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The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
IS PROGRESSING
ACCORDING TO THE HERALD

foot level are steadily progressing and
nothing more of interest can be said
while this dead work is being done.
Argentine
After a most successful shipment of
ore taken from the surface of the
Argentine No. i, Mrs. Helen Cottrell,
the owner of the ground, who is famil-
iarly regarded as the "Mother of
Hornsilver District" has begun work
with a goodly force to make the Argen-
tite a regular shipper. The ore has
yielded a good profit which will more
than suffice to pay for an extended de-
velopment Of the mine.
This is another one of the later dis
coveries of the camp, and it promises
to be as great as it is welcome.
Prince Jimmie Group
Capt. Alex. s. Prosky, with w. H.
Wiley and Dave Doherty, owners Of the
Prince Jimmie group, have begun de-
velopment work on one of the locations,
and intend to keep it up until the prop
erty is put into a producing condition.
The group is situated perhaps two and
a half miles west Of town on the lime
and granite contact. One vein shows
ore carrying gold and silver, from
which assays as high as 500 have been
secured. The other claims indicate the
same ore bearing qualities.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

For about four years Ellsworth Oldt
has been struggling along in an endeav-
or to induce the outside world, and
especially men of money, to invest a
small portion of their wealth in the
many promising prospects which sur
round the Cuprite district, located
about fifteen miles to the south of
GoIdfeld. So confident was he in the
buried treasures of the district that he
established a TOWNSHIP and made many
locations in the vicinity of the camp.
He also induced many Goldfielders to
become interested, but nom of them
could become imbued with the fact
that but little work was necessary to
demonstrate that there was a wealth OF
hidden treasure in the vicinity.
So, almost single handed and alone,
Mr.. Oldt has worked and schemed In
an effort to bring the camp to the at
t~ention of investors. 1t was not until
recently that he succeeded in inducing
a company of Los Angeles capitalists
TO take over on an option some of his
properties and develop them. The
Angelenos took nineteen claims and at
once began arranging for the develop
ing of a huge sulphur ledge. 1t may
be stated that Mr.. Oldt and partners
sold the claims for a bagatelle, know
ing full well that with proper develop
ment work one of the bonanza sulphur
mines of the west, and perhaps IN the
world. would be discovered.
The result of the new company Z
work has become the talk of the world
One of the greatest sulphur mines
known has been opened and those who
failed to take advantage of the oner'
ings made them at various times are
naturally kicking themselves on tne
ouiet; they take their medicine with
Good grace, and now want an opPor
unity to get in. But the golden op'
nortunity has in a measure passed and
those who get in now will be compelled
70 nav handsomely for their delay.
That the Los Angeles people made nc
mistake in taking the property they dio
is instaneed by the fact tina the las
shipment of sulphur returned the re
~markable statment that while the orr
ran 60 per cent sulphur there was aise
. return of 1882 in gold to the ton a
pretty good return as well as aS'0"'''
ing and cheering.
But Mr.. oldt knew of others ~
Kidd his time, and on Monday asst
,,;,h p. c. Kretz, purchased from D. y
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
ZEAL Is STILL ON

~. deal for the big Montezuma
~..srties. which has been negotiated
!, several months, has not yet been
.,mmmated, but Judge Gundry, who
!. tho superintendent and has local
.,,,ge of the properties, has received
.,,,mation from Boston that the sale
IN no doubt be completed before the
I'd of the year. In which event the
,aee will pass the remainder of his
,,rs in Salt Lake City, where his
sally has resided for many years.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
TO RESUME WORK

Active operations are to be started
at once by the Searchlight- Spokane
Mining & Milling company. This is in.
deed good news for Searchlight, as il
undoubtedly means the bringing in of
another mine for the district.
The physical conditions as shown by
the workings in the Spokane, as OBJ
served by the writer and many com
petent judges, indicate beyond any
reasonable doubt the existence of a
mine of great richness.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
MANHATTAN PROPERTIES
ARE GETTING GOOD ORE

