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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
NEvADA-UTAH COMPANY
STOCK LISTED ON CURB

The listing committee of the New
York Curb Market Association has
admitted to quotation, as a prospect,
the 100000 shares of a par value
of So of the Consolidated Nevada
Utah corporation, says the Phoebe
Record. This is the reorganization
of the old Nevada-Utah Mines and
Shelters corporation. The new COM
pany is simply a holding company of
the various subsidiaries formed out
of the properties of the Nevada-Utah
holdings.
The transfer agent of the company
is William F.. Roberts, of 40 Cedar
street, New York, and the registrar
ms the New York Trust company.
The bonds outstanding amount to
$4S1, 900, while the authorized bond
issue is 5000, 900. The officers and
directors are: Charles II. Clarkson,
president; William b. Randall, vice
president: Victor /. Cumnock, treas
urer; William F. Roberts. secretary;
Joseph w. Kay, Clarence. Strouse
and +. A.. Dillingham;.
The company owns a large inter-
est in the Day-Bristol Consolidated
Mining company in the Jack Rabbit
mining district and Bristol district
neal Phoebe the Hillside property at
Bristol: the Nevada-Utah Mining
company which owns the Comet
group and the Imperial Mining COM
pany properties in Beaver county,
Utah; a number of claims in and
around Phoebe and the controlling
interest in the Amalgamated Phoebe
Mines and Shelters corporation,
which is the operating company and
owners of all the old company's
properties in the town of Phoebe, as
well as the holdings of the old Ohio
Kentucky Consolidated Mining COM
pany and the Consolidated Phoebe
Mines company.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
GOES TO EXAMINE
THE RECOVERY MINES

Alton B. Cramer, manager OF the
Recovery Mines company, left yester-
day afternoon for the property, a few
miles south of Golconda, New. He
was accompanied by a mining expert,
who will examine the property, and
by a Tonopah man who is a prospect
i've purchaser. The trip will probab-
ly occupy a week or ten days.
The big mineralized vein outcrops
for 1900 feet ON the company's
ground. Considerable development
work has been done, and Mr.. Cramer
says there is about 5000 tOns of ore
blocked out.
Adjoining the Recovery company's
estate is the Nevada Crown, which
has a shaft down 235 feet, where
water was encountered. The Crown
Points surface showing was rich,
while at the bottom of the shaft
the average values are IS to $12,
with small stringers that will run
from $500 to $500 in gold and silver.
Salt Lake Tribune.
GOSSIP
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
CONTACT MINERS ARE
PUSHING WINTER WORK

Notwithstanding the fact that in
clement weather has had the isolated
camp of Contact in its grasp for
months, yet the nervy miners of that
potentially strong Nevada district
continue to push development wGrk
and promise important disclosures
for the year 1914. Relative to pres
ent activities, the Contact Miner says
that the Seattle-Contact Copper com
pany shipped a car of high-grade ore
two weeks ago and has another car
almost ready for shipment. w. A.
Southard's freight outfit has been
drawing the ore to Rogerson, where
it is loaded and consigned to the Salt
Lake valley smelters. This company
has shipped ten cars of ore the past
year that averaged 20 per cent in
copper, with some silver and gold
values. All the ore is sorted on ac-
count of the expensive wagon haul.
In the mining of the high-grade ore
much loW-grade Ore-so-socalled-or
ore ore running from 3 to 10 per
cent is either left in the vein or
piled UP on the dump for future
treatment. This company sank a
winze to the depth of fifty feet, en-
countering a fine showing of oxide
ore, which it is the intention of the
to develop in a short time
by means of a cross-cut tunnel.
The Antelope Mining company, of
which l.. S. Pratt is local represen-
tative, owns and controls the Ante
lope claim, near town.
This property vas until recently
developed principally by a 1OO-foct
drift and three shafts, each approx
imately forty feet in depth, all sunk
on vein material and all showing ny
ore of commercial value. The drift
is driven on what appears to be the
middle dixie of the three major bikes
crossing the property and was start
ed originally on the narrow vein of
black oxide of copper or tenorite ore
and continued for a distance OF ap-
proximately 100 feet on this charac-
ter of ore.
The quartz portion of the vein,
sometimes attains a width OF three
feet, while at no time was either wall
of the dixie or vein properly exposed.
Nearly a carload of high-grade ore
was taken from this drift during
development work and shipped to a
Utah smelter. This ore returned the
company a high price.
Last week the tunnel encountered
a stringer of quartz lying to the
southeast on the ground which is
undoubtedly the ~forerunner OF the
assure crossing the property and it
is expected to break into this any
time. A depth of about ninety feet
has been attained in the cross-cut.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
GOOD ORE DEVELOPED
At ANTELOPE SPRINGS

