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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
PRODUCTION OF COAL
IN STATE OF GEORGIA

The production of coal in Georgia
III 1913 was 255,626 short tons, val
ued at $316,319. according to figures
collected by e. w. Parker of the
United States geological survey In CO.
operation with the Georgia geo.
logical survey. This was the largest
production in five years. or since
1908. Compared with 1912, it shows
an increase of 2S,123 short tons in
quantity and of $22,S in value.
The maximum production of coal in
Georgia was 416,951 short tons, OBJ
tanned in 1908. For the next eight
years, except in 1907, the output
steadily declined until a minimus
Of 165,210 tons was reached in 1911.
A revival of activity is indicated in
the returns for 1912 and 1918. The
decrease in production from 1908 to
1911 and the increased output in the
last two years were due entirely to
peculiar labor conditions and not to
the state of trade and market re-
quirements.
Prior to 1904 the principal la
Dor employed in the coal mines of
Georgia consisted of convicts leased
from the state government. An act
of the legislature prohibiting further
leasing of convicts to industrial en-
terprises caused the gradual with
drawal from the coal mines of this
labor as contracts expired, and oper-
ators in the somewhat isolated re-
gion where the mines are located
were not at once able to supply the
deficiency by free labor.
The influence Of free labor on the
efficiency record is shown by the fact
that in 1907, when the principal la
Dor was performed by convicts, it
required sos men working an aver
age of 262 days to produce 362,4O1
tons, an average Of 449 ont per man
for the year and of III tons for
each working day. In 1913, with
500 men working 261 days, 255,626
tons were produced, the averages per
mar being 511 tons for the year and
1.95 tons a day.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
COMSTOCK MINE SUPERINTfNDENTS
REPORT DEVELOPMENT FOR PAST WEEK

The Ophir company the past week
concluded the work of understoping
below the sill floor of the stope in
the southwest drift started from the
west crosscut, and extracted 1877 cars
of ore, estimated at $50 tons, assay
ing $27.37 per ton. The gross value
of the ore recovered was about $4,-
900. On the 2500-foot level, at a
point in the southwest drift, Ill
feet from the east crosscut from the
bottom Of the 1900 winze, blasting
took place in the back of the drift
for a distance of 20 feet to expose
the vein for resampling. Ten sam
Piles from the quartz of the vein there
show values Of from SO to sic per
ton. At the central tunnel, during
the week, the drift has been enlarg-
ed and retimbered through heavy
caved ground to the 1O0-foot point.
Shipments to the mill inclnuded 140
tons of Ophir mine ore. and 295
tons of dunn pore, and 40 tons of GUS
tom ore.
On the 25O0-foot level Of the Con-
solidated Virginia mine, the past
week the northeast drift started in
the ore vein at a point 1873 feet from
the shaft station, was advanced %
feet; total length 80 feet. During
the week. the drift passed through
a streak of quartz, assaying from 81
to 50 per ton. Three tunnel sets
Of timbers were put in the drift.
Necessary repairs were made to the
main shaft.
The Sierra Nevada winze vas sunk
10 feet for the week, and three sets
of timbers placed. The bottom of
the winze shows a quartz vein eight
feet wide with low assay values from
81 to g.. The materials have been
withdrawn from the mine, until
through tramming to the c. & c.
shaft can be arranged.
The report of the Comstock Pump
ing association shows that on the
$500 station, the collar of the Con.
Virginia winze has been sealed and
a concrete bulkhead placed in the
crank pin being replaced, and the
Osbiston drift to catch up and con-
fine the water coming from the
south. This work is done in accord
ance to the arbitration committees
report on ventilation. Repairs were
made to Tiedler pump No. 3. a loose
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27

