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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
Man STRICKEN
ON THE DESERT
PROSPECTOR FOUND NEAR l.. V.
& T.. TRACKS NEAR
CHARLESTON

Suddenly stricken with an attack
of sciatica, which paralyzed his right
leg, while walking from Las Vegas to
the Keane Wonder mine in search of
work, Francis Barton, a soldier of
fortune and p~rospector, was discover
ed lying alongside of the tracks of
the Las Vegas and Tonopah railroad
north of Indian Springs in Nye coun-
ty, about noon yesterday by En-
gineer Van Orman of the passenger
train that arrived in Goldfeld last
evening. He was placed aboard the
train, brought to Goldfield and this
morning Sent to the Nye county hos
pital in Tonopah by local members
of the Masonic order, with which he
is affiliated, being a member of st.
Mary's lodge, No. III of Partic, Scot
land. On account of his condition,
Barton was made easy last night in
the local freight house of the l.. V.
& T. railroad. When he was placed
aboard the Tonopah and Goldfield
train, bound for the silver camp,
Charles Magee, master of the local
Masonic lodge, telephoned to the mas
ter of the lodge there, advising him
of Barton's coming.
Barton told Magee that he was
preparing a meal about $50 Mon
day evening a short distance from
the railroad track when he was
stricken. He dragged himself to the
track and laid there for eighteen
hours or until noon yesterday when
he was found by Engineer Van Or
man. Barton said that he suffered
great pain and that all Monday night
several coyotes remained within a
few feet of him, apparently waiting
for him to die. Although possessed
of only a pocketknife, Barton man
aged to keep the animals from at
lacking him. The unfortunate man is
a native of Australia, As years old
and is a veteran of the Spanish.
American and Boer and Nicara-
guam and Uruguayan revolutions.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
CYANIDE PLANT
TO Be INSTALLED
LESSEES ON GREAT BEND AND
DAISY IMPROVING
MILL

The Diamondfield Mining and Mill
ing company is obtaining excellent
results in the operation of its leases
on adjoining blocks OF ground on the
estates If the Goldheid Great Benz
Mining company and the Diamond
field Daisy Mining company in the
Diamondfield section of the Goldfield
district. Just at present the lessees
are devoting particular attention to
the improvement of their five-stamp
mill on the Great Bend ground to eff
feet a better extraction of the values
fro mthe ores treated.
1t has been found that only from
80 to so per cent of the values are
recovered on the plates and cyanide
tests are being made with a view to
the installation of a twenty-ton daily
capacity plant. The tests, according
to Manager Thorns, show the ore
yields readily to cyanidation and he
is confident that by the erection of
such a plant a saving of better than
ninety per cent can be made. Man
ager Thorns calculates that the tests
will be completed in a few days and
the cyanide plant completely Install
ed within the mex thirty days.
Underground operations by the
lessees are at present being largely
confined to the extraction of ore from
both the Great Bend and Daisy
ground on the 75-foot level of the
Toplitz shaft on the latter. In the
west drift into the Great Bend
ground, four feet of ore that assayed
as high as $50 a ton was revealed
recently. From this find, a trial
shipment of fifteen tons of ore was
made. Manager Thorns thinks the
shipment will yield an average value
of $50 a ton. The face of the drift
is now exposing SO ore. The drift
struck the orebody on an angle and
a crosscut south from the shaft eX-
posed the eastern extension of the
vein in the Daisy ground. An east
drift on it is yielding ore assays
from ST. to $25 a ton for an aver
age width of three feet. From a
ffty-foot east drift from the shaft
on the same level on another vein, a
raise is being sen up on six feet of
ore assaying from SIS to $25 a o n
This raise is going up on the foot
wall of the vein, which has a total
width of twenty feet.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
MANUFACTURED FUEL.