Assays made during the past week
from samples of ore brought 20 Salt
Lake from the Antelope Springs
property near Inlay, New, give the
following high returns, showing val
ues Of $50 to $4S to the ton. One
went 20 cents gold. 23.6 ounces sill
yer, III per cent lead and 81 per
cen zinc. At present such ore would
give smelter returns of $3.50 a ton.
Another anal, sis resulted in 20 cents
gold, 33.4 cent copper, 81 per cent
lead, l per cent copper, 81 pei cent
iron, Sc insoluble, and III per cent
zinc. This grade is worth $4S.75 a
ton.
This week General Manager John
w. Geiger and other Utah stockhold-
ers will go out to look over the
latest developments in the lower
cross-cut tunnel from where the
foregoing samples came.
Relative to an inspection last week
Of the %properi by a crowd of Ne
vada people, t. Winnemucca Star
says:
A party consisting of G.. II. Cop
ley, George 70. Gavin, James TOnkin
and e. j. Thacker arrived from I'm
lay last night in the Copley auto and
returned today. Mr.. Gavin is a
well-known mining engineer and Mr..
Tonkin is superintendent of the An
telope Springs Mining company's
property, situated about twenty
miles Mr.. Gavin recently inspected
the property and speaks of it very
highly. 1t is a lead-silver-zinc
proposition, and has beer developed
to a large extent, with resultant
showings of ore which are most en-
couraging. According to Mr.. Gavin,
the vein has been cut by two tun-
nels. The lower one was run 1000
feet before the vein was encounter
ed. This tunnel gives $50 feet Of
backs and exposes a vein twelve feet
wide, which has been drifted on for
sixty feet. Cross-cut and drift eX-
pose a strong body of ore, an aver
age sample giving values of about
S75 per ton in gold, silver, lead and
zinc.
On the surface the vein was in
slate, but at depth shows a strong
contact vein encased in pOrphyry and
lime walls. The evidence is that in
the contact the orebody becomes
larger and the vein stronger and
more persistent.
The management contemplates
further development and the ulti-
mate Introduction of treatment
facilities and shipment Of the pro-
duct.-Herald Republican.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
ELY CON. SHIPS FROM
MINES IN tLKO COUNTY

Fourteen carloads of ore have been
shipped from the Copper Queen and
Baltimore properties, 20 miles north
west from Elko, New, since they were
taken over last year by the Ely Con-
solidated Copper company, according
to General Manager S. NJ. Levy of Salt
Lake, who had just received a check
of $1173.67 for the last consignment
of ore, says the Herald Republican.
This last car consists of 33.6 ton
dry weight. The controls showed the
following excellent values: 1.55
ounces gold, 22.0 ounces silver and
1915 per cent copper. The ore came
from the 95-foot level on the "B"
lode of the Copper Queen. Some
work has also been done in the Iron
side shaft, where a drift is being
run now from the 100 level. The
face is now heavy in iron, with the
appearance of better ore at hand.
This will give about $50 feet of
backs. Some ore is also showing
showing in the Ironsides tunnel, and
in the 50-foot winze sunk from its
floor. A drift is being run on the
Granite shaft of the Copper Queen
claim. Considerable ore has been de-
| veloped in this claim.
On the Baltimore group the Nor
gan tunnel shows ore. 1t is in 800
feet and will be extended an addi-
tional 200 feet to the Morgan vein.
This will be opened at a depth of
200 feet. Some good silver-lead ore
has been shipped from the outcrop-
pings during the past year.
On account of bad winter roads no
attempt will be made to ship more
ore until settled spring weather.
Then a tractor and train of trailers
may be put IN. With cheaper wagon
! transportation (the present rate is
about $3.50 a ton to Elko) it is ex-
pected to go at some of the dumps
which contain quite a large tonnage
of ore which just falls short of being
profitable under present ~transporta-
ton charges.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
PROFITS OF BIG TONOPAH PROPERTIES:
DEVELOPMENT REPORT FOR PAST WEEK