miles distant from any known out
crop OF igenous rock. 1t is we'll rec
ognized by biologists that important
deposits of gold, silver or copper are
very uncommon in stratified rocks ex-
cept where the rocks have been di-
rectly affected by igneous activity,
and, and therefore it is not to be ex-
pected that are in important guam
tity will be found anywhere in this
region. At the same time there are
geologic indications that bikes of
igneous rock may underlie the sur
face at no very great depth and that
solutions carrying small amounts of
gold may have emanated from these
dikes and have assembled through the
old fault assures, depositing small
pockets of ore at certain favorable
points. Thus there is a very well
substantiated claim that a small
amount of the ore from one of the
prospects ran as high as $51 a ton in
gold, although the official sample,
taken entirely across the vein at a
somewhat greater depth, showed
only G cents to the ton. That it is
vain to expect any important deposits
as a result of the intrusion of such
istence is granted, is shown by the
fact that even where the igneous
rocks reach the surface, some 20
miles to the south, there are no gold
deposits of value.
In addition to the gold excitement
lea Button, considerable prospect
ing for copper has been carried on
nea the village of Steve, about Is
miles to the east. Several shallow
shafts have been sunk on supposed
copper leads" and Z drift has
been driven to a depth of 112 feet.
Four samples of the so-called ore
were tested for copper in the survey
laboratory but showed only the faint
est traces, less than a cent to the
ton.
Prospectors have also been at work
in Polk county during the last 25
years, and many manganese claims
and a few gold claims have been
filed. Shafts or prospect pits for gold
have been sunk at several points neal
Mena, along the outcrop of a stratum
known as the Little Ruth vein and
also in a shale belt about a mile to
the south. Samples were collected
from two of the most promising
prospects, but the assays of both
showed only 6 cents a ton in gold.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
LETTERS

The following is a list of unclaim-
ed letters remaining in the Gold
field postoffice up to and including
the week ending June "a, 1914.
When calling for the anne please
say advertised"
Mr.. Sam Blackmore; The William
j. Brewer. Inc; VIM. G. Brewer.
Inc: Brougheton & Wiggens Co.
Mr.. Fred Davis; Mrs. j. d. Davis.
Mr.. Bradford s. Galloway.
Mrs. Annie Murphy; Joe Murphy,
Esq.
The President of the Nevada Brit
ish Mining Co., Ltd.
The Goldfeld Rosebush Leasing &
Mining Co.
Mr.. C. A. Woodruff.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27

compressed air line on the $500 re-
paired.
The Hale &c Norcross Mining Co.
continued to make repairs near the
mouth of the tunnel at the surface.
The Yellow Jacket mill had a busy
week and treated 774 tons of dump
rock and 3SS tons of Crown Point
ore. In the mine, there was deliv-
cred to the Crown Point company at
the shaft bins IL IONS of low grade
ore. On the 100 level, north drift
No. 1. started from east crosscut No.
1, was advanced 90 feet to the 54-
foot point, and 10 cars of low grade
ore saved from the WORK.
The Crown Point company from
the raise above the 1900 level, from
the sill to the sixth floor, extracted
597 tons of low grade ore and sent
3SS tons to the Jacket mill, and $50
tons from the Jacket shaft to the
glory hole. Repairs were made to
south drift No. 1 and north drift No.
2 on the 400 level.
The Belcher company, Jointly with
the Crown Point and Yellow Jacket
companies. have held the water 70
feet below the 1000 station of the
joint incline, and on the 1900 level,
reopened and timbered south drift
No. l for 32 feet to the 50-foot point.
On the 1500-foot level, "A feet of
south drift connecting with the Bel
cher incline was re-opened for air
connections; total length reopened
1O4 feet. Repairs have been finish
ed to the station on the S5O-foot lew
ell of the Belcher, and repairs made
to airways.
The Caledonia company, on the
11OO-foot level. during the week has
timbered where necessary, and a
raise started from the level. The
formation worked in was quartz,
some seams and punches of which
gave assays from $2.43 to 1874
per ton.
On the 1300-foot level of the Over
man mine, the northwest drift from
the east crosscut has been cleaned
out and repaired for a distance of
20 feet; total length 100 feet, now
in good condition.
On the 2OO-foot level of the Con-
fidence = Challenge = Imperial shaft,
the south drift from the station was
advanced eight feet to the 137-foot
point. The face shows quartz and
) porphyry.-Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
COPPER DISTRICT near NINA
, DESCRIBED BY CHICAGO Man

