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THE GOLDFIELD NEWS
AND WEEKLY TRIBUNE .•
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>ews and Tribune iLT"’ V?'T® !*' J°‘ S GOLDFIELD, NEVADA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1018 PRICE TEN CENTS
Vol. 10. No. 34 Coldfield Weekly Tribune, Volume 13. No.. 32 _'__’_____
SPEARHEAD RAISE
BEING DRIVEN
' TO CONTACT
The raise from the 910-foot
level of the Spearhead has now
been advanced 20 feet and is be
ing continued in ore, according to
H. F. Bruce, manager of the mine.
The raise has not yet reached the
\ contact between the latite and
shale and no estimate has been
made of the height at which the
contact will be found. The drift
from which the raise is being driv
en is also being continued in ore/
which Manager Bruce states is
of about the same grade and width
as when the discovery was made
Two machine drills are now in op
eration on this level.
The orebody was found in the
main crosscut on this level and
after it was opened a drift was
{Started to the southeast. Recent
ly a drift was started in the oppo
site direction and Manager Bruce
states that he is well satisfied
with conditions where the import
ant discovery was made.
Work is also being continued on
the ore-shoot recently opened on
the 250-foot level, which has de
veloped into a big body of ore not
of shipping grade. This shoot
was opened near the workings of
the old Wheeler lease and assay
returns show the value of the ore
to be increasing.
The ore on the 910-foot level
contains gold, silver and copper,
any increase in the copper con
tent showing a corresponding in
crease in the amount of silver and
assays as high as $209.30 have
been obtained in the southeast
drift.
The ore and, generp,’ 'idittnns
on thkfe>'2l are said to be similar
to th^i^ found at a corresponding
period in the opening of the bo
nanza stope in the Jumbo Exten
sion, a short distance west, four
years ago. It required about
three months for the Jumbo Exten
sfin management to fully develop
this orebody Into one of the rich
est ever found in the district and,
judging by this, comparatively lit
tle work has yet been done in ex
ploring the find in the Spearhead.
SHORT COURSE TO
START AH OF N.
The fifth session of the pros
pectors’ short course, held annual
ly at the Mackay school of mines,
university of Nevada, will open
Jan. 6 and continue until Feb. 1.
Notwithstanding the disturbed con
dition of the mining industry, the
usual number of letters have been
received at the school of mines
from prospectors in Nevada and
neighboring states, who are con
sidering attending the session, and
it is hoped that the class will be
aak large or larger than last year.
The object of the prospectors’
short course is to give to the Ne
vada prospector a four weeks’ prac
tical training along the lines which
will be most helpful to him in his
work. The majority of those who
have attended the course in the
past have b^en miners and mining
men, although there has always
been a conside^ble number of
other trades and professions who
were interested in prospecting as a
side issue.
While the larger part of the
class has come from Reno, other
Nevada towns have always been
well repreesnted, and usually there
have 1 vr several students from
California and other states.
The course offers an admirable
opportunity for the mining man to
bru^ up his knowledge along the
lines of prospecting, assaying, min
eralogy and geology, and to dis
cuss subjects of special interest to
him at times when they are tAken
up in the regular eotne of class
work.
WORK IS STORIED
BY LORE SIOR
COMPANY
Development work on the Lone
Star Consolidated Mining company
1 ground has been resumed. The
j hoist and other equipment is be
ing overhauled and in a few days
drifting will start on the 250-foot
j level of the Nelligan shaft. Work
on other parts of the property will
! be started either by the company
or lessees as soon as equipment
can be brought onto the ground.
Gerald B. Hartley, vice presi
dent and superintendent of the
company, arrived here this week
from Mazuma, Nev., and will re
main until operations are in full
swing.
The mining operations will be
! under direction of A. H. Elftman,
1 consulting engineer for the com
pany, who, during September and
: October, made a detailed examina
j Mon of the property and had a
small force of men working in
prospecting and cleaning out the
old workings in order to determine
where to start work.
The Lone Star consists of 15
patented claims on the south slope
: of Vindicator mountain and lies
! immediately east of the Spearhead,
I Blue Bell and .Grandma and north
of the Merger, Blue Bull and Com
monwealth mines.
Considerable work has been done
and in the early days of Goldfield
several carloads of high-grade ore
were shipped from the ground
now accessible through the Nelli
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LESSEES ill TOLICHA
IME SOOR SHIP ORE
I -.
