The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-04-10
ANNUAL REPORT OF PIONEER
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sections of the mill should be repair
ed fully before starting. The ore
bin has been braced, new housing
and guides for the stamps have been
installed and the self-feeders have
been repaired during the close down.
l believe that if the ore is screened
before being delivered t the mill, as
recommended in previous reports
and the present mill put into proper
condition, a saving of so per ZEN can
be made.
While the cost of operation has
not been high during the year, it
can be further reduced by buying
both mill and mine supplies in large
quantities, and carrying a sufficient
stock of repair parts. You should
always carry a full line of battery
parts, including dies, shoes, stems,
screens, etc., ALSO duplicate parts
for crusher. 1t may also be well to
install a rs h. p. electric motor to
drive the air compressor in place of
the gasoline engine now being used.
l would suggest installing a cage
for hosting ore instead of buckets
now in use. Mine timbers should be
purchased in carload lots; this would
save about $40 per 1000 feet. En-.
CINE distilate should also be purchas-
least six cents a gallon. All your
mine supplies, such as powder, fus-
es, caps, candles, ETC., can be pur-
chased for less money by buying in
large quantities.
The development work as men,
toned before has not been prosecut-
ed sufficiently to place ore in sight
to equal the mount extracted.
Therefore l strongly advise you to
push development. l would Suggest
the following work be performed:
Drive a crosscut in westerly direc-
ton from the point where the cave.
in occurred toward the old Richard
lease. This should determine the ex.
tent of the ore at this point. AID.
face of the water crosscut on
the 324 level rs or 100 feet in q
northwesterly direction, with a view
VI oSStlhS IhO CAIcH-
sion of the ore zone exposed on the
upper level. Raises should be sen
up from this crosscut 1T intervals;
crOsscut in a ~southeasterly direction
from a point Is feet south of shaft
on the 200 level.
This should intersect the down.
ward extension of the northeast ore
body exposed in the Bonanza stope
at the 125 level, from which the
$11.93 sample was taken. The north
end of this stope has the appear
ance of a break in the ore body, part
of which has dipped east and part
west; this development will deter
mine this point. Crosscut should be
driven into the sides of the $50 level
stope to determine the size and value
of ore deposits, as we'll as dip, so
as to determine the point from which
a crosscut can be driven on the low
er level to intersect the downward
extension of the ore body.
The cost of production per ton for
the year can be considered very low
and can be brought still lower by
buying supplies in quantities as al
ready mentioned. The percentage
of extraction in the mill can be in
creased by following the recommen-
dations on mill.
Taking into consideration all of
the drawbacks encountered during
the year, the results of the opera
lions can be considered satisfactory,
and I believe if you will screen the
ore and increase the values by ST.
doing to about SO per ton, and per.
form the development work as rec
commended, the results in the year
1915 will be much more satisfactory
and the company should be in a fair
way to begin earning substantial
profits in the neal future, with the
possibility, at any time. of cutting
another bonanza ore shoot.