The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-02-19
OATMAN OPERATIONS DESCRIBED
BY FORMER GOLDFIELD WRITER

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special meeting of the stockholders,
S. S. Jones, manager of the Tom
Reed mine, was elected a director
of the company.
The San Francisco Mining com
panay, the property of which side
lines the United Eastern, has been
financed, it is officially stated, and
the management will soon inaugu-
rate operations on an extensive
scale.
The Telluride Chief Mining
ompany has begun the development
CT its property in the Maynard dis
trict about IA miles east of King
which the management intends
sinking to a depth of at least 200
feet. The shaft is following down
a four foot vein from which a
assay of $41 gold, 8 ounce sill
yer and 6 per ZEN copper per ton
was recently obtained. The COM
pany has placed an order for a 15-
horsepower gasoline hoist which
will he delivered on the ground in
the near future.
C. w. Benedict and C. P. Luph-
er recently sold to the newly orgar
izel Lafayette Mining company,
composed of Los Angeles parties,
their Lafayette group of three
claims, Which possesses al excellent
surface showing. One of the ledge
traversing the ground cutcrops for
a long distance to a height of ~
feet in Width.
One oreshoot has Jeen exposed
for a length of 400 feet and for
it's entire width yields average val
ues of IS gold and four ounces sill
YER per ton. A Axe foot incline shaft
has been sunk on the orebody to
a depth of 20 feet. Crosscuts err
tended to the bottom have bee,i
advanced a combined distance c.
16 feet without revealing either
wall of the vein. The entire mass
average $14.75 Per ton in gold
nd silver.
Under the direction of General
Superintendent Noehls, the Tyro
Gold Mines company is working a
force Of about Is miners in three
shifts in continuing it's main shaft
from the $50 to the 5O0-foot
point. When the objective depth is
gained, lateral WORK upon a large
rclle will be inaugurated to explore
the 50-foot man vein which 81 yes
average surface values of $7.67 per
ton. The company was financed en-
clusively by local capital and the
property bids fair to become n Of
the great mines of the Union Pass
section of the San Francisco dis
trict.
The Mother Lode Mining company,
operating ,he Roadside mine, ha
exposed It's main vein on the 100
foot level at a point 20 feet from
the shaft. The crosscut being eX-
tended has thus far intersected the
vein for more than Is feet with
cut exposing the second wall. It IS
officially stated that the values be
ing returned are higher than
yielded by the crosscut through the
oreEody on the 50-fOOt level.
John Munds and Albert Gilbert
are employing a force of five min
ers in the development of their
Gold Link property. With a shall
low prospect tunnel they have
proven the main vein on the prop
erty to be 100 feet in width. Pan
nings show the vein carries en-
couraging values.
On their ROadline group Of
three claims. adjoining the ROAD
line on the north, Sam Brothers and
associates have opened up at a
shOllow depth in open cuts a led ~
varying from % to Is feet wide.
Seven feet of the vein in one cut
recently gave IN assay return IT
$40 per tor
At the Atlantic and Pacific prop
erty. owned by A. B.. Daniels ~
Coronado. Calf, and associates.
three shifts of miners are sinking
the main two-comrartment vertical
shaft from the GO t. the 500-foor
roint. 1t now measures 125 ;Sei