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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
EXCELLENT DISCOVERY MADE in.
DEEP Wine IN sierra NEVADA

hours on the 18th when 1t was neces-
sary to repair a short in the electric
power line on the Reidler station. A
plunger was also replaced on Reidler
pump No. 8. Four shifts were work
ed on cleaning out old pipe in the
shaft, and eleven shifts, jointly with
Ophir and Con. Virginia on ~ventila.
ton.
The Yellow Jacket mill ran stead
lily all the week, and crushed a total
of 114S tons of ore, of which SIS tons
were shipped from the Crown Point
mine, and 573 tons came from the
Jacket dump. One railroad car of
the mill to the smelter. General re-
pairs we're made to the Jacket shaft
and incline during the week.
The Crown Point company con
tinued the extraction of ore from the
1300-foot level, and secured a large
tonnage from raise No. 1 from the
sill to the 5th floors, SIT cars being
taken out. At the surface, $40 tons
were sent to the gloryhole from the
Jacket shaft, and SIS tons were ship
ped to the mill bins. The company
received "a tons of Belcher ore at
the mine bins. Repairs continued to
south drift No. 1 on the 400 level.
At the joint Crown Point-Belcher
incline, the water was held at the 10
foot point below the 1000 station on
the incline, and the timbering of the
1000 station completed. On the 1900
level, 20 feet of south drift No. 1 was
retimbered, making a total of 204
feet in good repair. From the raise
on this level, 81 cars of low grade
ore were saved. General repairs were
made to east crosscut No. l on the
S50-foot level, which is used as an
airway between the incline and shaft.
On the 1300-foot level o. the Over
man mine, the main east drift has
been cleaned out and repaired a dis
lance of 81 feet. Total length in re-
pair 341 feet. Work has been sus-
pended in this drift for the present
and cleaning out the northwest drift
from the east crosscut, has been
started, IL feet being made for the
week. At this point a heavy cave
has been encountered.
At the Observation-Disclosures
perial shaft, on the 20O-foOt level,
the south drift from the shaft station
has been extended to the 1O4-foot
point, the face being in quartz and
pOrphyry.
The Caledonia. company on the
11O0-foot level, continued work cut
ting out for the station at the head
of the winze from the 12O0-foot level.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
GEOLOGY OF The BATTLE MOUNTAIN
MINING DISTRICT Is DESCRIBED

east OF this porphyry dixie a very
strong dixie of lime runs through the
country, which has also undoubtedly
been a factor in the formation of the
copper ores. In the lime to the east
thereof no openings have been made
which show copper.
These deposits are concentrated
within a relatively small area, con-
sequently the source of the enrich
ment must be looked for in close
proximity to the deposits, one of
which is undoubtedly the grano-
diorite dixie referred to, and which
gave up a part of It's emtallic con-
tents and enriched the now enclosing
rock. This dixie runs northeast and
southwest, its thickness being SEEM
ingly greater as depth is obtained.
No work has been done to determine
the source of the original ore solu-
ton, but that this dyke played an
important part therein is quite evil
dent. Exploration will, in my judg-
ment, show that the ore forming
Ohh u vi uCCp-oCdICu
origin, as there is no doubt but that
one of the sources of the metallic
contents of these ores was from the
hot-water solution rising and caus-
ing the deposition of copper, the
grano-diorite dixie previously refer
red to assisting and fastening the
rObbing of these solutions of their
contents. This zone being one Of
great disturbance, as is evidenced by
the faulting and f%racturing, the fis-
sures were filled with the hot solu-
ton and thus the district mineraliz-
ed.
The primary ores of this district
will, l believe, be pyrite. Large guam
titles of malaconite are encountered,
which seem to increase in depth, and
the m%alaconite shows pyrite to have
been its origin.
There are not sufficient openings
in the district to as yet determine If
a distinct period of deposition exists
or not, but indications point to the
conclusion hal the mineral forming
solutions were derived from some
one source. and if this be true, 1t
will probably be determined that the
district was formed through a single
period of deposition. Some bOrnite
is found mixed with the surface ore,
but the quantity is small, and we
therefore do not get sufficient data
from 1t to form a definite conclusion
as to the way in when the mineral
deposition occurred.
Since the above was written the
company that undertook the explOra-
ton of the district has determined
by boring that the primary ores Of
the district were pyrite, but from the
work SO far done by them it Is fair
to presume that the pyrite will not
be found sufficiently rich a warrant
development on an extensive scale.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
SEEKING TO ACQUIRE
OLD MORGAN MILL

