The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-05-15
Joe" JENKINS TELLS WHAT
HE SAW IN HAMPTON SLOPE

literally ~impregnated with free gold
and tellurium, that cracked the Joke
No: the Mohawk's vaults the millions
ding from which had electrified the
mining world had not been picked
clean. Adhering to all sides of it were
qoId-bearing ores that reflected the
presence of yet unmined thousands, if
they do not multiply themselves into
Ligger figures. Into other "mined-
OUT vaults, the visitors were led; an
other blow from the hammer reveal
ing similar conditions. Nature had
overwhelmed the lessee; he was not
strong enough to pack out all the mil
lions he had unearthed.
Meanwhile. to the millions locked
within the milling ores, the drcgs as It
were, no attention had been paid. They
we're tossed aside like so much dross
although buried beneath them were the
real sinews of one of the most extra
ordinary estates in the history of gold
mining. Tle delirium from which the
'.leaser'' WAS aroused to find himself
a man of millions, at an end, the gla-
mour that had blinded the miner for
the moment gaze, the management
settled down to the real commercial
~ization of the camps enduring resour-
ces. The .'low grade ores were now
to be made to disgorge their gold.
The mill became the thing. Beneath
its stamps, through its rolls, upon its
plates, over its tables and through it's
teaching tanks, the game for Gold
! fields stakes was now to be played; the
orgies were over and the hour for the
intelligent metallurgy of its ores was
on. 1t presented no obstruse problems
although implying the use of nearly
every method and practice from plain
and venerable amalgamation down to
the use of the cyanide tank with the
filter press through which to squeeze
the last particle of gold. This is the
era upon which mining, economic min
ing and metallurgy, at this great camp
of gold is now advancing, nor is the
talent any the less %scrupulous or pains
taking in the application of its methods
! because the rocks of Goldficld are
more freely mineralized, than are they
at the Homestake of South Dakota,
the Treadwell of Alaska or Mercur
mines of Utah, where millions have
been and are being won from material
that affords an average of less than
So gold per ton. 81 want those mill
ores kept down to a $40 average was
the a~dmonition addressed by super
intendent Hampton to his shift bosses,
The average to which it was vainly
sought to %confine the ores had run away
from them and had leaped to figures
in excess of $50 per ton. And so it
was that the fresh earth was blended
with a still leaner reject that had been
east aside by the ~lessees. OF this class
of ore the Consolidated will soon be re-
ducing 900 tons a day. Apparently
there is enough of it exposed to meet
these requirements for years. Mean
while, there is the product that must
find its way to the smelter furnaces,
and who is there among us audacIous
enough to measure the life of this bon
anzaf
Much that l have undertaken to
r n.I16olJ Gonsal,1afa1 ia IN
he written of Florence-Goldfield
That, too, has been equipped for the
commercialization of that class of
ore that does not find it's way to the
furnaces, and standing in the shadow
Of the mills, listening to the noisy
clinic of the stamps upon the success
full reduction of ores of unusual value.
who can say other than that Goldfeld
is vet in the exordium of a career that
must continue to astonish the world. l
cannot but rely on the present cam
paign of exploratory work to fructlfy
in disclosures further east and further
west. further north and further south,
that shall be as sensational as any
recorded in mineralized areas thus far
prospected. The new work is being IN
diligently and scientifically advanced,
and while some fixed convictions are to
be overcome with some obdurate thee
ries to be upset, their doom is as cer-
tain as was the doom of those that
owned diggings that continue to give
up their wealth of metallic resources
after being thrice buried by the theo-
~retical miner and geologist.