The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-12-18
{ by Fred H. Mlinerl

showing and has as large a number
of big producers and prospective
mines as any camp ever had at the
same age. The veins are large, the
average values unusually good and
general mining conditions are as fa-
vorable as could be desired. PractI-
,cally all of the properties can be de-
velcped by tunnel to depths ranging
from 500 to 1000 feet on the veins,
and there is no water to be contend
ed with and necessitate expensive
pumping operations.
The gold values associated with
the silver are uniformly becoming
more pronounced with depth, pres
ent development revealing from $40
to $40 a ton in gold associated with
I about similar values in silver.
The big mines of the district in
clude the Rochester Mines company,
Northumberland, Rochester Merger
Mines company. Lincoln Hill M. &
: NJ. company, with the Buck & Char
ley among the smaller producers,
and the Nenzel Crown Point and 9TH
ers giving great mine-making prom
Use.
Rochester Mines, Northumberland
and Lincoln Hill already have their
own mills in operation and it ap-
Hears that from this time forward a
greater rate of progress will be
made thar has been shown in the
past.
The camp is only getting started
on the production OF which it will
be capable when the veins are on
ened to greater extent, and it is al
ready we'll demonstrated hat the
veins and ores will &c to great
depth, the upper workings of the
Rochester Mines company showing
from Is to as much as 26 feet OF
ore by development on the veins TO
a depth of approximately 500 feet,
and the Friedman tunnel exposing
large veins and orebodies of vary
ing value at a depth of 1900 feet
on the veins. The Pitt tunnel of
the Rochester Merger Mines company
is opening some very promising
veins at several hundred feet depth,
and there is every reason for thor
ough confidence that it will be many
years before the bottom has
been reached.
Operations at mine and mill have
been resumed by the Rochester
Mines company after an Interrupt
ton of about three weeks due to
suspension Of ore hauling on the
Nevada Short Line railroad on ac-
count of the loss of two engines IN
a fire, and other troubles that in
t%errupted traffic. After all possi-
BILE storage room at the mine had
been filled with broken ore, Mil
ing was halted, but the congestion
is now being relieved by transport
ing ore to the mill, and normal con-
ditions resumed.
Nine or ten strong lOdes and d
number of smaller veins have been
cut by the Friedman tunnel, which
has now reached the 1500-fOOt
point, where a raise is to be put up
III III company -
tory to connect with the upper work
ings as quickly as possible for
ventilation and to open the way for
bringing the ore from upper Levels
to the surface through the tunnel
and to the railroad at the portal
thereof.
This tunnel starts On and pene-
trates for 1865 feet the original
Rochester group of the Rochester
Merger Mines company before enter
ing Rochester Mines company
ground. Some of the veins cut be-
long to the Merger company and the
others to the Rochester Mines com
pany, and the most prominent of
them will in due time be developed
by drifting from the tunnel. The
Merger company has by far the
most extensive acreage of any cor
poration in the district, owning aud
controlling $50 acres adjoining and
contiguous to the Rochester Mines
company.
A large amount of high-grade ore
has been shipped from the B%oughton
lease. one carload of SO tons aver
aging over $125 per ton, and 9TH
err shipments showing high values.
There is a large tonnage of medium
and high-grade ore still exposed in
these workings. and the company an
ticipates splendid results when the
ore-shoot is reached at the tunnel
level.
The Rochester Belmont or Sun
flower group endlines the original
Rochester on the south and sidelines
for q considerable distance the ROch-
ester Mines company on the west.
Shipments of ore running high i'm
gold and silver have been made, and
extensive development is now under
way on various veins, two of which
chow abOut three feet Of ore each