The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-06-10
TUNGSTEN MINES
YIELD PROFITS
PROPERTIES IN WHITE PINE
COUNTY ARE REPORTED PAY
ING WELL

ELY, New, June 2.-Although
there has recently been a sharp de-
cline in the market demand for
tungsten ore, producers of White
Pine county regard the future
rather hopefully and are confident
that the black metal will continue
to an excellent price for
a long time to m The local
market quoted here by the United
States Tungsten corporation is
having a beneficial effect with
small operators who are not pro-
vided with milling facilities, and
the prices quoted are fairly sat
isfactory considering general n
settled conditions.
Several good shipments of ore
from other properties have re-
Gently been purchased by this cor
poration, which has a longtime
contract for sale of tungsten ores
to the Midvale Steel company of
Pittsburgh. The U. S. Tungsten
company continues it's usual good
output from it's own mines and
frequent shipments of concen-
trates developed therefrom.
The Independent Scheelite COM
pany at Camp Scheelite has put
it's new 30-ton mill into operation,
power being supplied by an auto
mobile, which has been pressed
into service pending the arrival of
a gas engine which has been
delayed in shipment. S~uperintend-
ent AL d. Myers concluded that
time was too precious to permit the
tying up of the plant simply be-
cause the engine had not arrived,
so he anchored the company's u
tomobile at a convenient point and
hooked up with the machinery. De-
velopment work on this property is
being pushed energetically with
satisfactory results in the way OF
ore.
The Consolidated Tungsten COM
pany, operating in Willard Creek,
a mile and a half south of the L.
S. Tungsten corporation, has dur
ing the last few days placed it's
milling plant in operation. This
milling equipment has been erect
ed out in the open, on the hill
side, without any building to COW
err it. and is turning out a good
grade of concentrates. Develop
ment is in progress on two veins,
the Gem and Big Four, both of
which are producing a, good grade
Of ore.
Another shipment of something
over one ton of concentrates was
recently made by Manager w. r.
Shepherd from the Ophir group at
Tungstonia. The new open cuts re-
Gently started at two places on the
big vein are surprising expectations
in quality and quantity of ore, one
of the cuts exposing the vein for
80 feet wide, from which practically
all the rock broken is sent to the
mill. The mill is now handling
about 80 tons a day since the new
ball mill and Whitley table We're
aOOeu TO the cQulpIiIht' nv
returns from tonnage hadled this
property stands at the head of all
White Pine county tungsten oper-
atoms.
Tilford brothers are steadily
grinding out a good output of con-
centrates from their three-stamp
mill in the Camp Scheelite district,
about two miles from the I%ndpend-
ent Tungsten company. Although
the mill was only recently start
ed thew have already made two
1OOO-pound shipments of concen-
trates.
Development is being pushed
energetically with a large force oil
men by the Nevada Scheelite COM
pany, which has a large group of
claims under option at Minerva for
s35O,OOO. This company recent
" made a large shipment to the
u. s.. Tungsten corporation and
they continue the production or
a large quantity of ore of a good
grade, with which are associated
important deposits thai will run
from Is to 25 per cent. The tu-
ture outlook for this company IS
about as bright as any along the
Snake Range, and it is under
stood that they may soon erect a
3O-ton milling plant on the prop
erty.
Operations are being carried on
at a normal pace by numerous
smaller operatives and prospectors
along the tungsten belt, the ma
jority of whom have excellent pros
poets for reaping large returns.