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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

Developments during the last week
in the properties of the GOldheld
Consolidated Mines company have
been of a routine but satisfactory
character. Within the next few days
the company will probably issue it's
final report of it's operations and
earnings for the month of April. The
preliminary estimate for last month,
recently made public by A. H. Howe,
secretary and treasurer, reflected the
highly satisfactory conditions pre-
vailing. The mill, according to the
estimate, handled during April 2S,-
215 tons of ore, from which gross
extraction of 1924, 900 was made. The
operating expenses of the company
amounted to $171,OO0, which leaves
net profits of 100000.
Jumbo Extension
1t is expected that by June 1 ar
rangements will have been completed
by the Jumbo Extension Mining COM
pany with the Goldfield Consolidated
Mines company for the treatment OF
it's ore at the mill of the latter. AT
present the Jumbo Extension is ship
ping 80 tons of mill grade ore daily
to it's leased mill at Bonnie Clare,
south of Goldfield, in addition to ap-
proximately 100 tons of shipping or
smelter ore to the Millers plant of
the Western Ore Purchasing COM
ha i'm nf
ore to the Bonnie Glare mill continue
for a much longer period, it will be
necessary for the Jumbo Extension
Reduction company, subsidiary OF
the mining company of the same
name, to install two additional con-
centrating tables By sending it's ore
to the Consolidated mill, the expense
of installing the tables referred TO
will not only be obviated but slight
ly better saving of values will be
made at a small reduction in milling
costs.
Highly pleasing conditions con-
tinue to prevail in the Jumbo Exten-
sion mine and it's adjoining Velvet
claim which was several months ago
acquired upon a lease and bond basis
from the Goldfield Merger Mines COM
pany. The results accomplished in
the exploration of the Velvet claim
by way of the deep workings of the
Poleverda claim are steadily demon
strating that the management made
a judicious investment in acquiring
the additional territory. The raise
above the northeast drift on the $50
foot intermediate level, about thirty
feet from the Poleverda line, has at
tained height of forty feet and stop
ing east has been started on the vein
which is yielding two and half feet
of s24.44 ore. The face of the in
termediate level drift is now more
than lis feet from the Poleverda line
and is exposing an excellent grade OF
ore. For the last ten days work has
not been prosecuted in the face OF the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

normal production of ore of good
grade. Although considerable dead
work. in the shape of pulling 'fill"
from the footwall side of an old stope
above the main south drift on the
2O0-fOot level has been done recent
ly, the mine has thus far this month
shipped ten 5O-ton carloads of ore to
the Millers plant of the Western Ore
Purchasing company. The first three
cars shipped gave returns of from
$2S to $50 a ton. Returns upon the
other seven cars have not yet been
received but the ore is expected to
yield like values. The "fill" from
the stope referred to having been re-
moved, General Superintendent
Harry B. Clapp has resumed the ex-
ploration of the hanging wall streak
of the vein in the same working. The
streak is yielding four feet of ore
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
DEPART FOR NEW
CAMP IN UTAH
FERRY TRAVELLING By
AUTOMOBILE

Within a few hours after obtaining
assay returns upon samples taken
upon his previous visit there a week
ago, NJ. l.. Hewitt, president of the
Hewitt syndicate. departed last night
by automobile for Hewitt City, in
Beaver county, Utah, the scene of
the strike recently made by J. F. Tur-
ner who was grubstaked ny the
syndicate named, which is composed
of twenty local men. Mr.. Hewitt was
accompanied on his return journey
to the new camp by Charles Ferry,
another member of the syndicate.
They left Goldfield about IL O'Clock
last night and are travelling to the
new camp by way of Ely.
Considerable mystery envelops the
pies taken by Mr.. Hewitt upon his
previous visit to the new strike. 1t
is learned, however. that thirteen as
says were made and that the returns
ranged from traces to more than $500
a ton, with an excellent average.
Upon his arrival back in Goldfield
several days ago from the new camp,
Mr.. Hewitt expressed himself as
much pleased with it's surface show
ings and stated that the business
men of Beaver, the nearest town to
the strike, sixteen miles distant, look
with favor upon the advent of Gold
field men into the mining industry of
that section of Utah.
Impressed with the information
that he had gained of the find, Tom
Kendall of Tonopah departed this
morning from Goldfield for the new
camp over the Las Vegas and Tono-
pah railroad. Thomas ID. Murphy,
a we'll known mining man of Gold
field, plans to leave tomorrow for the
new camp by automobile. He will
probably be accompanied by several
other local men.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

