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The Washington herald., 1914-02-25
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
EN- HEX VUNDTf TfEONS NM
GENERAL FORECAST.

q. $. Dcrt. Of Agriculture. Weather Bureau
Washington. Tuesday. Feb. AS =. N.
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The Brightwood Park CItinens, As
ISOLATION win meet tonight at the home
Of D. d. Wilson. 1909 Madison street
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A subcommittee of the comnittee ON
conventions OF the Chamber of Com
merce will meet tomorrow evening at
the National Press Club.
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Central Dispepsary and Emergesey
Hospital. at Fifteenth street and Ohio
avenue. WIN observe donation day to-
morrow.
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Ernest Barrett, twenty-six years
years old. was arrested yesterday by
Detectives McNamee and Baur and
turned over to Deputy Sheriff Thomas
Garrison, of Hayttsville. He is charged
ness.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-25

Mckinley Manual TralninE school
pupils gave another performance of
Fl. NJ. s. Pinafore" last night in the
assembly hall. The proceeds will go
to the athletic and social funds Of the
school.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-25

Prof. J. Newton Baker will lecture on
the Income Tax Law" before WASH
ington College Of Law, at 1917 New
York avenue northwest. at s o'clock to-
night.
The Washington herald., 1914-02-25
Plenty Of Winter

Left to get the good OF these
Magnificent
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
Mining COMPANIES
SHOW DEVELOPMENT OF Week

The Ophir Mining company, dur
extraction of ore from the stope To-
Gated on the 2350-foot level, and
from the second and third floors re-
covered 216 cars, estimated at 1914
tons, of an average assay value of
$1,000 per ton. The ventilation of
the stope has been improved by the
installation of 260 feet of 15-inch
air pipe. connecting the raise with
the ore workings. From the 2400-
foot level, the two-compartment
raise was carried up an additional II
feet. and the total height is now
SO feet. The top of the raise shows
two feet of quartz assaying from
so cents to $500 per ton. A chute
has also been placed in the bottom
of the raise. On the $500 level, work
has been continued retimbering the
old station of the Ophir-Mexican
winze. AS already announced. work
is to be soon taken up reopening the
old Central tunnel to get back into
the upper levels to the west, for the
purpose of extracting the low grade
ores left from the early days. Re-
pairing the track at the mouth of the
tunnel has been started.
Consolidated Virginia on the $500
foot level, is drifting forward the ex-
ploration drift started at a point 1873
feet east of the shaft, and it is now
out a distance of 191 feet; being ad-
vanced 10 feet during the past week.
The material passed through, and
nyr IN tho fonn aDn.;1ta - ..,.
porphyry, showing strlngers of
quartz, the latter assaying so cents
per ton. Necessary repairs were
made to the main shaft.
The United Comstock Pumping AS
ISOLATION report shows all pumps
running successfully and No. l Star
rett pump pulled from the north COM
partment of the old Con. Virginia
winZe.
The Sierra Nevada company sank
the 250O-foot level winze for a dis
lance of nine feet and placed one set
of timbers. The bottom of the Wine
shows a wide, barren vein, except for
narrow rich stringers. The winze
hoist has been assembled on the sta
ton and put in place.
The Mexican comp my continued
cleaning up the mill and shipped
three bars of bullion to the smelter.
The Savage company advanced the
southwest crosscut started from the
end of the west drift on the crop
pings for 10 feet, total length 16 Ieet.
The face is in old fill. From the
work 81 cars of $5.SS ore were saved.
The Crown Point, Belcher and yell
low Jacket companies in Gold Hill are
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
CONTAIN POTASH.

