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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
SHIPMENT BY ATLANTA

Continued from Page One,
the following proportions: Gold,
.SS ounces; silver, 14.S ounces; cop
per, 14.1 per cent. After the drift
had been advanced eight feet farth-
er, the three-foot sreak was again
sampled Thursday morning and gave
a return of $4O.S5, in the following
proportions: Gold, ~ ounces; sill
yer, Z ounces; copper, lis per cent.
The Wine being sunk on the vein
just off the main southwest crosscut
is now down approximately fifteen
feet and is yielding values of $12.25,
according to assays on car samples
of ore as extracted. Rock carrying
values of SIS per ton is being brok-
en- down from the roo of the pros
pect, which is now up sixty feet
above the north drift from the branch
west crosscut.
In company with General Super
%intendent Arthur Lawry of the Mon
tna-TOnopah Mining company and
General Manager A. l. Darcy of the
Atlanta, SudIlcS T.. huOA VI b0Tk0-
ley, Cal, vice president of the At
lanta company, yesterday made a
visit of inspection to the Atlanta
workings. Speaking of his observa-
tions, Mr.. Knox said:
This is my first visit of inspec-
ton to the Atlanta in a long period,
and it is not possible for me to
make much of a report by way of
comparing results accomplished. I
am free to state, however, that the
conditions prevailing in the mine
are much better than l had expected
to find. And, I might add, in conse-
quence of reports l have received, /
was prepared to find the property in
a promising state of development.
| might further add that l am deep
ly impressed with the showings in
the mine and I'm convinced that ii
has a great future.
"Goldfield has certainly improved
wonderfully in the last few months,
and there is every reason to believe
that the present developments in the
various mines and the general re-
vival of activity will prove OF al en-
during character. The district has
come back of this there is no
doubt"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
JUMBO Elk. ORE AVERAGING

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are at present being made at odd
times in the main working shaft be-
tween the 500 and 1000 foot points.
Excellent Roadway is being made
in the preparations incident to the
enlargement of the old Original Vel
vet lease shaft, sunk to a depth of
400 feet in the early days of the
camp, from two to three compart-
ment size and it's continuation to
the 1017-foot level to permit of the
more aggressive development of the
northeastern section of the Velvet
claim and to provide additional
hosting facilities. Orders for a rs
horsepower double-drum electric
hoist and an eight-drill air compress
O for the shaft have been placed,
respectively. in Denver, Colo, and
San Francisco, Cal, and it is eX-
pected that they will be delivered on
the ground within the next fifteen
days.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
TUNGSTEN ORES IN 1914

The production of tungsten ores
in the United States during 1914 is
estimated as equivalent to about go
short tons carrying 60 per cent of
tungsten trioxide, according to pre-
urinary figures collected by Frank
l.. Hess of the United States geo.
logical survey. which are thought to
ne accurate within 5 per cent. This
output is the smallest since 1908,
when only GIL tons was produced.
IN 1913 the production was 1887
-ons. of which $50 ions was ferber-
re from the Boulder field in Colora-
10. a quantity almost equal to that
# the whole country in 1914.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
SAMPLER TO REOPEN

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account of the heavy expense of OPP
Grafton. The arrangement of the
plant at that time required that ore
be unloaded and reloaded by hand,
in which work a force of about twen-
ty men was required.
Upon the decision OF the company
to reopen it, made early in Deem
Der. the company began the work of
remodeling. the purpose being to
make it entirely automatic, under
which arrangement a force of only
three men will be required. On the
north side of the structure a fifty
ton receiving bin has been built be-
meath the unloading railroad track.
When the plant is again in operation
the ores will be dropped into this bin
and conveyed therefrom to the
crusher inside the building. From
the crusher the ores will be raised
seventy feet by a bucket elevator,
automatically sampled and deposit
ed into a fifty-ton bin in the top Of
the structure, from which they will
run through a chute into cars on
the "out-loading" track on the south
side of the plant.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
OUTPUT OF ARSENIC IN 1914

