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The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

in the center three claims wide.
Then come two claims each on
the east and west, and then one
claira on each end.
1t is very rare to find q group
so judiciOusly located to cover
any probable future discoveries
as the property is developed. It
is generally the case that when
a valuable mine has been worked
for a time, and ore disclosed,
contiguous ground has had to be
purchased at enormous figures.
Present indications point to an
extremely valuable property in
the Mendha. and the company is
to be congratulated upon the
foresight evidenced in securing
ground to cover in advance prob
able disclosures.
1t is of interest that the east
ern extension of the Mendha
group is owned by the Milwau.
kee company, while still east of
that comes the property recently
sold by the Pioche-Nevada Con-
solidated company and generally
known as the Point Group. The
next extension on the west is
covered by the Oregon -Pioche
and west Of that again is the
X-Ray group.
The geological conditions of
the Highland district, where
these claims are situated, are
very promising. Mr.. Cook de-
scribes the situation as suggest
ing a a checker board, where
east and west assures intersect-
ing those running north and
south cut the bedded veins up
into squares with, as we under
stand him, a double throw, one
along the east and west assures
and the other along the bedding
planes.
Already three of these bedded
fissures have been disclosed in
the Mendha workings and ore
produced in each intersection,
although the principal work SO
far, has been done on the inter-
section of the transverse fissure
and the bedded vein, from which
> the ore is now being extracted.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

duct of the Mendha came from a
a transverse fissure dipping but
few degrees from the vertical.
This issure has been exploited
for a distance of seven hundred
feet in length and to an equal
depth on the incline shaft. The
ore came from lenticular bodies
made in the limestone near the
intersection of the transverse
fissure with a bedded vein.
Last July further exploration
of the vertical vein was stopped
and work began on the bedded
vein. To the great surprise and
delight Of the management this
bedded vein has proven highly
mineralized and has yielded uni
formly good value in gold, silver
and lead. One car sent out re-
turned $50 in gold, 60 ounces in
silver and 30 per cent lead. The
average of one thousand tons
sent out since this bedded vein
was opened, has been 25 per
cent lead, 18 ounces silver and
$18 gold, per ton. Thirty-five
tons a day are now going out.
Of course, the ore is charged
with a wagon haul of $3.50 a
ton. This will be mostly cut off
when a spur track is laid to the
mine, which is In contemplation
for next spring.
At present work is being prose
cuted 100 feet southwest of the
shaft and 80 feet northeast.
The faces of ore are eight and
three feet thick, respectively;
the northerly face, although
showing a thinner seam, runs
considerably higher in gold thar
the other. A drift has beer
started south from the 75O foot
station in the shaft. It is thu
plan to bring all the ore down Il
that level and to hoist it from
that station.
The company owns nine claims
Five are on the central vein
which can be traced the entire
distance. The workings are OF
the central claim. Bordering
this on both the north and soutl
is a claim, making the property
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

New developments Of startling
character have been following
each other in the Prince during
recent months. This week Man
ager William Lloyd brought in
some ore from there, which runs
over seventeen hundred ounces
of silver to the ton. He says it
occurs in considerable quantities
in one of those vertical veins
which he is developing on the
fourth level. Mr.. Lloyd has
been here for twenty years, and
is familiar with every foot of the
workings on the old hill from
which the Raymond & Ely and
the Meadow Valley companies
took their ore which yielded mil
lions in dividends. He asserts
positively that the showing on
the fourth level of the Prince
exceeds the best showing ever
made in those old mines; that
the ore is of the same general
character, and averages richer
and stronger than it did then.
There are three Of these rich
veins on that level, one just
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Thirty-five Tons Daily
From the Mendha
OrOwng Richer AS Work PROCESSES On This One of the
Richest Mines In This District = '"e

