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THE GOLDFIELD NEWS
AND WEEKLY TRIBUNE
mnd Tribune The Goldfield News, Volume 15. No. 81 GOLDFIELD, NEVADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 PRICE TEN CENT?
Vol. IQ. No. 33 roldfleld Weekly Tribune, Volume 18. No. 31___
C.O.D.AGAIN BEING
OPERATED BY
LESSEES
Following a brief period of idle
ness tbe C. O. D. is again being
operated by lessees and a carload
shipment of ore assaying $23 is
almost ready, practically all taken
from a drift within 40 feet of the
shaft on the 65-foot level, where
two feet of ore is exposed. This
will make the fourth carload ship
ment since work was started on the
C. O. D. by lessees.
The former lessees mined good
ore in a winze from the 65-foot
level, where they first opened ship
ping material, and were reported to
have stoped ore from a depth of 50
feet in the winze to the level. It
is the intention of the present les
sees to explore the ore-shoot in
which they are working and if,
after the carload of ore being pre
pared now has been shipped the
shoot does not develop as expected,
their efforts will then be devoted
entirely to the 200-foot level,
where there is reported to be a
promising body of ore with a high
copper content. The lessees con
sider the showing at this depth to
be excellent. Considerable work
was done by the former lessees on
this level.
Four men are employed at pres
ent and it is planned to increase
this number when work is started
on the 200-foot level, as will be
done in the near future, regardless
of the result of the work being
done in the drift on the 65-foot
•level. Shipments tye bging made
l:o the smelter at Kennett, Cal.
The lease is understood to be
an extension of the former lease,
which extended for one year from
July 1. The block comprises 600
by 400 feet, or practically all of
the Gold Bar claim and part of the
Victor claim of the C. O. D. The
side lines run east through the
Gold Bar and the lease includes
the Victor territory to, but not in
cluding the Victor shaft.
The lease is operated through
the 500-foot main shaft on the
Gold Bar claim, which is in excel
lent condition. There is also re
ported to be good ore on the 300
and 400-foot levels, but little work
has been done on these levels in
recent years.
pmz ZONE BEING
OPENED III GRANDMA
The drift in the Grandma at a
depth of 115 feet has been advanc
ed over 60 feet and is being con
tinued in the bedded quartz zone, j
Twenty-five feet from the shaft a i
crosscut was driven to the shale!
and throughout the work to date
low assays in gold, silver and cop
per have been obtained and the
quartz has been found to be heavy
with iron sulphide.
The contact zone will be explor
ed thoroughly with raises along
the footwall and through the
quartz zone at right angles to the j
dip. This work can be done eco
nomically owing to the sharp dip l
of the shale, which will permit j
material from the raise to drop into <
the drift, something that was im-!
possible in exploring the contact |
zone in other mines of the district I
where the shale surface lies nearly j
horizontal.
Although the Grandma shaft is i
S30 feet deep, this is the first lat
eral development undertaken by J.
K. Turner, consulting engineer for
the company. The main vein, run
ning north through the Grandma
Claim ,was cut in the shaft at 250
feet, but no lateral work was done
here, although the quartz was of
good appearance. It is planned to
prospect the vein at about this
depth later, but all efforts of the
company have been devoted to op
ening the contact zone and no fur
ther work will be undertaken until
this has been explored.
MAYFLOWER MINE CONTROL IS SOLD BY W. J. TOBIN
Joseph B. Kendall, formerly su
perintendent of the Goldfield Con
i solidated Mines company and one
of the prominent mining men of
the state, and John H. Miller of
Hawthorne, president of the Lucky
| Boy Mining company, which has a
! production record of $1,500,000.
have bought a controlling interest
in the Consolidated Mayflower
Mines company at Pioneer from W.
J. Tobin. Miller is one of Neva
da’s wealthiest men and it is known
that astDCiated with him and Ken
dall are some of the biggest min
ing interests in the west. This
deal has been pending for some
time and the fact that it has been
consummated means much for
southern Nevada, as the Mayflower
is now considered one of the state’s
greatest gold mines.
The main office of the company
will be in Tonopah, with a stock
transfer office in San Francisco,
and the stock of the company will
be listed on the San Francisco
stock exchange and in New York
at an early date. It is understood
that the president and general
manager or me company win ne
Mr. Kendall and that Mr. Miller
will be one of the directors.
The Mayflower became widely
known and was worked on a large
scale during the period of the Bull
frog boom and is equipped wtih
excellent mining and milling
plants. Among the most import
ant recent work done has been the
sinking of an incline from the
Starlight shaft, situated 1400 feet
from the main shaft, resulting in
the opening of ore.
