The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
PIONEER NINE IS
PAYING ITS WAY
STOCK OF COMPANY WILL BIZ
LISTED ON COAST En-
CHANGE

1.-The Pioneer Consolidated mine is
on a self-supporting basis. 1t has
more ore in sight at present than
when our mill was placed in commits
sion early in December, notwith-
standing the fact that we have ex-
tracted and milled 5000 tons. APP
plication for the listing of the stock
of the company upon the San Fran
cisco stock exchange will be made at
once; in fact, l am now on my way
to the coast for that purpose"
Such was the statement of w. j.
Tobin, president and general man
Mines company, yesterday just prior
to his departure from Goldfield for
Tonopah. He arrived in Goldfield
from the mine Tuesday evening, ac-
companied by j. X. Turner of Gold.
ield, consulting engineer of the COM
pany, who went there Monday to
make his monthly visit of inspection.
Commenting on conditions at the
property, Engineer Turner said:
'The west crosscut from the main
south drift on the 210-fOot level of
the mine has exposed the upward ex-
tension of the orebody first disclosed
IN the big stope above the main
south drift on the 256-foot level. A
raise from the big stope to the cross
cut named on the 210-foot level has
been completed, proving the con-
tinuity of the ore on the dip of tho
vein for fifty feet. The orebody, as
disclosed on the 21O-foot level has
a width of twenty feet between walls
and averages Sc per ton.
1.-THE main south drift on the 256-
foot level, at a point about forty feet
south of what is known as the old
winze,' has struck a body Of $40 to
SIS ore, but until further explored
it will be impossible to determine the
extent of the find. A winze has been
started in the orebody and it will be
sunk to a depth sufficient to guide
us in prosecuting from the main
south drift on the 324-foot level to
intercept the orebody on that level.
"Tests made by regrinding and re-
amalgamating the tailings from the
stamp plates by the newly installed
Huntington mill and additional
plates, the latter measuring twenty
two feet in length, have proven en-
tirely successful. Prior to the in
cfo11of;on IF tho uvptinn fnn mill wa
used only the stamps and nine foot
plates at each battery, and made a
saving of so per cent of the values.
The average extraction at present Is
70 per cent but the lower plates OF
the batteries and those following the
Huntington are in very bad shape.
After these have been replaced with
new plates and certain repairs to the
feeders and stump tanks are made,
the extraction should be increased to
ton of milling the ore is $1.00 and
mining $3.50. The mill is now
handling between forty and fifty tons
of ore in an average of ten hours, as
against thirty O n in twenty-four
hours prior to the installation of the
Huntington mill for regrinding pur-
poses.
Several discoveries of Importance
have been made recently on other
properties in the district. In a raise
from the 265-foot level of the prop
erty of the Indiana Pioneer Mining
company, Superintendent Fred Mil
liken has uncovered a body of ore
that pans we'll. On the XIX property,
owned by r. F. and w. j. Tobin, an
east crosscut from the 500-foot tun-
mel has i~ntersected forty feet of low
grade ore, with an eight-inch streak