Lessees operating the Life Pre
server group of claims at Tolicha
Peak, 50 miles south of Goldfield,
are driving a short working level
from the surface to connect with
the bottom of a 50-foot shaft sunk
by former lessees. Good progress
is again being made by the lessees
after working through an excep
tionally difficult formation to
break and it is expected that the
shaft will be reached within the
next few days.
Ore of shipping grade is said
to be exposed in the shaft and
when this has been opened suffi
ciently the lessees state they will
start hauling the product in mo
tor trucks to a point 12 miles
distant on the Tonopah & Tidewa
ter road.
The lessees say they have
posed a wide body of $30 ore,
which they claim can be shipped at
a good profit.
Ore sufficient for a two-carload
shipment has been secured from
the main vein where it is exposed
on the surface, according to the
lessees.
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TONOPAH MG. SHIPS
520,00010 GULLIOH
Tonopah Mining: The Novem
ber cleanup of the Tonopah Mining
company at its reduction plant at
Millers, Nev., produced nine bars of
bullion, the shipment of which
was made on the 10th. Upon the
consignment the company has plac
ed a valuation of approximately
$20,000, being the results of the
month’s run on sands from for
| mer operations, and a small per
I centage of slimes from its tailing
I ponds and some of the dump ores
which had been stored in the bins
at the mill awaiting the determina
tion of the tests and experiments
tha had been made on the sand
piles.
Though no authoritative reports
have been made by the company of
ficials regarding the results ob
tained from working the sands, it
is believed that it has been found
impracticable to work them with
any degree of success, the margin
of profit derived from the re-hand
ling and re-working of the sand
piles being eo small that it would
hardly pay to keep the entire mill
working on then.
Samples of high-grade gold
and silver ore have been brought
to Reno from a new discovery
near the old camp of Phonolite,
60 miles southeast of Fallon. First
locations on the discovery were
made by “Diamondfield Jack”
Davis, one of the pioneers of Gold
field. The ore is said to assay
from $14.60 to $46.50 per ton.
The samples were taken from a
33-inch ore-shoot. Davis says
the district has an excellent future.
I He states that there are many
i good prospects in the region sur
rounding Phonolite and predicts
a large amount of prospecting
near there in the future
A reduction plant is nearly com
! pleted on a cinnabar mine owned
by M. D. Farretta and Frank Chil
ders in the Jersey district south
• of Battle Mountain. The plant
■will contain 12 retorts and all ma
chinery will be new and modern.
Fifteen men are employed at pres
ent in the mine and in construct
ing the mill. It is said there is
a good body of ore uncovered in
the mine and that there is enough
ore on the dump to keep the plant
operating for over a year. The
mine is 73 miles south of Battle |
Mountain.
With 40 of the working force
of 100 in a hospital suffering from I
influenza, the mill and mines at
Rochester have been closed and
the entire energy of the town is
devoted to fighting the disease.
Conditions there are said to be
serious. Conditions at Packard j
are said to be the same. Ore i
opened on the 1100-foot level of!
the Rochester Mines company has
demonstrated that the ore is con
tinuous to this depth. The north
and south drifts on the tenth lev- i
el were being advanced in ore
and raises were being started on;
this and the eighth level in ex- j
ploration work when the mine j
was closed. The average
tonnage for November was 178
tons daily and the average value
of the ore is said to have been
higher than for many months be
fore November.
The North End mines on the
Comstock continue to produce ore
of good grade. Last week the
| Mexicain mill operated 85 per cent
; of the time and treated 475 tons
of ore from the Con. Virginia as
saying $21.23 per ton, 72 tons
■of Mexican ore assaying $22.7C |
and 67 tons of ore from the Ophir
; assaying $9.87.
The report of the Nevada Con- i
! solidated Copper company for the I
| three-month periodending Sept.
30 :
! 216 pounds of copper, compared
with 21,507,909 pounds in the
| preceding quarter. Net earnings
| were $1,070,213, compared with
$2,372,171 for the quarter ending
I June 30. The production cost
showed an increase of from 17.72
i cents to 20.70 cents per pound.
The Panama Canal Mines com-1
; pany, operating in the Voltair dis
trict, near Carson, recently
l shipped a carload of good-grade
silver ore. It is said that a good
! width of ore is being broken and
j that the value of the ore is in- i
creasing as a drift is advanced. A
heavy flow of water has been
1 found on the present tunnel level i
and it is proposed to install a
pump in the spring and develop
the mine below the present deep
est level. The Panama Canal is
; the only producing precious metals
i mine in Ormsby county.
