The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-09-25
Try William 2. De Wolff

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RAwHIDE, New, Sept. 24.-The
current week is an epoch making one
among the leasers operating in the
Hooligan, Grutt and Balloon hills sec
tions. Ore discoveries of unusual value
and Importance have been disclosed,
substantial additions have been made
to working forces, and shipments have
gone forward to the maximum capacity
of the King-Heisner and Murray mills
and then some. These plants are the
only ones established locally that cut
any appreciable figure in the milling
field. as the other three have been tried
in the reduction balance and found
wanting. In conjunction they are re-
ducing approximately 125 tons of ore
per day of a general average value of
SIS a ton. Despite continuous opera
tions, however, they are unable to keep
pace with the daily ore output, with the
result that broken down ore is accum-
ulating in such bulk it is hampering
the work of the miners.
At the Grutt Mining lease on Grutt
hill for instance, the bins at surface
and the ehutes below ground are filed
to the brim with high grade milling
rock, and there is likewise a consider
able accumulation cluttering the drifts
and crosseuts on the 100-foot level. The
prospect for early reduction of this pro
duet is not roseate, hence the lease
management has ceased operations in
ore and has given the miners employ
ment in opening up new ground. South
of and adjoining the Grutt Mining
block the Marigold leasehold is in a
measure in the same predicament, al
though relief from the ore congestion
is for a space being partially relieved
by shipments to the King Heisner mill.
The ore going forward to that point has
an average value of $40 a ton and is
icing mined on the $50 and l5O-foot
levels and the slopes above them. The
high grade is being mixed with that OF
the lower grade, thereby raising the
average grade of the product to the
figure quoted.
Leases Glutted With Ore
At the Grutt-Ralloon Hill lease on
Balloon hill the same conditions pre-
vail. General Manager Looney has
sacked ore piled in the vicinity OF the
shaft house at every available point,
has his dump ground practically Gov
cred with vari- graded milling ore, has
his bins at surface filed to the limit
of their capacity, has the chutes on
three levels choked with ore, and
has been forced to temporarily abandon
work in ore and find his men employ
ment in virgin ground. 1t is his inten
tionfi however, to hold all ores OF what
soever grade until such time as pro
vision can be made to reduce them at
local mills. Hitherto he has been for
warding his higher grades to sampler
at Hazen, but as a freight and treat
ment charge approximating $32 a ton
is involved therein he is determined TO
make no more co~nsignments to outside
He informs me no difficulty Will
be experienced in establishing a regular
output having a general average value
of from $40 to $50 a ton by mixing the
quartz just as it is broken from the
drifts and slopes.
Lack of immediate opportunity for
reduction of it's product has necessi-
tated cessation of work in ore at the
Kearns No. 2 lease on Balloon
hill, as the surface and underground
workings are glutted with ore Of vari'
Gus grades. The condition is particular
" unfortunate because a shoot of un'
usual richness has just been encounter
ed on the lO0-foot level. 1t is the in
~tention to ultimately mix the high grade
there mined with that of lesser value