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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
DAN DWYER FINANCES
BUCkSKIN MARY LEASE

Ben Farrar, president of the Buck
skin Mary Mines company, has re-
ceived word from Dan r. Dwyer in
Los Angeles that he has financed his
lease and will begin operations as
as spring opens.
The Buckskin Mary Mines COM
pany owns the Neversweat group of
claims, adjoining the Buckskin Ma
tional Gold Mining company's prop
erty on the north and east. From
location and showings under de-
velopment work that has been done,
the Neversweats are considered
among the best claims in the Buck
skin section. Two Lodges have been
uncovered or the property, the ore
showing good values in gold and sill
ver.-HumbOldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
INDUSTRIAL SAFETY
MOVEMENT IS LAUDED
TECHNICAL JOURNALS DEVOTE
MUCH SPACE TO RENO
CONFERENCE

The Industrial Safety conference
held at the University of Nevada
last month was the first meeting of
it's kind ever held under the direction
of an American university, and has
received much favorable comment
from the newspapers and technical
journals all over the country. The
Journal of Electricity says editorial
ly:. considerable credit is due the
University of Nevada for their praise
worthy part in inaugurating the in
dustrial safety conference, which has
just been brought to so successful
an issue at Reno. The impetus given
to the safety first movement should
be far-reaching, as each of those who
attended will return to MS own GEN.
ter of activities to there further pro-
mulgate the spirit which prompted
the conference"
The same paper devotes a page
to the news of the meeting and prints
in full the paper of Prof. j. G.
Scrugham, of the university, on
headlights, which was read at the
meeting. The current number of the
Mining and Scientific Press contains
the paper of Lincoln Duncan on ac-
cident prevention at une Nevada
Consolidated.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
MINING OF DIAMONDS
BY MODERN METHODS

Machinery and barbed wire have
supplanted the crude methods OF
breaking up demonstrating b're
earth and protecting the valuable
finds employed 20 years ago in The
South African diamond mines, says
the March Popular Mechanics maya
zine. The depths of the strange
crater-shaped hole in which the Pc
culiar demonstrating earth is con-
fined, is now penetrated by shafts,
reaching hundreds of feet down into
the earth, with 40-foOt levels. The
broken earth is removed in closed
trucks to the surface, where, after a
season of exposure to sun and atmos-
phere, strewn on the ground, it is
hauled to the mills. Here p%ulsators
finally locate the diamonds on grease
covered inclined tables, to which the
diamonds adhere, while loose sand,
earth and gravel are washed away
by water. Acres of ground, covered
by broken earth brought up from the
mines, contain possibly millions OF
dollars worth of gems, and these
treasure-troves are protected by high
fences of barbed wire, with intricate
arrangements at the n and at
the gates. About 1000 miles of wire
are used in the defenses about the
Kimberley mines.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
IS MADE
ON AUST|N-DAK0TA

Splendid progress has been made
on the property of the Austin-DakOta
Development company during the
past two weeks. The main incline
has been sunk about 20 feet and two
new drifts run from this incline. one
being now in about Is feet and the
other 25 feet. These drifts are on
the main ledge and from one of
them samples of high grade were
taken which run $1O34 to the ton.
This high grade streak is about one
inch in width in the center of the
ledge matter, but the entire ledge,
which is about two feet in width,
carries very good values.
To a representative of the Reveille,
General Manager c. F. Littrell stated
that the present plans of the COM
pany are to sink the main incline
about 20 feet further and put in a
turntable, and then go ahead and run
both the east and west drifts. The
east drift will be run probably two
hundred feet until a system of cross
dykes that cross their property are
i~ntersected, at which point an i'm
tonnage of milling ore should
be struck. A shaft will also be
sunk higher up on the hill to strike
this drift and the X Ray shaft will
be connected with this shaft and the
main incline by drifts. The incline
will also be sunk further down and
drifts run east and west on each hun
dred-foot level. This system of
drifts will give immense backs on
the main orebody and will also deter
mine at just what point the work
should be concentrated. - Reese
River Reveille.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
SEARCHLIGHT PROPERTY
BONDED TO SYNDICATE