ZURICH, Switzerland, May 8
Doctor Kleiber, a chemist in the serv-
ice of the Swiss government, anal
yzed during a recent visit to Pom
peii and Herculaneum the Vesuvian
ashes and debris, and found that they
contain large percentages of potash.
suitable for the manufacture of fer
tilizer. The potash syndicate, estab-
lished by the German government,
has almost a monopoly of potash.
The italian government, learning of
DR.. Kleiber's discoveries. has com
municated with him upon the posi-
bility of developing potash mines in
the vicinity of V~esuvius. He is look
ing into the matter. The largest
market outside Germany for potash
fertilizer is the United States.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
TUNNEL NEARS VEIN ON
THE NATIONAL BUCKSKIN

James Martin, superintendent for
the National Buckskin Mines COM
pany, is in town from National for a
few days. He reports hat develop
ment work is being carried on stead
lily at the property, with two shifts
driving the crOsscut tunnel into the
mountain. The tunnel is now in over
$50 feet and Mr.. Martin say they
expecte to break in to the ledge with
any round of shots.
With the striking of the ledge i'm
pOrtant developments are anticipated,
as the ledge, which has been opened
in several places on the surface, gave
excellent returns in gold. The cross
cut tunnel will strike the ledge at
a vertical depth of over 800 feet
Humboldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
PLACER HOLDINGS ARE
TURNED INTO FARM

Another farm development scheme
is on foot a few miles east of this
city, where Messrs. Little & Woods,
of Fallon have taken up eight acres
Of land in the flat the other side
of Mound House. The ground has
been known as Spring valley for
years and has mainly been devoted
to placer mining. Under the hands
of the new parties the ground has
been broken and planted to barley
and sugar beets. The crop is well ad-
vanced and it looks like the new men
have something better in sight than
the panning for gold. AS a number
of springs are found on the holding
and water is neal the surface their
dry farming venture should turn to
success.
Near them S. l.. Cain and John
Uhart have taken up desert entries
where improvements are being car
ried on. The hustle for agricultural
land goes on steadily and each Sec
ton in Nevada is reporting satisfac-
tory results.-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
CALIFORNIA ORE FOR
MASON VALLEY SHELTER

Jules Lebarth, general manager of
the Thompson smelter near Babus-
ka, passed through this morning re-
turning to his headquarters from a
successful trip to the coast. MI. Lee
barth stated that he had just closed
a contract that will mean much to
those interested in the success of the
Lyon county smelter. after eight
months effort in trying to secure
transportation rates that would al
low the shipment of medium grade
to our plant at a profit to the
mines of California;" said Mr.. Le-
barth, 81 have succeeded in convinc-
ing the Southern Pacific that it
would be to our mutual advantage to
pat reduced rates in effect, which
they have done, with the result that
the railroad will daily haul 100 tons
of commercial ore from the Balla
klava mine in Shasta county, Cal,
to the Thompson. smelter-Appeal.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
NENZEL TO WORK FOR
INTEREST OF CAMP

For many months, litigation and
threatened litigation has retarded
the development of the Rochester
camp. The recent decision by Judge
harrington seems to have set aside
all this for the time being and it is
to be hoped for all time.
BY this decision Joseph f. Nenzel
turns yer to the Stevens-George in
tereSts 21O, 900 shares of the Roch-
ester Mines company stock. This
leaves Mr.. Nenzel with 800, 900
shares and according to Mr.. NenZel
the Cowan interests have about 1907
900 shares.
1t appears that under these condi-
tons no one party can control the
company without joining with an
other.
Mr.. Nezel states that as the liti-
CATION is over he will work for the
best interests Of the camp. He will
devote his time and all the influence
he can to develop, net only the prop
critics he is interested in, but the en-
tire district.-LOvelOck Miner.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
.AMALGAMATED PIOCHE
IS TAKING OUT ORR.