F. ]. Rawlins writes as follows in
the Chicago Mining and Engineering
World:
Nina, a small station on the Tono-
pah & Goldneld branch of the South
ern Pacific, and the northern ter
minus for the California & Nevada
narrow gauge railroad, is situated
about 40 miles south or Walker lake,
between the Santa Fe and Pilot
mountains on the east and the Ex-
celsior mountains on the west.
Production from various proper
ties, although small up to the pres
emf time. gives rise to the belief that
the future of the district is promis-
ing.
The surrounding mountains are
more or less barren of vegetation.
the higher slopes only being wood
ed where elevations rise above 1000
feet above sea level.
The mountain ranges are compos-
ed mainly of sedimentaries, highly
metamorphosed by rhyolite, andesite
and granite %intrusiOns. Basalt caps
a large part of the mountain tops,
thereby giving the ma table-like ap-
~pearance. The series range from
Devonian to early tertiary times. as
correlated by Mr.. Turner of the u.
S. geological survey.
Three miles southwest of Nina
liesthe Iron Dyke property. The
deposit is metamOrphic in type. con-
sisting of a heavily mineralized con-
tact between granite and westerly
dipping limestone. The contact dips
about As degrees to the west, being
about SO feet wide and 1000 feet in
length. The entire area is highly
m~ineralized with secondary miner
ais; i. e., garnet magnatite, malachi
lite. c~hrysocolla and azurite. A tun-
mel is being driven at the present
time to tap the deposit at a depth of
about 400 feet.
Southwest of Nina on the north
slope of Pilot Peak, lies the Dunlap
mine. The property is accessible to
Nina via Dunlap canyon, the road
following this canyon for about nine
miles. The upper slopes of the Pilot
mountains contain many h~ighly-col-
ored rocks and afford a sparse juni-
Ger growth. Formations consist Of
yrecciated quartzite. shales, lime
stone, sandstone and conglomorates,
all intruded by andesite. The entire
series has been truncated and folded.
making the strike almost due east
and west at this point.
The deposit consists Of an east.
west zone in quartzite, containing
cuprite, ~chrysocolla and m~alachite,
accompanied by intrusive stocks and
dykes of andesite. This zone is
from so to 100 feet wide and prob
ably 1900 feet long. One tunnel l.
100 feet long, and a number Of shall
low workings have failed signally to
determine the possibilities Of the
ground.
Northeast of Nina, in the table,
like mountains of the Santa Fee min
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27

ing district, lies the Taft property.
This deposit is contact metamorphic
in type. The formation consists of
more or less pure limestone of ap-
p~arently great thickness, dipping
northwesterly at about 80 degrees
area, about a mile square, is intrud-
ed by rhyolite and granite of appar-
emily contemporaneous age. Garnet,
as associated with some magnetic
and epidote, accompany the oxidized
copper ores at the various contacts.
Sulphide ores in the form of chalco-
site and bOrnite, exist only near the
base of the basalt cliffs. Vascular
andesite basalt Gaping owe the
northern reaches of the claims.
Shipments from this property ag-
gregate 1000 tons. all consigned to
the Mason valley smelter, located at
Wabuska, New. These shipments av-
eraged 6 per cen copper and 6
ounces of silver.
Several miles east of Luning, the
Wagner Azurite Copper company is
OPERATING a 1O0-ton teaching plant
recently installed. The ores are OK
idized, consisting mainly of chryso-
cola, malachite and azurite, all con-
tanned within limestone. A small in
clined shaft. driven in the southern
portion Of the property, exposed con-
siderable low-grade oxide ore. Shall
low tunnels driven itno a large out
crop north of the teaching plant
have exposed a considerable quantit:
of oxidized ores.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
TOMBSTONE CONSOLIDATED

BISBEE, Ariz., June "a. = The
Phelps-Dodge Copper company yes
terday purchased the Tombstone
Consolidated mines for half a million
at a receivers sale. They are said
to have produced $25,000.O00 in sill
yer in the early days and nov ~ill
be developed for copper.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
Down With Fences

Down with the Fences" is the slo-
gan of residents of West Robinson
street in Carson City. James Swee-
ney, Ed Yerington and George Bart
lett have orr down the fences
around their homes, and soon the
entire neighborhood will be one big
green park.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-27
TOUGH ONE

