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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
VELVET DEAL TO Be CLOSED

mine to our complete satisfaction
for both companies. that the largest
orebOdies of this immediate vicinity
lie in the Velvet ground.
The Jumbo Extension will own
all the ore taken out in development
during these sixty days. The cash
payments will spread over a yea in
monthly insJaiiments, and the
money, according to the agreement,
is to come from the ground. The
stock payment will be made after all
cash payments are completed; in
other words, about a year hence.
These terms show the faith of the
Merger in the Velvet ground, and
also protects the Jumbo Extension
against a fruitIess expenditure.
should the next sixty days of pros
pecting not prove what we expect.
ION the other hand, the Merger
Mines company will benefit very sub
stantially from the cash payments
that are to be made from time to
time and both companies will large
ly augment their working forces,
which will be of great benefit to the
camp, as we'll as increasing the out
put of the district. Its a construc-
tive proposition all through; it en-
larges the possibilities of the jun
DO Extension on the one hand, and
strengthens the Merger treasury on
Tho nfhnr. ~ nutC mora mon tn WnrIy
in the camp and adds one large
mine tt the district, and probably
two Altogether. it is a very happy
contamination, i've which everyone
should be pleased.
THE question as to whether there
shall be any increase in the capital
stock of the Jumbo Extension for
prudential reasons, will be submit
ted to stockholders, together with
the full details of the Velvet pur-
chase, in a circular letter which !
shall shortly issue. l would not
recommend an increase of more
than 100000 shares if any. This
would make a capital of only a mil
lion and a half. for the best territory
in the Goldfeld district.
Incidentally, | might say, that
the Jumbo Extension is doing splen-
didly this month, and the output
will be about so per cen higher
than last month. or $4,000. The
o~rebodies continue good and strong
and the values maintain a high aver
age"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
FLORENCE IN GOOD SHAPE

Continued from page one)
ing. according to j. X. Turner, resi-
dent director and consulting engi-
neer.
At a point in the north drift on
the 250-foot level 40 feet north of
the ace of the 35-foot north drift,
driven from the 7S-foot point in the
raise from the 35S-foot level in the
streak of picture ore opened up more
than a month ago, a winZe has been
started. 1t is designed to further
explore the virgin territory, 200 feet
north of the shaft, in which the
high grade was made. The Wine is
going down on three feet of SIS to
SO ore. In the old Sweeney stope
south of the shaft on the 150-foOt
level and in the stOpe Immediately
beneath it on the 200-foOt level, six
to eight feet of shipping ore is be-
ing broken down.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
RUMORED STRIKE
IN THE ATLANTA
REPORTED FIND Is
UNOBTAINABLE

Rumors have been current for
several days of a development of
importance in the long crosscut out
into the estate of the Atlanta Mines
company from the workings of the
l75O-foot level of the shaft of the
property of the Goldfield Merger
Mines company. Responding to the
rumors the Atlanta stock has re-
corded a substantial advance in price
and the trading it in on the San
Francisco and New York exchanges
has been exceedingly brisk of late.
Information as to the authenticity
of the reports is unobtainable.
Manager X. NJ. Simpson started
work in the long crosscut, which was
recently somewhat retarded by an
increase in the flow of water, is now
progressing satisfactorily. The new
pump installed in the Merger shaft.
to which the water gravitates from
the crosscut, is working perfectly
ard is lifting to the surface approx
imately 100000 gallons of water
daily.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
CROSSCUTT|NG
TO CATCH vein
ELY CALUMET PUSHING OPERA.
TIONS AT DEPTH OF 800
FEET

Drifting is nov in progress from
the bottom OF the Gladys shaft on
the Ely Calumet property at the
depth of 3O1 feet. The shaft is bot
toned in black lime and the cross
cut started in a northwesterly direc-
ton is in the same formation but at
about thirty feet from the shaft it
is expected the black lime will end
and the soft lime will be entered. In
sinking through the soft lime in the
shaft it was found to contain numer-
our stringers and seaems of ore that
at the greater depth at which this
formation will be cut by the drift it
may be found to contain larger
streaks of ore.
Beyond the soft lime the drift will
get into the porphyry which also car
ries low values where it was passed
through by the shaft and better val
ues are looked for when it is entered.
grade ore were indicated by the shaft
work, good ore being found in sew
eral of the contacts. AS the drift
will cut them about 100 feet lower
than the point where they were found
in the shaft they are expected to be
found worth following with a level.
The prospecting that can be done
from the cross-cut will be worth more
to the Ely Calumet than any work
ever done on the property in the past,
or all of it together. Increased depth
will be gained by continuing the drift
through Grand Deposit ground, while
to drive straight north the face of a
drift would soon be more than 1000
tor.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
MACHINE DRILLS TO OPERATE

