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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-12

otherwise, If ground dry. 1t would be
impossible 10 make white iour-in fact.
it would all be graham flour, and the
bran would he too fine 10 be of use.
The grain is dampened forty-eight
hours before it is ground and is then
dried out and goes through the burrs
and the rolls Tins process makes the
aour white. but it necessarily leaves
some moisture in the -four. In other
words, ii is Il sweat pail. as grain in
many cases must 90 through before it
IS rhreshcd: hence. If -four is stored for
two months. il Will shrink about four
poJnds to the hundredwcight, owing to
evaporation.
Just Theory Only.
This is a pretty theory, of course,
RUc 50 declared; but WHY should
gay. fey this shrinkagc? Why should
pay goally $3.SS per hundredweight
or hour when the selling price Is
$50, for that IS what paid for tins
'ot. The fact is, after all, that the
Hilers theory is pure rot, pat up pure
.o!dup OF customers-just as the
,reameries hold YOU up for short
weight. as the sugar companies do in
short weight,
The price of flour has advanced 80
cents per hundred within two months.
In March it was $500; III May, $3.50.
Millers never forget 10 advance the
price neither do the retailers, and,
somehow or other. when the price gets
up 1t takes long while TO drop back,
although the price Of grain has long
since tumblcd
Detriment to All.
"These combines we have to con
end against are n great detriment to
Salt Lake. They increase tbe cost of
living to enormous figures. I. for one,
would like TO see combination of the
consumcrs-and this kind of a com
bination is coming-to protect them
selves from the petty graft which so
much increases the cost Of living,
Weigh your truck when it comes into
your home. If your dealer refuses to
give YOU the full weight which you
have purchased, the courts are open,
and an arrest or two for obtaining
money under false pIetcnses viii have
moral. salutayy effect. But let us
al demand fUll weight when we pay
for full weight.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

The shipments for the week from
the MacNamara to the Montana mill
aggregated 800 tons. The company
Is making preparations to sink at the
bottom of the shaft to an additional
depth of 200 feet, When the dia-
mond drill was operating in the mine
some time ago it encountered a vein
while prosecuting at a point 270
feet below the shaft, and with the ex-
p~ectatfon of picking up this vein and
also striking the continuation of
others, the work will be commenced
The timbers have been ordered and
necessary arrangements made.
200-Foot level-The west drift on
this level is now operating in four
feet of good ore. A raise has been
started at a point about ten feet from
the face of the drift on the yein and
is now up thirty feet with the same
amount of ore in sight as when the
'NA't NoP - NChs AUOuI lily lt6l
above this level, In an intermediate
stope, drifting is being done to the
east. This drift shows about two
feet of good milling ore in sight.
Slope No. w has three feet of good
ore exposed for a distance of fifty
feet from which a good portion OF
the shipping ore is extracted. A raise
on the vein about 100 feet west OF
stope No. ~ is now up about sixty
feet.
300-Foot Level-The raise CSC
feet west of the shaft on this level
is now up forty feet and has four and
one-half feet Of milling ore in sight
The lodges throughout the mine are
looking excellent and continue tC
produce their usual amount of ship.
ping ore.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

Drifting and raising in three places
is the extent of the work being done
on the 400-foot level of the Exten-
sion. The company is paying more
attention TO development work at
present than to the work of extract
ing high grade, which accounts for
the small amount of ore shipped.
The drift on the south vein on the
400 level has exposed five feet of
good pay ore. The raise on this
same vein is now up twelve feet.
This vein is Icing developed. thor
oughly and when the question of a
mill is settled, the work OF extrae-
tion can be rushed without the de-
lay of developing the ore body. The
770-foot level has made no material
change and the drift on the north
crosscut is being pushed ahead with
all possible rapidity.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
MIDWAY.