At Amalgamated Phoebe No. l shaft
during the past week arrangement for
handling the water which, it is eX-
pected may soon be encountered on
the fourteenth level have been COM
pleted. The massive bulkhead has
been completed, the two pumps over
hauled and connected up.
While installing the concrete Of
this bulkhead, work at the face of
the crosscut was discontinued for
several shifts in order to permit the
cement to set hard before conclusion
from blasting should come against it.
The Raymond and Ely vein may be
cut at any time now and with it may
come the water, though it is not i'm
probable thai only by drifting along
the vein will the w~ater-cOurses be
sufficiently opened to bring the flow
into the fourteenth level.
Ore, from the twelfth level, I'M
der the stOpe above the Black Ledge
winze, is now being mined. A few
men only are at wOrk on this ore
because there is so limited a space
at the collar of the shaft where sort
ing may be done. To dc away with
this limitation, bins and sorting ar
rangements have been u ned and
are being built. Only the first class
shipping ore will be sorted out-the
balance, except waste, will be piled
at a point half way between shaft No.
l and the Greenwood shaft-a loca-
ton from which it a be easily pick
ed up again for future milling.
The ore is the typical black zinc
sulphide which is responsible for the
BLACK Ledge ore" 1t is car
rying small seams and kidneys of
galena. There are gold and silver
values in both minerals.-Pioche
Record.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
GETTING READY TO START
BCCKSKIN NATIONAL LEASES

w. l.. Davis, c. ID. Mackay, w. C.
Gaasch and Erling Prout arrived
Friday evening from National in the
formers Pierce Arrow car.
Mr.. Mackay. who is secretary and
director of the Buckskin National
Gold Mining company, and Mr.. Davis
spent a day at the property and in
spected the work that is being done.
They report everything in fine shape
at the property. Mr.. Davis is to
have charge of the work on the Ber-
ry brothers lease on the Buckskin
National. Operations will be start
ed as soon as the new road from
Paradise valley is completed, which
will be in about two weeks.
Mr.. Prout has taken a lease on
the property belonging to Forrest
Bell and associates. which adjoins
the Buckskin National on the south.
He will begin work just as soon as
the road is completed. A shaft will
be sunk to catch the Buckskin Ma
tional high-grade vein, which trends
directly into the Prout lease.
Five whims, for the Berry broth
ers' and Prout leases, have arrived
here and will be hauled to Buckskin
as soon as big teams Can get through.
Humboldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
DEPOSIT OF BARITE is DISCOVERED
IN SOUTHEASTERN PART OF ALASKA

An interesting deposit Of barite.
or heavy SPAR was discovered by
Ernest F. Burchard of the geological
survey, while searching for marble
September, 1918. This barite is sit
uated on one of the Castle Islands, in
Duncan canal, a long, narrow bay
three to ten miles west of the well
known Wrangell Narrows, and is, by
navigable waterways, about forty
miles northwest of the town of Wran-
CELL. There is little in the appear
ance of the deposit to suggest that 1t
is other than a cliff of weather beat
en-, fractured limestone, and it is
probable that fishermen have sailed
past it or have anchored their boats
in it's lee for more than a genera
ton, never suspecting that it Is COM
posed wholly of barium sulphate, a
mineral that is very useful but is
much less common than those that
make up the bulk of rock masses. At
any rate, there was no evidence that
the deposit had ever been prospected
prior to the visit of the survey party.
The material must be handled to be
appreciated. ]. is a little softer than
limestone but about one and two
thirds times as heavy.
The rock mass former by the bar
lite stands as a block connected with
onA Of thn islands hv q low Narrow
neck, about 800 feet long, that is
covered by water to a depth of five
to ten feet at high tide. The top
of this barite CUTLER stands about 35
feet above hightide level, and the
mass is possibly at the maximum rs
feet wide and 200 feet long. Ac-
cording to a rough calculation based
on measurements by pacing, there
should be more than 10000 short
tons of barite available above high
of the mass nor it's geologic relations
and structure offer very clear sug-
gestiOns as to its nature or origin,
but it is supposed to represent the
residual portion of a large vein of
barite, extending parallel to the
schistosity of the rock in the ada
cent island. which is composed main
ly of schist.
The barite, where fresh, is for the
most part a finely crystalline, gray
ish-white rock with thin grayish-blue
veins and thin black streaks A lit
tie of the barite is cOarsely crystal
line and white in color, and some
white quartz is present in thin seams
and small segregations. Pyrite is
nearly everywhere disseminated in
fine specks throughout the mass. The
thin black streaks are segregations of
dark minerals, among which are ga
lena, s%phalerite, magentite and
graphite. On weathered surfaces the
material is stained with iron rust re-
sulting from the oxidation of the iron
pyrites. The powdered barite is
grayish white in color and under a
lens shows many particles of metal
lie sulphides.
ASSAYS show percentages of pre-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16