Among the institutions of rap
idly growing Importance in this
camp, is the Mendha Mining
company. This week we had a
most interesting interview with
John R. Cook, the general man.
ager, and gathered from him the
following historical sketch:
The Mendha was one Of the
earlier discoveries in this district.
About 1872, it began a career of
production, which has continued
somewhat spasmodically ever
since. AS its ores have always
carried a high percentage of
lead, they have been in demand
for smelling purposes. AS early
as 1875, a smelter was built in
the Highland district, near the
mine, and considerable ore smelt-
ed. Them came a five stamp
mill with.pans and settlers, erect
ed near where Mr.. ]. B. Wheeler
now lives.
In 1877, a company under the
management Of Capt. H. H.
Day purchased the Jack Rabbit
mine, and when w. S. Godbe, in
the early eighties, began treat
ing custom ores with his Bullion
vile stailings, both the Mendha
and the Jack Rabbit, then own
ed by the same company, ship
ped a large tonnage to his
works. Later came the smelt-
ing town of Bristol, the ruins of
which now lie near the Bristol
wells. The Mendha, Jack Rab-
bit, and several mines now own
ed by the Bristol Consolidated
were the sole source of supply OF
an enterprise which thrived fol
years and supported a large pop
ulation. In 1892 came the smell
ter down near the present Pi.
oche depot, built and operated by
the Phoebe Consolidated Mining
and Reduction Co. The Mendhs
furnished to this smelter the
larger part of all its lead ores
After that smelter closed dowr
some ore was shipped out to Mil
ford and sent to Salt Lake VALLEY
smelters, and still later via Mo
| dena.
Up to last July the entire pro
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
John A. Kirby
Buys Belcher

j. A. Kirby and his associates
purchased, this week, the Bel
cher group of six claims, which
adjoins on the west, the Prince,
the Rosey group and the Golden
Prince. These distinguished
mining men, who have been the
prime factors in producing many
of the most noted mines of Utah
and Nevada, have now gathered
together in compact group all
the territory to the west, north
and east of the Prince Consoli-
dated. 1t is already proven that
the Prince is to be one of the
great producers of Pioche's new
era. Some of the same indica-
tions which the Prince had on
the surface appear in the claims
of this new combination. 1t is
certain that the Prince deposits
cannot stop in the Prince ground.
They are too strong. j. S. Free,
through whom this latest sale
was effected, may we'll congrat-
ulate himself upon being the in
sitiator of several enterprises
here which are destined to prob
ably take first rank among oul
big new mines.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

An important transaction. one
in which Salt Lake mining men
figure conspicuously, was the sale
this week of the Ben Hampton
group of four mining claims over
on the Prince Consolidated side.
The purchase money was sup
piled by John A. Kirby, I. Hod-
son and w. H. Webber, who
became permanent fixtures in
Pioche when they purchased the
Rosy and other claims adjacent
to the Prince Consolidated, while
the vendor is William E. Harri-
son.
The Ben Hampton claims are
situated adjacent to the Abe
Lincoln group, which has also
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Development On
the Gold Eagle

John Janney, president of the
Phoebe Last Chance Mining Com
pany and the Pioche Mines Com
pany came in this week for a
few days visit. The Pioche
Mines company is sinking a shaft
on the Gold Eagle Consolidat-
ed to the 300-foot level. From
the station at that depth it is the
intention of the company to run
a cross-cut in towards the west,
and also, probably, to do some
prospecting with a diamond
drill. From the amount of ore
which has been already taken
from the bedded veins on this
property, it is evident that some
powerful mineralizing action has
taken place in that region, and
it is almost certain that diligent
exploration will reveal the places
where the ore has been concen-
trated into large volumes.
Mr.. Janney says that the off.
GERS of the company have the
greatest confidence in their pro
perty, and propose to continue
development diligently and per
sistently.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Important to
Stockholders

News came here this week IN
private letters that if stockhold-
ers in the Boston and Phoebe
Mining company desired to ex-
change their stock for shares in
the Scott Mines company it must
be sent for transfer to the Rhode
Island Hospital Trust company
at Providence, R. l., to reach
there not later than December
10Th.
Nothing official has been given
out here regarding the Scott
Mines company. From newspa-
per articles published elsewhere
it has been learned that the cap
ital stock of the company IS
5000, 900 shares of a par value
of one dollar each, that 1t de
rives it's name from A. W. Scott,
who is well known in Phoebe,
and has been an important fac
tor in real estate and mining op-
erations here, and that its pur'
pose is to acquire control OF va
rious mining interests with which
Mr.. Scott has been connected IL
this district, and also at Raw
hide, Milford and perhaps else
where.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Developing the
Iron Horse Group

