davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
FIEUX'S THEORY OF ORIGIN Z
OF PLACER GOLD DEP0SlK

The current theory of the formation
of gold bearing a~lluvial deposits as
sumes that the gold existed originally
in the central nucleus of the earth in
the forms of s~ulphide and telluride,
which subsequently became dissolved
in the waters of hot springs and were
deposited together with gelatinous
silica. Thus were formed veins of au-
riferous quartz which, in consequence
of erosion, gave rise to alluvial strata
containing particles of metallic gold.
NJ. Fieux, the noted French scientist,
however, asserts that the erosion of out
cropping auriferous veins of quartz
does not account for all deposits of me-
tallic gold. He finds that some gold
bearing strata show no trace of quartz,
but consist wholly Of clay with frag-
ments of diorite or diabase, and more
over are so situated as to prelude the
existence of quartz veins. He has seen
| beds of streams become richer in gold
after every rain, though they showed
no trace of quartz. Finally, in certain
auriferous strata which contain much
quartz not a particle of gold is found IN
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
WILLIAMS BUYS HOIST
FOR ROUND MOUNTAIN

|. NJ. Williams who is operating a
lease on the Rogers claim on the north
slope of Round Mountain overlooking
the town has just purchased a twenty
five horse power gasoline hoist in Gold
field and it is expected that this will tie
in place and running within the nexy
thirty days, says the Nugget.
The shaft is now down for over 12O
feet and the present small hoist has be-
come inadequate to carry on the work.
The shaft has been following down Gil
an almost perpendicular ledge ever
since solid formation was reached less
than twenty feet from the surface.
Mr.. Williams has had assays made
from time to time across the whole
width of the vein, which is about three
feet wide, and they have increased IN
value with depth from So gold per ton
near the surface to $40 or more at the
present depth. The ore body has also
gradually been widening, it being about
two feet wide when first encountered.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
JACK LONGSTREET MAKING
A NINE IN MONITOR RANGE

A large amount of development work
has been quietly done for over a year
on the claims of Jack Longstreet, stu
ated about twelve miles west OF Stone
Cabin in the south end of the Monitor
range, says the Tonopah Sun. He has
started a prospecting campaign IN that
section and the strike of high grade on
the Stimler the Marsh claims can be
partly credited to systematic prospect
ing and development work on the Long
street property. In a quiet way 1t has
called attention to a section but very
little prospected, but which ~undeniabiy
has enough merit to warrant further eA'
ploration work on the part OF those
having claims there.
Jack Longstreet has had three u
four men constantly employed on tn
nine claims which he is developing
The men have sunk an 100-foot inchn'
shaft in the vein, which is about tire
feet wide in bottom of the shaft an
returns good milling values. Two
thirds of the values are gold and tn
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
GOOD FINDS BEING MADE
AROUND SYLVANITE

Creek. The Eagle adjoins 10th the
Clemmie mine of the Sylvanlte Con
solidated and also the Ruth recently
purchased by colorado operators. The
Neptune and Venus adioin on two sides
the Pearl claim on which the strike If
phenomcnally rich specimen ore was
recently made and cover the extension
of that vein. 1t is believed by the best
informed mining men that only develop
ment is necessary to open up one of the
biggest mines in the camp. The officers
of the company are c.. II. Morse, late Of
Cripple Creek, now of Sylvanite, presi-
dent; Horace Morse, Santa Ana, Cal,
vice president; G. H. Randell, Santa
Anna, Cal, and Sol Camp, Sylvanite, are
also directors. VIM. b. Root, late Of
Denver, Colo, is secretary and treas.
urer. The development of the prop
erty will be in charge of Sol Camp VINO
opened up the rich ore in both the Con-
solidated and Pearl mines.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

the quartz, though some, gold occurs in
the diabase which accompanies it.
Hence Fieux concluded that the ero-
sion of quartz veins cannot be the
strata and, furthermore, that the almost
constant presence, in those strata, of
heavy basic rocks, containing diorite,
a%mphibolic schist, and diabase, indicate
that native gold is one of the subsidiary
ingredients of those rocks.
According to this new theory, there
fore, certain of the heavy eruptive
rocks have carried with them in their
eruption some of the gold existing ia
the metallic state in the central nu-
cleus of the earth. After reaching the
surface these rocks were oxidized by
contact with the air, and eroded by
water, which washed away the lighter
materials and left the heavier including
the gold, says the Scientific American.
This NJ. Fienx regards as the true
theory of the formation of gold bear
ing a~lluvial strata, in general, the ero-
sion of quartz veins being only an oe-
casional cause of the enrichment OF
those strata.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
APPLICATION NO. 1851.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
PERMISSION TO APPROPRIATE
THE PUBLIC WATERS OF
THE STATE OF
NEVADA.