are averaging over 20 ounces of
gold per ton in values and the bull
lion also carries a very much higher
proportion of gold than the usual
ratio of the Tonopah bullion.
In what is known as the Middle
stope on the Macdonald vein on the
765-foot level the ore is from s to
10 feet wide. and carries much
higher ratio of gold values than the
usual Tonopah veins.
Jim Butler
The Jim Butler company earned
net profits of $~14,375.29 in the
month of January, and these would
have been much greater were it not
for the fact that a large amount of
nom was expended on mining sup
plies, such as timbers, machine
drills, and other necessary equip
ment, all supplies being now charged
up to development work each month.
The property continues to show
great Improvement. In the Desert
Queen workings two veins are now
DeluS QeNelOpGu, TIE Ooulu Neiu vi
the 600, 700 and S00-foot levels.
The other vein, which is believed to
be a hanging-wall streak of the
South vein, is being drifted on on
the sixth level, and shows Is inches
of very good ore.
The Midway
The big vein on the 1200-foot
level of the Tonopah Midway com
pany's new working shaft has now
been cross-cut from foot to hanging
wall for a distance of over 20 feet
the hanging-wall having been en-
countered on Thursday night with
out, however, having shown ony
commercial ore. In places the vein
has carried very encouraging values
and it is believed that by drifting or
it an oreshoot will be developed
Drifting east on the vein will be
started Immediately, and the south
cross-cut will be continued to cut the
downward extension of the other
veins developed in the old workings
from No. 1 shaft.-Tonopah Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
ARGUMENTS RESUMED IN
COURT PROCEEDINGS

In the district court this morning,
arguments we're resumed in the suit
of the Goldfield Consolidated Milling
and Transportation company against
the old Sandstone Annex Gold Min
ing company and others, involving
condemnation proceedings. Henry
M. Hoyt of Reno and Benjamin Hen
ley are attorneys for the plaintiff and
d. II. Kehoe is appearing for the
defendants.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
FOURTH NATIONAL ORANGE
EXPOSITION is OPENED

SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 49,
The fourth national orange exposi
ton, displaying over 3,000,0 900 or
anges and lemons, opened today with
all the citrus districts of the state
represented. 1t will close next
Wednesday. 1t cost $4,000 to
produce it. The exhibits represent
this years production of $4,000 car
loads of fruit worth $35,000,0 600.
There is an extensive program of adj
dresses and amusements.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21
MASON VALLEY SMELTER

The report that Mason Valley
smelter shows that 2671 tons of ore
ley mines contributing 1410 tons;
Nevada-Douglas, 637, and other
mines of the district 624. Four ar
loads of blister copper were shipped.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-02-21

EDWARD M. WOLFE was a late
arrival at the Goldfield yesterday
from Oakland.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
THE NEUTRALITY OF
ECUADOR.

1t may or may not be true that
before England took up with Ecua-
dor and Colombia the question of
those countries alleged lack of re-
spect for their neutrality obligations
she sought to place upon the United
States the task of making them be-
have themselves. Earlier reports
were to that effect; the last expla-
nation is that she merely advised
this country of the representations
she was about to make, in recogni-
ton Of our predominant interest in
the affairs of the American republics.
But to whatever extent the Mon
roe doctrine has been invoked, the
invocation has fallen fiat. One needs
only to refer to the conditions un-
der which the doctrine was formulat-
ed to realize how preposterous would
be any claim that we must maintain
the neutrality of the Western Hem
isphere in a war like the present.
The Monroe doctrine has grown in
many directions during the nine
decades of it's existence. But it's OBJ
legations have not yet attained such
magnificent proportions as these.
Nevertheless, considerable impor-
tance attaches for us to the charac-
ter of the acts of which England al
lepes Ecuador especially to be
r,iilty. Il would seem that thu in,
The Washington times., 1914-11-14