News comes from Searchlight that
Light Wheatley and John Howe have
bonded their Anaconda mine to
Rogers Bros. of Central City, Colo
RADIO, and Los Angeles, Cal, for the
sum of $25,000. The terms of the
bond require that the deal be con
cluded in 60 days and the bonders
at once to prove up the property, on
which some splendid showings have
recently been made, after extensive
development owe a long period of
time.
The Anaconda is located about Is
miles southeast of Searchlight in the
Newberry range, about six miles
from the Colorado river. Wheatley
and Howe have been working the
property continuously for some two
years past and have about 200 tons
of ore blocked out ready for milling.
They recently shipped a carload of
selected ore which is expected to run
not less than 800 per ton. Three
permanent lodges have been
ed averaging about SIT per ton
straight through.
Little shipping has been done ow-
ing to the bad condition of a portion
of the road which increases the cost
of the wagon haul to such an extent
as to preclude a reasonable profit or
the value of the ore. Only about
three miles of the road is in real
bad condition and the operators of
that section are now preparing a
petition 10 the county commissioners
for the necessary improvement. 1t
is thought that $1,000 will suffice
to put the road in fair shape.
Louis Bourgeois and John Yates
have the extensions from both ends
of the Anaconda property and have
recently made a strike of 500 ore.
The vein widens and increases in
average values with depth. They
have been working about two months
on the extensions and have taken out
about three tons of ore averaging
$40. Mr.. Bourgeois is now on his
way to Colorado, where he will make
an effort to interest capital in the
property for more extensive develop
ment. In any event, he and his
partner will continue the work.
Jim Mcdonald and Mrs. O'ConnOr
Old Roman property in the district,
and altogether Newberry Camp is
are doing assessment work OF the
the scene of a great deal of activity,
which will be enhanced by the sale
of the Anaconda property.-Clark
County Review.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
NEW COMPANIES FILE PAPERS

The secretary of state today re-
ceived and filed Tor record articles
Incorporating the Greenwood Cop
per company, owners OF the Pres
colt group of claims in the Yering-
ton mining district, Lyon county.
The company is capitalized for L.
100000 shares, par value 81 each.
The Florine Mines company ar
ticles were also filed, the principal
place of business being located at
Beatty, Nye county, with a capital of
1000, 900 shares, par value 81 each.
With a capitalization of 100000
shares par value 81 each, the Brown
Mining and Milling company with
principal office at Manhattan, Nye
county, also filed articles of incoc-
poration.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
ARTESIAN WELLS FLOWING
FREELY NEAR PAHRUMf'

David F. Murphy, who has been
down at Johnnie doing some
for NJ. B. Bartlett has returned to
Tonopah with glowing accounts OF the
agricultural prospects of the south
eastern end of Nye county. Remark
able finds of water flows have been
reported around the old Pahrump
ranch, where the new management
is placing the land in condition for
producing a large crop of fruit ana
alfalfa. The orchards have been
pruned out and the meadows ployed
up while Walter Jones, who rents
the big ranch from Hayes, is going
ahead with water development. Pc
ter Buol has bored five wells which
have yielded a copious flow OF water
from a depth of 400 feet. Each OF
these wells is running at the rate or
So miners inches and there appears
to be sufficient to irrigate ten times
as much land as will be brought I'M
der cultivation this season.
R~anchers are giving more attention
to the hog industry since the high
cost of shipping other products re-
duces the profits and it is a note
worthy feature hat the other day
the Manse ranch shipped 24O head OF
hogs from Shoshone, a station OF the
Tonopan & Tidewater railroad to
a>Salt Lake packing house.
1t the old Keystone mill a Stan
d&rd drilling outfit has gone in to
bore for water, and it is said that
the contractor has promises of all
the work he can take care of for the
season.
The Johnnie mill has been closed
since the first of the year, but there
is some talk of resuming.-BOnanZa.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
VALLEY STRIKE
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