Notice is hereby given that on the
10th day of January, 1909, in accord
ance with Section 25, Chapter XVIII,
of the Statutes of 1907, one James E.
Keelyn of Goldfeld, County of Esmcr-
aida and state of Nevada, made appli-
cation to the State Engineer of Nevada
for permission to appropriate the pub
lie waters of the State of Nevada.
Such appropriation is to be made from
Big Timber Springs situated in Charles
ton Range, Sterling Mining District,
Nye County, at the Springs by means
of Reservoir, and three cubic feet per
second is to be conveyed to points 1T
TOWNSHIP to be established at railroad
siding, (Las Vegas & Tonopah Ry.) by
means of pipes and there used for min
ing, smelling and domestic purposes.
Water not to be returned to the stream.
Signed: FRANK R. NICHOLAS,
State Engineer.
Date Of first publication, Jan. %, 1909.
Date Of last publication, Feb. 20, 1909.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
In the District Court of the Seventh
Judicial District Of the State of Ne
vada in and for the County of Esmer-

aida.
in the Matter of the Estate of James
p. Terry, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that at 10
o'olock in the forenoon on Monday the
sth day of February A. d. 1909, or as
soon thereafter as the matter can be
heard, the petition this day filed, of Fl.
{. Sumner, of Rawhidc, Esmeralda
County, Nevada, for probate of a docu-
ment fled in the clerk 8 office on jan
nary 5th, 1909, purporting to be the
last will and testament of James j.
Terry, deceased, late of Rawhi9e. Is
meralda County, Nevada, and Cor the
issuance vf letters of testamentary to
the said H. c. Sumner, as well as the
testimony in proof of said will, will be
heard by the District Court of the
Seventh Judicial District of the State
Of Nevada in and for the County of
Esnieralda,' at the Court House in the
Town of Goldfeld; when and where any
PERSON interested may appear and con
test the said will, and may fl objec-
tions in writing to the granting Of let
ters testamentary to said petitioner.
Witness my Aand and the seal f sad
Ccur; ut Go'dfeid in sail County, this
10th day Of January A. D. 1909.
JOSEPH HAMILTON, Clerk.
BY BENZ. ESSENTIAL, Deputy.
r. q. Withers, Attorney for Pe.".onc--.
First publication: Jan. %, 1913.
Last publication, Feb. 6, 1909.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
DIVIDEND PAYING EPOCH
CONVINCING TO INVESTORS

The day has passed when lurid pros
pecti and glittering assemblages of
physiological market letters attract, ut
least as they once did.
Nevada is a tub that has a good
square bottom to sit upon and there it
must find it's foundation.
Production figures are needed to in
cite interest and dividend statistics to
attract investments.
Very well, gentlemen, you may have
them in any quantity you desire. The
Sun has already told you of the DECLARE
tons by local companies, headed by the
big Tonopah Mining company, which
disburses it's entire capitalization an.
nually.
Now for a neighboring camp, Gold
field, which has paid 81, $1,000 an,
more in velvet money in the last twe
years. The Goldfeld CONSOLIDATED
Mines company, incorporated for $50,
100000 and selling at nearly par, has re
sumed its dividend paying habit an.
has declared $1,OsO,OOO for March ana
promises to keep it up, or at the rate
Of $4,320,O00 a year.
This company ought to be well able to
make its promises good, having just
completed a mill to supplement thu
Combination plant, so that it car nov
treat over 600 tons a day of the $sa,
DOC, 900 worth of ore it has blocked out
Dividends in plenty will be the herr
tage of those who invest in legitimat
mining securities. -Tonopah Sun.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

balance silver. A tunnel has been
driven 337 feet. 1t encountered the
vein, which gives a vertical depth Of
237 feet from the collar of the shaft.
A seventy-fcot upraise has been run
and two months more work will con-
meet with the shaft and the property
will have splendid ventilation. Drift
ing on the vein will then be started
and the property will be put in shape
for stopping. Two hundred tons Of so
ore arc on the damp.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