Harry Thompson of San Francisco
and associates, who are operating the
Wall and Blaker properties in the
Manhattan district under lease and
bond, have made arrangements for
the installation of a Keystone drill
ing outfit on the ground. The out
fit is now on the way from San Fran
cisco and as soon as it arrives on the
ground it will be utilized in pros
pecting it at depth. The outfit, which
includes a fifteen horsepower engine,
drills an eight-inch hole and is guar
anteed to sink to depth OF 500 feet
at cost of from less than a dollar
to 50 foot, according to the depth
and hardness of the formations pene-
trated. Under ordinary conditions,
the drill will sink fifty feet in the
first days operations.
At present a force Of twenty-four
miners is employed in the develop
ment of the ground, under the super
vision of R. B. McGinnis. Two so
foot shafts have been sent down on
the Wall property and drifts are be-
advanced in four directions from the
bottom of each shaft. On the
Baker property, drifts are being run
in three directions at a depth of so
feet in the shaft. On the surface,
numerous churn drill holes are being
put down to determine the extent of
the ore deposit.
The management of the Dexter
White Caps Mining company is per-
fecting plans for the inauguration Of
development work on company ac-
count. A triplex electric pump has
been installed and the shaft is being
rapidly unwatered. A compl etc me-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
FLORENCE KEEPS
UP PRODUCTION
TEN CARLOADS SHIPPED AL
READY THIS MONTH TO
SAMPLER.

The Florence Goldfield mine is
splendidly maintaining its produc-
ton. which fact constitutes substan-
tial evidence that there has been a
continuance of the improved condi-
tion of the property. Thus far this
month, General superintendent
Harry B. Clapp has shipped to the
Millers' plant of the Western Ore
Purchasing company ten 5O-ton car
loads of ore. Returns received from
the first three carloads shipped
showed the value of the ore to range
from $2S to $36 ton. 1t is expected
that the remainder of the ore shipped
thus far this month will average
about the same.
Operations are again in progress
on the hanging wall streak of the
Florence vein in an old stope above
the main south drift on the 200-foot
level The streak of ore is four feet
wide and yielding values that range
from SIS to $3.50 a ton. In the early
day operations in the mine this hang
ing wall streak of ore was left un-
touched. attention at that time being
devoted to the footwall section of
the vein. which produced a large ton
mage of excellent ore.
The top of the stope on the new
orebody revealed about three months
ago in a branch raise off the main
raise above the main north drift on
the 15O-foot level in the immediate
vicinity of the shaft has reached a
point within fifteen feet of the So
foot level and continues to show up
well, yielding three feet of good ore.
On the 250-foot level crosscutting
east from the main north drift con-
tinues toward the old Won POlenz
lease ground to intercept the down
ward extension of the orebody ex-
plored to depth of 100 feet by les
sees in the early days of the camp.
The main north drift on the $50
foot level is advancing on the re-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
REVIEW Of mining OPERATIONS IN G0LDF|ELD DISTRICT

east drift on the 921-foot level, owing
to operations in the raise started at
point 220 feet from the Poleverda
line. This raise is now up sixty-five
feet on six feet of $13 ore. 1t will
be continued to connect with the
S50-foot intermediate level drift
prior to the Inauguration of Stopping
operations. Work in the face of the
921-foot level drift will be resumed
on June /, according to the manage
ment. In the south drift in the Pole
verda claim from the top of the 81
foot raise above the east crosscut
from the main southeast crosscut on
the 1O17-foot level ten feet of $12
ore is being mined.
Florence GOldfeld
With no changes in the conditions
that have prevailed for some time
past. the Florence mine continues its
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
KEYSTONE Drilling OUTFIT TO Be
INSTALLED ON MANHATTAN CLAIMS

