The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-07-04

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ores to keep them going. The Lemon
mill. which has been under attachment
for some time. will start Monday morn
ing with a large force of men overhaul
ing and getting matters into shape after
its period of enforced idleness. The
mill has a capacity of 40 tons daily,
operating ten stamps with cyanide
plant.
Getting $40 Ore
Charles Madigan is taking out a good
grade of milling ore from his lease on
the Daisy at Round Mountain. which
averages $40 per ton. He has about
three feet of this kind of pay rock.
They are piling the ore on the dump
awaiting the Solid Gold lease mill to
be completed. The contract for the
finishing of the mill is fixed for August
10. and when finished will have a sixty
ton capacity.
Putting in Plant at Belmont
II. B. Starbird, NJ. F., of Los Angeles,
general superintendent of the Security
Reduction company of Belmont, was In
camp last Friday on his way to Tono-
pah to forward machinery for the plant.
The Security Reduction company owns
nine patented claims and has eighteen
bv location on which there are seven
dumps with an aggregate tonnage OF
about 10000 tons of milling ore. The
company is now installing a l90-h.p.
Westinghouse and Weber gasoline en-
CINE. and in addition to the 90 stamps
now in place, is putting a Fuller mill
with matchmaking and concentrating
tables which will have an ultimate
capacity of so tons per day. A part of
the machinery is now on the ground and
the remainder is expected to arrive in
such time as to enable the company to
begin milling about the 18th of July
next.
Forty-four Ounces in Five Days
Desmond, Kelly and Hoffman, work
ing a combination dry wash and placer
machine on the Riley fraction adjoining
the Stray Dog at Manhattan, in a little
less than FIVE days washed out A
ounces in gold. AS they have only re-
Gently started operations in the gulch,
there is every reason to believe that
they will eventually prove up one of
the biggest dry wash and placer prop
o~sitions in the camp.
Black Jack Lease
The Bittroff company's lease on the
Black Jack claim has started work
again on the 223-foot level. 1t is the
intention of the company to push the
work in the north drift at this level as
fast as possible.
Consolidated
Sunday steam was gotten up at the
Consolidated and the water was pumped
out of the shaft. Superintendent
Thomas states that a force of miners
will be put to work in about two weeks
breaking down and stopping out the ore
for the mill. At present the bins at the
mine are filed with ore, but there is
not near enough brought up as yet to
fill the 1,5OO-ton contract with the
Peterson mill.
Company Is Corporated
Articles of incorporation of the
Smoky Valley Mining and Leasing com
pany nave been filed. The capital stock
is 100000 and the incorporators are w.
b. iPttman, w. c. Lamb and c. Z.
Howard, all of Tonopah.
Thelma Resumes
Stewart and associates started to
work on a lease on the Thelma Monday
morning. Almost TIE first pick stick
into the ground brought out high gra'lc
silver o-e. A little more worl; and d
body of Gre 2 feet thic.1 was disclosed.
a. ;1at was necessary to get 1T iii
ore was to shovel off a few inches of
dirt on the surface. In four hours
time the lucky ~leasers had over 3Ha
tons of ore out and ready for sacking,
The silver bubbles out all over the rock
when it is roasted. 1t is estimated that
the values will run between $3.50 and
$500 in silver and about two ounces in
gold per ton.
Will Remodel Mill
The plant of the Nevada Milling and
Ore Purchasing company, commonly
known as the Lemon mill, was turned
over this week to Messrs. +. l.. Berry
and H. M. Roche, of Tonopah, who have
taken an option and lease on the plant.
The work of %remodeling the mill will
begin at once and the new manage
mcnt announces that the stamps will
again be dropping within three weeks
time.
New Ledge Struck
Last Friday a 1-foot ledge was struck
in the drift at a depth of lis feet in
the workings of the Moore ucanovich
lease on Union No. 8. The ore will
average about $50 per ton. The strike
was made about 80 feet in the drift.
Twenty tons of the rich ore are now on
the dump and ready for the mill. A
run of ore from this lease made about
a month ago netted the owners a little