. The success of a new smelling =
. process which promises to revolu- =
. tionize present methods as well =
= as become an important factor in ,
. the treatment of ore in isolated .
. mining camps, has just been ?
= demonstrated at Garfield, near ,
= Salt Lake City. By the new .
. method, "blister" copper is pro- .
. duced from the raw ore in a single .
. process, the transition being ac- =
= complished very rapidly, and the ,
= product comes out of the furnace :
= as copper bullion, 95 to 9s fine, =
. within less hal an hour after the =
. ore is fed in. The furnace is the =
. invention of Edward Fink, backed =
= financially throughout his expert ?
= metns by Samuel Newhouse, the =
= noted mining man, who now I'M =
= equivocally %pronounces it a com =
= mercial success. A company, cap ,
= italized at from $25,OOO,O 900 to .
. $5O,OOO,O00 will be organized by =
= Mr.. Newhouse to exploit the dis >
= covery all over the mining world. =
"You are at liberty to say for me
that the Fink process of smelling ores
is a demonstrated commercial sue
~cess,' said Mr.. Newhouse to a repre-
sentative of the Salt Lake Herald.
|"You can make the statement just as
strong as you like. 1t will be hard to
exaggerate what this statement means.
There is no question of it's amounting
to a revolution in the way of smelling;
it is a triumph in the science of
metallurgy that must command world
wide attention. The process will be
the means of making mining profitable
in hundreds of places and under IN
Vulnerable conditions where and under
which proft-making is now impossible.
81 am absolutely convinced that
every claim of Mr.. Fink is to be more
than realized in the actual operation of
his process, and | am going to organize
a company that will exploit the process
all over the mining world. The details
of this organization have not been
worked out yet. 1t may call for sep
aratc organizations to care for the bust
ness in different fields; and one thing
is certain, no time will be lost in get
ting ready for business. / am going to
New York, and upon my return early
in February, | shall likely be ready 70
tell more about my plans in this re-
spect."
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
c0NSOI IDATED'S DIVIDEND
RATE PUTS OTHERS IN SHADE

With tbe election of the directors and officers o TN ooonei on
go Of TN boards a great deal of interest is being
-. e. y. now dividend rate that will be paid to IN holders OF s'oeh'
. This is capitalized for $5OoooOoo' divided INT ooooOVo snares
~ ,.,no Of 40 each. Only a portion # this stock, however, has
ho.n issued. and. therefore, the disbursement at te rat OF $i.oa snare
nnualv will amoun to a considerable percentage as wen as a noer"i su"-
-. -. ill aggregate $432OO0O a year, far oudassng my othe
u;.;na dvideud paid in America, with tn exception oI I'M Oh me l"se
. companies As IN Illustration of .e oum oi inns ..ue" ~
NI st.. hat he Camp Bird, the Portland and the HomeSake mines
,;.hnr.e about half a million dollars each year; consequently, te on
-r,...a wpt TAX n position of almost ter to n a compared with the
Dext hes gold payer in the country.
.no,her feature of more than ordinary Importance is to De oun IN
~. rmene reserves accredited to the Consolidated properties II
.nod a., fairly God authority, and is in fact, accepted IS ruth IN
co,d6sd that the combined holdings of the onsolda company ave
..sarve. aggreeating $s3OOOOW, or sufficient to keep its lVosamp NH
re- at he rate of 800 ton a day for the next II years. TN VIII
m.nn to he Goldfeld district stands without parallel in tn history OF
q mining operations. .na
Five yearsa ago the camp of Goldfeld ws untried n unknown anu
Tho world looked askance on all efforts set forth to develop IN region.
nu,, that nernd Gold6eld hs evolved to a district O. tn hrt maghf
. tude and its promise TO take first place in tn gold output OF te oh'ed
.u.osr.ams fru;tfulo of fmfllment.- - Daily Mining Record.
.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
LIKES v o

ii. c. Dayton, formerly a mining
in the Goldfeld district, but
who is now located at Vernon, IN the
Seven Troughs district, was transaeting
business in Lovelock the early part OF
this week. Mr.. Dayton is favorably
IMPRESSED with the district in which ha
is now located and it is likely he will
soon acquire some substantial holdings.
He reports great activity among the
operators throughout the entire district
and SAYS business generally is on the
improye.-Loveloek Review.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
MAyr1owER MILL PROGRESSING

