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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07
COaStline Highway
Now Proposed

A proposition of much interest to
Ashland in injection with her re-
sort prospects was put up to the Cal
ifornia State Highway Commission
recently by Noel E. Graves, surveyor
of Siskiyou county. Regarding his
proposition the Sacramento Bee says:
Graves wants road constructed
from the northern boundary of Hum
boldt county into the Happy Camp
section, connecting with the Valley
trunk line, distance of forty-five
miles. Graves said that Humboldt
county had already agreed to con-
struct ten miles on it's own account.
In the coming legislature a bill will
be introduced for an appropriation
of $4,000 for a survey of this road.
The construction of this road will
give the State Highway system an
outline like the figure 8, with loops
at both ends of the state and Sacra-
mento at the central point
The advantages of such highway
to Ashland would be many. 1t would
connect with the main line of the
Pacific Highway on the Klamath riv-
er at the mouth of the Shasta river
four miles below Hornbrook. 1t
would follow the Klamath river to
Eureka on the coast and there con-
meet with the road now being built
| between that place and San Francis
co. There would thus be practically
two fine paved roads leading into
Ashland from San Francisco and in
tervening points and Ashland would
| fhttu ha h,, Ig
with all the more populous and
scenic sections Of the great state to
the south of us. The California State
Highway Commission is said to have
gone on record as favoring Mr..
Graves proposition and II will un-
doubtedly be put into execution.
Speaking of the Pacific Highway
1t may be mentioned that Contractor
j. W. Sweeney, who recently COM
pleted the Jackson county section OF
the Pacific Highway over the Slski.
yous, has been working his crews
and horses on the Fredenburg-M Mason
contract just over the California line
helping them to get the highway
into Hornbrook completed before bat
weather. He will winter his teams
and outfit at Hilt-having an impor
tant railroad contract in view.
The Fredenburg-Mas outfit wer,
unable to complete their contract ant
Will have about q months work Il
do In the spring before the road 4
open into Hornbrook for vehicles
, though 1t can now be used for saddl,
horses and cattle driving etc. An
Q other thing necessary TO make tn
9 road complete into Hornbrook Is tn
D construction OF an underground road
way at Bailey Hill crosslng-sam
' not being part Of the Fredenburg
Mason contract.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07
Chief Porter
Makes Report

This department has been put un-
der regular police rules and regula-
tlons. observed by the larger cities
of the coast Each officer is in
structed as to his duties and per-
forms them as outlined for him and
asks no questions. By so doing, the
duties OF one officer do not conflict
with those of any other officer.
All matters pertaining to police
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

The above list does not include the
names OF number OF former citizens
who died elsewhere and were brought
here for burial. Neither does Il in
clude the names OF Milton M. Austin
who was killed by train on the Sis
kiyous, Winfred Long who was acei-
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07
POStOffice Receipts
Increased for 1914

The local postoffice reports re-
ceipts for the year 1914 of $15,70O-
same being an increase OF six to
seven per cent over the previous
year. 1t is also reported that the
parcel post business has very extern
sively increased. Little damage to
parcels handled is reported. The
government has allowed additional
help in the way of special delivery
thus reducing the labor OF the car
riers materially-they having moth
ing but the smaller parcels to deliver.
This assistance is given on account
of the heavy parcel post business
The system is proving a great sue
, cess.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

Not a property in Ashland but thar
can be sold by Tidings For Sale
ads in less time and at less cost than
through the regular agent channels
Try it.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

You have something you do no,
need. Somebody else needs 1t and
has what you want. Twenty-Five
cents puts your proposition before
two thousand people through the
For Trade" column of the Tidings.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

Hercules stump puller, a bargain; !;
work and driving harness, bargains.
115 Granite street. II
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

Phone No. 80 when In need OF Job
printing. Work and prices are right.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07
SixtV-tW0 Deaths
During Past Year