The next ore to be run at the Veith
mill, after the 100-ton lot now being
run from the Crescent, and which will
be completed today, will be a cotton
lot from the Toro Blanco. The seven
stamps at the mill have been dropping
day and night since the mill was en-
larged. and now that the concentration
is installed there will be no let up. By
Saturday the Toro Blanco ore will be
out of the way, when'a 100-ton run will
be started from the Veith-Plamenaz
lease. The mill is working smoothly
and giving a good extraction.
Two Shifts at Work
Two shifts of miners are now work.
ing on the Sherman property on the
north side, sinking a doublc-compart-
ment shaft, which is now down As feet.
The ledge ON which the shaft is being
sunk is almost vertical and is 4 feet in
width. Down to the 42-foot point the
values run from "a to So per ton, but at
that point a number of stringers came
into the shaft that were rich in hema-
tite and these stringers ranging from
| to 3 inches in width have raised the
value of the ledge to about SIS. Free
gold appears in the hematite cubes and
i'm places outside the hematite free gold
is found in the quartz. The property
is improving and the management is
encouraged and pleased with the show
ings. In fact the owners of this par
~ticular ground are so well pleased with
it that they have taken an option on
six adjoining claims, the Sandwich,
Michigan and the X-Rays Nos. !, 2,
8 and 4. These claims were owned by
Sherman and Davis, original locators in
that part of the district.
Mott Lease
The Mott lease ON Union No 4 II
steadily working and blocking out ore
and saying little.
Starts Work
The Thanksgiving leasing company
has started work on the property. Al
present work is being confined to build
ing a 10000 gallon tank at the 350-fooi
level. TO be used to receive the watel
raised by the sinking pump.-Mai
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

, Clawson and w. II. Lutz, for a sum run
running well into five figures, six
claims adjoining the Los Angeles prop
erty, and are now in possession of them.
AS Mr.. Oldt had made extensive ex-
ploitations of the claims he knew what
he was buying. In an interview with
the new owners it was learned that the
work of developing them will be begun
at once and kept up without intermis-
sion. As the claims are but a mile to
the northward of Cuprite and so located
that the product can be almost dumped
into ears, the cost of production and
shipping will be brought to a nominal
figure, the same as does the other sui
phur proposition, which it adjoins.
Messrs. Oldt and Kretz are to begin
their first work by running a tunnel
$50 feet into the hill, which will avoid
the expensive process of uncovering
acres of ground with the use of scrap
ers and a large force of men and horses.
1t is expected that within a very short
time the new sulphur proposition will
be shipping in large quantities.
In connection with the above it may
be said that since the Los Angeles peo-
pie have begun shipping the outside
world has awakened and more than the
usual interest is being manifested in
that industry. In fact, a meeting of
the company was held Thursday for the
purpose of considering an offer OF
$3.50, 900 recently made for six claims
of the nineteen owned by them. The
meeting was held in Goldfeld and the
result is that the offer was refused.
Of the new proposition of Messrs.
Oldt & Kretz, it is the intention to in
corporate at once and let some of their
friends in on the ground floor for a
nominal figure, notwithstand that it is
not compulsory on their part. As to
the matter of listing the stock that is
a matter which will come up later, al
though the owners are now averse to
any such a proceeding.
One of the features of the claims OBJ
tanned by Oldt & Kretz is that not
w~ithstanding the great percentage OF
sulphur and the presence of geld II
paying quantities, there is also a big
cinnabar showing, which will add ma
teriallys to the value of th~eiproduetion
As only surface work has been per
formed on the claims the assay re
turns for sulphur, gold and einnabal
are such as to make the new owners
feel assured that they have a PROPOSE
ton in the way of mining far and be
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

Everything is progressing exceed.
ingly well in the workings of the Great
Western mine. The main shaft is down
nearly to the 300-foot level, from which
point prosecuting will begin.
A recent inspection of the mine by a
Herald reporter was most gratifying,
as the showing was grander than ever,
with still greater presentation for the
near future. There's 800 ore, 5000 ore,
$40 ore, galore, galore, and more com
ing.
Two or three men are cutting out
more than ten tons daily, which ore is
shipped with scarcely any sorting, leav-
ing the rest of the force night and day
to prepare the mine for future rapid ex-
ploitation.
Lime Point No. 6
A. n. Prosser, of the Hotel Silver,
has gone to Pasadena, to secure finan-
cial aid to resume operations on the
leasehold formerly worked by Newton
& Barber on Lime Point No. 6. There
is a fair chance that the crosscnt might
be extended to tap the same vein that
is uncovered in the Mizpah lease, and
should this occur another shipper of ore
would be assured.
Silver King
The crosscuts reaching out from the
shaft both north and south on the 200
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
WEEKLY RESUME OF WORK
IN THE MINES OF TONOPAH

