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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
POSTOFFICE AT GOLDYKE
is TO BE NAMED BUTLER

Jim Shelton, the former broker,
came in this morning and planted a
new name on the hotel register when
he wrote the name of Butler" after
his signature. Butler is the pro-
posed civic center of the Goldyke
district.
Mr.. Shelton reports everything
looking fine around the new townsite
the survey of which will be filed with
the county commissioners at their
next monthly meeting. The town
we'll has struck a sufficient flow of
water at a depth of thirteen feet.
but the supply is not more than
enough for the present population
and the we'll will be sunk to 100 feet
with drifts run to catch the seepage
from the surrounding bedrock.
Application has been made to the
postoffice department at Washington
for a p%ostoffice. The petition was
signed by 43 actual residents. The
first house, 16X14 feet has been start
ed and A. Fredina has erected a tent
lodging house, 20X30, a cook house.
the same size, and also established
a lumber and feed yard and grain
corral.-Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
ALL NEVADA HILLS
LITIGATION SETTLED

Attorney General Geo. b. Thatch-
er left for Reno last evening, where
he will today file release papers with
the district court in the case of
George Bethune versus the Nevada
Hills Mining company and Weber,
Davis ct al. The papers are similar
to the ones filed with the supreme
court Wednesday in the Ease of H.
B. Lind against Weber and Davis.
With the filing of the Bethune petit
ton all releases in this long pend
ing litigation involving ownership
to mining stocks and property val
ued at over $75O,000 have been
completed.
The action of Mr.. Thatcher ends
the legal tangles of the Nevada Hills
company.
Messrs. Lind and Bethune, it is
stated, will divide between them
100000 cash in settlement of all
their claims against the company
and it's directors. Judge j. p.
O'Brien, formerly of Tonopah, now
practicing at San Francisco, repre-
scented the plaintiffs, while George
B. Thatcher and Sweeney & More
house and r. G. Withers looked af-
ter the interests of the defendants.
Carson Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
.CLIFFOUDS ARE PUTTING
IN TWO SMALL MILLS

The Cliffords are putting in two
of the little T~etrault mills, furnished
by Campbell & Kelly. of this city,
and the owners have no hesitation in
saying the mills will more than make
good. Before buying the Cliffords
paid close attention to the demon
stration mill at the local foundry,
and concluded it was just what they
required in their business. The mills
are being erected at Clifford, which
has yielded high-grade gold and sill
yer ore. and at either Salisbury Wash
or Stone Cabin where there is plen-
ty of water for all purposes.
1t was the intention to plant one
of the mills directly at Glendale. the
scene of the townsite excitement of
seven years ago, but Joe Nay and the
Clifford boys failed to find water in
quantities sufficient to run the out
fit. Then it was decided to nov
down to Stone Cabin, a distance of
ten miles from the mine, but the lat
est report is that Salisbury Wash
HAY De CHOSeu do Tie oilc VI lhO
mill.
At Clifford, Jim Clifford is bring
ing in water from Mustang Springs
by a pipe line three and a half miles
long and expects to be in operation
before the warm weather comes. The
mine is looking better than at any
time in its history, and Jim Clifford
says he has a sure enough mine now
that will provide a mill with work
for years to come. This is the prop
erty that was leased to Mccormick
in 1907, and from which. it is cur
rently reported, 1000 was extract
ed in the course of a few months. The
townsite of Helena was laid out and
every indication pointed to a boom
when the mine gave out and the
lease was surrendered. Then the
Cliffords went to work and found
the property had been gophered to
reach the high-grade, and, when that
gave out. the lessee was only too
willing TO withdraw. Since then ship
ments of high-grade have been con-
tinued periodically, while the mine
was being put in shape for sys-
tematic production. Speaking of the
mine recently Jim Clifford remarked,
Il have a mine at last with a body
of very rich ore that virtually makes
a mine. The ore runs On an average
of $50 a ton and specimens have been
taken out that go up into the thou
sands"
The Glendale mine is owned by
Ed Clifford, Sr.. and Ed. Clifford, Jr.,
Joe Nay and Mrs. Nay, the discov-
err, and the other Clifford boys
Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
ORDER OF PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION WILL STAND