According to preliminary figures
collected by F. L. Hess of the Unit
ed States geological survey, white
arsenic or arsenious oxide, common
ly known as arsenic" was produc-
ed in the United States during 1914
only as a by-product in the smelling
of lead, copper. gold and silver, but
the output was the largest ever
made in this country, amounting to
4,227 short tons, valued at $751;
26S. This is an increase of more
than two-thirds over the output of
1918, which was 2,513 tons, valued
at $159,236, and more than a third
greater thon the largest previous
output, that of 1912, which was g.
141 short tons, valued at $190,757.
No direct production of white ar
senic-that is. no production from
arsenic minerals treated primarily
for their arsenic content = has TAX
en- place in this country for a num-
Der of years, because the arsenic saw
ed at the smelters and the imported
material have been so plentiful and
so cheap that such a production has
been impracticable.
The chief uses of arsenic are in
gloss making and insectides and for
killing weeds along railroad tracks.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
TALMAGE COMPANY TO SINK
SHAFT TO REATER DEPTH

Manager C. W. Hayes of the Tai
mage Gold Mines com pany an-
nounces that sinking will soon be re-
sumed in the main shaft Oh The prop
erty, now down 81" feet. nrh a
depth of 400 feet as the objective
point. In cleaning out the sup OF
the shaft below the .;lD-fcos level,
the miners recently revealed a two
foot vein of Sc ore a. his contact OF
the latite-shale and alasilite.
On the 200-foo. level, the south
drift from the west "rosSclt is cv-
posing four feet of ore values rang
ing from $40 to $35 per ton. On the
310-fOot level, prosecuting east
continues to catch the downward x
tension of a big vein which Ou.crups
on the surface.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
CEMENT
SHOWS FALLING OFF

The Portland cement manufac-
Appropriated SS,514,0O0 barrels,
compared with 9~2,O97,131 barrels
in 1918, a decrease of about $685.
coo barrels, or nearly 4 per cent.
These preliminary figures are given
out by the United States geological
survey and are based OF returns re-
ceived by E. F. Burchard from all
parts of the operating mills in the
United States except one, for which
an estimate has been made. The
estimated shipments of Portland
nement during 1914, were 'S6,715,-
900 barrels, compared with $685.
377 barrels in 1918, a decrease OF
about 1,975,000 barrels. or 2.2 per
cent. On account of the surplus OF
production over shipments stocks OF
cement at the mills apparently in
creased more than IA per cent, or
from 11,22O,32S barrels in 1913 to
12,S1S,0O0 barrels at the close Of
1914. The estimates furnished by
some producers undoubtedly includ-
ed more or less u%ngrOund clinker,
but it is believed that the figures
for production and shipments, if not
for stocks. are close to those that
will be shown later by exact reports
from the producers.
The Lehigh district of eastern
Pennsylvania and western New Jer--
sey produces nor cement than
any other section of the United
States = about % per cent of the
total production. This district
showed decrease of more than 9
per cent in both production and
shipments of Portland cement. The
Illinois and northwestern Indiana
district. which is next in Importance,
with an annual output of more
than 1900, 600 barrels, showed a
slight decrease, and the Panific
coast district washington and Cal
ifornia). which is third in import
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
RECEIVER MUST FILE
ITEMIZED STATEMENT

At the opening of the State bank
case this morning before Judge Ian
gan, Attorney General Thatcher con
tended that no report had ever been
filed by the receiver and no inventory
filed; that utnil such reports and in
ventory be filed it was impossible to
determine whether the receiver was
entitled to any compensation at all or
to approve or confirm any of his re
ports. This objection was argued,
Mr.. Green strenuously %contending
that the reports did not have to be
itemized and no inventory was nee
essary.
Judge Langan took the matter un-
der advisement during the noon re-
cess and just before the appeal goes
to press upheld the contention OF
the attorney general and ordered Mr.
Wildes to file complete itemized
reports from February, 1910, to
date, and to file a complete inven-
tory of all property which he took
charge of as receiver. Judge Ian
gan also refused to hear the appli-
cation for receivers fees and attor-
ney's fees until the reports had been
presented and approved and the mat
tiers were therefore continued until
February 10.-AppeaI.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
IRON ORE PRODUCTION
SHOWS SHARP DECLINE