Below we give in chronological
order the deaths that have occurred
in Ashland and vicinity from natural
causes during the past twelve
Months.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

dentally shot at Ray Gold nor Arthur
S. Hubbard who was slain while act
ing in his capacity of game warden.
The total number of natural
deaths recorded above is sixty-two.
The ages, of all except the four ba-
bles, are approXimate-bein given
in even years at the nearest birthday.
Some were few months older and
some a few months younger. The
total of the ages is 1892 and the
average age of the sixty-two persons
is therefore fifty years and six
months.
This death roll of sixty-two in
twelve months is drawn from a popu-
lation of between seven and eight
thousand in and about Ashland and
the death rate is therefore consider
ably less than one per cent-a very
creditable showing indeed for the
healthfulness of Ashland.
OF the list of sixty-two-five were
eighty or over, sixteen were seventy
or over, thirty-one were sixty or over,
thirty-seven were fifty or over, forty
two were past forty, forty-nine were
above thirty. Only four were in the
twenties, only nine below twenty and
but six were children.
There were 172 deaths and 25S
births recorded in Jackson county
during 1914, according to County
Health Officer II. u. Golden. Eighty
two cases of contagious diseases were
reported, with one death from this
source. OF the above total fifty-five
were measles, te? chickenpox, nine
smallpox-eight of them transient,
six typhoid, two diptheria. The
death in this branch was from ty-
phoid fever.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

Shoes are higher today in cost of
production than ever before. The
demand for Leather suitable for the
making is greater than the supply.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

There is every good reason why you
should take advantage. of this big
reduction in Footwear and at such
an opportune time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-01-07

Also Carry A Sharp Cut Under Our
Already Close Prices. There are no
better shoes made than the specially
lines we carry for children. Quality
is the watchword and quality COM
bined with first class workmanship
builds our shoes that stand the knocks
and skuffs of busy little feet
~, 40 ~ ~, ~,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
XMAS GIFTS TO
Be DISTRIBUTED
TEN CENT DIVIDEND DECLARED
BY JUMBO EXTENSION
COMPANY

The stockholders of the Jumbo
Extension Mining company will re-
ceive Christmas gifts from the cor
poraticn in the form of checks for
dividend, No. 5, of ten cents per
share, which was declared by the Iii.
rectors at q meeting Thursday. Tho
gifts" will be distributed to stock.
holders of record on November 20
Although not really payable unit
December 31- it is the intention OK
the management to have the checks
in the hands of the stockholders by
December 20. The dividend, when
paid, will bring the total distribu-
tion of profits among stockholders up
to total of $493,365.S0, of which
sum $39G,250 will have been paid
since the Charles s. Sprague inter-
ests gained control of the company
in December of 1913. The coming
distribution of profits will amount to
$155,OOO and will leave surplus of
100000 in the treasury. 1t is the
policy of the management to at all
times maintain such a surplus.
or equal Importance to the de-
'aration of the latest dividend is the
recent discovery of values in alaskite
or altered granite on the loot
level of the mine at a point an.
proximately $50 feet from the Pole
verda or No. l shaft, an announce
ment of which has just been made.
In the extension of southeast
crosscut tongue" or intrusion e
alaskite, measuring about ten feet
in width. of which six feet gives val
ues of $265 per ton. all gold,
revealed in the shale. The porto
of the tongue of alaskite that c"
res the values is impregnated with
particles of quartz showing sui
phides So far as known, the find
constitutes the first revelation of
values in the alaskite in the district.
and it is fraught with great possibili-
ties, although the values are small.
Particular significance attaches to
the discovery in view of the fact
Continued on Page Eight
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
EXPLORING FIND
IN BLACK BUTTE
CROSSCUT STARTED TO DETER
NINE FULL WIDTH OF
SHOOT