The reductions recently ordered
by the public service commission in
the rates for electric light and power
furnished by the Nevada California
Power company in southern Nevada,
including Goldfield and TonOpah,
will become effective early next
month. the motion of the company
for a %rehearing of the case having
been denied by the commission.
Under the ruling of the state COM
mission the price of electricity for
domestic purposes was reduced from
Is to 8 cents net per kilowatt hour.
Attorneys for the company appeared
before the commission several days
ago and endeavCred to prevail upon
it to rescind or modify its order, but
to no avail.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
"OLE" ELLIOTT SAILS THAT
COPPER CANYON LOOKS GOOD

w. S. ("Ole') Elliott arrived last
evening from Copper canyon, where
he had been for ten days inspecting
the various placer properties. He
left today for the western part of the
county to examine a property there.
Copper canyon looks like a win
ner," he said. The extent of the
field remains to be determined, as
comparatively little work has been
done except on the Christensen &
Dahl property. But gold has been
found in a number of places and the
indications are certainly most favor
able for the opening of a rich and
productive placer district. HUM
bOldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
WILL BUILD MILL
At PINE FOREST
COL. EWING TO CONSTRUCT
PLANT TO WORK ORES FROM
t OKLAHOMA

Col. Thomas Ewing, who is at the
Riverside, resting from a long and
arduous trip across the desert from
Winnemucca to Pine Forest, is in
clined to believe there will plenty OF
water in the latter district the com :
ing season.
You have no idea how the storms
have cut up the desert roads, but
they were found passable to a GER
tain extent until we arrived at the
base of the Pine Forest range, where
my mines are located" he said to-
day. There we encountered snow
so deep We could proceed no further.
signalling the superintendent of
the mine, he came down on snow.
shoes and / learned there is four
feet of snow at camp. Everything
is running smoothly. The ore is be-
ing drifted on at depth of 500 feet
and about 10000 tons are exposed.
GAS soon as spring opens | will
begin the erection of a mill of fifty
IONS capacity. 1t will be a well o n
oll utICu pidit, q "
of concrete being used. The mill will
be. stamp crushing, plate and pan
amalgamation, ~regrinding and con
centrating.
1.-THE ore is of excellent milling
grade, running between $40 and $50
a tom
Colonel Ewing had little to say
about his smelter project except that
the plant will cost in the neighbor-
hood of a million dollars.
II would not undertake the enter
prise if | were limited to a smaller
amount he said. my prospective
hackers have delayed taking action
until it is found exactly what effect
the currency bill will have upon gen
eral investment, but | am fairly as
sured of a favorable action before
March /. OF course, | must in the
meantime continue to decline to state
the location of the proposed smelter.
1t would not be good business to do
so at this time.-Reno Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
SAYS DISCOVERY
STILL IMPROVING
PRESIDENT TOBIN OF PIONEER
CONSOLIDATED Is WELL
PLEASED

William j. Tobin, president of the
Pioneer Consolidated Mines company
who is making one of his periodical
visits to Goldfield, yesterday con
irmed the report previously received
of the Improvement in the find of
picture ore in the northwest drift on
the 225-foot level of the property of
his company in the Pioneer district.
He expressed himself as exceeding
ly well pleased with prevailing con-
ditions in the mine and declared that
the latest find is the most important
made in its history.
Mr.. Tobin stated that when he left
camp several days ago the drift was
exposing a face of eight feet of ore
that had been steadily yielding av-
erage assays for it's entire width of
$40 a ton. This ore showing, he ex-
planned. includes the streak of pic
ture rock which has widened out
from four inches to two feet and as
says around $3.50 a ton. AS the vein
dips west into the mountain at an
angle OF 40 degrees, a raise mas DeeH
started from the 265-foot level to
tap the shoot of rich pre- 1t is cal
culated that it will be necessary to
do only from ten to fifteen feet of
work to accomplish this task. and
upon its conclusion the limits of the
new find will be fully determined in
an economical manner.
Mr.. Tobin also reported that G..
II. Holman is obtaining encouraging
results on his lease on a block of
ground adjoining IN the southwest
of the Pioneer mine. Holman took
the lease about two months ago and
resumed work in a cross-cut tunnel
that had been driven $40 feet. Since
then he has advanced it about 60
feet and a few days ago struck a
vein which is at present yielding
milling ore. The quartz from the
vein is very similar to that of the
picture ore recently opened up in
the Pioneer mine.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
May USE STEAM SAOvELS
70 WORK THE RUTH MINE

