
at shows a, •tendency of making more massive
: todies of pure chalcopyrlte. r It Is believed
that the next 100 feet of sinking will reveal
f- the f pure i ore \in • sufficient •» quantity, : to
* enable the mine to ship at a profit. '.;¦',
The { offer }of j stock | for this additional
work on Toquima Copper is made to pres
ent stockholders only. .>•¦;..;.. ¦: ; •.. : ,
In the tunnel on what Is known as the
; I Hickey n lease £ on - the *. Buckboard . claim
S above ; town 1 ore has been • struck. .. It Is
i almost I a cinch ' that the . leasers '¦ on • this
tract of ground will come out to the good,
as i they j are after what is believed to be
the Cram-La Lime ledge. It Is more than
*| probable that the April Fool ledge,'; which
was opened up by January Jones, Is also
:'a continuation of this ore body in its west
' ward course on the north side of the Man
hattan canyon. , , . ¦'„ ;
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NEW COPPER DISTRICT
DISCOVERED IN NEVADA
r Long Period of Secrecy News
¦aks Out and Every Foot of
Ground Is Soon
Staked
Ing copper district has
'ar tuning Nev., the
en made by W. B.
itls on July 10. The
nothing of their
" location work
• had nothing
' leaked out,
two weeks
nlng and
foot of
been
ALLS
Machine Is In
,s Claimed to Be
.ccessful One In
Existence
to The Herald.
-iOENIX, Ariz., Oct. 27.— The unset
.cd condition of the copper market and
'he worse than unsettled condition of the
copper share market are not reflected in
the operations of the big development
companies of the Globe district. At the
Globe Consolidated, the Superior & Bos
ton and National Mining Exploration,
work is being pushed Just as though cop
per were selling at 25 cents and shares
at. twice their par value. At the Gem
shaft of the Globe Consolidated, 125 feet
remain to be sunk before the long looked
lor crosscuttlng begins, the shaft meas
i.rlng 1,075 feet deep, with no change In
the formation. At the Globe-Boston
shaft of the same company the south
(.'rift on the 780 level has been started, but
v/nrk is progressing slowly until the
water problem is settled by the installa
tion of the pumping plant.
At the Superior & Boston active devel
opment work continues with undlmln-
Ished forces on the three claims of the
company, which are being explored. •
At the Iron Cap mine of the National
Mining Exploration company a full force
of twenty men is jeing worked, and this
force will be considerably augmented as
Econ as the. pumping plant is installed
and sinking can be resumed. Lateral
work is still in progress on the 450-foot
level and consists of both crosscutting
end drifting.
The Buffalo-Arizona Mining company,
in the Black Canyon district, has com
pleted the installation of an 80-ton cya
nide plant. W. D. Webster, general man
ager of the concern, accepted the plant,
vhich will be started on a steady run in
a few days. Five additional stamps wili
be added to the five-stamp mill now on
the ground, in a very short time and
other important Improvements, involving
the outlay of a large amount of capital,
are under consideration. The property,
which is known as the Parker group, it.
located three miles east of Turkey sta
tion, on the Bradshaw Mountain rail
road.
Following Instructions contained in a
telegram from Milwaukee Superintendent
William McDermott has discontinued op
erations on the Twin Buttes property.
Dry Process Succeeds
Newton C. Westerfleld, who with his
family has made Phoenix his home since
a year ago last February, is the in
ventor of a dry concentrating machine
which if it will do what he claims for It
and what he claims it has already done,
ought to revolutionize gold mining in
these parts and in many other countries
where water is scarce. According to the
facts and flgur-M of his experiments,
which have been conducted on rather a
large scale in the field and not in the
laboratory, as so many such tests are, his
dry concentrating process will save a
larger percentage of gold than any other
plan of reduction yet invented, and
cheaper even than the wet processes.
It is the contention of Mr. Westerfleld
that he has the only successful dry con
centrating process known, all others hav
ing been failures or but partial successes.
Neither should It be confounded with the
so-called dr: washers, for while it does
the same work and does it better it Is
also designed to reduce quartz formations
with the assistance of a good ore crush
ing machine.
Mr. Westerfleld has been engaged in
mining for the last twenty-three years,
having been in the machinery business
before that time.