chanical equipment will be installed
on the property with the intention of
resuming sinking operations in the
shaft.
According tC superintendent Steff-
ner, excellent headway continues to
be made in the development work in
the property of the Manhattan Con-
solidated Mining company. The
management is considering increasing
the working force in order to push
development work on ore that has al
ready been exposed. In the face of the
west drift the streak of ore has
widened out from eighteen inches to
four feet, the values ranging from
SIS to $50 a ton.
The Rogers mill recently complet-
ed a run of 100 tons of ore from the
Bath lease on the Merger property.
The ore gave gross values of $22.9O
ton. The lessees are now extracting
ore which assays sac a ton.
On account of shortage of water
from the property of the Manhattan
Big Four Mining company, the War
Eagle mill of the Commercial Mines
and Milling company was closed
down for several days recently. Ar
rangements have been made whereby
an adequate supply is assured in the
future.
Joseph PlOurd, Gus Guyour, Frank
Rupp and George Goldsworthy are
meeting with success in the operation
of lease on the Central City placer
claim. They have reached bedrock at
depth of 55 feet and the gravel
they are handling is said to be worth
$40 yard. They will soon begin
sluicing.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
PUSHING WORK
IN THE ATLANTA
DRIFTING, CROSSCUTTING AND
RAISING ON VEIN ON 1,75O-
FOOT LEVEL.

The exploration of the big vein on
the 1,750-foot level of the property
of the Atlanta Mines company, re-
vealsd some time ago by the long
southwest crosscut from the main or
st. Ives shaft of the Goldfield Mer-
ger Mines company, is being prose-
Cuted upon an extensive scale. Drifts
north and south have been advanced
in each direction a distance of $50
feet from the crosscut in the vein.
The drifts show the vein to be big
and strong but the values are uneven
and too low to permit of the mining
of the ore at profit at present. A
new crosscut has been started to
prospect the vein at the point where
it cuts the shale contact. 1t Is hoped
that the values encountered in this
work will be higher and more even.
A raise has been put up on the vein
a distance of fifty feet and mas ex.
posed large amount of low grade
copper and gold ore. 1t is the inten-
tion of the management to continue
all the workings named.
The company has just received re-
turns from forty-ton carload ship
ment of ore sent to the Consolidated
mill. The consignment yielded fiji
teen tons of concentrates. which
were shipped to the Millers' sampler
of the Western Ore Purchasing COM
pany The concentrates gave returns
of CT per cent copper. IS gold and
2 ounces silver per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

that gives assays of from SIS to $160
several months ago in a branch raise
OFF the main raise above the main
north drift on the 15O-foot level in
the immediate vicinity of the shaft
continues to show up well. The stope
upon it is now less than fifteen feet
below the 50-foot level and in the
top is exposed three feet of good
grade of ore.
Sandstone Kendall
Operations at the Sandstorm-Ken-
dali continue to make excellent head
way with good results. An excellent
grade of ore is being extracted on
the 2OO-fOOt level from the vein on
the contact of the Milltown andesite
and the Sandstone rhyOlite. In ad-
ditiOn to a stope on the OrebOdy,
drifting on the vein on that level con-
tinues both north and south. On both
the 100 and 35O-foOt levels, drifts
are being advanced along the con-
tact for the purpose of intercepting
the new orebody.
keWanaS
Good headway is being made in the
work or advancing the east crosscut
on the 7OO-foot level of the Laguna
shaft of the GOldfield Consolidated
Mines company toward the property
of the ReOrganized Kewanas Mining
company, through which the latter is
to be extensively developed. The
crOsscut is rapidly nearing the Ke-
wanas line and the actual develop
ment of that property will get under
way in the near future. 1t is the in
tention of the management to sink a
deep winZe from the crOsscut from
the Laguna shaft and run crosscuts
and drifts.
GOldfieId Orc
The cutting of station at the So
foot point in the S25-foot shaft of
the GOldfield ORC Mining company
will be completed within the next
week. 1t will be followed by the in
auguratiOn of lateral work in the
shape of drifts north and south in the
big vein that has been disclosed. The
work of cutting the station is show
ing up the vein to excellent advan-
tage and there seems but little doubt
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
CR0SSCUT NEARING
LINE OF KEWAMAS
DEEP WINZE WILL BE SUNK AND
CROSSCUTS AD-
VANCED.