The report is current around the
mining end of the district hat the
Ruth mines will be opened in the
spring, which will give employment
to a large number of miners, prob
ably several hundred. The Ruth was
opened up as an underground prop
osition, and is extensively developed.
1t was estimated several years ago
that the Ruth mines contained 49,
600, 600 tons of commercial sulphide
ore. This estimate was arrived at
after extensive churn drilling on
ground to the west of the developed
property, and does not include the
oxide ores which might be leached
at the present time and treated at
a handsome profit by the erection of
a plant for that purpose.
The Ruth properties have always
been regarded as an Underground min
ing proposition, but recently there
have been rumors in circulation to
the effect that the sulphide bodies
of ore on the eastern side of the
range will be opened as a steam
shovel proposition, and that event.
ually the entire body OF ore may be
mined by steam shovels. For some
time past there have been rumors
in circulation that a branch of the
Nevada Con. will be run up VerZan
canyon from near Lane City to the
old camp Ruth for the purpose of
conveying the ore from the mines d.
rectly to the plant at McGill for
treatment. Blu such an arrangement
it would not be necessary to oper-
ate the Star hosting plant at Ruth
to reach which under the former plan
of operation, it would be necessary
to tram the ore a long distance. or
course if all the ore is mined by
steam shovels from surface work
no tramming would be necessary.
1t is probable, however, that a con-
siderable amount of underground
mining would be done until the sur
face of the deposits on the eastern
side were stripped and ready to be
taken out by shOvels.
The opening of the old Ruth prop
critics would bring new life to the
eastern end of the district las many
of the employees would make their
homes in Ely, as the old camp of
Ruth is molly a short distance above
Lane City-Ely Record.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
CARRARA OPENS
TALC DEPOSIT
EXCELLENT QUANTITY OF COM-
MERCTAL COMPOSITION
Is FOUND

During the past week some work
has beer done upon the tale beds ap-
pearing on the Carrara Marble COM
pany's property at Carrara. near
Beatty, says the Carrara Obelisk.
There are several such deposits, but
only two of commercial importance.
One of these, of yellow tale, lies on
the second ridge east of Marble
gulch. This deposit occurs in a mesa
top covering an area of 100 square
yards and crops out again on the
north side of the hill, in a ledge 30
feet deep, for a distance of about
200 feet.
The second lies along the upper
end of the old quarry road on the
west slope of the amphitheatre. 1t
is also in ledge formation ranging
from 10 to 20 feet thick, and can be
traced along the side of the hill for
about 125 yards. This deposit is by
far the more important, inasmuch as
it is not only more accessible from
Carrara, but is composed of blue and
white tales of the highest grade.
These deposits are unique in that
they occur in a highly pulverlzed
state. where as the usual form of tale
in the natural state is about the
same consistency as burnt lime. On
screening to mesh 40, less than 10
per cent is lost, where in other va
rieties this would require grinding
and boiling several times.
The general formation occurs in
the belt of Pogonip limestone run
ming through the marble properties
and as far as is known, it is practi-
cally the only deposit of commercial
vtlue yet found in the PogOnip strata.
With the exception of a small pro-
duction in California, the entire out
put of tales in the United States
comes from a narrow belt OF ancient
crystalline rock running through the
states of the Atlantic ~seaboard. New
York state alone furnishes more than
40 per cent of the total amount pro-
duced. Far and away the o i'm
and filler in the manufacture of fine
writing paper, but there is an ever
increasing demand for it in the
manufacture of rubber goods, where
in it is utilized both in the body OF
the rubber and for the lining of the
mold. 1t also furnishes one of the
cheapest and most reliable methods
of bleaching cotton cloth, Owing to
it's high insulating quality, with ref
erence both to heat and electricity,
tale is used for the manufacture OBJ
switchboards, conduit Innings, and for
flooring power stations. 1t is also
used as a substitute for White lead
in cheaper grades of paint and as a
mordant in dyeing with aniline col
ors. The highest grades are used in
the manufacture of talcum powder
for toilet and surgical use.
The annual production of tale of
all grades within the United States is
about 100000 short tons, averaging
in value around 81 per ton. Blue
and white tales are valued much
more highly, being quoted at $32
per ton at the mines. Market demand
is both large and steady.
Properly developed it would seem
that these tale deposits would prove
a source of appreciate income to the
marble company, besides furnishing
employment for several men in the
various stages of preparation for the
market.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Distributing Corn Seed

