The San Francisco call., 1908-11-22
GO[Df|FLD OUTPUT
YELLED IN MYSTERY
Ore Purchasing Companies Are
Secretive Regarding Pro-
duction of Gold
Bullion Tax Collectors Report
Shows Yield of Nye County
Mines Is Large

There is no way to get exact figures
OF the gold output in the Goldield dis
trict last week, according to the Gold
neld News, which says;
Dense mystery still hangs the offices of
cily .il ana producers are equally noncommunica
i've 1t is impossible to get line on the
thentic can be obtained until the starting of
tne mills, when competition in the purchase of
ore VIII become keen that news will be
The Combination mill ground away steadily.
turning out about $4,000 worth of bullion in
addition to concentrates that are being saved
is completed
Ore wagons are plying to and fro between
guessed at
P@artlcMlarly par the Begole and Little Florence.
Ihe Wheeler and Baby Florence are sending
OUT little and so is the Florence Annex No. =.
consolidated Red Top got out three carloads
OF hign grade and a car was forwarded from
the Diamondfeld Black Butte. Owing TO a
breakdown little ore went forward from the
combination Fraction. AS matter of fact. 1t
VIII stretch the figures for the week to reach
sigu,ooo. This condition of affairs will prob
ably prevail for at least four weeks longer,
when the mines of Goldfeld may be depended
upon TO put forth quarter of million dollars
week. exclusive of that produced by the
leases.
The st. Ives leasing company is re-
ported to be making arrangements to
begin operations on a larger scale. The
plan, as outlined, is to begin work on
the 100 foot and 200 foot levels, and
10 drive crosscut to a new ore body
that has been uncovered on the so foot
level. The plan also includes the work
ing of the Rawhide lease.
The Goldfield News says that the
Little Florence mining company. which
is operating on the southern part of
the Combination Fraction ground, has
struck the main Combination Fraction
vein.
The management of the Gibraltar
lease in the Goldfeld district is cross
cutting ledge rs feet from the shaft.
The following statement is made by
the Goldfeld News:
Hazel Goldheld mines company has picked
up the Red Top ledge, entering it at depth
OF III feet in its shaft the Last Chance
claim OF the Laguna, unit of the Goldfeld
attained a depth of 734 feet and is in solid
quartz, carrying values throughout. the high
est assay being Sl04. while another of $3.50
was obtained. This shaft, the deepest in the
camp, was sunk at a cost of about $55 O00
considerable handicap having been incurred
by the water flow, but Chief Engineer beach
and General Manager Fink have conquered all
such difficulties. The ledge was caught on its
dip. trending toward Kewanas gtound 1t also
points dlrectly toward the FAMOUS drill hole
on the Miss Jessie claim of the Laguna which
yielded assays high in the thousands. The
corner of the Hazel Goldfeld block is only nine
feet from the drill hole.
The report of Bullion Tax Collector
j. F. Haley shows that the production
of Nye county mines for the f1lst six
months of 1908 amounted to 150,170
tons; gross value, s2.906,455.S9: total
cost, S2,271 ,934.21; taxes, $50, 130.42
The report shows that the Montgom-
cry Shoshone Consolidated mines COM
pany of Rhyolite. in point of gross
value, has made the second largest pro-
duction of the Nye county mines dur
ing the six months, the Tonopah mining
company being in the lead
According to Mr.. Haley's report. the
Tonopah mine produced 1852, ,s05.52,
while the Montgomery Shoshone pro-
duced s412,232.S1. The third in the list
is the Montana Tonopah, with s271,-
67S.52.
During the quarter ending March 81
the ore shipped from the Tonopah mine
averaged about S2f a ton. and that
shipped from the Shoshone averaged
about $27. During the second quarter
the Tonopah ore averaged about $50
and the Shoshone S14 ton.