The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1909-09-18

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Goldfeld News and attempting to dis
credit its stories about Consolidated,
Florence, etc. Rice's paper last week
said that The News exaggerated the
story about the Combination Fraction.
We will make this proposition. If Rice
anyone he may send will visit the
Fraction and say that the
facts we're not exactly as we printed
them last week, we will pay his ex-
penses from New York here and back
again and give him a mighty good time
in the margain. We would advise Rice
to get rid of his Goldfeld "shorts
and get on the other side and stay
there.
J. q. G., Portland-The agreement of
the terms of the option recently given
by the Butte 4 Ely company to Thomas
+. Cole and associates is as follows:
Mr.. Cole is to have all of the treasury
stock, 229,175 shares, at $l.00 per share,
payable September IA, 1909. In addition
to this the stockholders are asked by
the company officials to contribute $l.O0
per share ten per cent. of their holdings,
or a sufficient amount to give Mr.. Cole
$50, 005 shares, which would be a con
trolling interest. Mr.. Cole has a num-
Der of drills busily engaged in exploit
ing the Butte L. Ely estate, and it is
reported that he has availed himself
of the option. In that event there
would seem to be no reasonable doubt of
the eventual success of the company.
The property is well located, but a com
pany without ample capital in its treas
ury generally has a long and rocky road
to travel.
j. McC., Bishop, GAIA good meth
cd of thawing dynamite is by heating
the thawing box by electricity. The
box referred to is about l6x40x36 inch
es, and stands on edge. 1t is made of
wood with a number of trays that will
slide in and out. Each tray is made of
small strips of wood, and it is upon
these trays that the powder is placed.
Doors are made as nearly alright as
POSSIBLE. The lower 8 inches of the
box has wire coils through which the
current passes, and heat from the coils
warns the box. Above the coils is a
thin sheet of galvanized iron, to prevent
any powder or nitro glycerin from COM
ing in contact with them. The sheet
iron is covered with asbestos sheet. The
box is usually thoroughly heated before
placing the dynamite on the trays, and
then the current is turned off. The
thawer is placed in some remote part of
the mine and is thoroughly inclosed in
a small house, at the end of a drift
which can be closed from draft.
x. Y. e., Philadelphia wonderful
transformation has taken place at the
site of the Tonopah Extension mill dur
ing the past week. The concrete work
is completed and the timber trainers
have the superstructure ready. Twelve
carloads of machinery and building
supplies have arrived and six carloads
more are on the road. General Man
ager Kirchen says that if there are
no delays in securing material and ma
chinery, the mill will be ready for
operations by January /. There are
now about fifty men employed in con-
struction. Stopping of ore will begin
about thirty days prior to opening of
the mill, but ore from the depth would
not be in demand for a long time, there
being a tremendous supply on the
dumps. Tonopah Extension semi-an-
nual treasury report, under date of
June 80, 1909, shows $31 SOB cash on
hand, $16,676 bills receivable, and puts
a value of $77,946 on the stores, plant,
equipment, etc, of the company. The
only earnings shown for this period is
1901 interest IN deposits.
J. o. T., ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS has
been known since the middle ages to
the tin miners of Cornwall and Saxonv.
II is black, or brownish black i'm color.
yields a red-brown powder, is very
heavy, having a specific gravity of over
Z. 1t frequently forms crystals almost
metallic in l%uster, which cleave easily
in one direction, giving rise 10 thin fiat
plates. In some cases, as for example
some of the Wolframite ores of Boul-
der county, Colorado, the mineral is al
most massive, resembling very fine
grained, compact magnetic. Chemical
ly it is an iron manganese tungstate,
having the formula (Fe,Mn) WO4. VOL
frantic fuses easily, and is only par
tally decomposed by the common acids.
G. g., Williamsport, Pa.-Fonr Card
concentrating tables and the amalgam-
atlng plates, part of the new equipment
Tor the Florence mill addition, have
beer placed in position. The new tube
mill has arrived and is ready for
duty. With this new installation the
capacity of the mill will be increased to
100 tons per day. While the main
shaft is being enlarged to three COM
partments the ore supply will be drawn