The Tonopah company sent 1900
tons, the Belmont company $50 tons.
the Montana onopah 70s tens. the
Midway 100 tons, the MacNamara 300
tons, West End So tons. and Jim Butler
700 tons to the mills, making the total
shipments for the week to the mills
1898 tons.
The total output of the Tonopah
mines was $500 tons, of an estimated
value (the shipping ore being valued at
$50 a ton and the milling ore at s25 a
tom of $134,s25.
Tonopah Company
Sinking was resumed last Monday in
the bottom of the Mizpah shaft. A
depth of 1858 feet had been attained
when work was suspended, pending the
cutting out of a station at the 1900
foot point and the installation of the
air hoist which had been used on the
9OO-foot level. This work has now been
completed and it is expected that the
shaft will be sent down from now on at
the rate of 3 feet a day until the 1900
foot point is reached, when, according
to present plans, extensive prospecting
work will be carried on. There is no
change in the formation to report and
there will be none for at least 1870 feet
more, as the character of the formation
was determined some time g by the
use of the drill. Depth is also being
sought in the Silver Top claim of the
company, where a diamond drill is be-
ing sent down from the 740-foot level.
This drill hole is down SLY feet below
the level, but shows no material change
in the formation. The usual good pro-
gress was made in the development and
prospecting work, a total of 4201a feet
of new ground being broken during the
past week, 271 of which was in the
Mizpah and Red Plume claims and
1872 in the Silver Top claim. The
most of this work is being carried on
in virgin ground and some very promis-
ing veins have been encountered. In
addition to the new work going on the
regular extraction of ore from the sew
eral slopes throughout the property con-
tinues and between 5000 and $500 tons
of ore are sent weekly to the company's
100-stamp mill at Millers. Notwith-
standing this heavy extraction the ore
bodies are looking remarkably well and
a weeks work upon them is hardly no
ticeable.
Belmont
The news from the Belmont com
pany's property this week contains
several points which will be of interest
to our readers and the holders of the
stock. In the first place a decided i'm
provement has taken place in the winze
which was sent down from the west
drift along the north or hanging wall
side of the Mizpah fault on the 1000
foot level. This winze is now down 95
feet below the level and the bottom ex-
poses A feet of fair grade milling ore.
Heretofore the workings were in vein
material, and while it carried some
values, they were far too low to con-
~stitute ore. 1t now looks as though
they were on the apex of a good body
of ore, as the values are getting better
with every foot of progress and the
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
From the Miner.l

ledge increasing in width. The next
point of interest, and the one upon
which the eyes of the general public
are focused, is on the 1,100-foot level,
where a body of quartz 80 feet wide
was cut by the crosscut from the bot
tom of the Wine. This occurred about
three weeks ago, and since that time
the management has been very active
in prospecting and developing the ore
body. This work has demonstrated
that the body of quartz was not the
real vein, but a faultcd segment, and
now efforts have been redoubled in
sending the first erosscut ahead. After
cutting through 3S feet of quartz, what
appeared to be the hanging wall was
struck, but recent developments have
proved that it was nothing but a thin
layer of country rock. The first round
of shots put in the face of the crosscut
exposed a full breast of quartz carry
ing values, and the work will be sent
ahead until the true hanging wall is
reached.
The 40-stamps of the Montana mill
have been dropping continuously all
week on ore from their own mine and
shipments from the MacNamara. crush
ing a total of LOIS tons, 70s of which
belonged to the company, the extrac-
tion being reported as over 80 per cent.
Throughout the mine everything is
running along smoothly, the usual
amount of development and prospecting
work being done, there being a total
Of log feet of new ground broken dur
ing the week. The slopes from the diff
ferent levels continue to produce the
regular tonnage and show the ore
bodies to be holding their own in
strength and richness. While nothing
of unusual interest has transpired since
our last report, the condition of the
mine is most satisfactory and much new
territory is being prospected and
opened up. At a directors meeting of
the company the resignation of w. b.
Alexander as a director was received,
and Jacob r. Myers of Germantown,
Pa, one of the heavy stockholders, was
elected to fill the vacancy. Mr.. Alex
ander still holds the position of seere-
tary and treasurer and his resignation
as a director in nowise affects his Office.
Midway
The work of opening up and prospect
ing the ground owned by the Midway
company is going steadily ahead, and
while nothing of a sensati ,nal character
has taken place during the past week,
the prospects are very encouraging, as
the ground being penetrated is highly
mineralized and the cutting of stringers
of ore is of common occurrence. The
most of the new work is going on in the
southern portion of their territory,
which adjoins the Tonopah Mining com
pany's ground. Considerable good ore
is being extracted from the older work
ings in this section of the ground and
the prospects for finding other veins
are most promising.
Tonopah Extension
The work of cutting out a station at
the 35-foot point in the shaft has so far
progressed that the shaft can now be
used for the regular development work
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
OIL INDICATIONS