According to reports received by
this paper the strike recently made
in Huntoon Valley grows more
promising as development progresses.
ID. l.. Markley, one of the discover
ers informs our representative that
Notwithstanding the heavy SHOWS,
which greatly hampered operations,
the development work on the diff
erent properties has progressed very
favorably and several new finds have
been made. J. T.. Brown has fispos-
ed of his interest in the original
strike made by himself, Markley and
Ward to Yerington parties. There
are now six sets of leasers operating
on this property in addition to the
operations being carried on by the
owners. Mr.. Markley says that he
and his associates have sacked ready
for shipment over 400 sacks of ore
that will return values better than
sixty dollars per ton. 1t was the in
tention to ship but the owners have
decided tt wait further development
on the part of leasers with a view
of the installation of a mill on the
ground for the treatment of the ores
which are gold and free milling.
Among those who are actively de-
veloping holdings besides the or
iginal locators, are B. F. Baker and
associates, Keener and Handkerchief,
B. B. Sheppard, Jack Savage and
partners, and parties from Yering-
tOn.-WeStern Nevada Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
OPERATORS REJOICE
over Showing IN OPHIR Mine

during the week, with one shift per
day. preparing through connections
to the C.. & C. shaft. Drains were
cleaned and cut down, and pipe re-
moved.
The Union company is carrying on
joint work with the Mexican on the
$500 level, re-equipping the level.
The Monte Cristo mine hoisted
463 cars of ore from the slopes and
development work, and shipped 356
tons over the tram to the Mexican
mil. Four bars of bullion were
shipped to Selby Smelling & Lead
company.
The Savage company sunk the
Wine from the northwest drift from
the main drift on the ID street tunnel
level, for a distance of IL feet; total
depth "a feet. The bottom is in old
fills giving low assays. Two sets of
timbers were placed.
The Crown Point, Belcher and
Yellow Jacket companies have con-
tinued their operations below the
400 and 150O-foot levels in the
joint incline and lowered the water
five feet, where it stands 1876 feet
below the 1900 on the incline. The
north compartment has been cleaned
up and track laid to the water level.
Reclaiming the 1900 level has been
under way the past week and east
cross-cut No. 1 was repaired 33 feet
to the 60-foot point, where onnec
tions we're made with the main north
drift. From this work, there was
saved 6S cars of low-grade ore.
The Crown Point company from
the top of the 400 stope No. l drove
the cross cut to a point of connection
with the main north drift on the
1900 level. From the work 1O1
cars of low-grade ore were saved.
The Yellow Jacket company was
engaged in general repair work to
the shaft and incline.
On the 1200-foot level of the
Overman, the southwest drift to o n
meet with the northeast drift, was
advanced seven feet to the 64-fOot
point, at which point the connection
was made and two sets of timbers
placed. Squaring up the drifts at
the connecting point and timbering
is now under way.
On the 200-fOot level of the Con-
fidence- Challenge-Imperial shaft the
the west cross-cut from the south
drift, started at a point rs feet from
the shaft, was advanced to the 49,
foot point, the face being in quartz
and porphyhy. One set of timbers
was placed.
The Caledonia company on the
11OO-foot level. started a raise from
the southwest drift at a point 800
feet north of the south raise and
same was carried up 10 feet through
quartz, from which was saved 81
mine cars of ore, of an average assay
car sample value Of $1O.4S per ton.
From the 12O0-foot level, 25 mine
cars of low-grade ore were hoisted.
Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
TRAFFIC SOUTH
AND EAST. CUT
, OFF BY STORMS
Salt Lake Route Demoralized South
m East of the Town of
Las Vegas
TRAIN BOUND FOR UTAH
DETOURED THROUGH CAMP
TOnOpah and Tidewater Railroad
Bad WashOut in the Vicinity
of Silver Lake