A north crOsscut toward the foot
wall from the southwest drift on the
110-foot level of the lease of How
ard Marine and associates on the
property of the -Diamondfield Black
Butte Reorganized Mining company,
in the Diamondfield section of the
Goldfield district, to determine the
width of the vein is showing up in
splendid shape the ore body recent
ly revealed. Thus far the new
crosscut has been extended about
four feet, exposing the same excel
lent grade of ore that was disclosed
by the extension of the drift itself,
which is following the hanging wal
of the vein, lying quite flat. An
sssay made upon a sample from the
crosscut gave a return of $145.1O,
mostly gold. Picked samples show
rusty gold and tellurium.
The best portion of the shoot or
ore, as exposed in the extension of
the drift, proved to be approximate
ly 40 feet in length. It's width re-
mains yet to be determined. The
drift has now passed beyond the
shoot and the face is exposing silici-
led dacite carrying mill values. AS
soon as the width of the shoot is
shown by the new crosscut, the les
sees will start raise and winze in
it in the immediate vicinity.
The lessor company management
is making preparations to bale the
80 feet of water that stands in the
shaft below the 10 foot level. Upon
the completion of this work, the
routh drift on the bottom or 1856
foot level of the shaft, known as
with a view to picking uD the down
ward extension of the Marine ore
bodv. On the surface near the
shaft a concrete foundation for an
air compressor is being built.
compressor has been ordered and
will arrive on the ground in the near
future. Three jackhammer drills
have already been obtained and p
soon as the compressor is installed
thew will he placed in commission to
xpedite operations.
On the Quartzite claim of the
nrcrertv. approximately 1900 feet
no-tbeasterlv from the Marine lease,
AL McCov is operating a lease
'hrough the main company shaft.
On the 15o-foot level he is drifting
northeast on foot and half vein
s-om which. hv sorting. he Is OBJ
toiri~e an avoallant grade of ore
He has accumulated about four tons
of ore that 1t is estimated will aver
age better than 5000 per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
RICH STREAKS OF
ORE IN ATLANTA
CONDITIONS PREVAILING n
THE PROPERTY ARE HIGH
LY PROMISING

Operations at the property of the
Atlanta Mines company are going
steadily ahead under the guiding
hand of General Manager A. !:
Darcy" Although no sensational
developments have occurred of late
results of gratifying character are
being obtained and the outlook for
the property is highly promising.
A small streak of excellent ore is
being followed in the extensioh OF
north drift 1925 on the 156O-root
intermediate level. 1t is varying in
width from two to six inches and as,
saying around 500 per ton, of which
$50 is gold, the remainder being
COPPER and silver values.
From the south drift 1924 Oh tire
same intermediate level raising Is
in progress with the 1400-foOt point
as the objective level from which a
drift on the vein will be extended
to the south approximately so feet
to make connection with the cas-,
crosscut into Atlanta territory from
the Grizzly Bear miEe of the Gold
field Consolidated Mines company
In this raise there is streak of ore
giving unifirm values if $40 a ton,
that varies in width from two
inches to a foot and half.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
GOOD SHOWING IN
WILLIAMS MINE
PROPERTY AT EASTGATE HAS
EXCELLENT ORE TONNAGE
IN SIGHT

G.. B. Williams and H. P. Cirac
;came in this week from Eastgate and
report considerable activity in the
east end of Churchill. Mr.. Cirac says
G. B. Williams is working men oh
tn NorthrIl at Eastgate and that
the have a four and a half foot vera
in the winze. He says there is ore
enough in sight to pay for putting
up a mill and developing the prop
erty. This, he says. VIII make
mine.
Mr. Cirac further says that Cold
Springs is looking fine ALI of the
leasers have combined in running a
tunnel to tap the main ledge at a
depth of about 80 feet. They ara.
running three shifts and are in 1lG
feet and making 10 feet day.
George Gritten is opening up 4
Kew property at Eastgate and is ma
king a splendid showing.
L. M. Abel was in town this week
from Florence canyon where he has
lust signed a lease on the Florence.
owned by Erb and Gaff. He has
taken w. G.. Sheckler in with him
on the lease ahd they left yesterday
for the property to push develop
ment work.-Fallon Eagle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
review Of mining OPERATIONS IN GOLDF|ELD DISTRICT

vanced by Consulting Engineer j..
K. Turner of the Jumbo Extension
company, as we'll as subsequently
by F. l.. Ransome, the noted geolo-
gist connected with the United
States geological survey, that the
alaskite is worthy of exploration.
Insofar as the production of ship
ping ore is concerned, developments
in the mine of late have been of tho
usual routine, yet highly gratifying,
character The property is easily
maintaining it's daily rate Of produc-
tion of eighty tons Of ore that av-
erages around $45 per ton.
Black Butte
Highly pleasing results continue
to attend the exploration of the ore
body recently disclosed in the ex-
tension of the southwest drift on
the 10 foot level of the Marine
lease on the property of the Dia-
mondfield Black Butte Reorganized
Mining company in the Diamondfield
section of the Goldfield district.
From the drift, which follows the
hanging wall, a north crosscut was
recently started toward the footwall
to determine the width of the shoot.
The iirit round of shots broke four
feet of ground and exposed more ore
of an excellent grade without reveal
ing the foot wall. After the width
of the ore has been determined. a
raise and winze will be started in
TIE shoot. The company. in assist
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