Continued from page one)
perintendent Norris says this worh
will be completed in a few days and
Immediately thereafter c~rOsscuttisg
cas- and west will begin to define
the exact width of the massive vein
of quartz that has been revealed
by the shaft. While the entire mass
of quartz yields values of 81 a ton,
the prosecuting will be designed es-
pecially to reveal the downward eX-
tension OF the ten-fOOt streak of $40
ore in the veins which was cut at a
depth of about $50 feet in the shaft.
Providing ore of no greater value is
disclosed by the crOsscuts, drifts
north and south upon the streak re
ferred to will be run. Superintendent
Norris believes that the exploration
of the vein will reveal ore of much
greater value than the best disclosed
in the shaft and confident that a
large body of commercial rock will
be opened up in the near future, in
which conclusion he is supported by
other mining men conversant with
conditions prevailing in the property
and estates of its notable neighbOrs.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
RECENT DECISIONS
RELATIVE TO CLAIMS
TARY OF INTERIOR DE-
PARTMENT

Some recent mining decisions as
decided by the secretary of the in
terror are given as follows:
Paragraph 1876 of the Mining Reg
u~lations is necessary in order to Sc
cure a proper administration of the
mineral laws. AS groups of lode min
ing claims often cover a considerable
area, it is indispensable that a corner
of each of the locations be tied with
in a reasonable distance to an es-
tablished survey monument in order
to insure accuracy of survey, a cor
rect focus of the location upon the
claimants and a correct description
in the field notes and plats of the
township and subdivisional surveys.
Under the provisions of section
1885, Revised Statutes, all necessary
papers must be verified before an Of
ficer authorized to administer oaths
within the land district wherein the
claim applied for is situated and such
verification must be made in that
particular land district. Such Off
Ger must not be interested in the
claim as attorney, counsel or agent.
A wagon road is not essentially a
mining improvement; that is to say,
it is not such work as in and of itself
tends to the extraction of mineral
from and embraced in mineral loca-
ton or to the other purposes above
mentioned, hence it is only in those
cases where it is clearly and satisfac-
torily shown that a road is absolutely
essential to the development of a
claim that it's costs can properly be
held to be accredited. Getting 81
l.. d. 371.)
When the mineral character of a
mining claim in conflict with a sec.
ton claimed by a state under its pub
lie school land grant is challenged by
a state the usual formal proofs under
mineral patent proceedings will not
suffice to establish the mineral char
acter of the land, but that in such
cases the mineral character must be
established by substantial proof, and
that the state is not bound to take
the initiative at a hearing ordered to
determine the question.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
PROJECTORS ARE
NOT IN THE FIELD
MINING JOURNAL EXPLAINING
REASONS FOR THEIR
INACTIVITY

The prospector is not making new
discoveries in old districts and a few
new discoveries in new territory be-
cause he thinks it is folly to open up
a new prospect until an old n is
sold. He see properties with 600
feet or more of useful development,
making what he considers a good
showing and warranting Tig"rous
continued development, go rear after
year without opportunity to make Il
sale, says a writer in the Engineer
ing and Mining Journal. He observes
that the owners, because of poverty
or encouragement, resort whenever
without capital or other assets, in
order to avoid expenditure for an
nual assessment work. These les
sees in order to make beans and
bacon pick the eyes out of the mine
to make shipping ore, which upon the
termination of the bond, leaves it less
saleable than at first. The prospectOr
is. because of these discouragements,
losing faith in nan though not in ma
ture. His faith in nature is stead
last and enduring, but he has been
taught by experience hat under pres
ent conditions, there is an over-pro-
duction of well-developed prospects
near mines'-and until a bona
fide sale occurs nov and then he
will only half heartedly work his
I -, 49, rrv.1l ,,nlyA hut Gtfp1 nff0rfC
to find new les
1t is m~anifestly absurd for any m
man to decide from personal obser-
walton hal there is an exhaustion of
the easily d~iscoverable orebodies in
the western states. 1t would take
him more than % years to visit the
1880 mining districts of the 13
states, devoting only a week to a
district.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
RUN
TO HIGH FIGURE
SIXTY-EIGHT MINES PAY ONlX
THIRTEEN MILLION IN
TWO MONTHS