The total quantity OF manufac-
tured fuel in the form of briquets,
eggettes, coalettes, boulets, and like
products, according to E. w. Parker
of the United States geological sur
vey, in an advance chapter of min
eral resources, 1918, on Fuel Bri-
quetting," just published, amounted
in 1913 to 1S1, S59 short tons, valued
at $1,007,327, a decrease of 1S,2O5
tons in quantity but an increase of
$4,000 in value, compared to the
output in 1912. The slackened de-
mand for b%riquetted fuel is believed
to be due to the exceptional mild
ness of the winter of 1928 and
of November and December, 1918.
The briquets which appear to meet
with favor in the eastern states are
of the boulet type. pillow OF egg
shaped, and about the size OF anthra-
cite nut. They are practically smoke
less and make an lueal fuel for the
open crate or kitchen range, holding
their shape until entirely consumed
pulverulent, clinkerless ash. In the
Central and Pacific coast states the
popular type of briquetted fuel ap-
pears to be of larger size, about that
of egg coal.
A copy of Mr.. Parker's report may
be obtained free on application to
the director of the geological survey,
Washington. d. c..
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
TENABO MINING PROPERTY
IN HANDS OF RECEIVER

The federal court at Carson City
has appointed r. J. Paine of Pine
Valley, receiver of the Gold Quartz
Mining company at TenabO.
The property is situated close to
Tenabo and consists of three groups
comprising Is claims.
There are several veins on the
property, which vary from Is to 20
feet in width. The ore runs from
s. up into the hundreds per ton in
gold and there is enough of it
blocked out to supply a mill of, 100
ton daily capacity. The property
has been placed in the hands of a
owing to disagreements be-
tween the stockholders and it is to be
sold to the highest bidder.-Elko
Free Press.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
PIONEER OF GOLDTIELD
DIES BY HIS OWN HAND

Word reached Goldfield today of
the recent death by suicide in Sa-
linas. Cal, of William S. Casey. a
pioneer of Goldfield, Tonopah. Fair
view and other Nevada camps. Casey
seem time ago underwent an opera
tons, which failed to improve his
physical condition and he ended his
life. Prior to his rash act, Casey
gave a power of attorney to a friend
to draw $1,000 which he had on de-
post in a bank to devote to his flu
neral rites which he specified should
include the cremation of his remains
and an elaborate dinner to a party OF
his friends. After a feast in a San
Francisco hotel. Casey's ashes, in ac-
cordance with his wishes. were taken
back to Salinas and sprinkled from
the Riverside bridge near that town.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
MINING L. CALIFORNIA

In the early years of it's existence
California was a mining state, pure
and simple. Today the mineral in
dustry receives little attention from
the public at large, yet it is greater
and more extensive than in the palm
lest early days" Gold was discov-
cred in 1S4S. The output for the
following year amounted to $1O,-
1890. In 1852 it had grown to a
total of $S1,249,7OO. With the years
succeeding this maximum production
the mines of the state continued to
yield fabulous wealth, but in decreas-
ing amounts, until their fame became
gradually dimmed. The low-water
mark of the industry was reached in
1889, when the total mineral output
equaled $16.6S1,731, over $11,OOO,-
900 of which was gold. That year
also marked the beginning of the
present era of practical and scientific
development of the varied mineral
resources of the state. Improvement
in methods of development treat
ment and management has increased
the annual gold production to about
$2O,0 ,0OO-a figure which has ap-
proximately held for the past 10
years.
The discovery and development of
.oil-bearing territory has been the
largest single factor in the recent
growth of the mineral industry, al
though the building up of the cement
industry. and the exploitation of de-
posits of the widely varying struc-
tural and industrial materials which
are now commercially produced, have
all helped materially in causing it to
reach its present gigantic proportions.
Mining World.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
NEW DISCOVERIES
AT COPPER CANYON

Meyer Sugarman, of the Sugarman
Iron and Metal company of San
Francisco, visited this city on legal
business yesterday afternoon. Mr..
Sugarman has just returned from a
visit to the placer fields of Copper
canyon near Battle Mountain and
reports many new discoveries being
made in hat section.
The Miners he said, care taking
out some nuggets that at any other
time and place would create a STAN
pede, and from appearances they will
continue to do so for several years
to come Mr.. Sugarman left for
Reno last evening to close a deal for
an old mill in the northern part of
Humboldt county.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
GOLD THEORY OF
COPPER CANYON