The declaration of dividend No.
5 amounting to ten cents a share,
by the directors of the Jumbo Exten-
sion Mining company, constitutes
the most important local mining
event of late. Stockholders of rec
ord on November 20 will share in
the distribution. Although Decem-
Der 81 has been designated by the
directors as the date of payment.
checks for the dividend, totaling
$155,OOO, will, it is officially an
nounced, be placed in the mails suf-
ficiently early to permit of their
receipt by the lucky stockholders OH
December 20, which will afford re-
cipients ample time to use the
money in purchasing Christmas
gifts.
The payment of dividend No. 5
will be the fourth distribution of
profits to stockholders since the
control of the company was acquired
by the Charles S. Sprague interess'
in December of 1918. Prior to those
interests taking the helm, the COM
pany .one of the first mining cor
porations of Goldfield to be organ
led, enc dividend was distributed
amounting to $97,115.S0. 1t was
paid in July of 1911 and was made
possible through the sale of the
Vinegarone fraction to the Goldfield
Consolidated Mines company. The
four Sprague dividends, including
the one just declared, will aggregate
$336,250, making the total distribu-
ton $493,365.S0. These figures
make unnecessary any comment
upon the efficiency and success of
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16
WORK RESUMED
ON SPEARHEAO
WILL CONTINUE SHALE SHAFT
DOWN TO LATTE SHALE
CONTACT

In accordance with decision
reached Monday afternoon at spe-
cial meeting of the stockholders, the
Spearhead Gold Mining company re-
sumed operations on company &C
count on Tuesday after period
inactivity OF about eight years. The
plans for the future call for the de-
velopment of the property upon a
more extensive and comprehensive
scale than ever attempted by the
company in the early days of the dis
trict or subsequent operations by
various lessees. H. F. Bruce, local
mining engineer, has been placed in
charge of the property as general SUI
perintendent and will push opera.
tions with all possible vigor.
After it has been unwatered and
the necessary repairs made, which
work will consume about ten days,
the shaft sunk last winter and early
spring by the Goldfield Shale Mining
company, operating under a lease,
from the 200 to the 250-foot poinl
will be continued down to the $50
foot point, at which depth it is ex-
pected that the famous latite-shale
contact will be revealed. The shaft
is located near the south end line of
the Spearhead claim near the cen
ter of the property, consisting of two
claims, in all directions. 1t is
equipped with a GO h. p. gasoline
hoist and it is the intention of the
company to install as soon as possi-
BILE an air compressor and machine
drills to expedite operations.
AS soon as the preparatory work
is completed. two shifts of miners
will be employed. 1t is calculated
that the shaft will cut at a depth OF
about $50 feet the Wheeler or mail
vein of the property, which crops
boldly to the surface. In the old
Wheeler lease operations the vein,
which has width of about fifteen
feet and dips slightly to the east,
yielded a considerable tonnage of
good grade ore, and there is every
reason to believe that it's exploration
at depth vill be attended by pleas
ing results: AS there is only about
100 feet of water in the shaft at
present, it is not considered likely
that a pump to handle the flow will
lie needed. However, if the water
cannot be easily handled with bal
er, a pump will be installed.
At the stockholders meeting Mon
dav, ]. P. Sweeney resigned as a di-
rector and vice president of the COM
pany and Henning Berg of San Fran
cieco was elected his successor IT
F. Bruce was also elected director,
filling the vacancy caused by the
resignation of George Wingfield
about a year ago.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

