The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-12-30

business standpoint. and specu
lations as to the possibilities of '98
in local way, from the same st7ud-
point, occur to the mind OF many
and are also frequently mentioned
in conversation etc.
That the closing year has been 10y
far the quietest which Phoebe hns
ever experienced, all are ready to
admit. 1t found US detected from
the continued low price of silver
and without any means of working
at profit any of the middle or low
grade ores OF which there is such an
abundance in and about the camp.
A remedy has been found for this
last difficulty, and everything indi-
Gates that not only during '9S but
for years thereafter old Phoebe
will be steady bullion producer.
The opening up of large deposit
of medium grade ore in the Ynba
mine of the Phoebe Con Cos group,
and the discovery of method of
treatment by which nearly all its
value can be extracted, is the starter.
We refer to the work prosecuted |
through the old Pacific tunnel east
of the Meadow Valley st, summit,
and the operations which have been
going on for some time past at the
old mill. This ore will average
twenty per cent lead and carries from
81. to $l5. per ton in gold. Very
little of it can be sorted down close
enough to pay for shipment to Salt
Lake but by first concentrating, then
teaching the residue with cyanide by
agitation, very close extraction is
obtained.
The process is one which the
Godbe boys have been experiment.
ing with for two years past and the
works here are the first in which it
has been used on anything of large
scale.
Wiley concentrating tables are
used and their work is SO perfect that
nearly sixty per cent of the ore values
are secured by this alone. The rills
are then run into agitators and al
lowed to settle to remove surplus of
water when cyanide solution is put
on and the whole agitated for several
hours, when the settling is fastened
by chemical solutions, the upper
liquor drawn of, and that in the ore
drawn through by suction from be-
| low.
1t was experiments with this
method which neceisitated remodel
the mill three times in tn Q
past year, but the main diff
ficultiee appear now to be overcome
and the process is so satisfactory that
half the old dumps in town will be
worked over at profit, while there
are thousands upon thousands oftons
of ore stored away in the old work
ings of the mines hereabouts which
can be made to pay profit when
worked in this way.
Unless cold weather interferes, moi
less than fifty men will be working
in the mine and mill a month hence
and with that number under regular
pay we predict that many an ole
PiocheR will be making his way bach
here before spring.
But we are not confined entirely
to Phoebe for our hopes of 1898
Several outside district are steadil.
coming to the front despite the low
price of silver and heavy transporta
ton charges. Among the first is OLE
Comet district to the west. TIL
Lyndon claim and those adjoinin,
promise to be steady shippers. TIL
Lyndon has been worked by tn
Prudential boys for three year,
past, except for few months las
summer when it was leased to job
Vietti. 1t is one of the claims tina
has paid from the grass roots down
though only part of the ore eS
tracted has been shipped. The ship
ments made have averaged over 20
ounces silver to the ton. This OF
has all gone to the Salt Lake marke
The wagon haul permitted onl
I the best ore to be shipped and til
! dump which alone if estimated t.
7 contain 5000 tons, would pay goo
profit itself is silver were worth BIZ
! 80 cents. The claim is big bio
! out in lime and iron gangue, an
} like the Day mine, would be spler
did shipper for smelling purposes
il we only had rail facilities.
The old original Comet mine ais
,, in this district has improved wonde,
fully of late and promises soon to |
steady producer.
Jos. Poujade and Mark Churic
are keeping up their claims thel
and will undertake considerab
? work next February.
? West of town and within TO,
miles we have the Half Moon grou
of the Phoebe Con. Co; the OF
Timer group, and Bob Scho6eld
e and other claims, all of which carr
. gold in sufficient quantities to NAL
b them paying properties under Il
n new methods Of reduction.