fringement of her neutrality in the
maintenance of German wireless sta
tions along her coasts, if fact, may
be unwilling. If with the best Of
will to commit no unfriendly act,
Ecuador has not an adequate police
force to prevent individuals from
abusing her neutrality she is not
guilty of any very heinous offense.
Doubtless she herself would welcome
England's aid in suppressing the sta
tions. Certainly the United States
would be glad to receive information
from any one of the belligerents Of
abuses committed against the strict
neutrality it desires to maintain.
But the charges concerning the
use by Germany of the Galapagos
Islands for naval purposes are more
serious in character. If true, they
mean the violation of the sovereign
ty of Ecuador. ~ they are true and
Ecuador cannot u declines to en-
force its neutrality, England's logi-
cal retort would be to seize the
islands herself. She would be more
or less justified in doing so. But,
having seized them, would she like
ly be content merely to prevent their
use by the Germans; or would she
use them herself?
Neither during nor after the war
do we want any European power to
acquire new naval stations close to
the canal, and any act or refusal to
act on the part Of Ecuador or Co.
lombia which would lead to such a
development concerns US Immediate
ly. We should not dream Of assent
ing to a proposal by either Germany
or England to lease the islands for
any term whatsoever. Equally it
is to our interest to prevent Ecuador
from taking a position which would
invite and perhaps justify their oc-
cupation as a military necessity.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14

government or the German individ-
ual to do is to pay for all American
purchases with American securities
that have been owned in Germany.
Yet there is no sign that German
securities have been offered for sale
in this country to any considerable
extent since the outbreak of the war,
though there was heavy dumping
of them here just before the war.
Germany, in fact, clinging tenac-
iously to her gold, as she must in
order to hold up the currency infia-
tion, must be buying in this market
now on credit. Buying on credit is
always an expensive operation. Buy
ing on credit when there is question
in the mind of the creditor as to the
future value of the medium with
which payment will be made is still
more expensive.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
FOREST FIRES.

In the wooded sections around
: Washington, more or less serious
fires are now of daily occurrence.
The greatest destruction of timber
values even in this cut-over section
is still in forest fires. Within the
last week fires in the environs OF
Washington have swept over consld-
cradle areas, and given no small con-
cern to the people of some Of the
suburbs.
Not in many years has there been
an autumn that brought so much
menace of disaster by fire in the
woods, because Of the unprecedented
drought that has prevailed since mid
summer. The woods are like tinder; the
thick carpets of leaves are ready to
burst into flame at the spark from
locomotive, a cigarette, or a hunters
shotgun. These are in fact the chief
causes of fires; and the only effec-
tive guard against them is individual
care when in the woods. The rail-
roads have good patrols along their
rights of way, and are generally well
organized to protect property. The
hunters, particularly those who
build fires in the woods and then
carelessly leave them without prop
er precaution, are the dangerous peo-
pie. Inasmuch as the hunters must
be either guests or trespassers on
other peoples lands, it would seem
reasonable to expect them to use ev-
cry precaution to avoid infliction of
serious injuries. Timber lots are get
ting to have a very real value now
adays; and they are going to be far
more valuable in the near future.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
DUE DILIGENCE.