w. w. Charles, comptroller of the
Tonopah Mining company, is distrib-
uting among his friends having a
liking for farming corn seed which he
secured during his recent visit to
Bolivia. He says that the corr in
that country surpasses any he has
ever seen in the United States and
that in about the same altitude as
Tonopah in similar soil with scarcely
any moisture.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Nevada Silver Service

BY a resolution passed during
the last session of the legislature
Governor Oddie, Lieut.. Governor
Ross and Secretary of State Brodigan
were appointed a commission to
provide the silver and gold bull
lion from Nevada's mines to be
used in the making of the silver
service to presented to the new
battleship Nevada. The commission
held a meeting today at which plans
were perfected to take up the mat
ter of securing donations.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
S%layOnian Insane

Rushing into the office of a ply
stefan in Reno several days ago, B.
Kirinovich, a Slovenian labOrer, de-
manded relief from government
men, who, he said, were alweys talk
ing to him and preventing him from
enjoying sleep. The physician quiz
eted his visitor until the arrival of
the police and the laborer is now be-
ing held on an insanity charge at the
Jail in the riverside city.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Murder and Suicide

Unrequited love is thought to have
been responsible for the murder early
Sunday morning in Reno of Mrs.
by Mace McCubbin, a milk wagon
driver, and the suicide of the man,
after he had also shot and slightly
wounded the formers sister, Mrs.
Bert Boalen. Thetrio attended a dance
and had returned to the place of
residence of the women, where the
tragedy occurred.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Meets With Accident

T. A. Brandon, an attorney of
Winnemucca, recently met with a
serious accident in that town while
riding a motorcycle. The machine
struck a barking dog and Brandon
was thrown to the ground. In fall
ing his right foot was caught in the
spokes of the rapidly revolving rear
wheel and his big toe was sc badly
federated that it was necessary to
amputate 1t.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Case to BE ReaSSi9ned

Upon his recent resignation from
the bench of Churchill county, Judge
l.. A. French assigned to Judge f.. A.
Quicker of the Humboldt county dis
standing suit involving alter rights
in the Quinn river valley of Hum
boldt county, but rs the latter was
the attorney fer some of the par
the bench he is disqualified from
presiding in it's hearing and the case
will, of necessity, be re~assigned to
some other Judge.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
River Leyee Breaks

Unable to further withstand the
heavy pressure of the present high
water, the levee along the Hum
boldt river for a distance of fifty
feet on the Big Five ranch in the
lower portion of the Lovelock val
ley in Humboldt county broke e V
eral days ago and in consequence
a large area of land is flooded. A
force of laborers is now at work re-
pairing the break.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Saloon Robbers Caught

Impressed with a feeling that his
place would be attacked, V. l.. Rose,
a saloonkeeper of Hilltop in Lander
county, after closing it several
nights ago, returned there, armed
with shotgun. That his Fremont
ton was we'll founded was proven
when, upon entering the saloon, he
found five men ra~nsacking it. He
covered them with the gun and call
ed officer, who placed the intrud-
the Jail at Battle Mountain.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Nav Join Rebels

