The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-23

Company has been under his guidance at
the mines.
Esmeralda County borders the eastern
slope OF the Sierra Nevada Mountains
and is attracting general attention in
the mining world Of to-day. The noun
tain ranges are thoroughly impregnated
with mineral deposits Its prominence
as mining section was first reached
through Aurora, which produced many
millions. 1t was followed by the rise of
Candelaria, a camp that in the early
SOS added about $50, 900 to the stock
of precious metals.
Sodaville, in Esmeralda County on the
Carson and Colorado division of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, is the center
distributing and shipping point for one
of the richest mining districts in the
State. Connection is made with Tonopah
Railroad for Tonopah Goldfeld and
Southern Nevada Within five miles of
Sodaville Oh the northern slope of Mount
Messiah on the most eastern spur of the
Excelsior range, 1000 feet elevation, are
twenty-five claims, property of the Van
Duzer-Douglass Mining Company. This
group of mines is on the spur of the
Sierra Nevada Mountains, near the CEN
ter of the great California Nevada zone
made famous by Bodie; the Pamlico and
"
Yer Peak and characterized by three
prominent features: First, output; sec
ond, high values; third large ore bodies
The output of this zone has been $780,
600, O05. Its possibilities are unlimited
float found by Robert Stewart of Soda
vile, near the Gem mine, which is about
$500 feet from the Van Duzer-Douglass
mines, represented a value of 500, 900 per
ton.
The Van T,,ze-no,oIoSS ,-ro,,r ooY,
prises series of gold bearing quartz
lodges, with general parallelism run
ming nearly east and west The lodges
vary from two to fifteen feet in width
The topography of the property and
development of the veins are such that
very accurate knowledge as to guam
tity Of ores and the values can be OBJ
tanned at a considerable depth. Sew
eral veins have been opened by shafts
and crosscuts to depths of from 100 to
400 feet The same veins are clearly
defined on the surface and have been
worked to various depths through the
property.
The ores of this district resemble
those Of the celebrated mine at Bodie,
Cal, and are generally of a soft de-
composed quartz, yielding readily to
free milling plates and amalgamation
process, the cheapest method of ore re-
duction. The gold is free and consid-
cred very fine. This company has about
$50, 200 worth of tailings which are to
be treated by the cyanide process
In July, 1904, the section was visited
by terrific cloudbUrst that did con-
siderable damage TO the workings of
| the property. Several hidden lodges
were laid bare and recently a few of
them have been opened up to a depth
of from four to six feet from the sur
e, I, II. ~
from samples taken running from $2I
10 $175, nearly all of the values being
in gold. Ten samples from varioue
portions of one new ledge averaged
S65 in gold and SO in silver. 1t is es-
timated that at least $4,000, 600 can be
extracted from this group of mines.
According to the United States Mint
receipts 100000 has been taken out
on this property since its discovery in
1898. While the amount extracted was
large in the aggregate, the work hav-
ing been done largely by individuals
and with no capital or concerted eff
fort, was sufficiently simply to dem
onstrate the large ore bodies, many of
the veins being merely scratched over.
The property has been looked upon
as one of great promise.
Within eight miles the Garfield Min
/ ing Company produced $4,000 600. The
! Van Duzer-Douglass Company has at
present a fve-stamp mill on the ground
which is used to make small runs of
ore from 100 to 200 tons
The company has but recently ac-
quired this valuable property. Con-
! tracts have been let for a large hotel
and Office building to be constructed at
| the mines, and as soon as completed
the working force will be increased to
/ about twenty miners.
A 70O-foot triple compartment shaft
4 is to be started at once, with hoist
capable of sinking 1000 feet, while
/ later on a ffty-stamp mill will be
erected, with accommodations for 100
stamps.
Water and fuel are available in suf-
fcient Quantities.
A very prominent mining engineer
after making an examination of the
/ property, stated that it was capable of
working 100 men for. 100 years with a
100-stamp mill.
The officers. and principal owners of
! the Van Duzcr-Douglass Mining Com
pany are Congressman c. D. Van Du-
ger, Tonopah, New, president; Allan
/ Benny, Bayonne, y. J., secretary: Con-
/ gresham Harry Maynard, Portsmouth.
Va; John L. Watson, Portsmouth, Va:
| Judge Herman Lazarus, Bayonne. N. T.
The Bounce mine. comprising twenty
acres, property of the Van Duzer-
/ Tonopah Mining and Investment Con,
pany, of which Congressman C. D. Van
Duzer is president T. e. Van Duzer
secretary and John B. Alderman gen
eral manager, is a developed mine and
a producer, it having produced 100000
depth of 400 feet has been reached