The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-01-11
ERA OF MILL BUILDING in
THE BULLFROG DISTRICT
rroxEEn MILL

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rangements to install a cyanide plant
and mining machinery at once. 1t will
be a 25-ton plant to begin with. but this
capacity will be increased to meet de
velopment demands. 1t is expected by
the end Of the first year to have a plant
which will treat at least $50 tons of ore
a day. In addition to this the company
has ordered a 15-horse power hoist. and
expects later to install a compressor
plant.
A Blake crusher will be used for re-
ducing the ore before 1t enters the solu-
ton. The ore is soft and porous. carry
ing fine gold occurring in the ~cleavages
and crushing to an eight or ten-mesh is
all that Is required. 1t has been demon
strated hat the values can be saved
by his process. Development was
started at the property this week and
the company expects to v its plant in
operation by February I.
The characterizing features of the
lease is an immense body of low grade
ore. The width of the vein is from 80
to SO feet. the ore Is to 40 feet and. de-
velopment has proved the vein for a
length of 600 feet and to a depth of ITO
feet. The values are gold running from
IS to SIS. An open cut can be run above
the portal of the present tunnel. and the
ore literally quarried. Mining and re-
duction costs will be reduced to a mini
mum. The management estimates that
$3.50 a ton will cover the combined ex-
pense, thus insuring the profitable treat
ment of the entire body.
The has just been organized
with ]. r. Bryan. president and George
X. Vaughn. secretary and treasurer. Mr..
Bryan will assume full management of
the mine and Mr.. Vaughn will act as
business agent and give his personal at
tention to the milling of the ore. He is
already in communication with a cyanide
man to take charge of this department.
The mpa is Incorporated for
1000, 900 shares with 400. 900 in the
treasury. Two hundred thousand shares
of promotion stock has already been dis
posed of to handle the cyanide plant and
hoist.
GOLD BAR MILL
Superintendent L. E. Bedford a he
has been promised power at the new
Gold Bar mill by the Nevada-C California
Power within the next ten
days. The branch line which Is to carry
electricity to both the Gold Bar and
Homestake mills is nearing completion.
The Gold Bar mill is completed,
locked up and ready to run. Another
contingency. however, is the non-arrival
of the pumps for the water system.
These were ordered in plenty of time.
but have been lost in transit. They are
being traced, and Superintendent Bed
ford hopes that they will be on hand and
installed by the time the electric people
are ready to turn on the current. He
says the company has spent $40 wiring
to try to locate them and he thinks this
certainly should bear fruit.
HoHEsTAxE MILL
w. B.. Milliken, who has charge of the
construction Of the Homestake mill,
says e~xcavating for the foundation is
almost finished and that the cement
work Is under way.
Two cars of material have been
shipped from Denver, and their delivery
is expected in a short time. The work
is being pushed forward as rapidly as
possible.
BULLFRoo KEYSTONE
The main work on the Bullfrog Key
stone has been sinking the shaft on a
ledge to a depth of 100 feet, then cross
cutting 100 feet TO a parallel ledge
which was tapped at a depth of 80 feet,
the ledge is well defined three to four
feet in width carrying good values.
The work has been temporarily
stopped while deciding the best plan of
future development.
The company has had the ground n
workings carefully examined by expert
enced mining engineers, who have rec
commended the sinking of the main work.
ing shaft to a depth of $50 feet, or until
the native country rock is reached, then
again crosscut to the parallel ledge.
Hon. A. P. Bradstreet. president of the
says that the work as recon-
mended by the engineers will be com
menced within a very short time n
prosecuted as rapidly as possible until
completed.
BIG BULLF1oG
l.. De Sallier, who is interested in the
Big Bullfrog Mining company, owning
seven claims in the vicinity of the Orig
inal Bullfrog and the West Extension.
has just completed the annual assess
ment work. He says it is the intention
Of the company to start permanent work
In a short time.
The ground will be thoroughly pros
pected to ascertain the most suitable
place for beginning development.
AMA1aosA
Gil Bennett has finished the annual
work on the Amargosa. below Bullfrog;
on the Ventura group, near the Big Bull
frog, and on the Frisco group, in the
Indian springs section.
He intends doing some more work at
the Amargosa shaft, and will probably
start permanent operations at that prop
erty in a short time.
GIBRALTAR
Fred Moesser, of Phillips & Moesser.
leasers on the Gibraltar, avs that a de-
cided improvement has taken place In
the ore being taken from their block OF
ground, and that average values are
higher han ever.
The ore is being assembled and the
leasers expect to make another ship
ment before very long. AS mentioned
in the Miner. their first carload shipment
was made to Salt Lake. December %.
The car reached it's destination Decem-
Der %. but they have not yet received
the smelter returns.-Bullfrog Miner.
Gwynne," a play of the famous "Old
Drury' of London made famous in this
| country by Ada Cavendish, the great