Alexander Logic, a wealthy San
Francisco jute manufacturer, spent
Saturday in this city with James p.
Woodbury., arranging for the acqui-
sitiOn of the old Morgan mill on Car
son river near Empire. 1t is the in
tention of Mr.. Logic and his asso-
ciates to purchase the mill and acre
age connected with it in order to
work the river bed for the known
values from the tailings deposited
there in the boom days on the Com-
stock.
The Morgan mill is now the prop
erty of ]. P. Woodbury. and when
seen relative to the prospective sale
stated that the Indications ere that
the sale would be consummated. The
parties seeking the property have an
unlimited capital.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
TRIP OF INSPECTION
TO OLD WINTERS NINE

Andy Burke, accompanied by his
son-in-law. J. H. Pikersgill, state
representative of the Swartzchild
Packing company, departed for Gard
nerville this morning, where they
will continue on to the old Winters
mine in the Pinenut district, which
is under lease and bond to James G..
gill will look over the chances of
making the property a paying pro-
ducer in the interest of eastern cap
italists who are seeking to invest in
mining properties of merit in this
state.
The Winter mines, under the man
asement of Mr.. Burke, have been
overhauled during the past ten
months. the old Slopes that produced
such a large tonnage many years ago
were cleaned out and the tunnels
and shafts put in working condition.
During the cleaning out operations
a large tonnage of milling ore has
been sent to the smelter, from which
the present operators received re-
turns indicating that the ore would
pay to ship, but owing to the dis
lance from the shipping point most
of the profits would go to the rail-
roads and reduction plants, so it was
decided that development work would
continue until arrangements could
be made for the erection of a plant
TO reduce the DrOduct at a DOint near
the property.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
GOLDFTELD MAN PASSES
AWAY IN Los ANGELES

After an illness of several weeks,
Warren K. Patrick, a pioneer of
Goldfeld, succumbed to heart failure
at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at
the home of his brother, j. M. Pat
rick, in Los Angeles. Cal. News of
his death was contained in a tele-
gram received last night by L. L..
Patrick of Goldfield, another brother.
The deceased vas a native of st.
Louis, Mo-. and vas fiftyfive years of
age. He came to Goldfield from
Colorado in 1904. In addition to
the brothers named, he is survived
by a third brother. e. T. Patrick of
Carson City, and two sisters. who
reside in Colorado.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06

The superintendents' reports for
the past week contain information
of general interest regarding the
work in the Comstock mines, with no
sensational developments at any
point, but with a good advance in all
exploration and new work both in
Virginia and Gold Hill districts, says
the Virginia Chronicle. The Ophir
company during the week has ex-
tracted from the mine 263 mine cars
of ore, estimated at 237 tons, of an
average assay value of 1888 per
ton. From the End, 3rd, 4th and 9Th
floors of the stope on the 2350-foot
level, the ore recovery vas 229 cars
averaging 1888 per ton, and from
the raise above the 2400 level. "a
cars averaging $12.9S per ton. This
raise has been connected with the
1850 stope. At the Central tunnel.
the work of laying track to the waste
dump has been completed, and five
tunnel sets of timbers were placed at
the mouth of the tunnel. At the mill,
12O tons of Ophir mine ore were
treated, and $50 tons of dump rock.
Consolidated Virginia on the $500
foot level, advanced the northeast
drift from the east crosscut from the
shaft station, for Is feet; total length
$50 feet. The face is in vein forma-
ton, showing punches of quartz, av-
eraging 20 to so cents per ton. The
work in this drift was delayed about
ten hours during the week, on ac-
count of the water being up on the
$500 level. In conjunction with the
Ophir company, and the United Com
stock Pumping Association, a suction
fan is being erected on the $500 shaft
station; also, erecting a door in the
northeast drift on the $500 level, III
order to improve the ventilation of
the level.
The report of the Sierra Nevada
mine today is of special interest for
it shows a continuation of the favor
able conditions in the $500 level
winze, which was sunk II feet to the
46-foot point for the week. The bot
tom of the winze shows 80 inches of
$50 ore on south end, and same
width of low grade IN north. A half
car of very rich ore was saved from
the last blast. On the $500 level,
200 feet of drain pipe was put in the
northeast drift to carry the water
over the winze. Repairs were made
to the hoist, and a sheave put in
ovor pump Ompartmon
The report of the United Com
stock Pumping Association shows
that the pumps ran regularly all the
week, with the exception of two
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06