No attempt will be made to describe
the, machine except as to its principles,
which are specific gravity, graduated air
currents and reciprocal motion instead of
the knocking and jarring of the fanning
mill movement of the old fashioned dry
washers or concentrators. The minerals
are thus precipitated more perfectly in
stead of being jolted away with the gang
matter. In respect of air currents they
can be regulated to the character of the
material handled. If it is found they are
too strong they can be toned to any force
desired. A system of steel rods also takes
the place o- the old wire screens that be
come clogged, so there is always an
opening for the metal to get through, and
its gravity, no matter how small the dif
ference, injures its saving. The crushing
process, is also gradual. The material is
reduced in size five different times In its
course through the machine and with
each reduction the values are taken from
the ensuing dust, so that by the time the
fifth reduction is had there is mighty
little gold left In the dirt. The machine
is operated by a gasoline engine and the
expense Is very small.
i. H. Clark
<c It and did.
for within two
jHOWN
.NESS OF ZINC ORE
xissourl-Kansas zinc district, of
Joplin is the center, produces more
.i three-fourths of the supply of that
. neral In America. The demand for zinc
ore has increased steadily since zinc min
ing was first started in this district in
the early eighties. For many years min
ers of lead ore in Joplin threw zinc ore
away, not knowing what it was. Since
1388 this district has produced and sold
$125,000,000 worth of zinc ¦ ore.
The ore is found at depths ranging
ftom 10 feet to 300 feet, and at this time
more than 600 lead and zinc mines are
ball's operated within a radius of thirty
miles from Joplin. The production of
lead and zinc ore In this district this
year will exceed that of any previous
year and will have a value of close to
$20,000,000.
In appearance zinc ore is very much
like rosin, and is almost as brittle. It is
found in sizes varying from the tiniest
particle to pieces weighing hundreds of
pounds. In an exhibit that Is being pre
pared for the American mining congress,
which meets in Joplin In November, will
be a piece of zinc ore weighing two tons.
MIZPAH PROPERTY
IS IMPORT ANT BUY
WILL BECOME BIG ASSET OF
RAMBAY WONDER
Range of Hills Opposite Camp to the
West Gives More Promise of
Becoming Large Pro.
ducers
WONDER, Nev.. Oct. 27.— D. J. Ken
nedy of the Ramsay Wonder Mining com
pany was in Wonder last week, after a
visit to Fairview where he closed a min
ing deal of great magnitude. In the inter
est of certain New Tork cauitalists he
I'Ui chased the Mlzpah property, two and
a half miles south of Fairview. The re
markable richness of this newly dis
covered bonanza has been heralded
abroad by experts as the greatest dis
covery since the uncovering of the Ne
vada Hills property.
The terms of the purchase are as fol
iows: Eighty thousand dollars in cash
and enough in subsequent payments to
make the total amount paid for the Mlz
pah $125,000. It Is not alone the Mlzpah,
but the proximity to proved properties
of great value that was a determining
factor in Mr. Kennedy's purchase.
It is Mr. Kennedy's intention to shape
the matter in such a way that the Mlz
pah will become an asset of the Ramsay
Wonder Gold Mining company, and with
this end in view a directors' meeting will
be held within the next few days to ap
proTG his action.
Assays High
The range of hills directly opposite
Wonder to the west is giving constantly
grov Ing promise of becoming the dis
trict's most productive gold bearing sec
tion. The latest property to fall into
linn with rich gold indications is that of
the Silver Star Mining company, which
owns several claims adjoining the Capital
group. Some time ago the company
started a shaft on the western side of the
hill. This shaft was sunk sixty feet
without encountering sensational values.
fro«pecting was started on the east side
of the hill about a week ago. A ledge
ira" found, and the sample of rock taken
errors it on the surface yielded assays of
from $50 to $314. About $130 of the latter
azsa? was In gold.
In line with the Silver Star are the
Nevada Golden Wonder, the Black Rock,
the Badger group, and the Ajax, all of
which have loomed into prominence dur
ing the last six months because of the
heav.' percentage of free gold in the
rock. Quartz taken from the Golden
Wonder, one of the closest of the adja
cent properties, showed values of $490 to
the ton. all of which, with the exception
of about $20 in silver, was free gold.
Most of the companies holding ground on
this range of hills are awaiting improve
ment in the general financial conditions
before Rtartlng the extensive development
Ihelr properties deserve. The people here
are confident that when this work is In
augurated on a big scale there will be a
great production in this section of the
district.
The Eternal Lottery
Governor Vardaman of Mississippi Mils an
amusing Instance of the negro's attitude
toward matrimony.