Copper Canyon is getting bigg.r
and buster every day, accordins
Guy C. Davis, the original d~iscovefer
of placers there. He says:
There are now about 500 men
working in the district and the out
put is in the neighborhood of $4,000
a day. Not all of the miners are
working in pay, for a large number
are still engaged in preliminary de-
velopments. There is every assur-
ance that the district will be vastly
increased later in the season.
"The great drawback still contin-
ues to be lack of water. 1t has to be
hauled a long distance and crude
methods are employed in separating
the gold from the gravel.
by the way, we had an amusing
experience some time ago with the
manager of the Glasgow & Western
Development company. The only
water in the town for domestic pur-
poses comes from a tunnel far up the
mountain. The pipe line was guilt
many years ago and the passing pros
pectors made use of it.
'The representative of the Glasgow
& Western company n day a h
pipe line torn up, leaving the camp
without water. Eight of the boys and
myself went to his house and gave
him twenty-four hours to restore the
line. He refused and We were a lit
tie emphatic when we gave him a
brief extension of time. Really,
some of the fellows were inclined to
use rather drastic means to enforce
our deamnds. We got the water all
right.
Judge harrington, as you have
already published, recently rendered
a decision in the case brought by the
Glasgow & Western company against
j. J. Healy, Murray Scoot, Noah Full
bert and myself, but the full facts
have never gotten into print. 1t was
a considerable victory for the de-
PENDANTS, although the plaintiff re-
tanned a considerable acreage
through a discovery made forty feet
from a sideline under the mill. This,
however, reduced it's principal claim
260 feet in width, giving us the
greater part of the pay channel.
There has been a lot of talk about
the placer being old channel gold,
but it is not smooth enough. In fact,
it contains considerable jagged
quart and some of the gold is crystal
lized, showing it could not have
travelled far. In fact, | have taken
samples of all the different gravel in
the gulches and duplicated all it
in the formation up the range.
Before long | expect that someone
will find the source of this gold, and
then be prepared for a big excite
ment.'-Reno Gazette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
MAKES REPORT
TO DIRECTORS
ENGINEER COMPLIES FIGURES
ON PIONEER CONSOLIDATED
OPERATIONS.

j. X. Turner, consulting engineer
of the Pioneer Consolidated Mines
company, has submitted to the di-
rectors of that corporation the fol-
lowing report of the operations at
it's mine and mill in the Pioneer dis
trict during the first quarter of this
year:
During the first quarter of the
year 1914 (January, February and
March, tie total production of your
company was 2,120.S tons. Produ" ri
&c a cost of ~$4,OOS.31, Oh an average
cost of $1.S9 per ton.
During the anne period 165 feet
of development work was performed
at a total cost of $3.50, or an
average cost of 81 per foot.
The mill treated 2,12O.S tons of
ore at an operating cost of $6,101.04,
or an average cost of $2.S7 per ton.
The gross value of the ore milled was
$12,O1O.5O, or an average value OF
$3.50 per ton. The total recovery
was $S,72S.10 or 1875 per cent. The
saving by amalgamation vas $6,319.-
10, or 52.6 per cent, and by cyanida-
ton $2,409, Or 20 per cent.
The low percentage of saving is
ca used by the inability of the present
cyanide plant to treat the shines af-
Yer amalgamation. 1t has been dem
cnstrated during this first quarter
Of the veal that the product produced
by the Dorr Classifier is abolut 60
per cent sand and 40 per cent shines.
The mill contains no devices for the
t.. eatment of shines and they are al
Lowell to flow out of the mill to a
slime pond below, where they are
being saved for future treatment.
The value of these shines vary with
the value of the headings of the ore.
Should the proper slime treat
ment be installed, as mentioned in a
former report, sufficient values in
the shines, now being lost, would be
saved and a total of 9 per cen saw
ing a undoubtedly be made. How
ever, it has been decided by your
ldudScI1cH " lllluculdtCly dtl upOIl
the suggestion made by your consult
ing engineer in his report dated JAN
uary 14th. 1914, and make complete
mill run tests on regrinding and re,
amalgamating the tailings from the
present amalgamating plates. With
this plan in view, the Huntington
mill, 10Y owned by your company, is
being installed Immediately below
the stamp plates and will regrind
the tailings from these plates and re-
amalgamate in the Huntington mill
as we'll as on the plates following it.
Should this r%egrinding and re-amal-
gamation method be successful, the
original cos of installing the slime
treatment machinery and tanks,
which would be about $4,000, will
be saved, and the total costs per ton
for milling will be mucn less and
the daily capacity much greater.
The general mine conditions con-
tinue to be satisfactory"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
MANHATTAN CONS.
SHOWS HIGH GRADE