Nothing out of the usual transpir-
ed in the Midway workings during
the week. The company's policy of
prosecuting development work con
tinues and only enough ore is being
hoisted to pay mining expenses. This
the company can afford to do with
its healthy treasury, but it is expect
ed that the operations under ground
will soon be extensive.
On the 2S5-foot Level the north
crosscut from the east drift is be-
ing rapidly showed ahead. The face
shows quartz which carries very lit
tie II any values. The main east
drift on this level continues to en-
counter stringers which apparently
are increasing in value. The north
crosscut on the Brougher vein on the
435-foot level and at a point about
$50 feet north of the shaft, is pro-
crossing with no change in the for
nation. This crosscut will be con
tinued for a considerable distance to
open up a block of virgin ground.
The slopes on the 535-foot level
which were recently started are still
raising on the vein, which is about
a foot in width and carries good val
ues.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

punches of drag quartz carrying
some values. The east crosscut from
A vein on the 1000-foot level is
out 553 feet and has advanced forty
two feet since the last report. There
is no change in the face and the
work has been suspended in the
crosscut, as they have reached the
point under the old Belmont shaft
and are now preparing to raise and
make connections with the bottom of
the shaft.
The winze on the 1866 is now
down 100 feet and has advanced
twenty feet. The bottom is still in
a vein formation. a mixture of por-
phyry and quartz stringers carrying
low values. This week the winze
will reach the 1100-foot level, where
prosecuting and drifting will be
started to reach the vein and ore
shoot, which lies to the east. The
crosscut will be driven south to make
connections with the 1100-foot level
at the bottom of the 1854 winze
which is about 220 feet distant. The
EAST drift No. 2 from the 125-foot
level in the winze is out 115 feet and
has advanced twenty-eight feet. The
vein at this point is broken up and
mixed with ~stringers of quartz carry
ing fair values.
l100-Foot Level-Raise No. 8
from the east drift has advanced ten
feet and is now up lis feet, where ii
connects with the 1000-foot level.
They are now commencing to stope
to the east from the bottom of the
raise. This will be known as the
100 east stope. The west stope on
this level is still looking good and
has from five to ten feet of good
grade ore being worked. A cross.
cut has been started from the mair
shaft on this level out to the South
and Occidental veins, a distance O
about coo feet from the station
These two veins should be stronger
on this level as they have appeared
stronger when deptr was reached
When worked on the 1000 level the,
were stronger than on the 900 leve
and it is expected they will be still
better when found on this level.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
WEEKLY REPORT OF TONOpAH
ID END.

During the week the West End
shipped $50 tons of ore to the Bel
mont mill at Millers. The winze on
the 150-foot level, which was started
last week on the ledge. is now down
eighteen feet with the bottom all in
ore.
The west drift on the 2OO-foot
level has advanced fifteen feet during
the week and is now in 352 feet from
the main lateral drift. The face is
all in quartz, mixed with small seams
of pay ore. The upraise, sixty feet
from the face, which was also start
ed last week, is up seventeen and
one-half feet with the top all in ore.
The west drift on the 400-foot level
has advanced eleven and one-half
feet and is now in a total of 1872 feet
from the south crosscut. The face
is in broken quartz with some pay
ore. The east drift has been ex-
tended twenty-one and one-half feet
and is now in AGA feet from No. 2
shaft. This drift has forty-iive feet
more to run before it connects with
No. ! erosscut in the old shaft. The
face is in low grade quartz. The
slopes along this level east and west
of the shaft continue to produce the
regular amount of ore and shows no
material change since the last re-
port.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
Heart Story
About Children
of Nevada Miner

Miss Bessie Beatty. who wrote
that famous little volume entitled
who Is Who. or What Was Your
Number Before You Came to Ne
vada,' is now branching out on the
San Francisco Bulletin and has the
following to say regarding the death
of julie Shettle, who passed away
some time ago at Sodaville. Bessie
is all right in her way, but she fails
to understand certain things around
a mining camp. There is no danger
of the little tots mentioned in the
story, starving to death while Mayor
Bob Stewart of Sodaville roams the
plains In that vicinity. And it would
be a safe bet to wager that the tots
are under the protection of Bob
right now and all their wants are
cared for.
Following is the articl2 as it APP
peared in the Bulletin:
Tales of fortunes made in night
and glorious pots Of gold at Tie end
OF the rainbow come frequently rom
the mining camps of Nevada and
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
JIM BUTLER.