Excellent progress is being made
in the work of advancing the east
crosscut on the 7O0-foot level of the
Laguna shaft of the Goldfield Con-
solidated Mines company toward the
property of the Reorganized Kewanas
Mining company The work has been
in progress for about month and is
preliminary to the exploration of the
Kewanas ground.
The face of the crOsscut is now
seventy-two feet from the Kewanas'
line. When the objective point is
reached, the development of the
ground will be prosecuted by the
sinking of a deep winze and the run
ing OF crosscuts and drifts.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
BLUE BULL CROSSCUT ON
7OO-LEVEL NEARING VEIN

level of the Blue Bull is nearing the
vein in which some values were OBJ
tanned on the 500-foot level. 1t is
expected that it will reach the OBJ
jecting point the next few days. In
the event the vein does not look
promising when intercepted. is the
intention of the management to sink
a winze from the 500-foot level in
order to follow the values down.
Crosscutting is alGo in progress to the
west on the 700-foot level
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
|M|lLARD LEASE
LOOKING GOOD
CROSSCUT ON 1OO-FOOT LEVEL
INTERSECTS FAULT
ZONE.

Operations in the Millard lease on
the property of the Diamondfield
Black Butte heorganized Mining
company in the Diamondfield section
of the Goldfield district are assum-
ing an interesting aspect, according
to Mining Engineer A. E. Curry, who
has spent several days making an in
spection of the property. Mr.. Curry
thinks the prospects for discovery
of ore of Importance in the lease
workings are better at present than
at any time in the past.
Work in the lease is being confined
to the 100-foot level. The northwest
crosscut through the fault zone of the
Quartzite vein has revealed the an
desite contact $50 feet from the
shaft A drift west has been started
along the contact to reach junction
of several stringers of ore indicated
by disclosures made in other work.
ings. 1t is expected thai it will be
necessary to drive about forty feet to
reach the junction of the stringers
When that object is accomplished
drifting east along the contact will
be started to catch the extension Of
the main Quartzite vein. 1t is expect
ed that it will be revealed in the con-
tact of the dacite and andesite along
the fault zone. Superintendent Can
avan of the parent company is lend
ing assistance to Manager Guy Mil
fip,O he ynv.ly In he.
lease
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
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OPERATIONS AT BOOTH

Operations at the Booth at pres
foot level and 560-foot intermediate
level. The vein is being prospected
by occasional cros5cuts to the foot
and hanging walls. The values be-
ing obtained are, on an average, very
low, running around 50 and SO, al
though some streaks of ore give oc-
casional good values.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

Gently revealed downward extension
of the vein explored to depth of
4SO feet in the old Wheeler lease
The drift is exposing three feet of
low grade ore. When the drift has
been advanced an additiona, thirty
feet, raise will be started to con-
meet with fOrty-foot winze sunk
from the 3SO-foot level, from which
an excellent grade of ore was ex-
tracted by the lessees.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23
SANDSTONE MINE IS
SHOWING UP WELL
SHIPMENTS MADE UP OF OhE
FROM 2OO-FOOT
LEVEL.

Shipments being made from the
Sandstorm-Kendall make 1t evident
that the mine is in better condition
at present than it has been for some
time past. The ore is being extract
cd on the 2OO-foot level of the shaft
from the vein on the contact between
Milltown andesite and Sandstorm
rbvolite. Drifting north and south
on the vein is in progress.
A stope is being put up on the
vein on the 2O0-foot level. The con-
tact is being prospected on both the
100 and 350-foot levels in the ex-
pectation of picking up the new ore
shoot on those levels.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-05-23

CONTINUED on Page FourD
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-11-17

had loved him, and he had loved her,
too, so far as it was in his power to
love any one so remote from his own
kind. Natusha had been good wife
to him. But she was squaw. Be-
cause of that fact Benson had been
Stunned, save by few primitive
minded trappers who traversed the
country, and an occasional wander
ing prospector.
At all the camps Benson was an
outcast. He could get whisky to
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-11-17
THE SCRAP OF PAPER