High grade bristling all over with
free gold plastered in spaces as large
as the hand and adhering to cleav-
ages in the quartz, was placed on
exhibition this morning in the win
dow of j. Fred Brown. the broker.
The stuff would probably u up in
the thousands for bullion value, but
as specimen rock the quartz would
command almost any price. The rock
came from the Manhattan CONSOLE
dated Mining company. The high
grade streak in which occurs this
phenomenal specimen ore is from Is
inches to two feet wide.
What is called the main west drift
was driven southwest, diagonally
from shaft on 200 foot level to inter-
sect the main east-west contact of
lime and shale; this main drift was
then turned west and is following the
course of this main contact. Three
cr~oss-fissures, all showing excellent
grade free milling ore, have been cut,
and it is expected that at least two
more will be encountered before
reaching the cross fissure encounter
ed in the original acknowledgements
lease" and by the workings on the
Earl property. Only one of these
cross-fissures has been developed to
any extent. This is what is known
as the South LEDGE" which was
cut some time ago when a drift was
being driven diagonally through the
line to reach the contact; at that
point, it showed seven feet between
walls, four feet of which was good
grade ore and the balance milling
grade. This ore was drifted on for
about 40 feet before reaching the
contact, it widened out to IL feet, OF
unifor omre about to a $26 grade.
A 50-foOt upraise has been run in this
put in, preparatory to drawing ore,
when it is needed. Should this ore
chute continue to the surface, as
there is every reason to believe it
will, it will provide Ton its Dip $40
feet of backs. On the hanging wall
of this orebody, occurs a high grade
"streak" of from IS inches to two
feet, which was never sampled below
500. In this occurs the phenomenal
specimen ore, several large boulders
pah and exhibited. No further work
will be done until the company is
ready to begin milling.
All these orebodies lie west of
the shaft and west of the volcanic
mud dyke" and wholly within the
free milling zone, and have no con-
nection whatever with the large bod
les of refractory ore found east of
the shaft and mud dyke.-Bonanza.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09

camp, located in the Antelope noun
tains across the valley half a dozen
rc.les from Milford. Two parties of
prospectors have been busy in the
mountains East of Beaver for ten
days or two weeks, according to late
reports from Beaver.
They are reported as bringing in
samples of rich gold the last few
days that are running up into the
thousands. They say the quartz
lodges are massive n every indica-
ton favorable ter the development
of a big camp equal to Goldfield and
Tonopah. Local mining men are quite
excited e the reports. 1t is
claimed that the samples of ore are
similar in character to the rich float
found in years past on the Sheep
Rock and Rob Roy ground, some of
which showed assay values all the
way from $500 to 100000 per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
END OF COPPER MINERS STRIKE