The operations in the Stone Cabin
mine are confined to the slopes on
the first and second levels and the
development and prospect work
which has been discussed will appar-
emily 500 start in the other parts Of
the mine. The slopes are Welding
their usual amount of good milling
ore and the shipments for the past
week aggregated 500 tons.
100-Foot Level-A body of ore
nearly ten feet wide is exposed and
being worked in the slopes on the
south vein west of the shaft This
ledge has remained the same in size
and values all the way up and the
indications are that 1t remains this
way until 1t nears the surface. The
stope on the north vein east of the
shaft has about three feet OF good
ore exposed. The west stope on this
vein is up about eighty-five feet and
the ledge averages about three feet
of milling ore. The stope on the in
cline vein also has about two feet of
good milling ore exposed.
200-Foot Level-From three to
eight feet OF good milling ore is be-
ing worked in the slopes on the
north vein which t~raverses a distance
of over $50 feet in length. Stopping
is also being conducted on the inter-
mediate vein thirty feet below the
20O-foot level and the north vein is
exposed both east and west of the
shaft and about four feet of ore is
being mined.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
Nevada GOldfiele
Reduction Works

Reports have been received from
good authority that the Nevada
Goldfeld Reduction works, who have
a plant at Goldfeld, will soon start
building additional plants at Pioneer
and Helena. The company has had
representatives visit these districts,
and carefully prepared reports have
been rendered.
Walter e. Dowlen, who has charge.
of the plant in Goldfeld, stated that
the company was considering the adj
visibility of erecting samplers in the
two camps mentioned, but no def
mite conclusion had been reached. He
further stated it was the intention of
the company to expand and enter
new fields when conditions warrant
cd and according to reports received
the two districts appeared as most
favorable sites for samplers.
Should the project go through it
would cost between $4,000 and
$4,000 for both plants and would
give employment to probably forty
men.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
BELMONT

The workings in the Belmont have
advanced about $50 feet during the
week. with the usual amount OF stop
ing on the Nevada vein ON the 500
foot level. On the 900-foot level
they are working in the Slopes on
both the South and Nevada veins
with no change in the ore bodies.
No development work is being done
on these two levels.
10O0-Foot Level-The west drift
on the South vein is out las feet,
with an advance of nineteen feet for
the week, and shows about three and
one-half feet of a fair grade milling
ore in the face. A raise has been
started in the drift at a point twenty
five feet back from the face, which
will be driven along ON the vein
through to the 900-foot level. The
distance on the incline will be about
LOG feet. The vein at the point
where the raise is started is about
four feet wide and is all milling ore.
The west drift on the Occidental
vein is out III feet, having advanced
eighteen feet and shows about four
feet of ore in the face of the drift.
The vein is low grade in values and
is considerably broken up and mixed,
No. I raise in the 1909 west drift has
advanced eleven feet and is up sixty.
SIX feet. The top OF the raise shows
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

