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THE GOLDFIELD NEWS
AND WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
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mails at second-class rates, April 8, 1911.
Frankness Is Commended
Reports and statements of officials of the Goldfield Consolidated
Mines company and the frank manner in which that company has
taken the public into its confidence have long been accorded sincere
commendation in many quarters and particular attention has been gi en
by mining men and mining and technical publications to the recent ad
dress of General Manager Albert Burch, at the “get-together" banquet
in Goldfield.
On that occasion Mr. Burch said, in speaking of the present con
dition of his company's properties: “So far as the Goldfield Consoli
dated is concerned, everyone knows that the cream has been skimmed
and that we are now doing our best to subsist on skimmed milk; but
that we are doing fairly well. It can probably never be the profit-earner
that it once was. nor can its present scale of operations be continued in
definitely ; but on some basis the Goldfield Consolidated will lie running
for several years yet. We are now working a low-grade mine, and in
order to make it pay we do not plan to reduce wages, nor to ask any
man to break his back doing an unusual day’s work; but we do ask him,
if he is our friend, to bend his back to pick up a dollar's worth of drill
steel if he sees it being buried in the muck, and in any other way that
he can use his brains as well as his hands to help stop leaks.
Mr. Burch's appeal merits the fullest response from all and it is to
the Ixmefit of the entire community that all should contribute to perpe
tuate, so far as possible, the succcess of the Consolidated company's
mines, upon which, in the absence of other producers of magnitude in
the district, the entire community is in a large measure dependent for
support and prosperity. The appeal is eminently fair and the officials
of the company have long since demonstrated their fairness in dealing
with employes and with others with whom they have business relations.
In a recent issue the Mining and Scientific Tress made use of the por
tion of Mr. Burch’s address quoted above, and commended it without
qualification as an example of desirable frankness on the part of a mine
official.
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Nevada9s Mining Ccmps
The list of Nevada mining districts that have given good promise
- of the making of productive mines is a long one and includes some that
have already made a notable production of the precious metals. While a
number of these districts have apparently seen their output wane and
while their days of greatest activity are past there is always the j>ossi
bility of new ore discoveries that may cause them to come back into the
field of active producers. Nevada is unique among the states for the
wide variety of its known minerals and for the great expanse of ter
ritory over which these minerals are found. Many mining properties
that have been abandoned for years are again being made to produce, as
the result of employing modern methods and reduction processes, and
it is probable that many others will be brought back to a stage of re
newed activity and prosperity in future years.
A survey of the list of Nevada mining camps and districts is of in
terest in recalling the vast output of metals made by the state and in
pointing to the possibilities for the rejuvenation of many one-time pro
ducers that are now nearly or altogether idle. Following is a rough list
in which it has been sought to mention the camps and mining districts
that have attracted attention in the past or that are now making a reg
ular pioduction of commercial ore: Clark county; Searchlight, Yellow
Pine, Eldorado. Arden, Crescent, Las Vegas. Churchill county; Fair
view, Wonder, White Cloud. Douglas county; Ruby Hill. Elko coun
ty; Tuscarora, Gold Circle, Mardis, Gold Creek, Jarbidge, Jack Creek.
Columbia, Mountain City, Spruce Mountain, Railroad. Eureka county;
Eureka, Mineral Hill, Buckhom, Cortez, Antelope, Bernice. Esmeralda
county; Goldfield. Silver Peak, Montezuma, Klondyke, Hornsilver, Gold
Mountain, Lida. Coaldale, Red Mountain, Blair, Cuprite, Jackson Moun
tain, Stimler, Tide Canyon. Sylvania, Cocomonga, Sweetwater, Rail
road Springs, Columbus. Humboldt county; Seven Troughs, National,
Rochester, Rye Patch, Golconda, Dun Glen, Antelope, Humboldt
Range, Imlay, Buena Vista, Star, Jackson Creek, Rebel Creek, Winne
mucca, Rexall, Harmony Range, Bartlett Creek. Unionville, Kennedy,
Awakening, Sunshine, Copper Flat. Lander county; Austin, Reese
River, Jersey \ alley, Hilltop, Battle Mountain, Copper Canyon. Bullion.
Lincoln county; Pioche, Delamar, Jackrabbit, Bristol, Hyland. Lyon
county; Mason Valley, Wabuska, Yerington, Ludwig, Thompson, Como,
Indian Springs, Sunrise, Dayton, Mound House, Silver City, Ramsey.