The quantity of iron ore mined in
the United States in 1911 is estiinat-
ed as between 1000. 900 and AZ
100000 long tons, and The quantity
shipped to receiving ports and blast
furnaces between 39,50O,GOO and
Al ,0O0, 900 long tons. These figures
are given out by the geological sur
vey and are derived from data Ie-
ceived by f. F. Burchard from fifty
two of the important iron raining
companies, which represent the prin-
cipal iron producing districts and
whose combined output in 1913 was
more than 80 per cen o. the total
tonnage of iron ore mined in that
year, estimates having been made
for the output of other companies.
In 1913 there were CT ,9SO.437 long
tons mined and 59,643,09S long
tons shipped. The 1914 qcantity
of ore mined and shipped of about
33 per cent from the tonnage of
1913.
The Lake Superior district is esti-
mated to have shown q decrease IN
production of about g. per cent and
a total production of about 32,915,-
900 long tOns in 1914 compared Mith
52,51S,15S long tons ninel in 1913.
The shipments of ore from this dis
trict apparently decreased about "a
per cent and accordingly they should
approximate 32,79O,00O long tons j..
1914 compared with 50,16S,134 iuna
tons in 1918.
Stocks of iron ore at the mines
apparently increased more than 500
900 Ons during 1914, so hat the to,
tai stocks at the close of 1871 ! should
range between 13,400, 900 and 49,,
100000 long IONS compared with -,
S19,633 long tons at the close OF
1918.
Iron ore prices generally Were 3t
to rs cents a ton lower than in 1918
about the same as those of 191:
and 1905. The depression in the
iron industry trade, which depends
largely on transportation of ore from
the Lake Scperior district. Durins
the latter part of the autumn, man!
iron mines were closed or running
on half time.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
GOOD RESULTS OBTAINED

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from the line of the Combination
mine of the Goldfield Consolidated
Mines company, has attained a height
of sixty feet. The roof is exposing
two and a half feet of $22 ore, ac-
cording to an assay of a grab sam
pie.
Raise C, above the same drift. at
a point forty feet north of raise B,
is now up more than fifty-five feet.
1t is yielding a foot and a half Of
ore which carries values of 1882.
The north drift along the hanging
wall of the main vein from the west
crosscut is exposing quortz that as
says from S. to IS per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16

The value of the mineral output of
fred III. Brooks of the U. s. geologi-
cal curvey, at $19,24S,OO compar-
ed with $19,416,000 for 1913. The
preliminary figures Oh gold output
for 1914 show a value of $1s,JOO,-
900; in 1913 the value was 49,
626,S13. Silver to the value of
about $4,000 was produced in
1914, compared with $21S.9SS in
1913. Though the low price of cop
per since midsummer greatly r
tailed the output of that metal, about
~2U,S5O,00O pounds, valued at about
$2,S72,000, was produced in 1914,
against 21,659,95S pounds, valued
at $~3,357,293, in 1913. The output
of the other minerals, including tin,
marble, gypsum, quicksilver, coal
and petroleum, in 1914 had a value
of about 1886, 900, compared with
$272,242 for 1913.
Had it not been for the depres-
sion in the copper market the value
VI AldShd . LuluOIdl pIOuu1I "ouiu
have been considerably greater in
1914 than in 1918. The gold-min-
ing industry of the territory as a
whole was prosperous during the
year, as is made directly evident by
the figures on output, but a more
important item of progress is the ex-
tensive dead work accomplished on
large plants that have not yet reach
ed a productive stage. No progress
vas made in coal mining, there be-
ing in 1914 only one small produc-
tive mine in the territory, and that
in one of the Ignite fields. 1t Is
expected that the new law providing
for leasing of coal land in Alaska
will lead to the exploitation OF the
fields containing high-grade coal.
The tin, gypsum and marble indus
tries of Alaska had a successful year.
The certainty of railway construc-
ton with the Yukon basin has great
ly stimulated both prospecting and
mining development. There a a
noticeable increase in investigation
of large mining enterprises in 1914
compared with previous years. This
due solely to the expectation of
cheaper transportation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
DRIFTS ARE STARTED ON
FIND IN DAISY LEASE