making a steady gain and good pro-
gress in the joint Crown Point-Bel-
cher incline, where the water was
lowered a distance of 25 feet the past
week, and it now stands at a point
40 feet below the 1000 station. The
incline was timbered for five feet;
total distance timbered below the
1900 is 35 feet. The Belcher COM
pany shipped 81 tons of ore to the
mill. and on the S50-foot level. re-
paired the east crosscut to be used as
an airway between the incline and
shaft. On the 15OO-foot level from
the raises and drift, there was saved
81 cars of low grade ore. A section
of south drift No. 1, south of raise
No. l, is being repaired.
The Crown Point company shipped
800 ton of ore to the Yellow Jacket
mill, and sent $40 tons to the glory
hole from the shaft. Concentrates
were also shipped out from the last
run of ore. From the work in the
raise and drift on the 130O-foot level.
there was saved $50 cars of low
grade ore and on the same level, the
northwest drift was extended and
timbered for a distance of nine feet;
total length open, 10 feet. Repairs
were also made to the south drift on
the 1400-foot level.
The Yellow Jacket mill had a very
busy week, treating $40 tons of
Jacket dump rock. and 800 tons of
Crown Point mine ore. A railroad
car of concentrates was also sent to
the smelter. General repairs were
made to the shaft and incline.
The Caledonia company on the
~1200-foot level extended the two
compartment raise from the north
west drift for a distance of II feet
through quartz; total heighth. 81
feet.
The Overman company on the
1200-foot level extended the two
compartment raise from the north
west drift for a distance of IL feet
through quartz; total height, 81
feet.
The Overman company on the
1300-foot level, cleaned out the main
east drift from the shaft station for
a distance of 1910 feet; total length
in good repair $50 feet. There Is
exposed in this DRIFT a quartz vein
fifty feet in width, and same will be
carefully sampled.
On the 200-foot level of the Con-
fidence : Challenge : Imperial shaft,
work has been suspended in the east
crosscut from the south drift at the
59-foot point, where the face is in
old fill. Work has been resumed ad-
vancing the south drift, which is now
out to the S7-foot point in quartz
and Observation-Disclosures.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
PROSPECTOR BRINGS IN
GOLD FROM THE DIGGINGS

Miles Lyons is in Winnemucca
from Copper basin. Mr.. Lyons came
from his placer diggings in one of the
gulches at the head of Copper basin.
He brought with him the evidence of
the richness of his diggings. He Is
flush" with the yellow stuff, carry
ing the finer gold in bottles and the
cOarses gold in the usual poke. Speak
ing of the placer opportunities, Mr..
Lyons says they are great on the
Copper basin and Copper canyon de-
clines. With water for sluicing and
dredging he says many millions of
dollars in gold would be washed from
these gravels. The gold is not sim
ply in channels. but prospects pay
where water Is availablt, over noun
tain sides n plains. In his particu.
lar digings, with water, he states that
he is good for an average of $25 a
day.-HumbOldt Star.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16