TO B. NJ. HAWKINS and GEORGE
STRATUM:
You are hereby notified that we, the
Undersigned, nave expended during the
year 1908 the sum of tSS0Ol Eight
hundred Dollars in labor n improve
ments on the following described min
ing claims, being 500 worth of labor
ana improvements on each of the fol-
lowing named mining claims, to-wit:
Ihose eight certain mining claims stu
ated in the T%onopah Mining District.
Nye County, State of Nevada known
and described as follows:
click" Stray Bun Venus" Ply
lis Brandy Wine,' "McCornae, min
ing claims, according to location no.
uces Thereof, of record on booAs of the
Itecorder of Nye County, Nevada, at
Tonopah, Nevada, in Book AS. page
LIZ. That said work was lone and
improvements made on said claims
during the year 1908 in order to hold
the said claims under the provisions of
section 1924 of the Revised Statutes Of
the United States and the amendments
thereto, and the laws of the State of
Nevada concerning annual labor to be
done on mining claims.
That there is due from each OF YOU
to the undersigned Two Hundred Dol
lars (S2OO) on account of your share OF
said $500 expended for annual labor on
the said mining claims during the year
lSOe, ana you are herey notified by the
uhueisiBueu tina IL Wltnfn ninety days
from the personal service Of notice up-
on you, or within ninety days afte-
service of this notice on you by publi-
TO contribute your proportion of such
expenditure, to-wit: The sum of 5000
each. to the Undersigned, your inter-
est in said mining claims will become
the property of the undersigned, your
co-owners, in accordance with the law
In such cases made and provided.
Dated at Tonopah, Nevada. IAN
uary %, 1865.
w. W. PANGBURN.
JOHN N. KLEIN,
Q-23-4-23-09.)
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

the crosscut is in rhyolite containing
broken mineralized quartz. The
east drift on the new vein recently
encountered near the Midway line,
and at a point $50 feet west of the
shaft, has made an advance of fifteen
feet. The face continues to show a
streak about one foot wide of a mill
ing grade ore. Stopping is still con-
tinued on the Macdonald vein in
three places below this level, which
show no material change. The stop
ing above the level on the A. B. X.
vein continues to show about a foot
of high grade ore.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
MoNTANA-ToNoPAH.

During the week the Montana mill
has crushed 1910 tons of ore; of this
745 tons came from the Montana
mine and the remainder from the
MacNamara property.
On the first level of the mine the
east drift on the Triangle vein has
advanced twelve feet along the fault
and has not yet picked up the vein.
The crosscut south from the Triangle
vein has made an advance OF
eighteen feet with no change of for
nation in the face. it continuing to
show andecite with occasional string
ers of quartz. The west drift on a
branch of the Triangle vein has ad-
vanced ten feet and the face shows
about a foot of milling ore. Stopping
is being conducted over the vein for
its entire length and the easterly
100-foot section shows the ore body
to average about one and one-half
feet in width of a good grade milling
ore. The westerly 200-foot section
of the stope shows two streaks of a
good grade quartz r a%ggregating
about five feet in width.
462-Foot Level-The east drift on
the Triangle vein encountered a
fault this week after advancing
eighteen feet, which cut off the vein
in the face and apparently faulted il
to the south. Where the fault was
encountered the vein averaged about
one foot in width and carried high
grade ore The west drift has adj
yanced twelve feet and is now out
t%hirty-siX feet from the crosscut,
with the face showing eighteen
inches of good milling ore. The
Slopes along the Macdonald vein at a
distance of 1000 feet west of the
shaft average about four feet of good
grade orc.
515-Foot Leyel-The Wine on the
South vein west Of the shaft has ad-
vanced nine feet and is now down
twenty-five feet. TINS winze is all in
a good grade OF milling ore. The
east drift on the new vein recently
cut in the southwest crosseut has adj
vanced eighteen feet and shows
about n foot OF good milling ore.
The west drift from the same vein
has advanced fifteen feet and has ex-
posed two feet of good milling ore.
565-Foot intermediate level
Stopping has been continued on the
south branch of the Martha vein,
which is about two and one-half feet
wide and of good oxidized ore.
615-Foot Level-The raise on the
Martha vein, $50 feet east of the
shaft, has advanced thirteen feet.
The vein in the top of the raise is of
good milling grade and averages
about two feet In width. The south
crosscut west OF the shaft, which is
headed for the Triangle vein, has adj
yanced ~forty-eight feet. The face OF
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

of the rough wooden shacks. The
prosperity which has rested on many
Of the camps much of the time has
passed this one by, and the pocket
books of the people don't measure
up to the size of their hearts.
Hearts in a mining camp are
built upon a large scale, and trag-
edies there strike deep.
! What an ache there must have
been in the heart of that father
when he had to go and leave his
children in wants
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
Rich Find Still
Causes Comment

