The San Francisco call., 1906-10-16
News of the Mining
Camps Of Nevada.

GOLDFIELD. Oct. 15.-This post
office Is doing a stamp business of
$4,000 year or $4,000 in excess Of
the minimum required in a frst-class
ONCE To attend to this business there
are but twelve men-postmaster, as
sistant postmaster and ten clerks. a
force inadequate for the work. During
July. August and September the stamp
sales amounted to s13,50s.3S. gain
of $720s.sS over the corresponding
period of last year, while the Septem-
Der business exceeded that of July by
$2534.53.
The business for the first five days
of October amounted to s316S.S5. II
these figures do not show the growth
of Goldfeld 1t may be that the money
order business will give a better in
sight into conditions. During the
month of September domestic money
orders for $4S,103.72 were Sold as well
as foreign orders for ST406.37.
There is no hope of the office re-
the flrst-class rank which It's business
demands until the expiration of the
fiscal year. June 80. 1907.
On the Claybourne lease on the Flor
ence the Lord Bros. have established
a new record for fast sinking by sink
ing and square setting sixty feet OF
shifts have been employed, and II they
keep up the rate they will be in sui
phides within the next week. They
have the ledge opened up for 300 feet
and have turned the lease over to the
Goldheid Red Wing Mining Company.
The Hayes-Monnette lease on the
Mohawk holds the record of a produc-
ton OF $500, 900 in thirty days, or at
ha ~ These
leasers have but three months more
and are making the most of the time,
so that October will beat September.
The same conditions exist at the Tru-
ett, Curtis, Oddie, Mackenzie and Fran
ces Mohawk leases on the same mine,
and none of the leasers will be able
to get more than a small portion of the
ore they have opened up.
The company shaft on the Mohawk
No. claim. which was sunk to make
connections with the Sheets-Ish lease
the Combination caved Monday
night. The shaft had not been In use
for several weeks, the company having
been excluded from that part of its
ground by an order of the court, owing
to the Sheets-Ish litigation.
It Is believed that water from the
slum pond of the Combination mill seep-
ing through the ground caused the
cave. The shaft, which is eighty feet
deep and cost several thousands of dol
lars, is destroyed and the gallows
frame tilted out of perdendicular. No
one was working in that part of the
mine at the time.
Work is being pushed on tunnel No.
1 Of the Excelsior Copper Company's
property, sixteen miles southeast OF
Hawthorne, and 1t is at present in 400
feet, which gives 1t depth of $40 feet
at the face. The formation Is soft,
white limestone, highly permeated
with copper, and II Is expected to reach
the main ore body by January /. Work
on tunnel No. is being retarded by
lack of timbers. When they arrive
work will go on with three shifts.
Much of the ore runs per cent cop
per. The crosscut tunnel on the Bo-
nanza claim Is now In fifteen feet of
ore and seven feet of this averages Z
per cent copper and thirty ounces of
silver to the ton. Secretary J. H.
Suits of San Francisco and Joseph
Mulvey OF New York have just re-
turned from a visit to the mine. J. H
Furness, mining engineer, formerly
OF Mexico, now with the Federal Ex-
ploration Company, has just inspected
the property and states that he is
greatly surprised at the showing made.