The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-12-03
Discoveries at Silver
Peak and Twin Rivers
Nevada Mining Lands
Continue to Give
Rich Returns

TONoPAH, Dec. 2.-The manage
nent of the Montana Midway Exten-
sion mine has announced that cross
cut will be started from the 63o-foot
level. The work will be taken up in a
few days. From the formation Of the
ground il is thought that valuable ore
bodies will DE found by the new work
The company has been intending 10
start this search for ore for some time.
The appearance Of the ground has inn
proved steadily as the shaft was sent
deeper.
The Valcalda Silver Peak property.
at silver Peak, is being delayed be-
cause no gasoline can be had at any
price at this time. The big pump that
the company has put in at distance OF
six miles from the mine TO supply the
mill with water, is TO be operated by
q rasoline engine, and this is in place,
but the fuel shortage makes IL impos-
sible 10 start UP. Snow has added TO
the delay by making heavy hauling
practically impossible, ano also oy
burying the millsite from view
The grading for the mill is near COM
nfetiou. The plant is en- route, but de-
laved by freight congestion. Work in
The mine continues to be satisfactory.
The compressor is in place and as soon
as water for the cooling jackets is at
hand the machine can be started Nj.
J. O'Meara. the principal owner of the
property, under whose direction all
work has been done. expects to dupli-
cate mis- performance with the Nevada
Alpine mine at Lone Mountain in the
early DAYS of the New Nevada, and
make the Valcalda the first dividend
payer Of its section The Nalcalda
stock is held by q close corporation
and has never been listed or sold to
any one outside o. the company.
Moore & Chapman. the owners Of
the 25-ton custom plant which is in
operation on Shoshone Creek. mile
and a half from Round Mountain, have
decided 10 double the equipment or
the mill. bringing its daily output to
fifty tons. A new Huntington mill
viii be installed at once. Specifica-
tions for the new machinery have
been received. The leasers about
Round Mountain are eager 10 get their
ore 70 the mill and the plant has never
been allowed to stop since it was
started. Results from the mill have
oeen good 1t has been found possible
70 treat the rock without great ex-
pense.
Work on the Round Mountain Min
ing Company's fifty-ton plant is pro-
crossing rapidly. The foundations
have been completed and several Of the
timbers for the frames are on the
ground. The mill will be devoted eX-
clusively TO the treatment Of the COM
panv's ore, and it has been found nee
essary to enlarge the plant
Thomas Wilson, who has taken out
more than $50, 600 with dry wash plac-
er machinery on the Sunnyside and
other claims at Round Mountain, has
been experimenting and testing the
piles of tailings from his dry washers.
and ne states that II will be possible
to send the whole mass through the
mill at a profit. The dry washers have
taken out all the coarse gold. but he
finds that the surface dirt from his
leases is so rich in the yellow metal
that the machines could not save 1t
all.
The sale OF the California Tonopah
mine 10 R. C Hall of Pittsburg. has
aroused no little speculation here The
property has been steadily worked for
some time. It is well equipped and
but recently a good ore body was
opened up on the 150-foot level This
rock was Of good value and Of con-
siderable extent and the present work
in the mine consists Of an effort TO
locate the same shoot at lower depth
IN the shaft. Many sacks Of ore have
been piled in one of the drifts from
the 4OO-foot station in the shaft. The
property is favored locally, and il ap-
pears to be the belief Of the mining
men Of this section that ii viii eventu-