Free Bros. and their associates
in doing assessment work on
their Iron Horse group have
found considerable ore, yielding
as high as 60 per.cent lead, and
Is ounces silver to the ton with
a high excess of iron and man
ganese. No ore could be more
desirable for smelling purposes.
This group is situated in the
Jack Rabbit range, opposite the
7mile post on the Phoebe and
Pacific rail road and about ! IL
miles from Stampede Gap. It
begins to looks as if there is
liable to be a mine every few
hundred feet from Phoebe to Brls-
tol, and them some.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Milwaukee Will
Resume Work

Manager J. B. Wheeler has
recently spent some time at Salt
Lake City in the interest of his
company, the Milwaukee-Pioche
Mining company. Beginning
the 10th of this month that COM
pany is to be listed on the Salt
Lake Mining Exchange. Mr..
Wheeler has already resumed
work on the property. He is
going to erect necessary build
ings and run a tunnel to inter-
sect the Milwaukee vein, which
is supposed to be the extension
of the main vein of the Mendha.
VIM. L. Pugmire went out
Thursday for a short business
visit to Salt Lake and other min
ing centers.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
NEVADA HILLS BUNCH
BUYS BEN HAMPTON
Group of Five Claims Taken Over This
Week By Salt Lakers.

come into the fold of Mr.. Kirby
and associates. By the acquisi-
ton of this property the big
Nevada Hills bunch" secures
1000 feet more along the strike
of the Prince vein in the region
lying between the Golden Prince
and the Demijohn mine. Joseph
S. Free was instrumental in
bringing the deal to a successful
conclusion and it has been
through him that practically all
the property now in possession
of Mr.. Kirby and associates has
been secured. Whether the Ben
Hampton group will form the
basis for another new company
or not has not been ascertained.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

the late developments in the
Prince Consolidated and Golden
Prince as being immensely i'm
portant. Like Mr.. Kirby, he
attaches much significance to the
disclosure of the porphyry dixie
last week in the Golden Prince
when viewed from a geological
standpoint.
With a chain of properties in
operation, he declares, from the
Prince Consolidated around to
the Ely Valley, to say nothing
about what is being done else
where, Mr.. Cook sees no reason
why Phoebe should not be a
mighty lively camp next year.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Metals Exploration
Starts Development
General Manager Frank B. Cook Arrives In Camp
Installs New Superintendent and Gets Things to Nov
ing at the Point Mine

the Point Property" said Mr..
Cook to the Record, and l feel
confident that it will respond to
development very satisfactorily.
1t looks good enough to spend
some money on. The work out
lined is on an elaborate scale. A
gasoline engine is to be installed,
when work viii be pushed for all
it is worth. /" +
Thomas ]. Hooper, who has
been lately in charge of a Cali
fornia mine, arrived Monday and
has been installed as superinten-
dent.
Mr.. Cook is enthusiastic over
the future of Phoebe and regards
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

Work has begun in earnest on
the Point Property, recently ac-
ouired by the Metals Explora-
ton Company of Salt Lake, Of
which Frank B. Cook is general
manager.
Mr., Cook arrived in camp Sun
day night with John A. Kirby
and Joseph S. Free and, on Mon
day, purchased lumber to be
used in the construction of a
number of mine buildings, which
will include an engine house,
boarding house, Office and other
buildings.
Il am very we'll pleased with
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

group of ten claims adjoining
the Golden Prince group on the
northeast. A plant including a
40 horsepower gasoline hoist,
and suitable buildings is to be
Immediately installed and sink
ing begun. Mr.. Weston will be
general manager for the COM
pany.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Sale of Jim
Crow Group

R. K. Cobb & Co., of Salt
Lake, this week purchased the
Jim Grow group of six claims,
adjoining the Point group on the
south, and lying between it and
the Demijohn group. The sale
was made through ]. S. Free.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05