Charles J.. Bandmann, writing for
the current issue of the Mining and
Engineering World of The Geology
of the Battle Mountain Mining Dis
trict of Nevada" says:
This district recently came into
prominence owing to the fact that
a large copper company made extern
sixe and exhaustive examinations of
the district. The a%uriferous area be-
gins about A miles south of the town
of Battle Mountain, and extends
westward for a distance of at least
8 miles. On leaving the town of Bat
tie Mountain, which is on the main
the country is practically fiat for
a distance of 4 miles. In the next
5 miles, however, a gradual rise oc-
ours until the Battle Mountain peaks
are reached, which are fully 700 feet
above the plane area. The territory
in which the copper-bearing ores
have been discovered consists of a
detritus of porphyry grano-diorite,
or in other words, quartz monzonite.
The ground itself, where not disin-
tegrated, shows fractures and fault
planes and a highly disturbed condi-
ton, and where openings can be
found in the vicinity, a like condi-
ton is met with. An iron grossan
cap of limonite is found in places
everything the bedrock. All of the
openings show carbonates and oxides
of copper in a porphyry matrix; the
carbonates consisting mostly of mald-
chite and azurite. The other ores
shown being malaconite and cuprite.
These ores show a certain amount of
teaching, but in places ores suffi-
GENTLY rich to ship are found. In a
number of openings in the surround
ing country the ores are also found
leached, in places, eroded at times
and badly fractured. A large grano-
diorite dixie to the northeast of the
ore zone has undoubtedly Influenced
the deposition of metal. Everything
goes to shoy that as depth is obtain
ed and the water level reached and
the unaltered strata penetrated,
sulphide ores will be encountered.
The large, strongly-jointed pOrphyry
dixie north and east of these claims
has undoubtedly assisted in chang
ing the surface ores The presence
of this dixie is favorable to ore
deposition. These igneous rocks
have undoubtedly influenced the
deposition of metallic contents by
contributing to them both metals and
solutions. This igneous mass and in
tense fr%acturing shows in other parts
of this district. Scarcely a foot but
is fractured, brecciated or sheared
by parallel and cross fractures, which
are found everywhere both on and
below the surface, showing that the
region is one that has been intensely
shaken, crushed and dislOcated both
before and after formation. To the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06

Ophir and Consolidated California
& Virginia is still out. The Mexican
and Union are the Slosson companies.
1t should be noted that we are
to the group of Comstock
mines at Virginia City. The more
important mines of the Gold Hill
section, viz, the Crown Point, yell
low Jacket and Belcher, passed some
years ago under the control of e. B.
Sturgis of Scranton, Pa, who has
been undertaking to operate them
seriously.
The present situation is, therefore,
that the control of the majority Of
the Comstock companies may pass to
whomever will take out of their
treasures the stock upon which
tri1ing assessments are unpaid.
There is, therefore, a good chance
that the control may be taken away
from the brokerage ring and by in
terests who are minded to do real
mining. The ,Comstock. still has
great possibilities as a mining dis
trict If it be approached with -aview
to real development and real mining,
as the recent experience Of the Next
can. company has amply demonstrat-
ed. The Ophir also during the last
few years had an excellent ore body
and ought to have yielded a good
profit, if it had been mined in mod
ern fashion. We say from u own
observation there was greater
difference between any two mines
than between the Mexican and Ophir,
the workings of which are separated
only by bulkheads. Modern methods
of development, intelligent drainage
a mine which, although hot, eve
theless permitted of efficient work
by the miners. Open a door and pass
into the Ophir, and there was an in
ferno.
At the time when the pumping as
ISOLATION was formed, in 1898, the
water at the Comstock mines stood
about 20 feet below the 1700-foot, or
Sutro tunnel, level. The pumping
reduced it to the 250O-foot level. At
one time a further gain was made
and the 27OO-foot level was reached,
but this was obtained with inefficient
machinery and could not be held. At
present the water stands at the $500
foot level. We hope that somebody
will quickly be found to take con-
troll of the whole group of Comstock
companies, put them under a united
management and make a serious eff
fort to unearth the possibilities that
many biologists and engineers believe
this great mining district still to
have. Since it's palmy days there
have been great Improvements in
mining methods, mining machinery,
mining knowledge, indeed in almost
everything pertaining to the mining
industry. The Comstock mines have
never yet had more than a tenth or
a twentieth of a chance to be benefit
ed by the improvements of the art.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
PAST ANDPRfSfNT OfCOMSTOCKrODf
DESCRIBED BY TECHNICAL JOURNAL