Old Scotch Woman = The last
steak I got frae we I could haze soles
ma boots wi 1t.
Butcher-And why did We no dae
it?
Woman-So I wild If I could haze
Boston Transcript.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25

have been useful at the Cherry mine
fire in Illinois several years ago, where
so many men lost their lives. The res
cue crews there had to subject them
selves to unnecessary dangers in de-
scending the wrecked shaft because of
lack of means of signaling. The de-
vice is so arranged that in the absence
of human intelligence to direct the Civ
ing of a prearranged code of signals.
the gong on the surface and in the en-
CINE house would ring continuously,
which, in every case, would be the sig
nal TO hoist Immediately.
The bureau has also applied for a
number of patents on processes for ex-
tracing vanadium. uranium and ra-
.ium from ores, such as carnotite ore
These processes are the result of the
work Of the Denver (ColoD laboratory
o. the bureau Of mines. and their pur-
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25

pose is to reduce the cost OF making
radium and to prevent the monopoly
which goes with the sO-called secret
processes. The patents have been
asked for in the names of Richard
Moore, in charge of the Denver labora-
tory. and Karl Kithil, his assistant
With the great demand for radium In
the treatment of cancer, the bureau
% mines looks upon this invention as
another possible means of saving HUI
man life. II is estimated that these
new methods will cut the cost of ra-
d I'm fully one-half. and perhaps more
They are to be for the use of any citi-
zen OF the United States
Still another engineer of the bu-
reau, Alfred c. Heggem, in charge Of
oil Investigations, has invented a new
type Of valve to control casing heads
for oil wells, device that will at once
shut off the flow of gas or oil in a new
well and in that way stop the enOr-
nous waste of these resources that
has been going on for years in the
United States The new valve has
been tried out in the Gushing field OF
Oklahoma and has proved successful
II is said that in the past it has been
difficult 10 control many of the wells
and that millions of dollars worth of
oil and gas have gone to waste. This
new device, which like the other
patents. is to be dedicated to the pub
t.. is expected to stop much Of this
waste
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
Little Possibility Of Escaping From
the Strenuousness of Life of
This Modern Time.

Time was when a doctor said to a
business man: You need rest. Take
an ocean voyage. Then you will be
far away from every thought of bust
ness. No message can reach you, not
even the daily papers. For a whole
week you will be absolutely cut off
from the world" Then came Marconi
and his wireless. Forthwith the big
ocean steamships had their daily news
papers and stock quotations. Passen-
gers received private messages from
land at all hours of the day and night.
Men transacted business with their
Offices practically as well as If they
were only detained at home for a few
days and employing the telephone as a
medium Of communication. With the
means of keeping in touch with affairs
on shore few busy men with large in
terests could refrain from making use
OF the agencies at hand There was lit
tie difference between travelling on an
ocean liner and staying at big hotel
Now comes announcement of a fresh
invasion of the steamship by forces
that properly belong on land The
newest giant liner. recently arrived at
New York, introduced ocean vaude-
vile. The great lounge" is to be
converted into theater seating 1900
and entertainment will be provided by
a company of artists from a London
music hall. If the scheme proves sue
cessful musical comedy and even
grand opera may be given later. OF
course, the performances will not be
free TO passengers. The English
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
REST SEEMS OUT OF DATE

theatrical manager responsible for the
innovation intimates that prices will
range from S. upwards lie expects
to draw much OF his talent from stage
folk travelling from one country to the
other to fiji engagements. although
there will be some permanent mem.
bers OF the ocean company
Poor old tired business man. Go
where he will the vaudevillians. still
pursue him 1t may be said that if he
prefers seclusion he can go to his bunk
below Theoretically he can. but in
practise it doesn't work out that wav
II there's any fun a-going he'll not be
able TO keep out of it The modern
ocean liner emphatically is not a rest
cure.-Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
THE STATE TAX RATE LOWERED
REDUCTION or TIC PER 500 is
MADE BY AUTOMATIC BOARD.
Total Appropriations for Fiscal Year
IS @-.1-.-5t. Revenues Cc.iectea
is Estimated IT e2ot1248.