Mr.. and Mrs; Geo. E. Coke,
Mrs. L. w. Denton and Mrs. A.
Foster of Caliente came up this
week to take in the bazaar and
enjoy for a few days the attrac-
tions of a live mining town.
The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1906-1908, 1908-12-05
Salt Lakers
Get Ten Claims

A. S. Fowler and associates Of
Salt Lake City, purchased this
week, from Ed. E. Weston and
John P. Thomas, the Swansea
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
Raise More TURKEYS

More turkeys should be raised on
our fasns. The idea that the turkey
needs TO be raised in half wild state
is founded on fact, but there is no
doubt that this tendency can be bred
out of it by persistent efforts on the
part of the raiser BY keeping flock
in confinement and constantly select
ing for breeders the birds that stand
confinement best, it would not take
many generations of turkey life to
bring about a decided advance in this
matter. A good many turkeys may
have to be sacrificed in the process,
but it is certainly possible to breed up
strain that will stand confinement
Such strain would prove of great
value to farmers who are no longer
able to follow the old methods of rails
ing turkeys. Either this must be
done or we must see the production
of turkeys decrease from year to
year.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
Wagon Box Hoist.

placed at the end of roller at top and
a smaller sprocket wheel, lower down,
to which the crank is attached
The two sprocket wheels are connect
ed with chain and rope drawn over
the roller and carried down to both
ends of the box, which are placed as
illustrated. This device is particularly
valuable, says Prairie Farmer, because
any ordinary boy will have no trouble
to load and unload very heavy wag-
on box or wagon rack. Such a device
as this has to be used in order to fully
appreciate it.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
HARROW YOUR WHEAT.


The custom of narrowing winter
wheat and rye when they have been
put in with a drill. as they should be,
is becoming more and more prevalent
every year. Many farmers are de-
tered from narrowing, partly because
ii is an innovation, a departure from
their previous methods, and the con-
servatism of the farmer usually keeps
him from adopting any method unless
he is shown pretty clearly why it is
a good one. Others are deferred be-
cause they think that narrowing will
probably injure the wheat. Not hav-
ing been accustomed to cultivate
wheat, they are loath to do SO. The
object of this article is to show why
farmers should harrow their wheat.
In many sections of the wheat coun-
try the crop is measured largely by
the amount of available moisture. If
the frost goes out and the spring
rains come a crust is formed on top
of the wheat fields. This crust gives
the most favorable conditions for the
evaporation of moisture. 1t is. brought
up by capillary action from far down
in the soil, passes out without hind
rance and the result IL that the wheat
begins to show signs of drouth, often
at the critical time when it is finishing
up its work. Narrowing breaks up this
crust; prevents the evaporation Of
moisture; stores it up, so to speak,
for use when the wheat is heading out
and forming its seed
Furthermore, this crust covering the
soil excludes the air. Wheat roots
must have air as well as the leaves, al
though not so great an amount. This
narrowing aerates the soil and gives
much more thrifty growth than it
would otherwise attain. Wheat needs
narrowing in the spring of the year
just as much as corn needs cultivating
when a crust has formed over the field
after a heavy rain.
The third reason for narrowing
wheat is to secure the proper depth
sown on the wheat stubble, says Wal
lace's Farmer. If grass seeds are
sown upon this hard crust, a portion
of them will probably roll into the
cracks and terminate, but on account
of lack of aeration of the soil they will
have a spindling growth. A large por-
ton of them will lie on the surface Of
the ground or be insufficiently covered.
Hence the way that will go farthest
to insure a stand of clover seed is to
give it covering by sowing it just be-
fore you harrow your wheat.
Don't be afraid of pulling out your
wheat by narrowing if you harrow
when the ground is in the right condi-
ton. We have narrowed wheat pretty
severely the last few years, but have
never injured 1t. An occasional stalk
will be pulled out, but the rest will
be cultivated and the final result is
thickening of the stand. One Of. the
strongest arguments for drilling wheat
is that drilled wheat can be narrowed
with the minimum of danger and the
maximum of profit
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05