If nothing unexpected happens, the
Mavaower mill will be in operation by
the middle of next month, so well Is
everything progressing. Private III
formation intimates that the results are
likely to be very surprising. 1t is quite
nossible that the grade of ore treatet
will prove a revelation to many, OF
which the per cent recovered is ex-
peeted to be large. Being contiguous
TO the Pioneer, such happy results will
only make the prevailing boom all the
fercer, and be another demonstrators
Of tbe extent and value of the Bullfrog
district Rhyolite Herald.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
MINING INDUSTRY PROVES
STRENGTH UNDER ADVERSELY

The victory the mining industry won
in 1908 was not of the spectacular sor.
it was greater than the pyrotechnie
booms that are popularity looked upon
as the mile stones along the line of pro.
gress. Mining during the year just
ended has shown its ability to make
Roadway against universities, which
even its most confident champions
would have regarded, could they have
seen them, as overwhelming. The in
dustry thereby has doubly benefited.
1t has felt it's own great power and 1T
has demonstrated to the investing pub
lie its limitless strength. The path of
1905 was not strewn with broken high
records. but it tells. nevertheless, of a
wonderful uphill climb.
The gold mines of the country caught
the full force of the financial depres.
sion, though they were not subjected to
so severe o stress as wereethe sopnfE
mines. Tue gadl astssbsaar'gg the IL
months scored an increase Of 100000
owe the previous year.
The stories of the several mining
mining stock markets for the year re-
fleet the conditions of the industry.
With the usual fluctuations, the ebb and
the flow of speculation, there has been
a gradual Improvement since the early
months of the year.
Most of the Nevada camps have been
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
NEWHOUSE BACKS NEW
SMELLING PROCESS

with Mr.. Fink to pioneer the process
and bring it to the attention of tbs
world. He gave the inventor cart,
blanche in having an experimental fur
mace of commercial size built, one that
would treat 100 tons a day, that should
be set up in Utah. 1T was agreed that
he should see the business through 20
a point that would either prove its com
plete success or absolute failure. About
sixty days ago the material arrived al
the ground and, Notwithstanding the
stormy, wintry weather hat has pre-
vailed, and Notwithstanding the fact
that every little contrivance which
trials demonstrated would help in per
f~ecting the mechanical handling of the
business had to be ~improvised, the eff
fort has given to the world a new and
most economical process of extracting
the values from ores in an incredibly
short time.
00oACo 4AVouSSA Ah0SPSh4Shs
Now the world must sit up and take
notice. There can be no more charging
OF exorbitant prices for the treatment
of ore. The man with material that
carries $40 a ton in value can erect q
small smelter at a nominal cost AMI
treat his ore at a convenient spot and
ship his bullion. In this way he can
do for a matter of a dollar or two a ton
what now costs him so much that 1t Is
impossible to move his product at all.
He can take the smelter anywhere, al
most, and he can drill men to run it in
short order, for the mixing of the ores
is the only thing that will require
m~etallurigical talent. The simplest KIM
of machinery will supply the necessary
power, and the results will be certain,
all the time. The smelter can be shut
down and started again at will, as there
are no "freezing up" difficulties to
contend with. Owing to the cutting OF
of power the testing plant at Garheld
has been ''frozen up a dozen times
during the past couple of weeks. 1t has
been "thawed' in an hour without the
least trouble or damage, and the
amount of heat generated has been con
trolled just as easily as it is to turn the
water on or off at a bathtub faucet.
When it is known that it costs often as
much as $4,000 or $4,000 to dig out 4
''frozen' charge in a blast furnace of
the ordinary kind, the Importance of
this feature of the process becomes
readily apparent.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30