Dividend disbursements totaling
$13,147,3 65 have already been made
by American mines and works, &C
cording to reports made to Mining
and Engineering World. For the
first two months of 1914 this amount
was paid to shareholders in 6S COM
panies. In addition two securities
holding corporations divided 81
93S,31S among their shareholders.
While the above disbursements are
not equal to those made during the
same period in 1913, it exceeds the
amount paid out in the same period
in 1912.
1t is worthy of note that the 6S
companies paying dividends during
January and February have divided
among their shareholders since incor-
poration no less than $3SS,466,00O,
which added to the $106, 77S,O99 de-
clared by the two securities holding
corporations makes total disburse-
ments of the 20 companies of $780,
244,1S9.
Fourteen copper companies, all
but one operating properties in the
United States, paid to shareholders
during the two months period men,
toned above $~7.O36.666. This com
pares with $~7,339,319 paid by Is
companies during the same period in
1918. During the same period in
1913 Is companies disbursed ST.
Ooo 4 q Hold fhn laEn nOnnnr conn.,
panies beer on a regular dividend
paying basis the two months period
would have made a record in point
of dividend payments by American
copper companies. These IA copper
companies have enriched %sharehOld-
ers since incorporation to the ex-
tent of $195,475,S02 an amour.
nearly $4,000, 900 in excess of out
standing capitalization.
Forty eight companies whose prod
net is classified as gold-silver-lead-
zinc, paid dividends during the first
two months of 1914 of $5,626,716.
To date these companies have a total
dividend record of $1S5,630,23S on
an outstanding share capital of $116,-
S55,46S.
OF the As companies mentioned SO
operate properties in the United
States, these disbursing $3,17S,393,
and since incorporation $131,39S,299.
Nine Canadian companies contrib d
$~1,S54,661, and to date $39,26O,U6.
Only three Mexican companies report
having paid dividends during the two
months period, these disbursing
$593.666, with total payments of
$14,971,SS3.
Four metallurgical works divide,
idends tOtaling 25,691,O11.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
PURCHASES FIVE
TON MOTOR TRUCK
BEING USED by GOLD MOUNTAIN
COMPANY IN HAULING
ORE

James p. Williams, general man.
ager of the Gold Mountain Mining
and Development company, has pur-
chased and placed in commission a
five-ton motor truck. The truck
can be used with a trailer, if desired,
and used alone is capable of trans
porting considerably more than five
tons over the downhill road from
the company's property to the mill
at Bonnie Clare, a distance of twelve
miles.
The company's new mill, situated
on the site of the old Thorpe mill,
near Bonnie Clare station on the
l.. V. and II. railroad was completed
some time ago but it was found that
freight wagons was almost prohibi-
tive and many difficulties were en-
countered in securing enough teams
to insure an uninterrupted supply
of ore. The cost of hauling the ore
by team was shown to approximate
So per ton, while the product can
be delivered at the mill by motor
truck for 81 per ton and without fear
of interruption.
The Gold Mountain Mining and
Development company is working two
properties in the Gold Mountain dis
trict. the Royal Flush and Texas
Kelley groups. The former is owned
by the Frances Gold Mountain Min
ing company and was originally
owned by the late DR.. Frances Will
liams, Manager Williams mother,
who was a pioneer of Goldfield. The
property is leased for a long period
of years to the Gold Mountain Mining
and Development company, which
controls and practically owns the
Frances-Gold Mountain company.
The Texas-Kelley property is held
under a lease and bond and on this
ground a large tonnage of excellent
milling ore has been developed.
One of the most sensational dis
%coveries of rich gold ore recorded
in southern Nevada was made several
years ago on the Royal Flush prop
erty. Specimens found in surface
prospecting consisted of fully one
hall pure gold, yielding assays above
$4,000 per ton, while others re-
turned ove $4,000 per ton. This
find proved to be onl a pocket but it
is believed that a rich mine will
eventually be found neal this point.
Work at depth on another vein has
exposed quantities of low grade mill
ore.
Manager Williams now has a force
OF thirteen men employed at the
mines and mill. The new plant is
working in a satisfactory manner and
is making a recovery of approximate
ly IS per cent from the $12 product
that is now being supplied. Gold
predominates in the ore, which also
contains some silver. The mill was
closed down pending the arrival of
the truck.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
PURCHASES CONTROL
OF M|NNESOTA-NtvADA
PROPERTY SAID TO BE BIGGEST
IRON NINE IN THE
WEST