East and west drifts have been
started on the new vein recently ex-
posed by the south crosscut on the
265-foot level of the lease of the JUS
tice Gold Mining company on the
property of the Goldfield Daisy Min
ing company, which includes the
main working shaft of the latter
company. The west drift is exposing
a foot and a half of $40 ore and four
feet in the face OF the east drift
gives values of $40 per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
COAL MINED IN MICHIGAN

Reports from Michigan to f. w
dictate that the production OF coal in
1914 was about the same as in 1913
when it amounted to 1,231,7S6 short
tons. The manufacturing industries
contiguous to the Michigan mine
have been using about the same
quantity of coal as in 1913 and the
domestic trade which furnishes the
market for the lump coal has beer
about the same as for previous years.
There have been NO strikes. and lab
or and transportation facilities have
been unusually good.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
Mystery Partly Cleared.

Investigation of the death of the
man found murdered near Elko re-
Gently has brought to light the fact
that he was a ranch hand and that
his name was Mac Park. He had
been employed by Sam Prentiss and
Charles Clubine near Osino for the
last two months. These two men
positively identified the corpse. 1t is
believed that the unfortunate man
was lured to his death by one whose
motive was robbery.
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MINING REVIEW
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
Shaft No. 2, sunk to a depth of forty
feet in the early days of the claim,
has been enlarged from two to three
compartment size and it will be sent
down to the latite-shale contact, es-
timated to lie at a depth Of 700 feet.
A large electric hoist will be placed
on this shaft as soon as required.
Operations at the Michigan shaft will
be confined for the present to lateral
work on the bottom or 25O-foot lev
ell, to which it was sunk several years
ago.
Reorganized Kewanas
The vertical winze being sunk be-
low the 700-foot level of the prop
erty of the Reorganized Kewanas
Mining company will probably reveal
the latite-shale contact, the objective
point, within the next ten days or
two weeks. 1t has passed the 49,
contact will be exposed within an ad-
ditional thirty-five feet.
Other Properties.
The Goldfield Shale Mining com
pany, operating a lease on the Spear
head, is rapidly getting in shape to
continue to the latite-shale contact
the old Maloney shaft, sunk to a
depth of 215 feet in the early days
of the camp. No extraordinary de-
velopments occurred during the week
at the Silver Pick Consolidated,
Blue Bull, Sandstorm-Kendall, Orc
or Florence.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
.ALASKA'S MINERAL OUTPUT FOR 1914
IS VALUED AT NEARLY 100000 900

The data already in hand indicate
that the value of the placer gold pro-
duction in 1914 was about $1O,7OO,-
900, or practically the same as that
of 1913, which was $10,6S0,000.'
About A gold dredges were operat-
ed in Alaska for the whole or part
of the open season of 1914. Prelim-
mary estimates indicate that these
dredges produced gold worth De-
tween $2,05O,000 and $4,000, 600.
About 26 gold lode mines were OPP
Grated in Alaska in 1914 and pro-
duced gold to the value of about
$4,000.
The developments made up to mid
summer gave promise that 1914
would be the most profitable year in
the history of Alaska copper mining,
but the financial %stringency and col
lapse of the copper market that fol-
lowed the breaking out of the Euro
pean war closed down some or the
producing mines and put a stop to
some very important developments.
Up to about the first of August sew
en- D p mines were in operation,
but at the close of the year only
four we're still working. Had it
not been for the war at least nine
copper mines would have been ready
to ship ore before the end OF the
year.
The total production of Alaska
tin mines since the industry started
in 1902 is about $50 tons of metal
lie tin, valued at $4,000. In
1914 most of the tin was obtained
from the York district, where both
placer and lode tin mining were
carried on, and a little from the
placers of the Hot Springs district
of Tanana valley.
Mining began in Alaska in 1880,
and since that time the territory
has produced mineral wealth to the
value of 1868, OOO, 900. Of this
$244,300,00 has been in gold, $19,-
500, 900 in copper, ~$2,251,O0O in sill
yer and 100000 in coal and the
rest in tin, lead, quicksilver, mar
BILE, gypsum, petroleum, etc. Cop
per mining began in Alaska in 1901,
and the total production is about
1873 900 pounds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
JUMBO EXTENSION MINING
COMPANY
Dividend No. 3,