A negro clergyman in the state named had
married two negroes, and after the ceremony
the groom asked: "How much yo' chaise fo"
dig?"
"I usually leave that to the groom," was
Ihe reply. "Sometimes I am paid nve dollars,
sometimes ten, sometimes leas."
"Five dollars la a lot o' money, pahson,"
said the groom. "Ah' ll givo yo' two <lolla.hu.
an" den ef ah finds ah ain't got cheated *h'll
give yo' mo' in a monf."
jln 1 the stipulated ¦' time ' the groom returned.
'Pahson, " aald lie. "die here arrangement's ' a
kind o' spee'lashun, " an' ah i reckon t youM < got
de worst of It. . Ah flggrrs that yo*. owes me a
dollan > ' an' v seventy-five - cents."— Harper's
Weekly. •"i inrrigiiiniiHJitwnl)BrtM¥if
/as a long time in those
.iKdnn demurred to closing
±c admits it. He didn't see
ground was worth the money,
nis suggestion the property was
.ad he only known!
Thai first meeting was a dandy. The
I attendants were seated upon the lumber
vhorever they could find a resting place.
Within the range of their vision appeared
orly a few tents and dreary wastes of
sflgctrush. At this time the camp was
practically dead. The Combination was
the only mine working, and there was a
decided disposition to abandon the dis
SHIPMENTS
INCREASE
APEX TROUBLE WILL BE SETTLED
OUT OF COURT
HOLY SMOKE GETS FIVE-YEAR
LEASE
Little Florence Lease Opens Richest
Shoot of Ore Ever Uncov.
ered In Mine at Gold.
field
Special to The Herald.
GOLDFIELD, Nev., Oct. 27.— The Mo
hawk-Combination Leasing company, on
the Consolidated ground, is getting into
its stride, and It Is now the big shipper
of the camp. All that was necessary to
make it such was a sufficient number of
cars to handle the production. The rail
way company has come forward and is
now furnishing seven empties a day, and
they are loaded to the limit when hauled
away from the mine. None of them con
tains less than fifty tons, which would
make the daily output 350 tons, and the
gross value is not less than $25,000 or $750,
00 a month. Just how long this gait can
be kept up is a question, but those who
are interested In the lease say there is
enough ore blocked to keep up the record
until the lease expires.
The differences between the Jumbo Ex
tension company and the Consolidated in
811 probability will be settled out of court
That an apex suit would be the result of
the controversy is denied by both sides.
A survey Is being, made of the ground,
and when that is completed and notes are
compared a conference will be held, and
in the event of the managers not being
able to come to a settlement in all prob
ability arbitrators will be appointed and
their decision will be binding on both
parties. Only one of the leases, and that
is the Mohawk-Jumbo, is affected by the
dispute, as it was the only one that has
been shipping ore of late. The others are
engaged on dead work.
During the third week of this month
mines and leases of Goldfleld districts sent
out 5406 tone of ore, valued conservatively
and based upon previous smelter returns,
at $564,300. This is an Increase over the
preceding week of 1529 tons, and a gain
in valuation of $172,100.
The total ore shipments for the year,
forty-two weeks, ending with Saturday,
October 19, amount to 88,591 tons, a weekly
average of a little more than 2160 tons,
which the record of the third week of
October exceeds by 3246 tons.
The Holy Smoke Mining and Leasing
company has secured a five-year lease on
the Ella property, six miles east of town,
and i begun active work on two of the
seven claims which comprise the group.
The Gold Mountain Carbonate Mining
company's property, situated in the Gold
Mountain mining district, Esmeralda
county, Nev., will now soon be In the
ranks of Nevada's bonanza shippers. This
property was taken over last June by
Alfred Burke, formerly of Santa Rosa,
but now of San Francisco, and his asso
ciates. These people went quietly to work
developing in a systematic manner, and
have made a wonderful showing In the
north drift. An assay made on a sample
taken across the face of the drift gave
returns in gold, silver and lead of $310, 78
per cent of the assay value In gold, 14
per cent lead and 8 per cent silver.
New Syndicate Buys
A. D. Blmford has sold six claims at
Gold Mountain to a syndicate composed
of George F. Knight, E. H. Anthony, W.