The Gates company is doing the loca-
tion work on it's large group of oil
in Spring gulch, near Buckskin.
In doing this work it struck sandstone
and shale with paraffine, which gives in
d%ications as good, it is claimed, as those
found at a depth of 1000 feet in the
oil fields.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
RED BIRD

! q. Thornburgh, a Colorado mining
San has taken a two years lease and
land on the Red Bird group of claims.
n is expected here mex. week and I'M
!, the terms of the contract he is
sund to commence operations by the
srt of December.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
FIND PROGENY OF SULPHUR

yond anything which has been uncov-
cred in the great Goldfeld district, and
they are to go after it with all the vim
and energy which is characteristic of
the boosting Goldfelder.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21
MacNamara

During the past week some changes
have taken place in the underground
working force in this mine. For some
time considerable drilling has been done
by hand, but Superintendent Chandler
has decided to discontinue this line of
work and increase the number of ma
chimes, as all the ore bodies thus far
discovered are large enough to permit
of them being worked by machines. Fol-
lowing up this plan, the air pipe from
the Tonopah Extension compressor,
which has been furnishing power for
some of the drills for some time, is be-
ing enlarged and more power will be
obtained from that company to operate
a large number of drills. Pending the
completion of this work operations are
being confined to No. 2 stope on the
275-foot level, No. 5 stope on the 200
| foot level and slopes from the l5o-foot
intermediate level. All these Slopes
show fine bodies of ore and will easily
keep up the regular weekly shipments
During the past week six ears of 5O
tons of ore each were sen to the mill,
the weeks shipment being a car short
owing to an accident on the track,
which tied things up for a day.
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West End Con.

The regular development work is go
ing along steadily in this property, al
though the ore shipments have been
curtailed owing to the low prices of
silver. From now on just enough ore
will be sent out to pay the expenses of
the mine until the white metal shows
improvement. Meantime prospecting
and development work will be kept up
and the ore bodies blocked out. About
So tons were sent to the mills this
week.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

in the lower levels, and operations have
been resumed. Owing to the shaft be-
ing a single compartment one, it was
necessary to hold up all work below the
point where they were cutting the sta
tion. The north crosseut was started
from the 35-foot station this week, and
as il has but a short distance to go, it
will soon be underneath the mill dump,
when east and west crosscuts will be
sent out and raises put up to tap the
ore which has been accommodating on the
surface for many months. 1t is con-
servatively estimated that the dump
contains 10000 tons, which will be
milled by one of the local plants as soon
as the necessary work has been COM
pleted so as to enable the company to
handle the ore economically, which will
not take many more days.
Jim Butler
The news from the Jim Butler mine
this week continues to be most encour-
aging and places the property in a bet
ter light thar ever. Excellent bodies
of ore are being opened up on all levels
above the 400-foot and extensive pros
pecting work is being carried on
throughout the deeper workings. Dur
ing the week BAL. feet of new ground
was broken in various parts of the
mine, and the general run of the ore
from the slopes and raises is well above
the ordinary milling grade. During the
past week $50 tons were shipped to the
Belmont mill.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-11-21

The cr~osscuts reaching out from the
shaft both north and south on the 200
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Montana

The 40-stamps of the Montana mil
have been dropping continuously al
week on ore from their own mine and
shipments from the MacNamara. crush.
ing a total of LOIS tons, 70s of which
belonged to the the extrac.
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London Closing stocI...

LONDON, May eO-American securities
opened duh and irregular today. Price
changes during the first hour ranged from
s below to Y above yesterdays New York
clOsinR
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OMAHA DISTRICT.

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