A report on mine conditions was
made last week by Mr. Kendall, in
which he says:
“On the Mayflower claim the
incline shaft, dipping 65 degrees,
has been sunk 530 feet and drifts
run north and south on the 200,
300 and 400-foot levels to a total
of 1200 feet. ’The ore stoped from
the mine has practically been con
fined to the stopes between the
200 and 300-foot levels, this body
of ore being 300 feet long and
over 100 feet high, and, according
to the report of the former man
ager, Thomas K. Code, has produc
ed 10,000 tons of $14 ore.
“On the 200-foot level no work
of any consequence has been done.
The shaft has been sunk on the
vein to within a short distance of
the 200-foot level. The vein is
reached at each level by crosscut
ting to the footwall.
“On the 400-foot 'evel Mr.
Code’s records show a stope of
very good ora. On the bottom of
the 400-foot level a winze was
sunk on three feet of $25 ore. As
the ore raked to the north, this
grade of ore passed out of the
winze at a depth of 15 feet. The
records show the winze to be 80
feet deep and showing four feet of
from $8 to $12 ore, with the quartz
DIVIDE SOON TO
SINK TO DEPTH
Tonopah Miner: As regards
the results achieved at the Tono
pah Divide, there .have been no
changes of a substantial nature
from the extraordinarily good con
ditions that have been developed
there. The regular course of min
ing operations was continued on
both the second and third levels,
and the work of sinking has been
postponed until the company has
put in its new bunk house for the
accommodation of a greater num
ber of miners.
The management expects that
the bunk house will be ready for
occupancy within a few days, after
which the work of sinking the
shaft to water level will be start
ed from the 370-foot station, where
a hoist has been installed to tcke
care of the sinking operations.
This will permit the regular min
ing operations to be carried on
without interference.
Raise 206 from the 200-foot
level was put up 25 feet farther
during the week and still shows a
face of shipping ore. The same is
true of raise 204, on the other side
of the vein, which made progress
to the extent of 20 feet in the
same period.
getting darker with depth and
showing some sulphides, which is
| to be expected, as this Is within 15
feet of the water level. I can
( only vouch for the value of the ore
■ in the first 15 feet of the winze, as
it is filled with debris to this
point.
“On the 500-foot level the cut-1
ting of a pump station is the only !
| work done. I would advise cross
[ cutting to the vein and drifting
north and south, especially north,
■ to the bottom of the winze sunk
from the 400-foot level, where
ORE ASSAYING $100 PER TON IS
BEING BROKEN IN KEWANAS MINE
. I ..I.
1
! Ore assaying over $100 per ton
| is now being broken in a drift from j
j the bottom of a 100-foot winze |
from the 840-foot level of the Ke- j
wanas. This winze was started !
by the Jumbo Junior company I
w hen that company was working ;
this block of Kewanas terrl-;
tory under lease and a carload of!
good ore was shipped by the Jun-1
ior at that time. The ore-shoot i
opened was narrow and the ore re- !
quired a great deal of sorting, the |
lease for this reason being aban-!
doned.
A short time ago Manager A. I. i
D’Arcy of the Kewanas company i
resumed sinking the winze on a ■
narrow seam of high-grade ore,
which in the drift has widened at
some places to three feet. The
ore averages, according to assay
sheets, 5.20 ounces gold, 2.60
ounces silver and 2.5 per cent
copper, making a total value of
$119.60 per ton.
West of the winze a crosscut has
been advanced toward the footwall
of the vein, exposing good ore near
the shale, and a second crosscut on
the 840-foot level, driven to the
southeast, exposed iquartz from
i which low assays in gold and cop
per were obtained,
j The new discovery in the drift
i from the winze demonstrates that !
j the ore in this territory extends!
j below where the shale was found
i ... - " i i. —
to the west, indicating that the
vein at this point extends into the j
shale and this is regarded as of;
importance in determining condi
tions in this general part of the
district and is regarded as of great
significance.
Work of the Kewanas company
has been done largely to the north,
where developemnt work on a
broad scale has been done on the
8 40-foot level and where good ore
was opened in a number of places.
A drift driven 800 feet north ex
posed for a long distance ore suit
able for treatment by flotation
and from the main drift to the
north a crosscut, was driven 250
feet, in which the orebody was j
found to be narrow and erratic in
value. High assays were obtained i
at a number of places in this !
crosscut. A drift driven south |
from this point was continued for
over 200 feet in ore of good
grade, which varied from one to
two and one-half feet in width.