H. Paul and C. S. Stolie of Goldfield, E.
W. Gillette of Loa Angeles and Senator
C. J. McCarthy of Honolulu. The prop
erty, which is known as the Sunshine
group, Is In close proximity to the Great
Western, Kenan & Cameron's and other
shippers. At a depth of thirty feet a
three-foot ledge that will average $89 has
been uncovered. The company will be
known as the Adora Mining and Milling
company.
A splendid strike has been made on the
Rogers lease on the Red King, owned by
the Florence company, at the 400-foot
level. In a crosscut driven west from the
bottom of the shaft the ore shoot was en
tered, and the pay portion of the vein is
at least four feet wide. The ore does not
show any free gold, but it assays better
than $100 a ton. It is similar in appear
ance to the ore that is in evidence on the
main workings of the Florence, In tha
bottom level. Half a dozen assays were
made on the quartz. All went good pay,
und, like the ore In the main workings,
which is of the best grade, carries cop
per at the rate of about 6 per cent.
The lessees will sink an additional 100
feet. The lease expires February 5.
The richest ore shoot, size considered,
ever opened In a Goldfleld mine is being
rifled by Dr. Robinson, George Vickers
and their associates in the Little Florence
lease. On the 400-foot level the ledge
which was picked up south of the fault
has opened up into five feet of quarlz,
which is being broken by machine drills.
There are no particularly rich "streaks"
in the face, but a myriad of little yellow
Beams running In all directions through
the quartz wherever there is a fracture.
The ore is black with sulphides, and th»
contrast of the yellow makes beautiful
specimens. The live fee: breaks better
than $1000 a ton.
Five thousand or more feet abovo the
trlct. Fifty people, or thereabouts, were
in the district on that October day, and
by the following December this number
had been reduced by fully one-half. What
gnve new life and vigor to Qoldfleld and
caused the stampede from Tonopah and
cthfi points was the strike on the Janu
ary claim. Judge Johns nad granted a
leasy to L. L. Patrick and Jones for the
entire January and February claims and
on January 6 of IDO4 high grade was en
countered, the ore running around $300 a
ton. This strike was made close to grass
roots and created a decided sensation.
Thrri came other things.
The rest is known.
level of the sea and high up and well on
toward the middle of the Silver Peak
range of mountains has recently been
established the new Stlmler mining dis
trict, and from the indications that now
exist it gives more than ordinary promise
of becoming one of the leaders of Ne
vada's camps.
Will Have New Road
At present approach to the i^ew camp
is slow and circuitous and requires tne
greater part of a day's travel. To get
there one has to go by train to Blair
Junction, via Tonopah, and thence to
Blair, where a team is taken and a drive
of fourteen or fifteen miles follows over a
road that for a few miles compares favor
ably with any in the country, but the last
section of which is over rocks and through
sandy washes. However, work is pro
gressing on the road leading out of the
new camp and within the next few days
it will be put in shape that travel will be
come comparatively easy, and added to
this the plan to establish a stage route
between there and Goldfield, now in for
mation, will bring this district within a
very few hours' ride of the new camp and
make Goldfleld its chief supply and re
ceiving point.
The main property of the new district
is that owned by Henry Jagels and Harry
P. Stlmler and consists of a group of ten
claims, three of which are being worked
by leasers. Among those at work are the
Consolidated Nevada Mines company,
Watson, Marachl & Coburn. Shirley & In
galls, Swears & Burton and many others.
Thirty odd leases, however, have been let,
and within a week or so a big majority
of them will be at work. The deepest
workings in the camp nre on the blocks of
ground owned by the first three named
leasers, and at a depth of fifty feet, which
has been attained by all of them, the
showing is truly remarkable and proves
the section to be highly mineralized and
the pay shoots rich and continuous.
Preliminary tests of the ores of the
various properties owned by the Goldfleld
Consolidated Mines company have been
completed and the exact method for tboir
treatment has been determined. Plans
ere now being prepared for the' mill to
treat the output of the properties.
It is proposed to handle no ore that
runs over $80 a ton in this mill, but the
high grade will -be shipped, as at present,
to the smelters.
The mill will at first consist of 100
ptamps, all arrangements being made for
enlarging the plant when necessary. In
working out the treatment method it was
decided to equip the works with a cyanide
plant that will handle the tailings "green,"
or direct from the mill. In fact, the
change from ore to bullion will be made
within a very brief time, the raw material
passing rapidly from one process to the
next.
