The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-09
LINCOLN HILL T01
PROPERTY SOLD
HAS PRODUCED S5O,OOO; DEEP
EST STOPPING LEVEL is
100 FEET

thS bADSOAh lAllA "a nv NhtAA
ing company on Lincoln hill, at
Rochester, the high grade mine of
the district, passed into the hands
of the G.. S. Johnson company of
Reno and San Francisco and is to
be developed on an extensive scale.
c. ID. DeLorme, who located the
ground long before the big mines at
the head of theg ulch were Disco
ed, has resigned as president and
G. S. Johnson has been elected pres.-
ednt and general manager.
DeLorme found rich float on Lin
coin hill three years ago and located
Il number of claims. He had part
ners in all his locations and traded
around until he owned alone the
Blowback and Peerless, which he
considered the pick of the lot. How
we'll he guessed remains to be
but SO far the ground, which he Sc
lected has made phenomenal record
for the production of rich gold ore.
DeLorme went to work on the e
less vein and with assistance of Jim
Beebe found the pay crack and fl
nanced extensive development work.
The Peerless tunnel disclosed Il
persistent streak of picture ore. Most
of the work was done by DeLorme
and Beebe. The rock was hard and
progress slow, but finally the sacked
ore totalled seven tons. 1t was
hauled to Unionville where there was
a two stamp mill. The result of this
mill run was a couple of small bars
of yellow bullion which were sold
for $1,6S0. an average of $24O per
ton. DeLorme and Beebe were bach
ing in a tent and owed a store bill
for the grub already eaten. The
check helped a lot and renewed the
waning courage of the two men
The Peerless vein continued to
yield the same grade of quartz and
furnished the bank roll for a large
percentage of the work that has been
dore. Over on the other side OF the
hill a crosscut tunnel was driven TO
cut the Peerless and two other veins
which had been found on the sur
face. These two veins make on the
foot and hanging wall sides OF q
dyke. The last shot fired before
writing this story, broke down ore
running from $40 to $50 a sack. A
few feet away and dipping at about
SO degrees from the dyke the tuaH
mel cut another vein, which because
it looked like an offshoOt, has been
called the Spur vein. Next to the
Peerless the Spur vein is the largest
of the four but carries more silver
than the others. 1t is making TO
ward the Peerless, which stands at
about 20 degrees, and a crosscut on
the lower tunnel is within 15 feet
of the point where they should come
together, about IT'S feet below the
surface. A fine body of ore should
result from this junction.
Lincoln hill is largely composed
of rhyolite and it is hard, very hard.
Beebe says the tunnel cost $40 a
foot to drive by hand. After 1T was
in and the ore found, DeLorme
bought the two stamp mill which
had given him his first bullion. The
first bullion which the mill turned
out after having been set up in its
new location was sold and the pro
ceeds paid on a compressor plant
The mine is now we'll equipped with
machine drills, pistons, jackham-
mers and stopers and better prog
ress is being made.
More than $4,000 has been TAX :
en- from the Peerless and Blowout
claims and the deepest stopping level
is about 100 feet down. In thu
mine several thousand dollars worth
of rich ore is blocked out and the
little mill continues to drop its
stamps on ore averaging from $50
to $3.50 per ton. 1t is to be re
placed within a few months by Il
modern plant of larger capacity aud
when this is accomplished the stock
holders may expect dividends of geu-
erous size.
TIE Rochester district is one OF
the busiest in Nevada and it's mines
are swelling the bullion output O.
the state. The Rochester Mining
company recently bought the Roch-
ester Hills, Big Four and Four j
!cases and is centralizing work al
the portal of the Friedman tunnel,
which will cut the vein system at d
depth of more than LOO feet. The
big adit is into the hill almost 1000
seet and the first of the series OF
veins should be u very soon, a
large compressor plant at the por
tai of the tunnel supplies power
for the drills throughout the mine
and the drills are sharpened here b.
machinery. Ore for the 125-ton cy-
anide mill is brought out through
a higher tunnel from which it is low
cred to the ore bins on the Nevada
Short Line by tram and conveyed
thence to the mill, three miles down