the bitches and get away, AID an
hours sun and wind will dry IT,
No ruts are here to guide tie rain
fall to the bridge nor are there any de-
pressions in which the water Lay be
detained.
The bill shown in the first cture
is not SO we'll prepared for rain. The
chuck holes and pockets on It's face
viii fill with water and remain II that
condition until the wet can eyaporate.
And should the rain be a qucn. Aeavy
dashing one it will rush down tie cen
ter of the highway, cutting the ruts
deeper and adding to the &C. avity
Of its already -out-of-3hape cIos s-sec-
ton.
You will be astonished, writes d.
Ward King, in Breeders Gaze e, If
you will give a rutted clay hill i close
examination in a comparatively dry
time Select n day when a we'll
dragged road is dusty. Go to the deep
est rut on the neglected hill; the
ridges Of the rut will be baked as
hard as brick; the bottom of the rut,
the wheeltread provided it is a much
Travelled road, will be nearly as hard
as polished glass and will be darkly
iron-stained from the friction OF the
iron bound locked wheels of the loaded
wagons that rubbed their way DOWN.
Now half way between the CLASSY pol
ish and the brick-hard top, in the wall
of the wheelrut, insert the blaze Of
a penknife. Without a chance putty
like clay can be found before the Knife
blade penetrates to the handel Now
stand back, look on the two hard
surfaces at your feet, consider the
moist marble in the palm of your hand
and draw conclusions.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
CHICKS DEAD IN SHELL.
The Incubator as Sure of Its Hatch 40
IL the Hen.

Chicks dying is the only thing that
prevents 100 per cent. matches. | can
remember back to 40 years ago, when
hens made about the same average as
they do now. / can remember a GER
tain gate post that had for a mark
when disposing of the eggs that the
hens failed to hatch. Breaking the
eggs TO see what was in them was
never thought of then, and 1t Is not
yet, but when 1t comes to running in
cubators 1t is different thing.
l have seen people hatch 80 per
cent. and 80 per cent. of the fertile
eggs and worry over ten To 20 per
cent. dying in the shell, yet the same
party would perhaps inpocently admit
that the incubator did better average
work on all the eggs than the hens
had.
There is just this about 1t, says the
Farmers Review, when 80 per cent.
of the fertile eggs hatch and 20 per
cent do not hatch, it is evidence in it.
self that something was wrong with
the 20 per cent. or they would have
dioO why HOl lila III a lllllC
cool reasoning in comparing incuba-
tors with hens and do away with the
unjustified prejudices. Good incuba-
tors equal good hens, but neither can
hatch unhatchable eggs. If all fertile
eggs were hatchable then we would
simply waste time in selecting strong,
vigorous cockrels and hens. There
would be no use nor sense in select
ing fresh eggs, neither would freezing
or overheating them, before they were
put in the machine affect them.
These are stubborn, serious facts,
and not single reader of this paper
will dispute them, yet many wiki con-
tinue to throw the eggs that hens
can't hatch at the gate post and make
a post norton examination of the
eggs that are left in the incubator,
and, still more, they may unconscious
ly select eggs for the hens, and fill the
incubator with most any kind to make
up the numbers.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
Resin Lime Mixture.

Five pounds resin, l pound co CEN
trated I've, / pint fish oil, 8 gallons wa
Ter. Prepare stock solution by IA ting
the resin with the fish oil and or gal
Ion of water in kettle over ire.
Add the I've and about half the ater
and boil about one hour, or until the
mixture will unite with the cold tier.
Then add slowly enough cold Wa; r to
make a total of five gallons. When
spraying, take one gallon of IL So
luton and add three gallons of milk
of lime, -four ounces ii paris g eea and
1G gallons Of water
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05

the journey up or down the Hill was
dangerous to any vehicle in spite of
the slowest and most careful driving.
On the other hand another picture
shows a hill harder than that shown in
first picture, so smooth that the light
est or the heaviest loaded, vehicle
could travel it in safety at any rea-
sonablc rate of speed. But more i'm
portant than all else, the next rain will
merely dampen the top of it; all but
a very small proportion will run into
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1908-06-05
The Jaded Annette.

A jaded appetite is one of the ac-
compartments of spring. We get tired
of salt pork, warm bread and canned
something right out of the earth.
Your cows have pretty much the same
feeling, and the sooner you can get
them little green stun the better
they will like il.