The mill will be operated as nearly auto
matically as possible. It will handle about
300 tons a day, five times the capacity of
the mill that the company is now operat
ing on Combination ground.
Material for the tramway at the Pitts
burg-Silver Peak mine at Blair is now
nearly all on the ground and the tramway
is being rapidly completed. It will be in
working order in about one week, wh»n
the first twenty stamps of the mill will
start dropping. The other eighty stamps
will be placed In commission shortly aft
erwards. The beginning of work in this
mill is a matter of widespread interest,
as the Blair mine, as it was formerly
named, Is generally conceded to be one
of the richest In the world, not in respect
to assays but to tonnage.
EXPECT TO START
DIVIDENTS SOON
GOLDEN FLOOD SEEMB ONLY IN
ITS INCIPIENCY
Tonopah Liberty, About Which Little
Has Been Said, Is Reported to
Have Don"! Extensive
Development
Special to Ihe Herald,
TONOPAH, Nev., Oct. 27.— Tonopah is
working quietly along and producing ore,
in tonnage greater than that of Goldfleld,
bur lower in value. During the past four
years the mining companies here have
paid over a million dollars a year In divi
dends and the golden flood seems only
tv be In Its Incipiency, especially as the
tendency is to mill the ore at home and
save freight charges.
During the period mentioned the Tono
pah Mining company has paid dividends
amounting to $3,500,000, < .' three and a
half dollars for each dollar of Its capital
ization, thus stamping it as one of the
gieates'. mines in the vorld. Belmont has
paM $518,000, Tonopah Extension $278,350
and Midway $300,000.
The first dividend ever paid In the
camp was by Midway, which returned its
shareholders $50,000 out of returns from
the celebrated east ledge. This com
pary will shortly resume dividend pay
mct ts.
;¦ ushea Ahead
T."e Tonopah Liberty mine, about which
little has been said but which has been
dohif? more general work than many of
the properties in this district, Is going
ahead like a house on fire. A ten-stamp
mil! was Installed on August 20, and it Is
now being operated to its full capacity
and han proved a success in every re
spect.
The company has done a world of work
IS LIVELY
t*e past year, regarding which very
.ittlt has been given to the public. They
are generating their own electric power,
usli.g oil as fuel, and have completed a
three-mile pipe line for their water sup
ply. There are sixteen men employed in
the mine and the force in the mill con
sists of six men working three shifts.
In the mill are two Wllfley tables for
concentrating and two for slimes. The
company Is at present shipping concen
tru'ora General Manager Q-lswold says
tliat things are looking very fine in the
district and that there is lots of devel
opment W ork going on. In the Calllngton
nine the shaft Is down 100 feet, and
theie has been a gasoline hoist Installed.
There has been considerable work done
besides.
RHYOLITERS PROUD
OF LARGE PLAN!
SCOTTY'C CANYON REPORTS BIG
STRIKE
Surface Showings Indicate That Pros
pector Has Located Grass Roots
Bonanza in Squaw Valley,
Elko County
Speclnl to The Herald,
RHYOLITE, Nev., Oct. 27.— Rhyoliters
are jsroud of tho Montgomery Shoshono
mine and mill. The rumbling of tho
heavy crushers and rolls and the hum of
the machinery make the proper kind of
music for which we have been waiting 10,
these many months.
While we, Rhyoliters do not own this
mill, we do call it "our mill," and are
proud to say It. It is our mill in the
sense that it is built at Rhyoltte, and that
It is contributing to Hhyolite's prosper
ity. It is our mill In the sense that as it
is proving successful to its owners, so it
is proving to be tho cryterion by which all
of the Bullfrog district will be Judged In
the eyes of the mining world.
The Shoshone mill is a decided success,
and the mine is a wonder.
At a depth of 500 feet the ore bodies in
the Shoshone proper are being developed
with every degree of success. The values
are excellent and exceptionally uniform in
the shoots. Water level has been reached
and when the crosscuts are run from the
600-foot level in the big triple-compart
ment shaft there may be other and more
sensational discoveries made.
If it goes no farther than the 500, there
is plenty of ore in sight to run the mill
many years and pay millions in dividends.
But the large, string ledges have shown
more persistency on each additional level.
The end, evidently, is not yet.
While we point with pride to the success
of the Shoshone project, we do not over
look the excellent possibilities of the oth
er developing properties, and a year hence
we confidently believe that there will be
several other milling plants In successful
operation in the Bullfrog district. The
Gold Bar mill, now in building, and the
Homestake mill, now being ordered, are
plants of their own. The need of a cus
tom mill at Rhyollte should not be over
looked.