C. r. Johnson of Leadville, Colorado,
representing capitalists of that city,
has this week purchased from Jack
Wickes and c.. Knickerbocker the
Quartzite group of four claims at
Granite Gap, says the Sylvanite Miner.
The property not only has an excellent
showing with some high grade ore on
the dump but in the early eighties when
the Apaches were rampant through this
country, silver ore running hundreds IF
dollars to the ton was shipped at great
risk to the smelters. Wickes AMI
Kn~ickerbocker recently uncovered Il
vein assaying $232 a ton in silver ana
the ore in the bottom of the old work
ings also shows high values. The new
owner made a cash payment on Thurs
day and Immediately left on a hurried
trip to Leadville to arrange with his as
sociates for the development of the
mine.
Leonard Loehr, manager of the King
Solomon mine reports that the main
tunnel is being driven at the rate Of
five feet a day and is now wei so feet
into the hill, in a strong iron stained
%porphyry dyke which pan free gold. In
about Is days it is expected that this
tunnel will cut the Clemmie ledge of
the Consolidated Mines
Handcar Gets Ore
The tunnel at the Handcar mine, this
week broke into a fine body of ore
which is believed to be the main vein.
" here penetrated and crosscut the ore
was fully eight feet wide of a solid blue
grey quartz impregnated with s~ulphides
and showing particles of ~sylvanite and
unquestionably carries good values al
though the assays of the. samples have
not yet been made. At this point the
tunnel gives a depth of 100 feet on the
vein and the ore is now being drifte |
on and when under the apex Of the
mountain will give a depth of 800 feet
on the ore body. This claim and the
Sk%yscrapper adjoining is owned by the
Sylvanite Gold Development company
and Frank j. Grof of Bisbee, one of the
directors who visited the property
Thursday was most gratifed at its ex.
~ccllent showing. Three shifts Of miners
have been continually employed for the
past two months.
The ore body in the second vein Of
the Wake-Up Charlie mine continues to
maintain it's width and values and ore
of shipping grade is daily extracted for
shipment. The crosscut is still beine
driven to the main vein which may be
cut any day.
Buchanan Mine
A representative of the Miner this
week visited the Buchanan mine, from
which the specimen gold ore Wa,
brought last week and which was pur
chased by Pierson Bros, Irwin ant
Mills. The property lies in the low
foothills, about one mile north of th'
Wood mine, and about the anne dis
tanee from Barker's wells and 8 mil
from Hachita. The main vein is of fine
honeycomb quartz stained with iroI
and outcrops boldly in a southeastern
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
BONDED FOR BIG SUM

Persistent rumors are in circulation
to the effect that the famous Quartctte
mine at Searchlght has been bonded to
an English syndicate for $4,000,O00. IT
is said that a lash payment of $1,000, 900
has been made and the balance is due IN
one, two and three years. The experts
report estimated the ore in sight in the
mine at 100000.
The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
THE GoLDFIELD G. o. D. MINING
COMPANY,
THE GOLD BAR MINING co. OF
GOLDFIELD.

To our Stockholders.
You are hereby notified that there has
been organized under the laws OF
South Dakota the &C. o. d. Consol-
dated Mining Company" which will
take over as a holding company a con.
trolling interest in tie 9. G. d. Mining
Company and the Gold Bar Minn,g
CoiATany of GoldGcli, and will acquire
nv Iced from the Goldfield Consul
idited Mining Company the "tor
e.: m, the corp rat on having a stock
car.tal of tire" million shares of a par
yalsc If one dollar each. and will have
about sne million shares unusued in tao
treasury after all stock is exchanged,
provided it is all turned in for ex-
change. In this case the holding com
pany will own all assets of tre oeI'
Bar MINING c~-r ~-d fhe " ~
Mining Company entirely. A large MI
iority of the issued stock of these com
panics is already being turned in for
exchange.
The territory complete will comprise
something over ninety (90) acres, being
approximately sixty (60) acres in the
C. o. D. territory, twenty-five (2el
acres of the Victor and about eight (S)
acres of the Gold Bar.
The basis of exchange will be as fol-
lows: The Gold Bar stockholders will
receive three shares of Consolidated
stock for five shares of Gold Bar stock.
The C. o. d. stockholders will receive
one share of Consolidated stock for one
share of C. o. D. stock.
You are invited to participate with
the other stockholders Immediately and
exchange YOU stock on the basis
named. 1t is the belief of a very large
majority of the interests that all will
be benefited by the consolidation of
these properties owing to the fact that
it is all contiguous territory, and that
the vein systems SO far developed run
through each of the properties, and de-
velopment has demonstrated the pres
ence of ore in all of them.
The intimate relation of the vein sys-
tens of the three properties and the
dip of the same makes it advisable, and
it is believed by our manager that great
economy will result from development
from a central point.
No transfer fee will be charged on
the exchange of stock and you are re-
quested to mail your certificates imme-
diately either to c. R. Anderson, secre-
tary, or to the Guarantee Title & Trust
company of Pittsburg who will be
transfer agents for the c. o. D. Con-
solidated Mining company.
Trusting this information will meet
with your approval, we remain,
Very truly yours,
THE COLDFIELD C. o. D. MINING
COMPANY,
GOLD BAR MINING COMPANY.
C. R. ANDERSON, Secretary.
Pittsburg, Pa, Sept. 10, 1908. .
&HHM