Otto Taubert, a business man of
st. Paul, Mimi, now residing in
Reno, has purchased the control
OF the Minnesota Nevada Copper
Mines company and it is believed this
is the biggest iron proposition in the
west. The property, consisting of
20 claims, is situated in the Yering-
ton mining district. The district is
16 miles from Yerington in Churchill
canyon, and is also about nine miles
from Ludwig. The property has
every indication of also making a
high as 6 per cen in the red metal.
Millions of tom of ron ore is ex-
posed on the surface and Mr.. TaubeTt
is making tests to convert the iron
content into pig iron, for which a
ready market is to be had not only
in Nevada but on the coast and in
adjoining states. If the tests prove
satisfactory it is the intention to
mill, which is situated near the gyp-
sum works, east of Reno. At the
state fair held in Reno last Septem-
Der the iron ore exhibit from the
Minnesota property was awarded the
gold medal. Pig iron, shipped to
Reno, costs the local fOundries about
$50 per ton, and if the plans now
being worked out by Mr.. Taubert are
successful he will be able to supply
the product at a greatly reduced
price.-Virginia City Enterprise.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

are about twice as powerful in radio
activity as the Colorado ores. This
probably opens up a new line of in
vestigation. for it indicates that the
vanadium oxides of the San Rafael
ores probably carry as high a per
cent of radium as the uranium OK
ides, which were up to very recently
supposed to be the only class that
produced radium. Such facts have
only recently become possible of
proof, since tests have been applied
by electroscope and other mechan-
ical processes. BY these means r
dio-activity is determined by the class
and number of the rays and the color
which the ores throw off.
with most people the circulation
of the blood may be greatly quick
ened by the carrying about the person
a small bag of radium ore"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
MINING REVIEW

deal for the purchase by the Jumbo
Extension from the Merger company
of the claim named.
Other Properties
The Nevada Cooperative Mining
company lease or the property of the
9. o. d. Consolidated Mining COM
oany continues to show up well. The
DiamOndfield Black Butte Reorganiz-
ed Mining company is getting in
shape for the resumption of work on
is property. Developments during
Booth and Blue Bull properties were
If a routine character.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14
RYE PATCH TUNNEL
NEARING LEDGE ON 100

Nj. Franz, a mining man of Rye
Patch, was a LovelOck visitor We'd
nesday, says the LovelOck Review
Miner. Mr.. Franz is developing some
mining property near Rye Patch. driv-
ing a tunnel to tap the vein at depth.
The tunnel is o in 100 feet and the
ledge is expected to be reached in
thirty fee more of work. Mr.. Franz
expects to make an extended visit
to the east in the neal future.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

A.. II. GRISWOLD of Salt lake is
a guest of the st. Nicholas, arriving
over the Las Vegas and Tonopah
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

l.. e. NORTHRUP Of Los Angeles
arrive ed yesterday evening over the
Las Vegas and TonOpah railroad.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

O. U. METCALF, travelling freight
and passenger agent of the Southern
Pacific with offices in Reno is a
visitor to GOldfield.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

MISS HELEN REED of Las Vegas
is a guest at the Goldfield.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

w. C. M'GARRY is a guest of the
I%oldfeld, coming in from Pioneer
yesterday.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

which we shall have ready for distrl-
button within a fortnight, includes
more than 200.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-03-14