Bert Thayer, who has returned from
the Willow Creek district, reports a big
strike at Tlmboyi springs, in what is
known as Scotty's canyon, four miles
south of Gold valley, the sceno of the
Gol'dsworthy Brothers' rich discovery. The
uncovering was made on the Keys prop
erty, which was taken over by Boston
people some time ago, for the stated con
sideration of $66,000.
Will Run High Values
Mr, Thayer says that tho ore body en
countered carries a width of eight feet,
and judged from the pannlngs an average
value of fully $200 to the ton In gold.
There is an elghteen-lnch streak, which
he thinks will give a return of better
than $1000.
The ore is oxidized quartz, very similar
in character to that found at the Ramsey
and Goldsworthy strikes In the same dis
trict, and Mr. Thayer says it is fully as
rich as either. Development work is go
ing on at the property under the direction
of Superintendent Brockington.
The discovery has caused renewed In
terest in the Willow Creek district, which
has already attracted a good deal of at
tention on account of the rich ores dis
closed, particularly at the Ramsey and
Goldsworthy properties. A considerable
mining settlement has sprung up at Gold
valley, the townsite of the Goldsworthy
Brothers. Rhyolite people arc largely in
terested in the new district.
Richard Bamberger and P. W. Dargin
of Rhyolite have made one of the 'biggest
strikes of the season, according to state
ments made by these gentlemen, who
have an abundance of fine ore and long
strings of -assay returns to substantiate
the, statements.
Messrs. Dargin and Bamberger returned
to Rhyolite recently form Squaw Valley,
Elko county. Nev., where tueir new bo
nanza is situated. Mr. Dargin sent Mr.
Bamberger into that country on a grub
stake some time ago, and if surface indi
cations count Mr. Bamberger has located
the biggest thing found In Nevada since
the discovery of the famous Nevada Hills
at Fairview.
He had been prospecting in the hills
around Squaw Valley for a few weeks
and waited patiently for certain ground
to "run out." On September 15 the
ground was open to relocation, and Bam
whi~h he named the Midas, and also
which c named the Midas, and also
staked three adjoining claims.
He at once opened the rich ore on tha
Midas, and within the last two weeks a
new mining district has come into exist
ence, with every promise of making a
permanent camp.
STATE MINERS WILL
CONVENE NOVEMBER 25
Long List of Important Questions Is
Announced for Discussion at
the San Francisco
Meeting
W C. Ralston as president has called
the annual meeting of the California
Mirers' association for November 25 at
thi' rocms of the California promotion
cornn.lttee In this city. A number of
tories will be discussed which include
the following: The location of mineral
claims on forest preserves; the restric
tion of area to be located under a single
ownership; the segregation of timber land
und mineral land; the damage caused by
smeller smoke and the relation of smelt
ers to the mining industry; the work of
the debris commission as related to
hydraulic mining in the central water
sheds of the state. Representative men
have been requested by the executive
committee of the association to prpare
paper? of Interest to the miners.
SURVEYS CONSTRUCTION EXAMINATIONS REPORTS
Haggott-Girard Company
Mining and Civil Engineers.
A««ay Office. Salorot, ArUonn. PRESCOTT, ARIZONA.
CALIFORNIA
IS ACTIVE
OLD MAN HARTLEY'S PROPER.
TIES ARE BOLD
NEW COPPER FIND 18 MADE IN
TEHAMA
Globe and Chloride Quartz Mines Are
Reported Sold to W. H. Plnkston
for One Hundred and Fifty
Thousand Dollars
There is unusual activity in copper
mining in several California localities.
Alfr.r the borders of Merced and Mari
posa counties there is considerable pros
pecting and development work being done
and good results are being obtained. S.
M. Pate, who owns several thousand
acres in the Cathey valley neighborhood,
recently sold forty acres, on which there
U a copper mine, to Charles and Bowls
Ashworth for $S<K)O. The operators had
teen working the property under a bond
for that sum and they took enough out
of thn mine to pay for It. The ore is
haulec by teams to Le Grand, a distance
of seme fifteen or sixteen miles, and
shipped to reduction works at the bay.
Ths Pocahontas copper mine, about sev
enteen mlies east of Le Grand, recently
charged hands, or, gather, the lease did.