In a recent issue the Engineering
and Mining Journal said editorially:
During nearly five decades we
have kept our readers acquainted
wv the mining affairs and politics
OF me Comstock lode, beginning with
the extravagances of the early days,
when the wild speculation at the time
of the Big Bonanza, next the steal
ings of the mill ring, in the SOS, and
more recently the Vaccinations OF
the ring of San Francisco brokers.
The last, as everybody knows, has
controlled the Comstock mines
mines through the possession of the
stock legally owned by persons OF
gambling disposition on the Pacific
coast and elsewhere, but carried on
margins in the offices of the San
Francisco brokers, who have elected
the boards of directors, put in the
executive officers, and run things for
the perpetuation of the game. 1t was
only a few years ago that the stock
holders of the Mexican company, I'M
der the leadership of Henry j.. Slos-
son.. Jr., who contributes. a little ar
ticle to this issue of the, Journal,
took possession of their property and
started in to operate 1t as a mine
rather than a roulette, wheel Their
brilliant success in finding a good
body of ore and taking 1t out at a
substantial profit was a gratifying
feature of the new venture. Natur-
ally friction arose between the Mex
lean company, a real mining COM
pany, and the old-time concerns,
which apparently were DESTROYS OF
throwing the lions share of the
pumping expense upon the Mexican.
Just because it alone happened to
have money in the treasury. After
more or less unpleasantness, chiefly
more, the Mexican company with
drew from the pumping association,
in order to await developments.
1t has not had to wait very long.
The other companies quickly ran into
debt for electric power, the pumping
the expense being about $1,000 per
month for power alone, and m
thing like 100000 is now owed to
the Truckee River General Electric
Co., which is controlled by the Amer
lean Goldfelds Consolidated. and is
operated by Stone & Webster. The
directors of the several companies
have levied the usual assessments in
order to keep the game going, but at
last the real stockholders Of the ma
jority of the companies had become
tired, the titular stockholders-the
brokers-did not want to put up
their own money, and consequently
the majority of the stock has re-
verf~, to the treasures of the COM
pam for the non-payment of as
sessments. This is the cas- of the
Savage, Gould & Curry, Hale & Nor
cross, Best & Belcher, Chollar, Elk
chequer, Alpha and Bullion compan-
les. The Sierra Nevada has an as
sessment pending. The stock OF the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06