Last week the Thompson smelt
| er of the Mason Valley Mines
company received 2310 tons of
ore from the Ludwig mine of the
Nevada-Douglas Consolidated Cop
per company, 1867 tons from the
Bluestone mine at Mason, 1165
tons from the Mason Valley Mines j
icompany's mine at Mason and 471 j
! tons from other sources. Two car-.
loads of blister copper were
shipped from the smelter.
All work on Wingfield proper
ties at Aurora has been suspended
and it is said that dismantling of
the 40-ton mill will be started ini
j
the spring. Aurora reached the
height of the district’s productive
ness in the early seventies and at
that time the Johnson Chamber,
one of the richest gold discoveries
ever made in the west, proved a
sensation. It is said that a great
part of the ore was stolen by
(“high-graders.”
DISCOVERY IN SPEARHEAD IS OF
INTEREST TD GRANDMA COMPANY
The discovery of ore on an up
per level in the Spearhead, recent
ly announced, has a direct bear
ing on wcrk planned for the fu
ture in the Grandma, adjoining
the Spearhead on the north, a
the vein in which ore was opened,
known as the Grandma-Spearhead
vein and running through the
claims of both companies, was
in the Grandma shaft at 250 feet
and the management will prospect
this territory after the shale con
tact zone has been explored fur
ther.
The apex of the vein is near
the western sideline of the Grand
ma claim and can be traced on
the surface south through the
Spearhead. It was found in the
Grandma shaft as it dips to the
east and between the 250 and
300-foot points showed quartz of
excellent appearance.
When the vein was cut it was
■ decided not to undertake to de- ■
ivelop it then and sinking of the i
I shaft to the shale was continued,
jthe decision being strengthened
by results obtained by the same
management further to the south. ,
I where an orebody yielding $2,000,
jooo in high-grade ore was opened
| in exploring the contact zone in !
the Jumbo Extension.
The drift being extended north
from the 815-foot level te being
driven in the bedded quartz zone,
in which an important discovery
was made recently in the Spear
head at a point where the quartz
mass intruded into the shale. The,
drift will be continued along the
footwall of the ore channel and !
authorities on the geology of the
I district believe the work will re- j
I suit in the opening of important
jorebodies, as at other places where \
'the contact has been explored.
MONITOR BELMONT PUMPS ARE READY
Tonopah Miner: Satisfactory'
headway is being made by the Ne
vada Wonder Mining company in
its operations at the old Monitor-1
Belmont mine at Belmont, Nye j
county, Nevada.
The main work in process con-1
sists of exploring old drifts and\
stopes ih the territory between |
the Highbridge and Belmont shafts j
on the 200-foot level. Several j
large stopes are also being sam-1
pled with a view to determining j
their possibilities. |1
The company has installed ns
I
chinery at the Belmont shaft for
hoisting water and, and this will
also serve to dewater the Higli
bridge shaft, and the company’s
engineers state that it is expected
the water will be lowered to the
300-foot level before Jan. 1.
The company has adequate
equipment on the ground for pres
ent operations and unless some un
looked for condition arises should
be in a position to demonstrate
the potentialities of the mine in s
short time.
TWO CURS OF ORE
10 BE SHIPPED
i FROM MERGER
__
The ore recently opened In 810
drift, in the 1350-foot level of the
Merger, has widened to six feet.
Samples taken on Thursday from
114 mine cars of ore yielded assay
[returns of $31.10 and yesterday a
| sampel of the entire face of the
! drift gave an assay return ot
j $30.60, with three feet assaying
, $54.85 in gold, silver and copper.
! Manager A. I. D'Arcy stated last
night that two cars would be spot
ted at the mine today and filled
with ore taken from the drift.
Saving of ore was started from
a three-foot face and the two car
loads to be shipped will average
about $20 per ton, as part of the
. hanging wall was broken in ex
tracting this product before the
shoot was opened to the present
width, reducing the value of the
; material. The ore can now be
broken clean from the six-foot
face.
Breaking of ore was started on
Nov. 29 and since then air plpo
has been installed in the drift,
which is now being advanced with
machine drills.
The shipment of ore from the
Merger is generally regarded as
one of the most important events
to occur in Goldfield in recent
years, as great importance has al
ways been attached to the large
amount of development work done
at depth in this part of the dis
trict. The Merger company owns
a large area of ground that has
not been prospected to any extent
and the 1800-foot shaft is the
deepets in southern Nevada.
DIVIDE SHAFT BEING
SUNK FROM 370 LEVEL
After delay caused by the ne
cessity for installing an auxiliary
hoist on the 270-foot level, sinking
of the Tonopah Divide shaft lias
been resumed and will be contin
ued until water level is reached,
which it is expected will be at
from 700 to 800 feet. Stations
will be cut in the shaft at 100
foot intervals.