It is the property of James Waller of
Lo Grand. The lessees were Messrs. Rob
ertson and Hlgglns. They sold their lease
for $60,000. David Ross is superintendent
for the new lessees. Extensive improve
ments are being made with a view to
getting out of the mine all there Is in it.
It is a rich mine. Messrs. Robertson and
Higglne have realized $1700 per carload
for th» ore.
Deeds have been filed by which Mrs.
Alice Hartley transfers to the Excelsior
Consolidated Gold Mining company a
number of mining claims and millsites in
Meadow Lake district. Little York town
ship, which is In the eastern part of
Nuveda county. The properties came to
the- woman through the death of her first
husband, "Old Man" Hartley, the pioneer
prnnj-ector of Meadow Lake, who died
suddenly many years ago.
Make Sensational Find
One of the most sensational quartz dis
coveries made in Nevada county to date
was the finding last week in the Snow
Poln* gravel claim of a ledge of quartzlte
that gives assays of from $4 to $130 a
ton, and as a result unbounded excite
ment prevails in that locality.
The new owners of the Ethel quartz
mir.p have ordered a dynamo, wires and
a motor, and hereafter the mill and
compressors will be operated oy elec
tricity generated by water power from
the North Bloomfleld ditch. The mine Is
to remain under Superintendent Albert
Mnltman, who has held that position for
the past three years, and unde,r whoso
direction 1400 feet of; tunnel has been
driven, winzes put In and upraises
worked He also had charge of the con
struction of the ten-stamp mi... The new
owners of the property, Messrs. Kiel and
Greenlaw, expect to spend about $100,000
In development work. A tunnel will be
driver, into the mountain below the pres
ent one for a distance of 700 feet. The
shaft that is being sunk from a point in
the upper tunnel 1200 feet from lts.mouth
r.hows, that the vein is constantly increas
ing in size and values aB depth is at
tained. The new owners of the Ethel
also have an ontion on the Baltic. In that
property there is a parallel vein to the
Ethel and only 600 feet distant, ft has
a crosscut tunnel in about 400 feet and
the vein will be reached in about 187 feet
more of work. If this property Is taken
over by Messrs. Kiel and Greenlaw thi/
will develop the property with as much
vigor and to the same exetnt as they are
preponng to do In the Ethel.
A n%w copper mine has been discovered
in this county about five miles from Pas
kenta, and from surface showings it bids
fair to be one of no little importance.
Assays from surface rock show $16.20 in
cnppei and $4 in gold.
Ten claims have been filed on by Fred
Davir,, S. Relst and .Hulse Brothers, and
a force of men is now at work on a tun
r.rl that will be driven into the mountain-
Bide for nearly a half mile, and if tho
ledg'j goes down, as indications point, i
there will be an abundance of ore. The
mi'.e is near a good road and can be
very easily worked.
Sell Gold Mines
The Globe and the Chloride gold mine*,
b'-th quartz properties, have been sold for
$150,00( to W. H. Pinkston, who is on the
ground and has placed Richard James in
charge ate superintendent and general
manager.
The new owner will work the Chloride
and the Globe jointly, for the one is vir
tually an extension of the other. They
are at a great altitude on Globe moun
tain, near Dedrick, between Canyon creek
and Stuart's fork. They are among the
highest mines In the state, being 5000 feet
above the sea level.
The Globe Is on the north side of the
mountains, and because' of the great
depth of the snow in wint r can be
worked only In the summer. The Chloride
Is or; the south side of the mountain and
can be worked from one end of the year
to the other.
It is the Intention of the new owners to
so shape the work that both mines car
be worked from the south side and con
tinuously.
The Globe Is well equipped. It has a
ten-tamp mill and an air compressor
plant. Twenty men have been employed
for a year past under the superintendency
of Robert Skinner.
The Chloride, or the Chloride-Bailey, as
it is also called, is a famous mine, too.
It was bought a few years ago by .Charles
Sweeny and Homer Wilkins, who worked
it up to four years ago and too.' out bis
mo.ipy. From 100 to 150 men were em
ployed at one time and the twenty-stamp
mill and cyanide plant were kept on the
gc ell the time. But In time they lost
the pay shoot. The mine ceased to pro
duce fabulously and since the pinch-out
Thomas Sweeny, brother of one of the
millionaire owners, has kept eight or ten
men at work, some on development work
and others taking out ore wherever they
cou'd find it.
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