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have ...l '.e.r estimates. bill. rr.
valuation. .ruu 81" .i'e a net i'm
cr-as. ot E2i.ra..L
IL WAS estimated chat $2N2G.o.t
would have 60 De- raised 60 supplement,
other 'roHm" o. meet appropriations.
TO which must ro added -H per cent
ior assessing anu collecting Tie taxes.
grand to'a. oi sa.as2,-"I TO come
rom ad va'orom taxes.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
PYe Ordered Back 70 Pen.

Houston, TEA lengthy document
was received from the court OF crimi-
nal appeals Wednesday. ln this writ
the sheriff OF Harris County was in
structed to take f. f. Pye into Gus
tOdy and turn him over to the peni-
Tertiary authorities. The peuiteutiary
officials, agents and employees were
instructed to take him from the sher-
if. He was sentenced two years ago
for forgery, but was released before
his term expired.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25

Austin, TeX.-Cougressman Buch
anan Wednesday advised State Re
clamation Engineer Arthur A. Stiles
that application had been filed with
the secretary Of the interior for an al
lotment of $4,000 for Texas this year
out Of the annual appropriation of
$350,0OO for the United States geo
logical survey for making topographic
surveys and maps
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25

Huntsville, Tex +. Pye of Hous-
ton, real estate man and former bank
er, accompanied by Ranger Captain
Fox, was formally received Sunday by
the penitentiary officials Mr. Pye
is to resume his two years sentence
for forgery, that is he was released
prematurely, according to a recent
ruling of the court of criminal appeals
and an opinion of the attorney gen.
eral.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25

stream flowed. agitated me for a while,
and disappeared into the Somewhere.
leaving nothing behind but a few neg
lgible bubbles. OF all the boys not
one has ever been president or gov
ernor or senator If one has written
novel or play. have not read it
Some appeared above the surface of
society for a brief period as half
backs or third baseman. but only to
sink back into the common ruck.
This. again, used to worry me. 1t
seemed a reelection upon my teach
ms. But the years bring the philo-
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
Dancing in the Old DAYS.

Dancing in the woods was the old
manner In the classic times and myth.
ology tells of the worship thus paid
by the pagans to the gods The poets
sang OF it, The priests Of Mars were
the principal dancers in the sacred
rites to that deity. There was also
the religious dancing alluded to in the
Old Testament, as when David danced
before the ark to express his low and
that of his people. and there were the
dances of the Druids round the al.
tars and the mysterious stones
Never, perhaps. in the history of
the world, was dancing more popular
than it is today-not even in the Meas.
ant time when in England. Ireland
and France the people danced on the
green. Oliver Goldsmith. travelling
on foot, paid his way by playing for
the dancers on his flute.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
Broke Mile motorcvcie Record

St. LOUis.-Thc worlds record for
one mile competition motorcycle race
on dirt track was broken Thursday
in the first days racing conducted by
the Federation OF American Motor
cylists when Ray Creviston OF Chicago
circled the track in As 80 seconds.
clipping approximately three seconds
Of fthe previous professional record.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
e Tapioca Glue.

An excellent glue that is harmless
colorless and Cdorless is made OF
tapoca. Cover the desired quantity
with cold water. put il over the fire
and stir. adding more water as il
boils to make a good paste. It can
be used TO glue wood. leather or pa
per. For scrapboOks or photographs it
may be necessary to add little wa,
ter
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
Stretched Cane Seats

When the cane seats Of chairs have
become stretched, take a teaspoonful
Of washing soda and dissolve in
quart of boiling water. Dip a cloth in
this solution and wipe the underside
Of the seats, leaving ,he chair turned
upside down to dry. This treatment
viii shrink the cane TO its original
size
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
Recipe for LONG Youth.

Old ase can be cured. The prescrip-
ton is q simple one: mix open air and
a hobby, shake well. and take as many
hours a day as possible. No one be-
Ems to age until he is bored. and the
first gray hair comes when a man
suddenly thinks to himself: What's
the use?' Then is the time when a
hobby makes life interesting again
Lippincott's.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1914-07-25
German Aviator Dies Of Injuries.

Schwerin Germany. - Lieutenant
Won der Luehe of the Mecklenburg
Crenad.ers died Friday of injuries re-
ceiycd July L, when his aeroplane
colIided with another piloted by Karl
Gegiant. whose death also followed
the accident