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0 PUBLISHED IN THE GREATEST MINING REGION IN THE WORLD
THE PIOCHE "RECORD
VOL. XXXIX
RAILROAD SURVEYORS MAKING HEADWAY
ELHA11EY
TO HAVE A
B1GPLANT
Manager Thomarson Departs
Tomorrow For Ekj
lai to Confer
With Officials
s
Edward Thomarson, mauager
of the Ely Valley mine, expects
to leave on an European trip
tomorrow morning and accord
tug to the itinerary arranged,
will not return until about Sep
tember 1.
The Ely Valley is controlled
by a syndicate of Englishmen
and Mr. Thomarson has been
railed abroad to discuss with
the members of the syndicate,
the matter of installing larg
ger mine equipment and to lay
plana for the future.
An Important work under
taken at the Ely Valley during
the past week is the sinking of
the shaft below the 300-foot
level, which up to a few
day ago, was the lowest point
in the mine. The shaft, .Mr.
Thomarson states. Is to be con
tinued on to the 500-foot point
whereupon cross-cuts will be
run out to the ore bodies.
Just as has been tlone on
the 300 level.
Mr. Thomarson reports that
the east cross-cut from the
300 level has encountered a
good body of ore containing
shipping values.
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The fine display of Pioche ores,
selected from nearly every mine Id
(the camp, and which has occupied
cabinet space lu the Ely Valley
office for sometime, Is to be tak
eo across the pond. The collec
tion is a valuable one and will
do much towards bringing the
attention of English capital to this
region. It has taken Mr. Thomarson
aioaths to get this collection together,
bat it is a beauty and considered
to be very valuable.
DEMIJOHN MINE.
Tws Car Loads of Ore Now on The
Dump Awaits Shipment.
President Owen A. Bailey of the Pi
oche Demijohn Mining Co.. is expect
ed in camp again sometime next
week when, it Is said, he will make
arrangements to ship some ore from
the Demijohn mine.
The Record has been informed by
Sup't W. E. Bailey that there Is
enough high grade ore on the dump
bow to make up at least two car
loads. Underground conditions are re
sorted to be of a moat satisfactory
character, and taking Into considera
tion the sue of the force now em
ployed, very good headway is being
made. The mine needs, however to
be better equipped to facilitate devel
opment and that is among the mat
ters which has been receiving atten
tion of the directors of the company
lately.
. - County Clerk Win. E. Orr has been
out of town on a Ashing trip this
week.
PIOCHE,
Men Working
Piociic Wing of Survey Is Completed and Men Are Kow Working Towards Panaca Pioche Metals Way
a Favorable
EXCEPTING THE MATTER OF ARRANGING A FEW DETAILS, THE SURVEYING PARTY
OF THE SALT LAKE ROUTE HAS COMPLETED THE PIOCHE WING OF THE PROPOSED EXTEN
SION OK THE CALIENTE A PIOCHE TO THE PRINCE CONSOLIDATED MINE. TUESDAY MORN
ING, THE ENGINEERS STRUCK OUT FROM THE PRINCE TOWARD8 PANACA AND ACCORDING
TO CHIEF ENGINEER KNOWLES, WHO RETURNED FROM SALT LAKE TUESDAY EVENING,
IT WILL TAKE HIS MEN PRC B AIL Y TEN DAYS TO COMPLETE THE WORK AND UNTIL THEN IT
WILL NOT BE DETERMINED WHICH WAY THE LINE WILL BE BUILT.