Mineral county; Rawhide, Lucky Boy, Douglass, Candelaria, Aurora,
Lulling, Sodaville, Mina, Mount Grant, Walker Lake, Hawthorne. Nye
county; Tonopah, Manhattan. Round Mountain, Pioneer, Antelope.
Jamestown, Bullfrog, Rhyolite. Springdale, Gold Center, Cactus Peak,
Kawich, Carrara, Stonewall, Silver Bow, lone, Lodi, Goldyke, Orizaba,
Berlin, Milletts, Willow Creek, Republic. Ormsby county; Carson,
Delaware. Storey county; Comstock, at Virginia City. Washoe coun
ty; Leadville, Jumbo, Gerlach, Peavine, Olinghouse. W hite Pine coun
ty; Robinson, Ely, Cherry Creek, Ward, Black Horse, Tungsten, Blaine,
Kimberly.
This makes a formidable list of mining camps and districts; ont
that no other state can equal in point of past production or promise for
the future of the mining industry. There are many other old camps
in the state of Nevada and with the prospecting and development work
now in progress throughout the state many others will doubtless be es
tablished in the future.
.A.
The total land area in the state of Nevada is 70.000.000 acres.
Of this, according to the department of agriculture, 17 per cent is
potentially available for tilled crops, the same amount for non-tilled
agriculture, leaving 66 per cent that is not available for agriculture.
Even this showing gives Nevada a great advantage over many other
states. Will that advantage be utilized?
opinion on nx
RATE MOTION
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ATTORNEY GENERAL DECLARES
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
MI ST OBSERVE LAM
A new interpretation of the law
governing county taxation, and un
der which the Nevada tax commis
sion was created, is set forth in an
opinion just submitted to the com
mission by Attorney General Thatch
er. and is of interest to all tax
payers. Under the ruling of the at
torney general it is required that
county commissioners of all counties
adopt a budget system and that, fol
lowing the equalizing of taxes, if it
be found that the established tax
rate will produce a revenue in ex
cess of requirements, the rate shall
be reduced to a figure that will yield
sufficient funds for the county's
needs.
In his letter, addressed to the tax
commission, the attorney general
says: “I am of the opinion that un
der the law as it stands at the pres
ent time the counties of this state
are bound to follow a budget sys
tem, and it is the duty of the board
of .county commissioners, between
the first Monday in January and the
I first Monday in March of each year,
j to make a budget of the amount of
! estimated expenses of conducting
public business of the county for the
next ensuing fiscal year, and that
having made such a budget it is the
absolute duty of the board of county
commissioners to keep within the
aggregate amount designated in the
budget, and further that the tax rate
shall be such as to raise the amount
of money necessary to return the
amount of the budget and no more.”
After quoting a portion of section
3829 of the revised laws, providing
for the making of an annual budget
by county commissioners, the attor
ney general declares that it is clear
that the law makes it mandatory for
the commissioners to so reduce or
increase the tax rate as to provide
only sufficient funds to defray neces
sary expenses and proceeds to quote
section 3818, as follows:
‘‘All state and county taxes, re
quired to be levied by the boards of
county commissioners of the several
counties of this state, in pursuance
of the revenue laws of the state,
shall hereafter be levied by the
boards of county commissioners on
or before the first Monday of March
in each year; provided, that if, after
the equalization of taxes in the sev
eral counties of this state, it shall
appear that the levy previously made
by tlie board of county commission
ers of any county of this state for
county purposes will result in the
collection of a revenue .either in ex
cess or a deficiency of the require
ments of such county for the cur
rent year, then, and in such event,
the board of county commissioners
in any county shall have the power,
and it is hereby made the duty of
such board of county commissioners,
to immediately meet and either re
duce or raise the rate of taxation, so
previously levied, to such a sum as
such board in its judgment may con
sider sufficient to insure tlie collec
tion of such an amount of revenue
as will answer all the requirements
of such county for the current year.”
The attorney general declares most
emphatically that it is mandatory
upon the hoards of county commis
sioners to reduce the tax rate in the
event of a showing that the fixed
rate will supply a greater sum than
is required and as the recent action
of the tax commission in raising the
assessment cn property in this coun
ty and others in various departments
i will result In providing a greatly in
I creased revenue from taxation, (t is
: regarded as probable that the boards
i of commissioners will use their
j power to reduce the rate to a figure
j considerably below that at first es
tablished.
j .1 ARBI DOE SNOWBOUND; MAIL
DELIVERED ON SNOWSHOES
One of the snowiest places in the
state is in the northern part of this
county, where Jarbidge is situated.