A few days ago there arrived in
Washington Congressman-elect
from a Western constituency, on a
mission in behalf of his people in re-
lation to the foot-and-mouth quaran-
tine. One of the large livestock
market centers Of the country>is in
his district. The quarantine had been
extended to it; and the managers of
the market saw blue ruin staring
them in the face unless the quaran-
tine be instantly raised.
Beyond that, they didn't seem to
see anything. They got together,
and sent their Congressman-elect,
armed with resolutions from Live
stock Exchanges, Boards of Trade,
Chambers of Commerce, and all
manner of organizations, insisting
that there was no need Of the quar-
antine, and that it should be raised
at once.
When the newly discovered states
man reached Washington he hunted
up the right authorities, laid his
troubles before them, and listened to
what they had to tell him about the
situation. In half an hour he was
enlisted as the most enthusiastic
supporter Of the quarantine and the
most insistent backer Of the Bureau
of Animal Industry in its every
measure to protect the livestock in
dustry of the country. From vio-
lent critic of the officials and meas
ures, he was transformed into an
earnest supporter, and he wired to
his organizations at home to keep
cool, obey orders, and be very sure
that the Washington authorities
knew more about what they were
doing than anybody was likely to be
able to show them.
That's the proper spirit. No rigor
that may be enforced in such a stu
alton as the present one, is too ex-
treme. The more vigorous the meas
ures, the better. 1t is absolutely
necessary to stamp out the plague
and the most violent procedure to-
ward that end will be the most ef-
fective and, in the long run, the least
embarrassing and annoying to the
stock business itself.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
STEADY PROGRESS IN
BUSINESS RECOVERY.

That the skies are clearing in a
financial and business way and that
confidence is returning are no longer
questioned by those who follow day
to-day developments. The Depart
ment of Agriculture tells us that the
farmers of the United States will re-
ceive $5,06S, S,742,0OO for the crops
grown in 1914. This is $104, 100000
more than the value of the crops
raised last year. These figures are
all the more impressive in that they
include the value of the cotton crop
which, based on current prices, is
S418,O00,000 less than it was at this
time a year ago.
The appended table will give a
better idea of the value of the more
important crops compared with the
return from the same crops year
ago:
The Washington times., 1914-11-14

900 bales a month. Purchases already
are being made by that country, end
other foreign nations are increasing
their takings. AS a matter of fact,
shipments abroad have more than
doubled recently. The cotton ex-
changes in this country are sched-
uled to reopen on Monday, and fur
ther impetus should be given to
transactions in the staple. With cot
ton selling at anything like a fair
price, there would be quick revival
in business in the South, and that
section would join the rest of the
country in viewing the future with
confidence.
Taking a broader view of the Sit
uation, we find that banks in the
East are retiring clearing house GER
tificates and emergency currency at
a lively rate; money is relaxing;
manufacturing is recuperating slow
ly but surely; export trade is de-
veloping so satisfactorily that the
promise is held out that the balance
we owe Europe will be liquidated in
foodstuffs, munitions, etc., thus en-
abling us to conserve our gold sup
ply.
The world is now calling upon the
United States for supplies and there
is every indication that before long
the wheels of industry will be in full
motion and the cry of hard times
will become only a memory.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
The Silver
Lining
Edited by ARTHUR BAER.

By the way. might look In tho visi-
tors gallery at the Senate to SEQ
whether anybody Is still asleep.
A lot Of aspirants are beginning to
realize that getting elected to Congress
isn't a contagious disease.
The war has one good feature. In
dealing with each other the rival
armies seem to have eliminated tho
middleman.
Poor old Turkey. On November %
there will not be q neutral harbor from
Maine to Frisco.
There isn't much change in the war
situation. In fact, we understand that
the average soldier gets only about
dime a day.
The Washington times., 1914-11-14
Hats On In Elevators!
i,or ~ The Mail Ra9.

To the Editor OF the Mall Bag:
Just few words to IF. S." who
seems to have answered my statement
in the Mail Bag. that it Is a silly Gus
tom that prompts men to remove their
hats when a woman enters an elevator
on which they are riding. BY compar-
ing this practice with that Of giving
up his seat in car to a woman. and
the fact that he ceases smoking when
a woman enters his office. 1t appears
that IF. S." is fast approaching his
"dotage.'' although he clearly states
that he has not reached it.
Giving up seat In a car to a woman
Is a comniendable act, because 1t does
the woman a kind service. She may be
tired, or weak. and standing might be
a great labor to her
Tobacco smoke Is extremely objection
able to many women, and probably
harmful as well. and I commend the
man who will cease smoking when in
the company of women. I do both OF
these pallent acts myself. so YOU see
am not entirely devoid Of the gallant
stuff.
But hats off In the elevator cannot
possibly accomplish any good. to the
ladies or to the men, and / reiterate
that II ia an extremely silly demonstra-
ti,a.x >ps will continue to keen mine
on. A. B. BEARSLEY.