In consequence of numerous wash
outs, due to the recent downpour of
rain, railroad traffic between Gold
field and Los Angeles and Salt Lake
City by way OF Las Vegas is COM
pletely demoralized. 1t will prob
ably be several days before normal
conditions are restored and trains
over the Tonopah and Tidewater and
Las Vegas and Tonopah railroads
are again running on schedule time.
Although the Las Vegas and Tono-
pah railroad has suffered no dam
age between Goldfield AMI Las We
gas, the latter it's southern terminus,
the Salt Lake Route, with which it
connects, is tied up by washouts both
east and south of Las Vegas. At
Elgin, Nevada, east of Las Vegas.
been washed out, while in Califoi mia,
in the vicinity of Silver Lake and in
San Bernardino county, great dam
age was done by the rain to the road
bed. 1t is expected that repairs to
the south of Las Vegas will be CON-
pleted by tomorrow evening and that
a train will arrive there from Los
Angeles at that time. 1t will prob.
ably be two or three days before
trains can be operated over the Salt
Lake Route between Las Vegas and
Salt Lake City, as the washout at
Elgin is reported to be quite serious.
Through GoldfieId
An %eastbound Salt Lake Route
train of seven cars, which arrived in
Las Vegas from Los Angeles Satur-
day morning, having negotiated that
section of the system before the
washouts occurred, was detoured
through GOldfeld this morning, on
account of the washout at Elgin. 1t
arrived in Goldfield at 6:15 this
morning over the l.. V. T. tracks and
departed at $50 owe the Tonopah
npd Goldfield railroad, bound for
alt Lake City by way OF Nina,
Hazen and ogden. Although the l..
V. & T. railroad is not operating on
llIlc, III consequence
decentralization of traffic on the Salt
Lake Route, a train was sent out this
morning from Goldfield to Las Vegas
and trains will be occasionally
despatched from both ends OF the
line until normal conditions can
again be restored.
1t will probably be several days
before the Tonopah and Tidewater
railroad operates any trains n or III
of Goldfield. In the vicinity OF Sill
yer Lake and CrucerO, CAL, the road
bed had been badly washed out by
the flood waters of the Mojave river.
The Santa Fe system, with which
the T. & T. connects at Ludlow, CAL,
has suffered greatly in southern Cali
fornia as a result of the storm M
will probably not be running trains
on schedule time for several days.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
COMMISSION DOES
AWAY WITH DEPOSIT

The railroad commission entered
an order Saturday in case No.
2O71, entitled railroad commission
OF Nevada versus Bell Telephone
company of Nevada, requiring the
company to stop the practice of
exacting payment of a s. deposit
to persons desiring telephone con
nections in this state, says the APP
peal.
In lieu of disseminating the prac-
tice, the commission allows the
company the privilege of requiring
the payment for two months SER
vice in advance. said payment to
be credited to the patrons account,
The order becomes effective on or
before April /.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
Woman Trans-A Atlantic Pilot

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 21.-PromO'
ton to a steamer in the American
service has been promised to Mrs.
Won Bauditz, Denmark's only woman
sea captain who is now commanding
a vessel running between Russia
and England.
Mrs. Won Bauditz, who is the wife
of a physician, was for a long time
interested in yachting as a sport
and after passing an examination for
sea as a profession. So adept did
she prove herself that a local ship
ping company soon gave her COM
mand of one of it's largest steamers.
Captain Won Bauditz wears a natty
uniform with square cut coat and
skirt of the same material. She is
the first female captain in Denmark
and she claims to be the only real
feminine master mariner in the
world.
Several American teachers are here
studying the old Danish folk dances
with the idea of substituting them
for gymnastics in girls' schools in
America. In this city a big society
has been formed for the preservation
and promotion of Danish national
dances. The movement was so wide
spread that it attracted the attention
of Americans visiting here and result
ed in the visit of the American teach
ers, who express themselves as de-
lighted with the quaint dances. The
teachers complain that gymnastics be-
come very tiresome and boring to
girls, and they believe that the dances
will confer all of the benefits of the
gymnastics and at the same time be
a great source of pleasure to the stu
dents.
Anton Rosen, a local architect has
finished plans for the building which
will be erected at the San Francisco
exposition from a fund collected by
Danish Americans. The building
will be modelled on the facous castle
of Hamlet's town, Elsinore, and, like
it's historical prototype, will be sit
uated on the sea. The building will
not be used to house exhibits, which
will be placed in another structure
erected by the Danish government,
but will be used as a headquarters
for Danish Americans and their
friends visiting the exposition. The
structure will contain a big recital
hall, reception rooms and offices. For
the official Danish exhibition a SPLEEN
did site has been procured and it is
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28