New peculiarities of radium are
constantly being discovered. 1t is
now claimed that the radium within
the earth's composition is manufac-
turing heat at a rate equal to five
times the amount of heat that is
given off by the earth and wasted
into space, which v~erifies the Bible
prophecy that the time shall come
when the earth shall consume with
fervent heat probably some mil
lions of ages.)
at has recently been discovered
fhat the San Rafael reef radium ores
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-28
TIDE AGAINST GERMANS,
WHO FIGHT ERATELY Y

Paris, Oct. 28.-In a laconic an
nouncement of less than twenty words
the French war office last night made
known a gain by the allies which
is weighty with significance. After
declaring that "there is nothing to
announces" the communique makes the
exception of "safe progress on our
part in the region south of Duxmude." /"
Taken in connection with unoffi-
cial details of the fighting in the
inferno which has come to be known
as the Battle of Flanders, publication
Of which was not permissible until
he official announcement of the COM
pletion of the maneuver was made,
this bare declaration gains vast i'm
portance.
Since the fighting of Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday, which carried the
Germans across the User in small de-
taehmonts numbering between 1000
and l0,0O0-all that was left after
the machine guns had decimated the
ranks of the corps upon corps that
started the desperate charges--the
main effort of the. Anglo Belgian
forces, supported by the French, has
been to cut through upon the left
flank of the main body of the Ger
mans. The blows of this great 'Teu-
ton trip hammer were leveled at Dix
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-28
(By Frederick Werner)

Berlin, Oct. 2S-"Severe losses have
been sustained by the enemy in Bel
gium," it is announced by the war
office today.
Fighting in that region is marked
by extreme violence. The German
soldiers are acquitting themselves and
are conspicuous for bravery in up
holding the traditions of the army
and The Fatherland."
1t is said the Germans living in
Crotia and Slovina have appealed for
help against the outrages of Servi-
ans, who are burning and looting. The
progress of the Servian army is
marked by devastation and slaughter
of non -combatants, it is charged by
the Germans and Austrians.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-28

west of Roulers the destruction of life
and property has been frightful.
The 5000 Germans who crossed the
User on bridges in the night have
either been killed or taken prisoners.
The 5000 Germans who occupied the
char-heaped cemetery which was once
Dixmude have been driven out and
hunted down in the nearby wood.
Thousands more have swept down up
on the Belgian trenches and entangle-
ments in solid masses, only to be met
by the bayonet. Many hundreds have
been captured, but fully $500 will
be accounted for as missing-theii'
bodies are floating in the Ypres, which
is red with their blood.
This, so far, is the German re-
sponse to the Kaiser's order that Ca
lais must be taken Irrespective OF
expenditure of life and material" And
these are only fragmentary returns
Life was held cheaply and taken free
ly in this desperate effort.
All-important to the supporters oil
the allies is the official news thai
in all this fighting to the north dur.
ing the past week the allies have not
yielded an inch. On the other hand
in the series of engagements of iso-
lated character between Ypres AMI
Roulers, considerable progress ha1
been reported.
So furious has the battle become
that the lines are in closer contact
than at any period thus far in the
war-but few hundred yards-short
range for small arms fire separating
friend and foe at some points.
Ten thousand Austrians nave ar
rived at Ghent, heralding the arriva
of strong bodies of fresh troops hur
ried to the aid of the Germans. Thou
CONTINUED ON PAGE SKI
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-28
LANE is FOR US.

LOS ANGELES, OCT. 28.--
FRANKLIN X. LANE, SECRETARY
OF THE INTERIOR, HERE TO AID
DRESS THE DEMOCRATS TODAY,
HAS APPROVED THE PLAN TO
PROTECT IMPERIAL VALLEY
FROM THE COLORADO RIVERS
FLOODS, PERMANENTLY, AS
STATED BY DIRECTORS OF THE
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. THE
NATURE OF THE PLAN IS NOT
DIVULGED.
LANE ANNOUNCED THAT HE
WOULD CALL A CONFERENCE
IN WASHINGTON THE SECOND
WEEK IN DECEMBER, AT
WHICH THE RECEIVER FOR THE
CALIFOR MIA DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY, THE IMPERIAL VAL
LEY WATER USERS, THE LOS
CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE, THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
AND OTHERS INTERESTED WILL
TO ASK CONGRESS
FOR AN APPROPRIATION FOR
PROTECTION FROM THE COLO
RADIO