A raise from the east crosscut
entered the contact zone a short
distance above the 640-foot level
and exposed four feet of $60 ore,
the orebody being found to be
spotted in value and the average
grade not high enough for ship
ment. The result of work in this
territory indicated that additional ]
development would result in a !
good tonnage of ore of milling i
grade being opened.
MERGER 10 SHIP
CARLOAD OF ORE
A car of ore of good grade will
I be shipped in the next few days
I from the Merger Mines company,
where operations recently were re
sumed on the 13 50-foot, or eighth
level, in four feet of ore assaying
from $34.60 to $57.25 in gold, sil
ver and copper.
Drift 810, in which the discov-j
ery was made, has been cleaned of
the broken ore and is now in con-!
dition for further work. Air pipe 1
has been extended into the drift I
and the ore is now being broken j
with machine drills. The last
sampling of the drift gave assay
returns of $57.25 after the ore had
been opened for a distance of 301
feet on the strike.
GREAT BEND HIS
GOOD-GRADE ORE
Ore for shipment is being plac
ed in the bins of the Great Bend
mine, taken from two stopes above
the 160-foot level and ore assaying
1100 per ton showed for a short
listance in the drift from 113-a
raise from this level last week. The
results of the work are reported
jy the management to be entirely
satisfactory.
The raise from the drift on the
3 75-foot level is being continued
ind will be driven through to the
360-foot level for air.
600-FOOT LEVEL OF RED HILL 15
SCENE OF NEW MINING OPERATIONS
Conditions continue favorable in
the Red Hill Florence, where the
main interest is in development
work being done through crosscuts
and drifts on the 600-foot level,
where work was started a short
time ago in territory heretofore
entirely unexplored and in which
it is believed good orebodies will be
I opened. A crosscut on this levdl is
i being extended northeast, or in the
I direction of the Rogers lease terri
tory, from which rich ore was ex
tracted in the early days.
Manager Kendall states that four
carloads of ore were shipped to the
smelter at Kennett, Cal., last
month and that another is now
ready for shipment. Much of this
ore was taken from a winze from
the 500-foot level, which recently
broke into an old stope.
The mine and territory leased
from the Florence Goldfield com
pany are being worked systematic
ally and the results obtained thus
far are considered excellent. The
600-foot level is regarded as hold
ing important possibilities, as the
difficulties of mining among the
old workings will not be met with
on this level and the work is be
ing done along lines suggested by
conditions found on the upper lev
els.
An earlier management started
a drift to the northeast on this lev
el, but, although some good assays
were reported to have been ob
tained, the work was stopped.
The work now being done on the ,
600-foot level is practically th3
first ever undertaken in Red Hill
ground below 500 feet. To tlm |
west of this territory lies what in
tan days of the famous FloreD"? i
leases was the richest part of tb>:
Florence mine, which porduced
many millions in high-grade ore ;
but which was not worked to any
extent below 600 feet. It is the
plan cf the Red Hill company to
eventually open the 700 and 800
foot levels, as the shaft is 800
feet deep.
there is a known orebody with a
possibility of finding ore in driving
this drift.
"Fourteen hundred feet north of
the Mayflower shaft lessees sunk
an incline shaft 85 feet on the
vein. On the 30-foot level they
drifted south 40 feet. North at
collar of shaft samples taken from
20 feet of croppings every three
feet and three feet across, show an
average of $51.30. These sam
ples represent an oreshoot 60 feet
long. 30 feet deep and three feet
wide, or approximately 500 tons of
ore. On the 85-foot level a hang
ing wall crosscut, in 30 feet, cut a
parallel vein showing six feet of
$12 ore. By advancing the 300
foot level north drift 500 feet to
cut these two parallel veins at this
depth, would give approximately
40,000 tons of probable ore. From
an economic point of view, I would
advise that this work be done on
the 300-foot level.
“The cost of stoping varies ac
cording to the width of the ore
body and the cost of development
work and according to the report
of the former manager, Mr. Code,
mining costs averaged $2 per ton
for nine months in 1911.
_
Retimbering and cleaning of the
Pioneer shaft will soon be complet
ed. This work is being done by
the Reorganized Pioneer Mines
company, successor to the Pioneer
Consolidated Mines company, the
company having recently been re
organized.
During former operations the
main shaft was permitted to fill up
to the third level. This material
has been hoisted and the shaft
cleared to a depth of 380 feet. The
retimbering is following closely.
The main shaft of the Pioneer mine
is to be sunk to a depth of 800
feet, where the sulphide zone
should be reached, according to the
consulting* engineer for the com
pany, J. K. Turner. This work
will he pushed with all possible
speed and two shifts will be em
ployed until the 800-foot level
has been reached.