It is away up in the mountains and
the town is located in the bottom of
a magnificent gulch. The roads lead
ing out of the mountains, one to the
south to Deeth and the other north
to Twin Falls, are both impassable at
this time of the year, and the town
is keeping in touch with the outside
world by telephone. The wagon
roads wind and crawl up the moun
tainsides in getting out of the deep
gulch and across the mountains to
the railroads, and after the heavy
snowstorms set in they are aban
doned and the mail is taken on horse
back, and part of the time on snow
shoes. Reports are that the snow is
deeper this year than since the camp
was established and the mail has
not been taken in for several days.
It has-been storming every day and
tbe fall of snow is something that
can hardly be estimated. Oliver Mc
Call. who has the contract for carry
ing the mall in from Deeth, has b^en^
trying to fight through on snow
shoes. but the storms make the trip
an impossibility.—Elko Independent.
D. R. CARSON of Fairview is a
guest at the St. Nicholas. He reached
camp yesterday.
C. E. M. BEALL of Las Vegas is
a visitor to Coldfield. He is regis
tered at the Coldfield.
RICH COPTER ORE
FROM DEEP CREEK
DEPOSIT STRUCK IN WESTERN
PACIFIC NEAR MINERAL*
IZEI> CAVES
Several hundred pounds of splen
did looking oxide ores have been
sent in from Deep Creek where a
recent strike was made in the West
ern Pacific Copper property located
in the Willow Springs district south
of Clifton and west of Callao. An
assay made yesterday of the ore
gave the following returns: Copper,
24.4 per cent: lead. 2H.8 per cent and
1 ounce in silver. The property is
controlled by the Wilson brothers of
this city.
When seen yesterday, Frank L.
Wilson, the manager, said the West
ern Pacific Copper is opened by an
incline shaft which gives about 250
feet of backs on this deposit. The
ere is from eight to fifteen feet
apart. The ore is heavy in iron and
malachite. In this block of ground
are two chains of linked caves, one
above the other, one of which is at
least twenty feet wide and several
hundred feet long. Some flashlight
pictures show the caves hold im
mense quantities of beautiful stalac
tites and stalagmites. In places they
make a complete connection between
the limy ceiling and floor of the
caves. These caves seem to have
made out from the Assure into the
more soluble limestone, and have
their bearing on the mineral deposi
tions in the vicinity.
rhe principal country rock in that
portion of the Deep Creek district is
sedimentary, and is largely lime
stone. This is cut by a number of
prominent parallel porphyry dikes
which run in a diagonal course
across the main fissures which are
north-south. The porphyry is un
doubtedly the mineralizing agency,
but in many instances the ore is
found in the limestone some distance
from the intrusives.
Mr. Wilson says that years ago he
shipped some ore from this roperty.
It carried about 13 per cent copper
besides other values. At that time
the ore was teamed 175 miles, but in
spite of the ruling high prices of
metals there was little profit on ac
count of the excessive transportation
charge. At present it would prob
ably cost $15 a ton for the wagon
haul to Wendover, the nearest rail
road point, sixty miles to the north.
Deep Creek people have Loire®
that the proposed new branch line on
the Salt Lake Route up to Delta will
go on toward Death canyon, Indian
Springs, Fish Springs, Duuway and
Granite and will ultimately be sent
through over the old survey to Gold
Hill and Ferbur.—Herald Republi
can.
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GOLD STRIKE REPORTEO IN
LITTLE HUNTOON VALLEY
Quite a little excitement, was caus
ed in Mina this week when parties
came in from the Marietta section
and reported that a rich strike of
gold had been made in the Little
iluntoon Valley, about twelve miles
south of the Excelsior Mountain Cop
per company at Qualey. The speci
mens of ore exhibited were rich
enough to have created an old-fash
ioned Nevada stampede. The ore was
of a character of granite quartz and
brown hematite of iron. The iron
was lavishly sprinkled with coarse
gold and no glass was necessary to
make it visible to the eye. The
specimens carried values of from
$400 to $2000 a ton.
For the past three weeks J. E.
Brown and Shaw have been quietly
developing a group of four claims,
known as the Solo Nos. 1, 2, 3 and
4, in the Little Huntoon Valley, be
tween Marietta and Qualey. Two
short tunnels were run on the ledge,
on thirty feet above the other, and
both are in ore their full width,
which, according to reports, carries
values of from $tir> to $200 a ton,
while a small stringer gave returns
of $2000 a ton. The vein is iii a
contact of granite and lime porphyry.
They have been working along stead
ily and keeping their find quiet and
it was only by accident that it leaked
out.