Workers in the copper mines of
the Lake Superior district have Of
ficially declared the strike to be over,
and the Western Federation of Min
ers remains unrecOgnized by the min
ing companies of that district. While
the mines of the district have cen
working at about normal capacity for
the past two months, this official &C
acknowledgement on the part of the men
of a willingness to return to work
marks the climax of a labor struggle
which was doomed to failure at the
outset. 1t would seem after a strikc
lasting from July % of last year I'M
til the present, at a cost to the West
ern federation of over $1,000. 900 in
addition to the loss in wages and
h%ardships endured. that the men who
have orne the brunt of the battle
would relize that strike methods
which involve riot and bloodshed are
not the means whereby any good for
labor may be attained. 1t MAY be
commended that labor in the district
under the new regime is enjoying
better working conditions and wages,
but these concessions were granted
several months ago and cannot be
attributed to the wa-like method"
which have since prevailed. There
is little evidence of anything for the
good of organized labor having been
accomplished under Mr.. Charles H.
"over's leaders, in and the Western
Federation of Miners activities
Whining and Scientific Press.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
DESIGNS RECEIVED FOR
NEVADA'S SILVER SERVICE

The designs for the silver service
for the dreadnaught Nevada are now
in the possession of the commission
The set of 65 pieces. as shown by
the designs furnished. will be the
handsomest that have eve been pre-
scented to the navy. The entire serv-
ice will be made from silver from
the mines of Tonopah and lined with
gold from the mine of Goldfield and
presented in pure copper case made
from the output of the copper mines
of White Pine county.-Carson APP
peal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
Ordered Deported.

Sheriff Grain of White Pine u
ty has beer advised that the depart
ment of labor and commerce has or
dered the deportation of Lorenzo Fic-
cerro, an Italian, and Hori MasatO, a
Japanese, who are held in the coun-
ty Jail at Ely on charge of violating
the immigration laws The two
aliens are charged with being con
nected with houses of i'll fame.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09

c. Fl. Peters. special accountant for
Ormsby county. has just completed
a task of exporting the books of the
various departments of the county
government and submitted a report
to the county commissioners. He
states that he found the records and
funds of the various departments in
good condition.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
Exhibition 100

In an exhibition shoot recently at
the White Pine Gun club grounds in
Ely, E. J.. Morgan, a representative of
a powder company, broke 81 out of
100 blue rocks. He shot four Sc
ries of 25 birds each, scoring 25
once and "a three times.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09

j. F. FORD, general agent of the
Tonopah and Tidewater railroad, de-
parted this afternoon for his head
quarters in Los Angeles after a bus
mess visit of several days in Gold
field and Tcnopah.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09

MRS. j. NJ. LEWIS, who has been
i'll for many months, has returned
entirely recovered.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-09
SCnOOLBOY WANTED

Tor steady, summer,
l part-time. easy work.
Must be bright, neatly
dsessed, and under four
teen years of age. Give
references and mention day
and hour when parent will
come with boy for inter
view. Good pay. Splendid
training. Write to Box
500 Tribune Office.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1914-12-31

patient who is admitted to the sana-
torium II the county in which he lives
is willing to put up the other S25.
Only very few counties In Missouri
have refused to do this. So after
being examined by the states doctor
in your locality 1t is simply a matter
Of going before the county court OF
your county and proving to its salts
faction that you deserve to be admit
ted to the sanatorium.
The patient arriving at Mount Yer
non is usually put to bed for time.
His temperature is taken every day,
and he is weighed once a week, and
as soon as he begins to show marked
improvement, he rs allowed more free
dom to exercise.
The site of the sanatorium is a
beautiful wooded hilltop, where the
sun comes dancing through the leaves,
and bird notes of one sort or another
may be heard most Of the year. Plenty
of summer resorts are not so attrac.
tive in location nor do they serve such
good food as the Mount Vernon sana-
forum.
Much Of the food is raised on the
sanatorium farm. Tuberculosis pa
tients require great many eggs and
a great deal Of milk to help them re-
gain their strength, and the sana-
forum has its own herd of registered
Holstein cows and hundreds OF White
Leghorn chickens. There is a big
garden, SO that fresh vegetables may
be easily obtained, and along in the
spring there's a strawberry patch big
enough to supply plenty OF berries for
everybody on the place.
DIR. B. Hughes is the states chief
life-saver at Mount Vernon. He is
the superintendent of the sanatorium
and has charge of its management.
The medical supervision of the hos
pital is under the direction of DR.. C.
G. English.
But the most important thing to
remember about the Missouri State
Sanatorium at Mount Vernon is that