W. J. Tobin, president of the
company, stated that actual sink
ing below the 40 0-foot level will
begin during the present month.
The Mayflower and the Pioneer
mines have a combined production
of gold ore to their credit in ex
cess of $1,000,000, and much of
the ore mined in the Mayflower
has averaged between $14 and $00
per ton in gold. The ore mined
and shipped to the smelters from
the Pioneer has averaged $43.71
per ton. Much of the ore shipped
gave a smelter return in excess of
$100 per ton.
Both mines are well equipped
for operating on a big scale and
are expected to contribute in no
small way to the gold production
of the state during the coming
year.
SPEARHEAD CUTS
NEW ORE-SHOOT
H. F. Bruce, manager of the
Spearhead mine, stated this morn
ing that the force of miners had
I
been doubled, eight miners now be
ing employed, and that in general
mine conditions were excellent. He
also stated that he had been in
formed by company officials that
the apex question had been defi
nitely settled in San Francisco, al
though he has not been informed
of the terms.
A new and promising orebody
has been opened north of the shaft
on the 250-foot level and near the
old Wheeler lease workings.
Enough work has been done in
this new discovery to determine
its value.
Drifts are being driven both
ways on the ore on the 910-foot
level and the orebody is also being
opened through raises and cross
cuts Mr. Bruce said assays show
the grade of ore to continue high
and that he is well pleased with
the result of the work to date.
CRACKER JACK 10
WORK VALUABLE
ORE DEPOSITS
On favorable terms, H. G. Mc
Mahon, as manager for the Crack
er Jack company, has taken a five
year lease on about 35 acres of
Consolidated ground and a largo
acreage of Florence territory, cov
ering the Consolidated-Florence
vein at points from which a pro
duction of $N00,000 was made from
the 400 to the 550-foot level in
the early days of Consolidated and
Florence operations.
Work will be done through the
Red Hill Florence shaft under di
rection of Mr. McMahon, and a
small force of miners, which it is
planned to increase rapidly, is al
ready employed. Two machine
drills are now being operated in
the leased territory and this num
ber will be increased as soon as
the ground has been placed in con
dition for work on a larger scale.
The leases were taken by the
Cracker Jack company for the pur
pose of opening the upward ex
tension of two large ore-shoots,
one of which is the famous Rogers
snoot, opened tn tne ttogers tease
and from which one of the great
est production of high-grade ore in
the history of Goldfield was made.
The main effort of the Cracker
Jack company will be devoted to
opening this orebody, the upward
extension of which has never been
explored.
Until recently no facilities were
available for mining in this terri
t >iy, as the old stopes caved badly,
but it can be reached and wokeri
to advantage through the Rei Hill
a.iaft, one of the best equipped in
the district. It is planned to open
the vein near the tops of the oid
stopei and it is known that good
bouies of shipping ore remain at
these points, where conditions are
exactly the same as when iho r<eh
leases expired.
A distance of GOO feet on the in
cline of the vein to the surface will
be available for exploration, all en
tirely unexplored territory, and
Manager McMahon is confident
that an early date will find the
leases shipping regularly.
This work will be conducted in
addition to operations in the main
Cracker Jack property, in the
northern part of the district, where
mining recently was resumed to
find the junction of the East and
Cracker Jack veins through a
winze to be sunk 40 or 50 feet front
(Continued on Page Eight)
EAST DIVIDE SHAFT
NOW 150 RET DEEP
The shaft of the East Divide has
reached a depth of 150 feet and
Manager Joe Mayer is enthusiastic,
regarding conditions found. it is
said that in the East Divide shaft
the same peculiar color of material
has been found as in the upper
levels of the Tonopah Divide mine
and that this is the only place in
the district where conditions have
been found identical with those of
the Tonopah Divide. This is tak
en as an excellent indication that
the East Divide shaft is lieing sunk
in tho main vein of the district, in
which a great tonnage of ore has
been blocked out in the Divide. The
stained material appeared in the
shaft at a depth of 35 feet and is
still in evidence.
The East Divide shaft is only
3300 feet from that of the Tono
pah Divide and the great vein, the
main ore channel of the district,
crops with more prominence on the
former ground than anywhere else
in the district. The shaft is near
the north end of the Merced group,
which adjoins the Gold Zone, and
is being sunk near the hanging
wall of the vein in a broken and
soft formation. The shaft is sub
stantially timbered.
The company is well financed
and it is believed there will be no
interruption in sinking until the
300-foot point has been reached,
unless an important change occurs
in the formation.