B. F. Baker of Mina and associates
had the first men at the scene of dis
covery and secured some choice lo
cations on the extensions of the
original find . They have sent a tent,
camp outfit and supplies to the new
find and have a force at work on de
velopment.
B. B. Sheppard and A. A. Bass se
cured some very promising locations.
Specimens broken from the crop
pings on the Sheppard ground were
shot through with free coarse gold.
Sufficient development has not yet
been done to give any accurate idea
of the value of the discovery. Those
wlia have visited the district were
very favorably impressed and believe
that it will make good as the forma
-tioiilias all the earmarks ot per
maueluys^and the ledges outcrc.i
strongly.—-^as^ern Nevada Minei
\V. A. ^iuRPHYl&^cegistered at
the Goldfield from Joliet/^W^, having
arrived in camp last evening.
JOSEPH ELLIOTT of Los Angeies
arrived in Goldfield last evening and
is a guest at the St. Nicholas.
QUERIES AND ANSWERS
(This department Is conducted for the purpose ot supplying ♦
♦ subscribers with information on various properties in which they ♦
♦ may be interested and regarding which they may make inquiry. ♦
♦ Answers to queries contain the best information it is possible to ♦
♦ obtain, but this newspaper declines to give advice on the pur- ♦
♦ chase or sale of any mining stocks. All inquiries for Information ♦
♦ will be answered through this column, and none of them will be ♦
♦ answered by personal letters.) * j
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C. W. H., Los Angeles, C al.—The
Goldfield Kewanas company is now
undergoing reorganization and on
January 23 the secretary, Mr. A. H.
HoWe of Goldfield, will send out to
all stockholders of record of the
Kewanas company a circular letter,
inviting them to participate in the
reorganization and to send in their
stock in the old company for ex
change for that of the new corpora
tion, upon payment of one and one
half cents per share. The old com
pany will be dissolved as its prop
erty had been acquired by interests
in control of the new through fore
closure for indebtedness. The com
pany’s funds became exhausted and
it was obliged to borrow money,
which it was unable to pay. Through
this means the stockholders in the
old Kewanas company will be given
an opportunity to participate in the
new enterprise. The same method
has been followed in resuscitating
and placing upon an active operating
basis several other mining companies
in the Goldfield district, notably the
Blue Bull and Sandstorm-Kendall
Consolidated, in both of which good
ore has been developed. Like these
companies, the new Kewanas com
pany will be on the assessable stock
basis and active development work
will be conducted, this work being
outlined in the forthcoming letter
of the secretary.
S. L., New YorkTN. Y.—Will you
be kind enough to let me know
whether the Greater Nevada Mining
company, incorporated under the
laws of Arizona, is still in existence.
If this should not be the case will
you be kind enough to tell me, if
possible, when and why the corpor
ate existence of the company ceased?
Answer—The Greater Nevada Min
ing company at one time had some
mining claims, held under location,
in the Goldfield district, but the com
pany has apparently been out of
existence for several years as there
is no available record of it here at
present and for a long time it has
had no office or representative here,
nor has it performed any work in the
district, so far as can be ascertained
J. P. A., Rochester, N. Y.—Please
advise me as to the value of the
property of the Atlas Wonder Min
ing company, whose mines are at
Wonder, Nev. Is the property being
worked and what is the prospect
for its future? I should be pleased
to have you give me any information
you can regarding this property.
Answer—The Atlas Wonder prop
erty, according to latest advices here,
has not been worked for some time
past and it has not been developed
sufficiently to determine if it is of
any appreciable value or if its pros
pects, through development on ad
jacent ground, are worthy of con
sideration. Little has been heard of
the company for some time past but
it was reported here that some of its
ground had been abandoned and per
mitted to revert to the government.
B. N„ Denver, Col.—It was re
ported here some time ago that ex
periments v’ere being conducted at
Tonopah ^itli a small, portable mill
for treating ore in isolated districts
and that one of these mills had been
taken to the Willow Creek district, in
northeastern Nye county, to treat
ore at a new discovery. Nothing
has been heard of the success of this
experiment and the name of the
manufacturer of the mill is not
known here but you can doubtless
ascertain the name of the maker by
addressing the editor of the Tono
pah Miner.
REVIEW OF MINING OPERATIONS
(Continued from page one)
level and is believed to be nearing
the vein opened on the 500 level.
Another cross-cut has been driven in
a southwesterly direction on the
700-foot level, to cut the main Vic
tor ledge.