According to advices received in
Reno, DR.. Frederick N. Wichman,
who was about a year ago paroled
from the Nevada state prison after
serving three of an e%ight-year SEN
tence for malpractice in that city
and who recently was fined $500 for
practicing medicine without a license
in ST. Louis, Mo-, has been ordered
to leave that city, with a term in
the workhouse as the alternative.
The physician has announced his in
tention of enlisting in the Mexican
rebel army.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Meets With MiSh

While coasting down a hill in
Ruth in White Pine county recently,
Ernest Belang, a baker, was thrown
from a bobsled and sustained the
fracture of the larger bone of the
upper and both bones of the lower
portion of one of his legs, as well as
the d~islocation of his knee cap.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Lion Almost ToothIess

Going to a pasture outside of
Lund in White Pine county recent
ly to drive into town a herd OF
horses. Joe Godett, an Indian, found
could upon the carcass of a colt that
it had just killed. The Indian shot
the lion with his rifle. The advanced
age of the beast was attested by the
fact that it was found almost tooth
less.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21

c. H. Cogswell, for many years a
resident of Virginia City, died re-
Gently in Carson City of pneumonia
after an illness of about a week. In
the early days of the Comstock.
Cogswell worked as an engineer at
various mines and was we'll known.
He vas more than seventy years
old.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
HIRAM L. GILL WILL
AGAIN RUN FOR MAYOR

SEATTLE, Feb. 1S.-Hiram G.
Gill, recalled as mayor three years
ago and defeated by Mayor Cotterill
in 1912, was nominated for mayor at
yesterdays primaries. Opposing him
will be James Trenholme, a so-called
"businessmen's candidate" who de-
feated Richard Winsor, backed by the
conservative socialists.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Falls i'm Hole

Mrs. ]. r. farmer fell into a hole
caused by the extraction of a tele-
phone pole on a road near Sparks re-
Gently. 1t was dark and there was
no light by the hole. While she was
not seriously injured. she was badly
shaken up.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
DOES NOT OWN SINGLE
SHARE OF FLORENCE

Several market letters and a num-
Der of mining publications have re-
Gently referred to the large influence
and even control of the Florence at
Goldfield by George Wingfield. An
attempt to interview Mr.. Wingfield
today on the conditions of the prop
erty and the Importance of the re-
cent strike there developed the fact
that he has o interest in the prop
erty whatever, except that he is
pieased and encouraged by the recent
Developments and looks upon it as
a good property.
81 haven't owened a share of Flo
renee stock in more than five years."
said Mr.. Wingfield.-Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
EARTHQUAKES SHOCK
is FELT AT RENO

RENO, Feb. 1S.-An earthquake
shock today broke windows, cracked
walls and felled the front wall of a
big apartment house. Hundreds of
persons rushed frenziedly into the
streets. Miners sought the surface,
fearing a disaster. Nobody was hurt.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21

Mrs. Martha j. Wood, for thirty
years a resident of Beckwith, Cal,
and for the last five years a resident
of Reno, died in the latter city sew
eral days ago.. She was a native of
Maine and j%ourneyed to California
over 80 years ago.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
To Construct Branch Line

The work of constructing a branch
of the Eureka and Palisade railroad
from it's main line to the Bullion dis
trict will be started in the neal flu
ture, according to an announcement
made recently in Reno by J.. E. Sex
ton, general manager of the road.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Crosses Great Divide

Mrs. Fred Berning, a pioneer
resident of Gardnerville, died re-
Gently at her home in that town of
ailments incident to old age. She
was born in Germany in 1914 and.
with her husband, emigrated to
Gardnerville in 1864.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
WOrkmen Burned

A blowout at the smelter at Mason
several days g seriously burned
c. Bateman and Robert Board. In
trying to escape from a stream of
molten lead that shot from the fur
mace they tripped and fell into the
pit through which the Stag pots run.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
Railroad Man Dead

Henry L.. Wise died recently in
Carson City, after an illness of sew
eral weeks. Wise had been an en-
ploy of the Virginia and Truckee
railroad for the past twenty years.