Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1915-06-18
NEVADA EMPRESS
TO RESUME WORK
HAS 1000 FEET OF OLD
WORKINGS
GRANITE MOUNTAIN MINE ALSO
UNDERGOING HEAVY
DEVELOPMENT

Especial Bonanza Correspondence
GOLDFIELD, June 1.-THE Nevad A
Cooperative Mining company has be-
gun work on the Nevada Empress
group at Gold mountain. AZ mile 5
southeast of Goldfleld Joe Mayer
and a working force, with a wagonload
of supplies, left yesterday morning
for the camp, which has been silent
since the days of Captain Stills in 1907
when litigation caused suspension Of
work. Joe Mayer knows more about
Gold mountain than any other man in
Nevada. He is so familiar with the
district that he can count each turn
taken by the early prospectors and
every move in the opening of each in
dividual property in the district. He
can indulge in retrospect that car
ries the listener back for 40 years
when the Silver Peak excitement was
at It's zenith and big mining was done
in the district.
The Grst undertaking will be to
clean out the old workings represent
ing over 1000 feet of tunnel and drifts.
This will not take long as the mine
was found in first-class shape when in
spected by Consulting Engineer Tur-
ner two weeks ago The most remark
able feature was the appearance of
the timbering In the Slopes where II
was Installed some thirty years ago
when the Empress was mined for high
grade. AT that time nothing but pic
ture rock could be extracted at a profit
as all ore had to be hauled by OK team
to Austin, New, distance of lao
miles, These native pinon timbers
are as free from discoloration or
weather stains and as white and clean
as the day they were placed in the
mine.
While the mine is being cleaned
out Foreman Mayer will proceed to
sample every Is feet of the drifts,
These samples will guide Engineer
Turner in perfecting plans for devel.
opment. In the first place it is pro
posed to raise from the crosscut tun.
mel, at distance of 800 feet from the
portal, to catch the downward exten.
sion of the vein. This will call for
extending the tunnel a distance of 20
feet The raise will be put up 80 feet
vertically, in solid granite, that will
obviate the use of timbers and hold
down operating costs to a minimum.
1t is expected that the vein, which
measures feet in width and averages
values from 500 to $25, will be cut at
that height. The highest workings
are 1853 feet vertically or 500 feet on
the dip of the vein. The Empress in
cludes seven mineral and three water
claims and has five tunnels in ore.
1t is interesting to observe that the
Empress is just over the hill and
about two miles from the Granite
Mountain mine, owned by what is
probably the strongest aggregation
of millionaires of the east operating
in Nevada. These comprise Senator
William Finn, the owner of the Pitts
burg Dispatch; Mrs. Genevieve Phippa
of Denver, and half a dozen associates
of Andrew Carnegie. This company
shuns notoriety but proseeutes work
on most extensive scale for the pur
pose Of. proving up vast body of ore
before celebrating its plans. Part Of
the work of this company is repre-
sented by tunnel driven 1885 fee
through solid granite to cut the ledge
which dipped at that angle. Joe May
er is superintendent of the Granite
Mountain and he says he is going t
have his hands full this summer. Al
the Empress he has splendid board
ing house, cooking and sleeping ac
commodations, the old company hav
ing been most generous in providinl
comforts for its employees to serve a.
a counter attraction TO the allurements
OF Goldfield when it was day all day
In the daytime.