extension of the east drift immedi-
ately below it on the 214-foot inter-
mediate level. On the same level,
however "a west drift, now out 80
feet, is being advanced on from
four to six feet of ore averaging $50
per ton. 1t will be seen by the
figures given that the shoot of ore
has already been proven on the 214
foot level for better than 80 feet,
the approximate distance between
the faces of the drifts.
From the bottom of the winze or
on the 240-foot intermediate level
an east drift has been advanced 27
feet. For the first five feet this
drift, hugging the footwall of the
vein, was broken for a width of five
feet, the yield averaging SIS per
ton, according to assays made. An
drift being widened out to eight
feet, running $32 per ton. After
the drift had been extended about
% feet on this grade of ore, a
swell in the foot wall of the vein
decreased the width of the ore body
to about foot and half. with val
ues of $40 per ton. The extension
Of this drift has been suspended un-
til the proposed new working shaft
is provided. At that time drifting
to the west from the bottom of the
winze will be started
On the bottom or G4-foot level of
another shaft, known as vertical
shaft No. 3, $50 feet north of the
main incline shaft, and the workings
of which are connected with those
of the latter. drifting north is in
progress on an ore body that is be-
ing broken for a width of eleven
feet, the yield ranging in value
from ST to $23 per ton, with a
two-foot hanging wall streak that
assays alone $50 per ton This ore
body was disclosed as feet from the
shaft in the drift. which has at pres
ont length of 140 feet. A stope in
this ore body is being extended both
north and south. The south face
shows eleven feet of SIT to $23
ore. and the north four feet of
nuartz that assays $2G per ton.
Lessee Dunfee is certain that this
ore body, despite the fact that it
trends north and south. is the fault
ed upper portion of the vein which
he has developed on the PA and
24O-foot intermediate levels of the
main working shaft. running east
and west. The yield of the stope
above the north drift on the bottom
or G4-foot level of shaft No 3 and
that from the west drift on the 214-
foot intermediate level of the in
cline main shaft are mixed and
"hinped. thus giving a product rang
ing from $50 to better than $35 per
ton
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

the present management in the op-
Grafton of the mine.
BY far one of the most far-reach-
ing and significant discoveries
recorded in the entire history of
the camp has recently been made on
the 1917 foot level of the mine
through the disclosure of values in
the alaskite or altered granite. which
formation constitutes the floor of
the district. Announcement of the
discovery has just been made. 1t is
officially learned that. at point
about $50 feet southeast of the Pol
everda or No. 1 shaft on the lever
named and removed several hundred
feet from the nearest ore body in
the shale or along or near the Ia
tite-shale contact, tongue or in
trusion of alaskite carrying values
has been revealed in the extension
of a crosscut The tongue of alas
ite, cutting the shale, measures about
ten feet in width and six feet OF It
gives values of $2.65 per ton, all
gold. Though the value of the con-
tents is seemingly insignificant when
mining c,stss are considered, the
discovery reveals possibilities that
can only - conjectured. At no
other point in the district have con-
ditions similar to those attending
the Jumbo Extension discovery been
found, and for that reason, If for NJ
other, unusual significance attaches
to it. 1t bears out the theory ad-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-16

ing the lessees in the development
of the Gre body, will soon resume the
eS ension OF the southwest drift "n
the bottom or 1876 foot level to
catch the downward extension.
GOldfield Merger
Good headway is being made III
the extension of the northeast cross
cut recently started from the east
drift on the 1177 foot intermediate
level of the t. Ives claim of tie
Goldfield Merger Mines company 10
intercept the downward continual
tions of the ore bodies of the Jumbo
Extension mine. 1t is estimated by
Manager Willis Lawrence that IL
will be necessary to drive the cross
cut approximately $50 feet to reach
the objective point.
Spearhead
After being inactive for about
eight years, the Spearhead Gold
Mining company has resumed the
development of it's ground adjoin-
ing the Jumbo Extension and Mer-
ger properties. The resumption OF
operations followed a special meet
ing of the stockholders. The COM
pany will concentrate its efforts at
the 25O-foot shaft on that portion
of the property operated for a time
last winter and spring by the Gold
field Shale Mining company under
lease. There is about 100 feet
of water in the shaft. AS soon as it
is baled out the shaft will be con-
tinued down to the latite-shale con-
tact. estimated to lie at depth of
$50 feet 1t is expected that the
shaft will cut at about the 55O-fo 1t
Continued on Page Eight