The Humboldt strike still holds
the center Of the stage in the Won
der district, says the Wonder Mining
News. During the week two pro-
moters, Messrs. Davey and Morris Of
FairView. came in to look at the
property. II Is understood that Mr..
Norris represented George Wingfeld,
and that Mr.. DGvy is on the lookout
for something good for Denver capt
ialists. They visited the Humboldts
IN company with McGregor and
Cause, and examined the ledge, TAX
ing away with them some samples
for assay. Mr.. MsGregor has spent
syeral days on the ledge in trench
Ing, and has forty feet of It uncover
a. He has also put in a few shots
and has reached a depth of several
ha In some places.
The one question regarding this
strike is depth. II the rock en-
ountered in the ledge continues to
any considerable depth the find is
nothing short Of a bonanza. Surface
Indications would lead one to believe
that the ore shoot is permanent, on
account of the great volume and
value Of the sulphide of silver at the
grass roots. 1t surpasses any sur
lace find thus far in the camp, and
many believe that the rich ore will
continue in depth. But this must be
proven before the real value OF the
property can be fully determined.
Mr.. Dayey and Mr.. Morris did not
hesitate to express surprise at the
wonderful richness of the ledge at
the surface, and for three feet down,
but further than that they did not
express an opinion. They left for
Fairview, after a careful examina-
lion OF the Humboldts and adjoining
property, and it is believed that they
nave a tentative option.
Two courses are open to Mr.. Me-
'Gregor, the owner of the ground, TO
develop II OF his W account, or to
dispose of it to men who will or
sanize a company and 90 for the ore
On a large scale. McGregor is put
ing in all of his spare time. but is
not In a position to engage a crew of
miners After he completes a con
Uact on which he is engaged he in
ends to establish a camp on the
property and, with the assistance of
lew men, take out the ore, sack it
'or shipment, and at the same time
penetrate for depth in order to prove
w the richness of the ledge. Mean
uine y Is understood that one or two
selling options have been given by
uin 10 friends who are exerting
themselves in an endeavor to interest
outside capital.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

me huge electric pump for the
o'apah mine arrived yesterday from
S"iiiornia and will be Immediately
l''a'ied on the 1900 foot level of
's mine The pump has a capacity
zOOo gallons per minute under a
-VV root head and will handle the
'er IN the mine with ease, as the
INV Is not near the capacity.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

A Chinese woma was tanning the
corpse of her husband, and being
asked by the neighbors why she fan
ned a dead man in the middle of
winter, she replied. my husbands
last words were, Wife, wait until T
am cold before you marry again. /"
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06

mere is no compensation for man
Nsing to be what he is not. In
,s'ning that such a mar under
ne fails, fails because of the
n, ieuge within himself that he is
u. uue to himself, he succeeds alb
maa ,y succeeds, although the world
10y mink him a failure.
Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1909-02-06
The GOIdfieId
Consolidated


ION Owing to the short term of
..os and the policy adopted by
,,ssees of gouging after the high
,,ode ore only, large quantities of
,,w grade were purposely left, and
i their haste a large proportion of
A,ob grade was overlooked, and in
came cases was left for pillars. 1t
/. impossible TO measure the ore re-
naming without driving numerous
,rosscuts in tire foot and hanging
calls. which would be of little use in
the extraction of ore; and not until
.toping on a large scale has been
carried on for several months can
reliable estimates of reserve ore be
made.
GOOD FOR LONG LIFE.
therefore, the past production
made by yopr property, the length of
the ore producing zone, the vast
area of unexplored territory owned
BY your company within this zone in
which bonanzas similar to the SIayes-
Nonnatte and Frances-Mohawk may
be uncovered, together with the
quantity of rich ore exposed in the
present slopes and the splendid re-
suits already obtained from the COM
parative small amount of develop
ment work on the deeper levels. in
sure not only Immediately satlsfac-
tory returns to the shareholders, but
long life for the property. with every
prospect of a continuance of it's pro-
duetive capacity"