MR. KNOWLES SAYS, HOWEVER, THAT THE GRADE AROUND BY THE ELY VALLEY, PI
OCHE METALS, DEMIJOHN, GOLD SILVER PRINCE, GOLDEN PRINCE AND PIOCHE KING IS
AN EASY ONE; THAT THE DISTANCE FROM THE PIOCHE DEPOT TO THE PRINCE IS ON
LY ABOUT EIGHT MILES
MR. KNOWLES ALSO STATES THAT AFTER THE SURVEYS ARE COMPLETED, AND THE
ROUTE SELECTED, IT WILL REQUIRE POSSIBLY THREE WEEKS TO ASSEMBLE GRADING
AND CONSTRUCTOIN GANGS; THAT IT WILL PROBABLY THEN BE NECESSARY TO COUNT
ON TWO MONTHS MORE TIME TO GET THE LINE IN -SHAPE FOR OPERATION, WHICH
WOULD TAKE IT INTO THE EARLY PART OF OCTOBER.
KEN ROM SOLOM
STATE VISIT THE OS
M. A. Low, general attorney for
the Chicago Rock Island . Pacific
railroad, with headquarters at To-
peka, Kansas, arrived Bunday evening
accompanied by A. D. Walker, J. B.
Case, . E. T. Uuymond, and J. W.
Creech, all prominent and well-to-do
business men from the Sunflower
state.
Mr. Low Is president of the Gold
en Prince and the Gold A Silver
Prince Mining companies, which
are pushing the, development of their
respective properties with a great
deal of vigor over In the Prince ore
tone.
The visitors are all shareholders
in the foregoing named corporations,
and they went away eicepting Mr.
Low who remained in ramp several
days longer Thursday with express
i
I PRINCE MMTED
READY
In line with the policy outlined for the future, the management
if the Prince Consolidated Mining Smelting company will short
ly begin the task of putting In its permanent working shaft The
mine Is already opened down to 550 feet and on every level a world
of ore has been exposed. But the exploitation of the mine to great
tt depths with the present shaft is deemed Inadvisable for the
reason that the further it la sent on towards the center of the
earth, the farther it will get away from the ore bodies, it being
inclined away from Instead of towards the resources of the mine.
Besides, when It comes to the extraction of large tonnage
from the property, as will be the case in the near future, a
vertical shaft? Is almost a neccesslty. But the task will not be
a difficult as some might surpose. for Superintendent Lloyd in
ends to raise from the several levels ot the mine at the same
time and by this means the hole will be punched through to the
surface In quick order.
Unless facilities for electric power are available In the camp In
the meantime. It Is the purpose of the Prince Consolidated officials
to install a large steam hoisting plant
The company is shipping high grade ore to the smelters, the pro
duet coming from the lower levels of the mine.
NEVADA, SATURDAY,
On Proposed
Prince Con. Line
Route To Bonanzas (long tlK.Prince
Engineer Knces Amves On Sccce.
ions of satisfaction over the manner
In which the work of development Is
progressing under the direction of D.
R. Low and George K. Coxe.
The Golden Prince shaft has reach
ed the 500-foot point; a station
rut and preparation made to cross
cut from that level. A pleasing
change has occured In the face of
the two drifts on the 300-foot level.
At the Gold & Silver Prince, the
shaft - has passed the 100-foot mark
and la being shoved en to the deep
as fast as money and machinery can
do It. The electric plant was plac
ed in commission early In the week
and now the mines and buildings of
the two companies are supplied with
light from this source.
Work is being pushed on the Low
and Coxe residences. In a few days,
the boarding house to be used by
both companies will begin to as
sume form.
Among other improvmenta in con
templation. Is a alrger hoisting and
compressor plant for the Golden
Prince.
GETTING
f OR PERMANENT SHAFT 1
JUNE 19, 1909.
Still In Field
Zone-Chief
ROCHE Kill CELEBRATE
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH
Pioche will celebrate. At a rous
ing meeting of citizens last
Thursday evening at Thompson's op
era house, it was decided to prepare
cor two days festivities commemorat
ing the 133rd anniversary of the
birth of the nation. The meeting was
presided over by Ed. F. Freudeii'
thai, as chairman: while Charles A.
Thompson, acted In the capacity of
secretary. Various committees were
named; everyone got down to work
with the determination to make this
year's celebration the best ever.
