The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-01-30
F. T. O.. Omaha, Neb.-The Manhat.

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litigation. Property is the one big mine
of Manhattan district, so considered.
Mine equipped with 30 horse power,
steam hosting plant, compressor, air
drills. good buildings, ore bins, etc. DE.
velopment consists of approximately
1900 feet of work. Large ore bodies
opened up, with many thousands of
tons of ore of good milling grade
blocked out. Three thousand tous
milled this summer in a test run aver
aged about $40 per ton. Ore occurs in
ehutes, or big lenses. On the . level
il is about 80 feet in width by so feet
long, with many smaller ehutes AMI
lenses more or less disconnected from
the big ore body. Ore was presumably
free milling. But test run showed it
impossible with mills now in Manhat.
tan to secure a saving of over 62 per
cent of the values in the ore. Hence
the partial shut down of mine for the
present, and the discontinuance of mill
ing. 1t has been determined from a
series of tests recently completed, that
a saving of about 90 per cent can be
had on the ore by fine grinding, Il
slight roast, and a II hour c%yanidation.
This process will have to be installed.
Company at meeting Jan. II created al
issue of preferred stock, and will now
endeavor to raise about $4,000 for
that purpose, and to continue develop
ment. Only one lease has been granted.
That for six months on a piece of I'M
developed ground. Royalty % per cent
fiat. Leaser encountered a seam of
high grade ore, and is following the
seam, running into occasional pockets
of ore. He has milled IS tons averag-
ing $50 per ton.
the surface, is well oxydized, and hence
was free milling.
r. NJ, Les Angeles. -We have reports
from the Johnnie mine in The News
from week to week, and you should be
able to determine from these reports
what progress is being made toward
the dividend state. The mine was left
in bad shape by the Doubleday regime,
and considerable time and money were
needed to get the mine and mill in {
a-DI,.t.x-. .~,I,,, M III =
running about half capacity and By
the early part of the month will be run.
ming its full 100 ton capacity. The
mine has recently broken into some
specimen ore of the highest value and
if there is much of the kind shown us.
there should be dividends before a
great while. But this is too much to
expect, of course.
.h.fA a.. 2~ir""s-sA--, Ala-Ynn will
see an extended article on the Mogul
Consolidated in this issue of The News.
AS you know, we do not take the re-
sponsibility of advising clients whether
to buy or not to buy. We can only give
such information as we know to be
then use his own Judgment. If We
know a proposition to be bad or good,
we do not hesitate to say so; but as
mining is more or less a chance, or "a
gamble, as the saying is, we hesitate
about giving advice when it involves
the possible loss Of money. We would
be inviting entirely too much trouble.
Oakland, Cal.-We have just received
notice of the annual meeting of the
Golden Dawn Mining company, which
was called for January 20 at Menom-
inee, Mich. The notice was signed b.
Peter Shoemaker, president and c. J.
Huebel, secretary. If you are a stock.
holder of record, you probably got one
of these notices and will receive a re
port of the meeting. Otherwise, write
to the secretary at address given.
E. J.. B., Navoo, In.-Watch our col
umns for news about the Bullfrog
Pioneer. 1t is the sensation of the day.
G.. M. s., Garvanza. Cal.-See issue
CT Jan. 9 for a full reply to the ques.
tion you ask. In short, the Combine
ticn Florence has gone out of business,
and Sidney Flower and Gossip have
long since left camp and probably do
ing business elsewhere under an as
sumed name as was the ease here.
G. s. T., Reno, New. On the Tone
pah-Goldreef, active operations are 10
be put under way by the COMPANY.
composed mostly of Western Union
men, upon the property which the com
pany controls at Gold Reef, located 4
short distance from Tonopah. Inc
ground of the company has a very
promising showing.
II. H. s., Alleghaney, Pa.-The JIM
Butler property has never looked better
IN its history. Constant and compfe'
hcnsive development throughout t@
mine has placed a heavy tonnage OF on
IN sight, and the veins have many u
them grown richer with depth.
J. G. H., Chicago.-The Old Kaintneh
claim adjoins the Lone Star group %
the northeast and the Talmage on t~
southeast in s~aefion n two mllS 4