The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-08-11
THAT OTHER coMsTocK.
Goldfeld Making a Brave Effort to
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flnd III.
Every new mining camp that has
been discovered in Nevada for the
past few years has been heralded to
the world as another Comstock. That
other Comstock that produced $780,
O0O,0 600 has not yet been found. 1t
NAV have been but the mining world
will have TO be shown. The other
Cripple Creek was discovered when To-
nopah got a place on the map four
wears ago. but no mining man of other
states believed it at the time. Hun
dreds of them nave been convinced
that it is a fact in the past year. Lat
er on came the discoveries at Goldfeld
and a yell was sent up by the locators
of the Jumbo, January and Florence,
and a dozen other producers, that the
district would prove to be "A greater
one than the Virginia City district.
They felt as though it would be a sac
rilege to compare it with Tonopah or
Cripple Creek, and Judging by what
has been done here in the mines in the
past eighteen months they did not
miss their guess. Locators are Dig
cling away, new discoveries are being
made almost daily, and the enthusiasts
are of the belief that the glory of the
Comstock will yet be e%clipsed by the
production of Goldfeld.
Thousands of competent miners and
mining men have looked into the min
eral possibilities of the camp in the
past year and hundreds of experts and
newspaper writer's have had occasion
to express their opinions in regard to
Goldfeld. They came from all sections
Of the country, but especially from the
gold and silver producing states and
territories, and with one or two ex-
ceptions they were of the same opin-
ION, viz. that Goldfeld was the banner
mining district that had been found
III any part of the world for a score
of wears or more. To bear out the
predictions of the newspaper writer's
and the mining experts, the miner mas
been busy all summer welding the
pick. pounding the drill and shoveling
the dirt. 1t has been hard work pros
p~ecting on the surface for the past
three months on account of the intense
heat. With a thermometer lowering
around 100 in the shade the prospector
has been severely handicapped. Still
what has been accomplished By the
men of Drawn in this desert country
in the past ninety days, where not a
drop of water has fallen from the
clouds, has been a revelation to all.
New discoveries nave been made in
all directions from the first finds. and
the producing area of the district has
been stretched miles in every direc-
tion. Mills and railways are coming.
Gasoline hoists are being put in dai-
ly to take the place of the windlass.
Owing to the freight blockade, which
has been more or less in evidence for
the past year on the line of railway
running between Reno and Tonopal,
machinery of all kinds ordered for the
mines has been almost impossible to
after it was ordered. Mining timbers
for gallows frames could not be bought
at any price, and even the ordinary
sized timbers for ore houses and that
used in timbering shafts have been
hard to secure. For instance, the ore
house at the Florence has been under
it is not finished yet on account Of
the management not being able to get
lumber. Pumps were needed in some
of the mines to handle the small water
flow, but only by heroic measures were
a few secured, and some of them We're
hauled by wagon over the desert tor
hauling was no little expense, but they
were wanted, and the ore to pay for
the extra cost was quickly yanked out
when the shafts We're freed of water.
No big flow OF water has vet been en-
countered in any of the mines, and
those who are in a position to talk
advisedly on the subject say that a
depth of at least 1000 feet will have
to be reached before water will be-
come a serious problem. Long before
anything like this depth is reached the
mines will be supplied with sufficient
electric power to run the largest kinds
of station pumps.
The new railway from Tonopah will
be completed into the camp before the
first of September, and as it is a broad
guage road the annoying delays in Sc
curing timber and machinery will be
done AWAY with Scores of ShaftS