The amusement committee is ar
ranging a good program or sports; ap
propriate literary exercises will be
held and nothing left undone
to make the day an enjoyable one for
the children.
The consensus of opinion at the We
nesday night meeting was that as a
safe guard against a destuctlve con
flagration in the town, that the fire
'tTJxf K8pe"dKW,,b:M0.?la. Campbell estate have given a bond
ever, there will be enough other
things to make up for the absence
of the night pyrotecnics.
Everybody ,1b invited to come and
have the time of their lives. The
Eagel will scream; Old Glory will
be unfurled to the breezes. Remem
ber Pioche Is the place to celebrate
this year.
DUPONT MURDER CASE.
The preliminary hearing of Ernest
Dupont, charged with the murder of
Ernest Davis at Oneota, was called
In Justice Perkin's court at 10 o'clock
this morning. The defendant'smoth
er has arrived from Pocatello and
will remain until the case is dispos
ed of.
About ten witnesses arrived from
Oneota last evening.
Nw Paper At E Hands.
The Record is in receipt of a
copy of the Ellendale Star, a paper
just established at the new gold
camp of Elelndale, about 25 miles out
of Tonopah. Llndley C. Branson, pro
prietor of the Tonopah Sun, is the
editor and publisher. The Star ' Is
a live sheet and is boosting for th
the camp of Ellendale for all It Is
worth.
No. 38
OREGON
PIOCHE
RESUMES
Contract Let and Work To
Be Med on High
land District
it Away
It will be good news to sharehold
ers of the Oregon-Pioche Mining com
pany to learn that the development
of its attractive property in the High
land district will be resumed right
away; a contract to sink the shaft
having been let to Mr. Frederick,
who has been employed In a similar
capacity at the Pioche King mine.
The shaft where the work is to
be performed Is not very far from
the portal of the tunnel where the
company for a time centered its en
ergies earlier in the year.
Oregon-Ploche officials claim that
an extension of the famous Mendha
fissure crosses their ground and judg
ing from surface indications, there
seems to be no question about it, as
the vein is easily tracable from the
very (Midlines of the Mendha length
wise across the Oregon-Ploche ground
H. W. Rand, president, and one of
the principal shareholders in the cor
poration, arrived from Portland, Ore.,
several days ago and after consulta
tion with local stockholders, the de
cision to resume opratlons - was
made. Work was Btopped on the prop
erty several months ago, or at the
time of the destruction of the boil
er house at the mine through the can
lesness of an employe In p'actng a
box of giant powder too near tliu fire
to thaw it out.
MINING NOTES FROM THE
CAMP OF SEARCHLIGHT.
(Searchlight Bulletin.)
Consummating one of the most Im
portant of the late mining deals In
thla aa,.lnn I VI Uu la . wl f Iw. Allan
and lease running for two yearsB on
the Gold Bronze and Gold Bar, free
milling gold properties in Vanderbllt
district, San Bernardino county, to A.
L. White and associates of Lima, O.,
for $550,000.
The first dredger ot the Colorado
River Dredging Co., has been com
pleted and yesterday, General Man
ager H. J. Myera, accompanied by At
torney Leon French and Mr. J. J. Mo
Laughlln, passed through Searchlight
enroute to the canyon for the purpose
of formally taking over the plant.
The bullion shipments out of
Searchlight for the last current
month were the largest ever hand
led by Agent Pollard during the
14 months he has been In charge. De
tailed figures being unavailable
It would be unfair, possibly, to at
tempt a tabulated estimate, but in
general the Bulletin estimates that
the combined mills and leases are
working on an average of 225 tons
of ore daily. Fifteen dolalrs a ton
Is a conservative average for this
ore, making a dally production of
13375, or In round terms, $100,000 a
month.
Assessor Roeder and Bob Lund bad
business In the northern part of the
county this week.
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