A new bunk house has been
erected for the accommodation of
an increased force of miners.
Work on the second and third
levels continues to increase the al
ready great tonnage of ore block
ed out aiul regular shipments of
from 200 to 300 tone of ore are
J>eing made weekly to the Consoli
dated mill at Goldfield, where a
high extraction is being secured.
A drift is being extended in the
gold vein from the south crosscut,
the size and value of the orebody
showing no change.
The crosscut being driven on the
vein on the 300-foot level has not
yet reached the hanging wall.
LABOrIhORTAGE IS
FELT BY SURF INLET
Tonopah Miner: Tl^pre has been
as yet no change for the better in
the conditions affecting the mining
and milling operations of the Bel
mont company in its enterprises
outside of Tonopah.
The Surf Inlet property, accord
ing to reports received lately, has
been shorthanded and is not work
ing up to full capacity, it being
able to provide work for many
more than are available at the
present time. Because of this
fact, the work of proving up the
possibilities of the mine has not
proceeded at a rate commensurate
with the natural developent of its
resources, which ordinarily would
go hand in hand with the stoping
and production work.
However, It is believed, with
the termination of the war and the
return of sufficient men to the!*1
accustomed occupations, the Surf
Inlet property will shortly be op
erating at greater capacity and not
long thereafter will be on a fall
ached ale both ae regards the mine
and mill operations. _i
COPPER MT. DRIFT
MAY BE NEAR
' ORE-SHOOT
| _
The drift being extended east
on the 275-foot level of the Jum
bo-Copper Mountain mine, situat
ed northeast of Luning in Mineral
county, is believed to be entering
i he downward extcnson of the Fox
lease ore-shoot, as a green stain
and seams of copper ore have ap
peared in the material through
which the drift is being driven.
This is taken as an indic^lon that
the orebody may soon be cut.
The Jumbo-Copper Mountain
mine is operated by the Jumbo Ex
tension company of Goldfield and
was originally a subsidiary of that
company. Mining has been in
; progress for well over a year, the
I first .ore shipments having been
j made by lessees, who made a large
' and profitable production of cop
per ore.
The drift is being extended to
explore the territory under the old
Fox and Miller leases, the former
being west of the Miller block and
the first to be reached by the
drift.
The ore is found on a quartzite
and shale contact, the contact zones
being well defined and their dip
easily determined with accuracy
from development near the sur
face. Three shafts have been
sunk and all have exposed good
ore. Workings from these shafts
have opened large bodies of ore
that can be treated profitably in a
plant which it is planned to erect
on the ground and in preparation
for which experiments on a largo
scale have been conducted near
Los Angeles under direction of
.1. K. Turner, consulting engineer
for the company. A good tonnage
of^ material carrying from three
to eight iter cent copper is now
blocked out in the mine awaiting
the erection of this reduction plant
with the return of normal condi
tions to the mining industry.
It is said that mining conditions
in general justify the erection of
a plant of large capacity, as the
copper ore is exposed in orebodies
that are of good width and con
tinuous for long distances.
GREAT BEND Will
SHIP CM OF ORE
A carload shipment of ore will
be made from the Great Bend
mine in the next few days, accord
ing to Superintendent L. L. Del
linger.
This ore, taken from a stope
above the 100-foot level, will as
say from $25 to $30 per ton. Ore
for shipment has been taken from
this stope since early in November,
when work on the orebody was
started, and conditions are report
ed to be excellent.
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GOOD ORE KOI ND IN
NORTH STAR WINZE
Tonopah Miner: The drift
| which is being run in a northerly
! direction from the shaft of the
| North Star Mine continued to make
i the usual headway during the
j week along the Mizpah fault. Con
| siderable amounts of low-grade
| quartz are in evidence with the
! progress of the drift, accompanied
by the usual occurrence of quite
a flow of water, an extraordinary
condition in the North Star mine.
The winze from the 950-foot level
has developed a width of one foot
I of ore of excellent grade and the
prospects at" this place are highly
j encouraging.
_ _
i ANOTHER SHIFT .ADDED
AT RROFGHER DIVIDE
Tonopah Miner: Another shift
of miners has been added tothe
. crew of the Brougher Divide Min
i ing company in the Divide district,
ample accommodations being pro
vided for the augmented force of
men. Since the last report was
made 37 feet of sinking has been
performed, making the shaft now
53 feet below the 300-foot leVel.
Within thin distance ■ a decided
change has been shown In the
shaft, the formation now being
heavily oxidised. A