The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-08-28

Despite the business lassitude at IN
camp of Pioneer, the camp looks be
ter than ever from the mining en-,
The Mayiower Consolidated propert
is trebling the size OK its mill-increa.
ing from 5 to Is stamps, and backin,
up its amalgamation and cyanide pro
cess with a set Of Frue vanners. Wit.
depth the ores at Pioneer are run
ming into ~sulphides, and concentrate
is needed to effect the largest saving
of values.
The May6ower IS now beginning I,
work the biggest and richest ore shoe
it has ever opened, this being the re
suit of starting operations to the nortl
and west Of the shaft-in the direction
of the largest acreage and under tn.
long backbone that extends from the
Mayfower on the south far past the
Pioneer lease half a mile to the north.
The News predicted some months ago
that the biggest and richest ore re-
serves Of the Mayfower estate lay I'M
der the Starlight claims, and that por-
ton of the original Mayhower holdings
between the Starlight and the mill,
and this prediction is being verified.
One of the biggest lodges Of low grade
milling ore in the country was opened
on the surface Of these claims some
three months ago, and now underground
work in this direction at 800 feet depth
has revealed an immense ledge Of ore
that gives a mill head, as broken down
from some ten feet of vein matter, Of
$40 per ton. The ledge was opened
at 800 feet below the collar Of the
shaft, but owing to the sharp rise of
the hill from the shaft to the north,
the vein is being worked approximately
400 feet beneath the crown Of the hill.
SO rich is the ore that is now being
milled that the five stamps have each
been averaging close to $3.50 per day
for the past two or three weeks, ac-
cording to reliable reports from the
property. The property is thus not
only making itself self sustaining, but
is paying for its W development, and
then some, and it is the belief of those
close to the management that the ff-
teen stamps will be regarded as the
ways and means" for giving the
Mayfiower property one of the biggest
mills in the state, eventually. Certain
it is that the statement made by The
News some months ago that the May
flower Consolidated, in spite of early
vicissitudes and mismanageEent, is due
to be recognized as N of the big
mines of Nevada is being fulfilled.
Pioneer Lease Looking Better.
Reports that were not at all fatter-
ing went out from the Pioneer lease
for a time, to the effect that the ore
had played out, etc, but a personal
investigation of the condition of the
lease shows that the operators paid too
much attention to quitting the big
body of ore they had exposed, and did
not keep up their development work IN
the meantime. 1t is an accepted fact
that such methods of mining will work
inevitable embarrassment, and the
Pioneer lease was no exception. The
development work had to be made up,
eventually, and for the past month this
has been under way, while the pro-
duction of the lease was cut down.
About thirty tons of $50 ore has been
going out steadily, however, every day.
The Pioneer lease is now down 1926
feet, and at this depth, in a cross
cut from a winze-all in low grade
sulphide ore-another big ore body OF
about the general average has been
encountered, and gives stopping ground
for another long run. Although the
lease will expire about January ], 1910,
the development work is going on, and
indications are that the crosscut at the
325-level is about to break into an
other body of ore of as surprising
richness as was the first big strike
that drew the attention of the state
to this camp last winter.
Mining engineers who made reports
on the district early in the year are
congratulating themselves that deep
working is proving the correctness OF
their belief that Pioneer was to be q
permanent camp, although more Of a
rich milling than a paying shipping
camp, as the occurrence of strong sui
phide ores, and the strengthening up Of
vein systems is in line with their pre-
dictions. In the Mayfower at 500 feet
is a flow Of water sufficient for a much
larger mill than the Mayfiower at pres
emit contemplates, and in the Pioneer
lease at 1926 feet-the collar OF the
Pioneer shaft nearly or quite 100 feet
higher thar the collar of the Mayfow
er shaft flow of water is coming IN
that, while small as yet, promises lots
of water with a little more depth.
Camp Was Hard Hit
Pioneer has been the most sorely