Albert G. Wolf of Mason, New,
wrote of important Nevada mining
legislation" in the last issue of the
Engineering and Mining Journl II. He
said:
Several laws relating to mines and
mining were passed by the Nevada
state legislature of 1913. A brief
summary of the most important OF
these laws is given here, from which
it will be seen that their object Is
TIE protection of the life and health
of the miner.
Passageways connecting contigu-
Gus mines must be kept free from
doors and bulkheads, and the right
to use such outlets in case Of acct
dent must be granted. Doors may
be placed which can be quickly open
ed or readily broken; in the latter
case the necessary tools must be kept
near at hand in a conspicuous place.
All machine drills or boring ma
chimes used in slopes or raises must
be equipped with sprays, water Jets
or some device equally good for al
laying dust. Water supplied to
sprays or jets must be free of pollu-
ton by organic or other noxious mat
ter. When meal of preventing es-
cape of dust are supplied, 1t Is I'M
lawful for anyone to run drills or
boring machines in raises or Slopes
without their use.
All chutes in mines or ore houses
must be equipped with sprinkling de-
vices to allay the dust. This does
not apply to chutes in the open air,
or to mines employing less than ten
men. The inspector of mines may
exempt any mine where such an in
~stallation is impracticable.
Gasoline may be used underground
only as follows: Gas engines OF not
more than eight horsepower may be
operated not more than 100 feet be-
low the surface, provided the ex'
haust is into a pipe leading to the
surface, or they may be operated to
a depth of $50 feet If an exhause
fan is attached to the surface. All
gas engine installations underground
shall be subject to the approval of
the inspector of mines.
No sinking or other work may be
done in vertical shafts at a depth OF
more than $50 feet unless cages,
skips or CROSSROADS used in hosting
and lowering employees are provided
with safety appliances and iron bon
nets. Safety apparatus must be Sc
curely fastened to cage, skip or cross
head, and must be of sufficient
strength to hold 1t when loaded.
Where a safety crosshead Is used for
any other purpose than sinking, 1t
must be equipped with gates as pro-
vided by law for cages. When a
skip is used for other than sinking
purposes, platforms for men to stand
on when being hoisted or lowered
must be placed in the skip not less
than tour feet from the top thereof,
and an overhead bar must be pro-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
RETURN

Alex Dewar of Tonopah and David
Llewellyn of Round Mountain were
visitors to Goldfeld this afternoon
in the latter's automobile James C.
Robertson. a broker of Tonopah, re-
turned to the silver camp with them
after a visit of two days in Goldfield.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
SUSPENDS PUBLICATION

The Manhattan Post has suspend
ed publication. Editor Frank Gar
side that the suspension
may be only temporary. The paper
was started soon after the discovery
of the camp of Manhattan.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
Baby Burns House

Jimmie Peddma, a four-year-old
boy. of Elko. recently burned down a
new house which his father was
building. He gathered up some shaw
ings. piled them in a corner and
touched a match to them. The Boil
ling hospital. nearby, was for a time
threatened. The damage amounted
to $1,700. -
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-06-06
Meets With Accident

H. B. Nantker, Wells Fargo agent
at Lovelock, while cutting wood re-
Gently. met. with an accident. The
wood he was cutting had a nail in
one end, and when struck with the
axe it impaled him, making a hole
THROUGH bis. foot .bone
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03

DR.. Billiard. osseopath. Is West Main.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
County System to Be Loser.

There is enough crushed rock and
gravel in the old road he'd Of the
Northwestern TO build the three-fooi
shoulders Of the pavement. the Only
cost being the cost Of hauling, and the
haul would be comparatively short
II the Lamoilie men should be sue
cessful in their effort to raise the
money for this mile Of pavement and
the pavement is laid on he mile OF
north road just west Of me village,
the county road system would not ben
eft by the Improvement The system
Of county roads having now been es-
tablished il could not be changed 70
take in this mile OF pavement. at leas,
not until the entire county system had
been brought 10 the grade required by
the state highway commission. When
the whole system IS permanently i'm
proved then the supervisors can add
additional road to it.
If however. the pavement should be
laid on the county road from the Lin
coin highway branch TO Lamoille, tre
pavement would then become a per,
Of the county system. Paving tbs
mile west Of Lamoille would, however
! lie Of more direct benefit 70 the coun-
~ II is over this road that all Of the
hauling 70 the county farm is done.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-03
knUS EMENTS.

Raymond Hitchcock and Company APP
pear at Oceon IN the Beauty Shor."
Raymond Hitchcock. comedian. first
seen here ten FEARS ago in The Yankee
Consul and last season in The Rcd
widow. returned 10 the Odson Mon
DAY night in his newest musical COM
edy, The Beauty shop The audi
ence was VI capacity proportions.
From all that could be gathered from
sitting out ar evening with The
Beauty Shop" one could not help but,
conclude that Hitchcock Is banking on
MS pas: reputation as a funmaker to
put over" his latest. The Beauty
Shop" is almost next to an nonentity.
Il is d=void OF catchy music. ABSOLUTELY
9ereft OF singing voices. with not even
80 much as one good voice 10 redeem
il as q musical production. The male
section OF the chorus was good. but
aside from the chorus numbers Of the