At a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Jumbo Extension Min
ing company, held at the offices of
the company, Goldfield, Nevada,
January 6, 1915, a dividend of five
cents per share was declared, payable
March LIST to stockholders of record
February list, 1915.
BEN GILL, Secretary.
Goldf1eld, Nevada, January Z, 1915.
First pub, 1-9-15.
Last pub, 1-30-15.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
CAMP OF ROCHESTER
FORGING TO FRONT

With the golG ore of a free mill
ing nature, the average of which
runs 5000 to the ton, being blocked
out daily, the property of the Lin
coin Hill Milling and Mining com
pany of Rochester, New, is looking
better than ever, according to G. B.
turned from an extended visit to
that district. There is more activity
at Rochester than has been seen
there since the camp started, and a
boom is predicted shortly after the
Rochester mines mill is put in OPP
Grafton, according to Mr.. Ellington.
Among the new strikes that have
created considerable interest is
that of the Buck and Charlie prop
erty, on which the lessees have en-
countered four and one-half feet of
high-grade silver ore.
The Lincoln Hill Milling and
Mining company's property, in
which P. G Kittle of Salt Lake is
interested, has paid for the devel-
opment work, consisting or about
600 feet of drifting. prosecuting
and tunneling since the beginning.
The surface workings consist of two
tunnels driven to cut W parallel
veins about four feet apart and two
others about eight feet apart. Drifts
were run on these veins which are
of quartz, carrying high-grade ore.
with a filling between them of al
tered rhyolite. The filling is re-
and stored for milling. Later
the quartz is broken on anvas and
sent to the two-stamp mill.
The main tunnel, which is being
from a point lower down, is
now in 1875 feet, is prosecuting the
country. and the management ex-
poets to cut the ore bearing veins
the next fifteen days. The
breast of the tunnel is now in the
soft contact material, which, IN the
surface, lies alongside the ore-bear-
ing veins.
The Buck and Charlie claim is
lOCdteu dCTOSS Tic CdIIyoH anu uou
due south of the Rochester mines,
is below the town oE lower
and just up the canyon
the Lincoln Hill mill. A
c~rosscut tunnel was driven for a
distance of about sixty feet, which
the O~re-bearins vein.
This vein produced ore from the day
it was tapped. Stopping was start
which was carried to the surface,
and drifting was started to the west.
The ore body averages about four
and one-half feet in width. In the
vest drift, about 100 feet from the
tunnel, a winze has been SUNK TWEEN
ty- live feet in solid high-grade sill
YER ore. With about $4,000 worth
Of ore blocked out at present, the
expect to add a considerable
to hat in h next ten
months, when their lease will expire.
The power line has been strung as
as the new mill, the buildings
are completed, the machinery is ar
daily and being installed, and
Mr. Ellington said that the manage
expected to have the new plant
in operation by February 1. - Salt
Ike Tribune.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-01-16
LOOKING OVER CAMP

h. B. Corbett, a well known min
ing engineer of San Francisco, is a
visitor in Goldfield. having arrived
Wednesday,. He will spend several
days here familiarizing himself with
present conditions.