The ore taken from the new devel-
opment on the 2350-foot level of the
Ophir mine this week averages $40
per ton, twenty ears of that grade
being saved from the last round of
holes blasted. The formation is very
strong and continues of a most prom
Using character for an excellent bull
cut, at the beginning of the week,
was extended to the 123-foot point,
where the face is in quartz and por-
phyry giving low assays. At the
1O9-foot point from the raise from
the 2~4-0O-foot level, a south drift
was extended in the vein for a dis
lance of eight feet, and in the ad-
vance 35 cars of ore estimated at 80
tons, of an average assay value of
$40.42 per ton, were extracted. A
number of visitors inspected the new
strike today, and brought up very
favorable reports of the conditions in
the face of the south drift and the
ore exposed on all sides and in the
top and bottom of the drift and
cross-cut.
Consolidated Virginia on the 1000
foot level advanced the southwest
drift started in the east cross-cut at
a point rs feet in, to the 10-foot
point, where the face is in clay and
porphyry, the quartz assaying 80
cents per ton. The west cross-cut
started opposite the east cross-cut
was advanced Fl feet; total length
Al feet. The face is in porphyry,
with punches of quartz, ~assaying
from 90 cents to $1.10 per ton.
Joint work with the Ophir and Pump
ing association was performed on the
25OO-foot level.
The report of the United Comstock
Pumping association today is to the
effect that the water has been held
successfully at all points. On the
25OO-foot level the north drift from
the Con. Virginia Wine has been
cleaned out and repaired SO feet and
100 feet of three-inch discharge pipe
put in. The east drift from the Ophir
incline station was cleaned out a
distance of 81 feet; total distance
in repair from Con. Virginia Wine
station $50 feet. The electric power
was off for As minutes during the
week, and both Starret pumps were
shut down on the 14th level for one
hour, to make repairs to the air
line.
The Mexican Mining company re-
sumed work the past week on the
25O0-foot level, jointly with the
Union Con-, one shift per day, and
have been engaged in laying track
to the Mexican incline winze. At the
mill, the plant was operated 81 per-
cent of the time, and crushed 733
IONS of Monte Cristo ore of an aver
age assay value of $6.37 per ton,
with an apparent extraction of 81
per cent. OF the above ore milled,
337 IONS were taken from the stor-
age piles.
The Sierra Nevada started work
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28

planned to make the exhibit small
but typical of the very best of Danish
art and industry.
DR.. Carl Jacobsen, Denmark's
great patron, just before his death
confided to a friend that he intended
to create a Danish Versailles, and the
publication of the plan has led to
the determination to carry out his
ideas as a memorial of his services
to the nation. The large sum to
make the plan a success will be avail
able from the Carlsberg fund, which
a instituted by jacobsen and to
which he donated many millions for
the encouragement and promotion of
art in Denmark.
The Versailles. as planned by DR..
Jacobsen, will be erected in Fred
e~ricksbeorg, where the beautiful
castle of that name with it's extern
sive gallery of art and national his
torical treasures is already located
In connection withe the castle all of
the skill of the landscape artist and
sculptor will be called upon to create
a Versailles park.
An English company is planning
to harness Dettifoss, n of the larg-
est water falls in Iceland with the
plan of turning it's estimated 100000
horsepower into an agency to extract
fertilizer from the atmosphere.
The engineers estimate that the
falls will develop more power than
the works at HardangerfjOrd and
Odda in Norway. The engineers say
they will have no difficulty in pro-
ducing calcareous saltpeter fertilizer
fro mthe air. The electric power will
be transmitted to a nearby port,
where splendid shipping facilities ex-
list, and where factories for the pro-
duction of the fertilizer will be
built.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
Well at Indian School

Good progress is being made by
w. d. Moody in sinking a well at the
school for Indians at Fallon. The
workmen have broken through a
stratum which permits water to rise
within five feet of the surface from
a depth of $50 feet. The water is
clear and apparently good for do
nestle purposes, although it has not
been analysed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
Woman is Stabbed

Lillian Frazier, a habitue of the
underworld of Tonopah, is in the
mine operators hospital in that camp
suffering from ten serious knife
wounds and Bill Pappas, a Greek
gambler, her alleged assailant, is held
in the Nye county Jail.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
Land Opening Postponed

On account of sucn a vast amount
of detail work to be performed on
the Truckee-Carson project before
settlement can take place, it is prob
able that filings will not be accept
ed until late this fall, and possibly
not until the next spring.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-28
COMMITS SUICIDE

Angelo Corso recently killed him
self on a Southern Pacific train in
Humboldt county while en- route to
ticket from a point in Iowa. The
dead man had a wife and child living
in Tonopah.