= IS >
BY George M. Cough
Benson lay upon the rocks, staring
at a letter beside him. In front of
him the blue waves rippled in the
sunshine. The air was warm and
balmy. 1t would have been difficult
for any one not acquainted with the
country and the temperature of July
to realize that this was Alaska.
Dear Mr.. Benson" ran the letter.
eve beg to inform you that, in ac-
cordance with the terms of your late
fathers will, all the property except
the limited estate entailed, goes to
your younger brother. You are,
however, Baron Linfeld, and, as
such, are now the owner of Linfeld
Manor. Kindly wire us instructions
as to your plans.
eve wish to add that, inasmuch as
the upkeep of the estate far exceeds
the rent-roll, it would be to your in
terest to sell this to your younger
brother. There is, however, a codicil
to the will, made by your father in
his last illness. Should you decide
to leave the woman with whom you
are living, an annual sum of five
thousand pounds is to be paid you to
enable you to keep up your title re-
specially.
Faithfully yours,
H.. 'Dench & &Dench."
F'The woman with whom he was iv-
ing" Benson saw the words staring
at him out of the typewriter page.
His father had known. He had mar
ried a half-breed.
Natusha had been educated at a
mission school and, save for the jet
black hair and rather high cheek
bones, she might have passed for a
white woman. But in the eyes of his
acquaintances she was a squaw and
he a squaw-man. He had married
her when he was desperately lonely
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-11-17

Natusha Watched Him With Dumb
Aching at Her Heart
drown his memories, it is true; but
he had never touched a drop since
Natusha threw the bottles away. And
his name was a.byword among the
few of his own kind.
A violent revulsion of feeling came
over Benson. He seemed to smell
the Sussex air, to see the beautiful
country of his birth. He had friends,
many, in England. They would for
get his past. They would rally to
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-11-26
lg Fray in
Hunkey Town

Hunkeytown again is in the lime
light. This time it is a cutting
affair. There was christening cele-
bration Sunday night which lasted un-
til A o'clock Monday morning, or
about the hour at which it is alleged
ALEX Kovoic sunk stilletto into the
face of Jim Gelsi. Sheriff Young and
Marshall Gates were summoned by
phone and after a house to house
canvass of the Hunkey settlement fin
ally brought both the cutter and cut
to bay. Neither can speak English.
Thru an interpreter Kovoic entered
plea Of not guilty in Justice Van
Deusen's court later in the day and
was bound over to the grand jury in
the sum of $7OO. Bail was not forth
coming, SO Kovoic now lanquishes in
the county bastile. Gelsi's face is
mending and he is at work again in
the foundry.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-11-26
THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

The first fixed and official day Of
Thanksgiving was held in the year
1865. In the old public records of
the court of Connecticut we find the
following order which the court issued
on October IL, 1865, appointing day
Of general thanksgiving.
"This court doth appoint solemn
day of Thanksgiving to be kept
throughout this colony on the last
Wednesday of November, to return
praise to God for his great mercy to
us in the continuation Of our liberties
and privileges both Civil and Eccle-
siastical, and for our peace and pre-
venting those troubles that we feared
BY foreign enemies and Tor the bless
ings in the fruits of the earth and the
general health of the plantations"
It will be noted that the appointed
day was Wednesday instead of Thurs
day, as we now celebrate.
The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1914-11-26
County Agri-
cultural Agent

In view of the large support which
the county experiment farm PROPOSE
ton received at the recent election,
even where it was lost, and of the ex-
ceptionally unfavorable conditions
affecting the vote on this proposition
at this time, the Agricultural Com
mission has adopted the following
rules to govern counties in which the
services of a county agricultural
agent are desired:
IA County Agricultural Improve
ment Association to be organized Of
not less than three hundred members,
with a branch in each township of
not less than ten members.
2.-This Association to pay one
thousand dollars per annum for three
years towards the salary and expense
of the County Agent, the money for
this purpose OF be provided by bank
able paper to mature quarterly in ad-
vance during the three year period.
3.-On condition of this guaranty
the Agricultural commission and the
College of Agriculture to undertake
to provide the funds necessary to
complete the payment of salary and
expenses of competent agricultural
agent during this period.
AIN case any county shall estab-
lish and equip an experiment farm un-
der the provisions of the county ex-
pertinent farm law, then the county
improvement association of such coun-
ty shall be released from all pay
ments for the support Of the county
agent and any unused funds shall be
refunded to the association.