Tilt* Goldfield Oro
Conditions at the Goldfield Oro
property are now assuming an inter
esting phase and it would not be sur
piising if the shaft, which is now
down over COO feet, were to pene
tiate a body of pay ore at any time
as tlie formation now exposed in the
bottom of the shaft is similar to that
associated with the richest orebodies
in the adjoining mines, where the
best deposits of the district have
been found. The Oro company is
now working a full force and its ex
cellent equipment is working smooth
ly, assuring good progress in com
pleting the shaft.
Samlstorni-lveiulall i on.
A compressor of capacity sufficient
to operate all the machine drills that
may be required on all levels of the
mine has just been installed on the
property of the Sandstorm-Kendall
Consolidated company and a pump
ing plant, capable of handling over
200,000 gallons daily, has been in
stalled on the 500-foot level of the
mine recently. With this new equip
ment in operation the development
work now in progress will be greatly
expedited. It is reported that the
ore is holding up well in the drifts
on the 500-foot level and the cross
cut on the 350-foot level is evident
ly nearing the same vein.
C. O. 1). Consolidated
The Xevada-Co-operative Mining
company, successor to the Goldfield
Mines Operating company and head
1 ed by the Charles S. Sprague com
pany, continues its development work
in the Victor workings of the C. O.
D. Consolidated property and it is
reported that a new discovery of rich
ore has been made in the past few
days. The work is now chietly con
fined to the 350-foot level and to
the raise above this level, which is
being driven to develop the ore
shoot exposed on the level above. A
good tonnage of mill ore has been
exposed in the various workings of
this property.
Silver I*ick Consolidated
Preparations are now being made
to cut a large station at a depth of
485 feet in the main shaft of the
Silver Pick Consolidated and at this
point the great vein will be cross-cut
to hoth walls and drifts will be
driven to explore it for an ore-shoot.
For a distance of over 80 feet the
shaft has been in vein matter, yield
ing average assays from $2 to $10
per ton. and the foot-wall has not
yet been explored, it is confidently
believed that this ground contains
important orebodies and develop
ment is to be carried on with the ob
ject of thoroughly exploring it at
depth.
Other Goldfield Pros|»ects
property of the Reorganiz
ed Boftth company development is be
ing pressed forward without inter
j ruption at a depth of 500 feet and
I some prospecting is being done on «
j the 350-foot level, where good as- '
says were obtained in the progress
of earlier work. In the Diamond
field part of the district the Vernal
property is making an excellent
showing and the main drift on the
200-foot level is being driven to cut
the ore-shoot that was followed for
some distance by the winze from the
! 100 level. Leasing operations con
tinue on the Diamondfield Black
: Butte, where the Millard lease has
started new work to follow up the
. big Quartzite fault and has obtain
ed some excellent assays lately.
Lessees have been getting some good
ore on the Goldfield Belmont and
the Daisy and others are preparing
I to treat their product on the Great
j Bend. Active work is in progress
on the Talmage property, where
some ore of good grade has been ex
! posed at a depth of 2G5 feet. The
| Nevada Eagle has been tied up by
i bad roads but will resume shipping
[ at an early date. The New Jersey
! Mines company is developing two
| properties and getting good assays.
It is probable that extensive work
will be started shortly on several
other properties in the district.
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BUCKSKIN MOUNTAIN
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT
E. R. Harroun, editor and pub
lisher of the VVinnemucca Silver
state, says:
"The excitement in Humboldt
county at present is centered about
Buckskin mountain. Several dis
coveries of high-grade have recently
been made on the Paradise slope of
the mountain. The first rich ore was
found on the Buckskin National, a
property in which Senator YV. J. Bell
owns a controlling interest. This
strike was made about three months
ago.
"Since that time the same charac
ter of ore has been found on property
adjoining in both directions. The
ore is the same as that found in the
famous National mine which pro
duced several millions of dollars.
"The new discoveries will run up
to from $40 to $60 a pound in gold.
A rush to the new camp is expected
in the early spring. The recent heavy
precipitation has placed the ranchers
of the county in high feather. The
winter ranges have been put in good |
.oudition and indications are that
stock will require but little hay tor
the balance of the winter.
"Present Indications are that the
Winnemueca Northern road will be
built this year. President Bush of
the Western Pacific, with representa
tives of two targe New York banking
houses, went over the route about a
month ago and at a banquet given by
the Boise chamber of commerce,
President Bush stated that the road
would certainly be built. Col. Place,
general manager of the company
states positively that the road will
be constructed, but he is non-com
mittal as to details.”—Gazette.