cious metals too low to classify the
barite as a metalliferous ore, and
therefore it's commercial value will
depend on the quality and marketa-
bility of the barite itself.
The material contains about 1915
per cent of barium sulphate, or bar
tie, and is therefore nearly 80 per
cent pure. The chief impurity Is sill
lea, which grinds white and is not
especially deleterious. The remain
ing minerals, mainly metallic oxides
and sulphides, aggregate less than AS
per cent, although only about 2.9S
per cent is shown. These are not
high percentages of Objectionable i'm
purity and probably are below those
carried by shipments of raw barite
from many mines.
The barite is not of the highest
grade, particularly for use as pig
ment. and a milling test will be re-
it may be possible commercially to
remove the metallic sulphides and
to bleach the color to a pure white.
Simple laboratory tests show that
washing and flotation tend to whiten
the finely ground grayish-white pow
der. Further treatment with hot di-
lutte sulphuric acid containing small
quantities of sodium chloride and So
dunn nitrate bleaches the powder
nearly as white as precipitated bari
I'm, c,1,hata or 1inn nviIn
These experiments are encouraging
and suggest that with proper me-
chanical manipulation the process
might be made commercially success
full. In the manufacture of lithopone
and salts of barium, where crude ba-
rite is fused with coal, a slightly i'm
pure raw material would apparently
react as well as a purer one, prOvid-
ing the impurities were not them
selves Objectionable. 1t is possible,
suitable also for general chemical
purposes.
To build and operate a barite mill
close by the deposit probably would
not be practicable, but the raw ma
terial can certainly be quarried and
loaded on barges very cheaply and
transported to Puget Sound or to San
Francisco at low freight rates. The
approaches to Castle Islands show,
according to coast and geodetic sur
vey charts, from five to more than
thirty fathoms of water. There is
plenty of timber at hand suitable for
wharves and the island of which the
barite deposits is an CUTLER contains
level space sufficient for a quarry
camp.
According to J.. M. Hill of the sur
vey, the production of crude barite
in the United States in 1913 was As
29S short tons, valued at $3.45 a
ton. The imports of crude barite en-
tered for consumption amounted to
$3.50 short tons, valued at Sill a
ton. OF these imports 80 short tons
were entered at San Francisco, the
only Pacific coast port which received
any barite during 1913.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
WILLOW CREEK COMPANY
LETS WINE CONTRACT

A contract has been let by the Will
low Creek Gold Mining company to
three miners who will undertake to
complete the work in the shortest
possible time consistent with good
mining. The contract calls for the
sinking of the winze, now 81 feet
deep and sunk on the ledge at a point
about 35 feet from the tunnel en-
trance where the first high grade
ore was discovered. The Wine will be
sunk $50 feet deeper to prospect the
rich shoot At the same time a cross
cut will be driven to the north from
the tunnel to another ledge that
shows large on the surface and which
is expected to be found in about 20
or 25 feet.
The heaviest shareholders in the
company recently formed a pool and
purchased another large block of
stock for the purpose of providing
funds for the new development, be-
ing well satisfied with the showing in
the property at present and being
confident that further development
will prove the company holdings to
be of immense value.
The contractors left this week for
the property taking out a large load
of supplies of all kinds and will start
work at once with all the vigor at
their command. The progress of the
work will be inspected from time to
time by the officers of the company.
-EXpOsitOr.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
NUGGET WORTH $4,000
FROM DISASTER PEAK

The largest nugget ever found in
Nevada has been taken from a prop
erty in the Disaster Peak region. 1t
is said that the extract locality is ~
miles from JungO.
This slab of gold is worth $12,-
900. 1t is in a safe at Winnemucca
and few have seen the beautiful
chunk of metal. A piece. however,
as large as a mans fist, was broken
from the slab. 1t contains $40 in
gold. This specimen is now in Reno,
but is not on exhibition.
The gold is rich, running probably
better than SIS to the ounce. The
specimen is like a sandwich with a
layer of reddish porphyritic quartz
on either side and an inch-wide
streak of pure gold in the center
A large number of locations have
been made and the original discovery
is carefully guarded pending the be-
ginning of mining operations.-Ga-
.Zette.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-16
IN ENTRA STATES

The value of the silver, copper,
lead and zinc produced in the Gen.
trail states in 1913, according to the
final figures of j. P. Dunlop, of the
United States geological survey, was
$5S,O45,927. OF this Missouri and
Michigan contributed by far the larg-
est amount, the Missouri production
being valued at 29,6O4,S $50 and that
of Michigan at s~21,235,561. These
figures show a marked decrease COM
pared to 1912, the total for the GEN.
trail states in that year being $79,-
675.S14. . -