White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-04-23
Entire Snake Range Is Lined
with Tungsten Bearing Veins
Mining Dopester Makes Tour of Inspection New Camps and
Finds Development Activity in Many LocalitesBg Com
panies Producing and New Plants Being Constructed
(BY FRED l.. MINER)

having just spent a week lnVeSIi-
eating the tungsten properties along
that portion of the Snake range from
Scheelite to Minerva, a distance of
about 25 miles, in which are includ-
ed the Independent Tungsten COM
pany, the United States Tungsten cor
poration, the Consolidated Tungsten
company, the Nevada Scheelite COM
pany and numerous smaller opera
tors, | am of the opinion that the
claim is we'll founded that White Pine
county has one of the greatest tung-
sten mining zones in the United
States.
The entire range is lined with
tungsten bearing veins that penetrate
the various formations, which include
granite, quartzite and lime, the. ores
In the Scheelite and Minerva districts
being various characters of scheelite,
ranging from brownish yellow to
pearl gray, while in the central sec
tion around Tungsten or the U. 8.
Tungsten corporation, and the Con-
solidated Tungsten company, they
are principally hubnerite, with a
small proportion of scheelite associat-
ed Herewith
The U. s. Tungsten corporation
which is controlled by C. A. Daniels
and Jas. s. Austin of Philadelphia,
who are also the controlling factors
in the Tonopah Mining company, is
now treating an average of 40 tons
per day and recovering about 1000
pounds Of concentrates, but the capa-
city of the mill will be nearly doubl-
which are now being made. The
property is ably managed by o. E.
Roodhouse.
During the past week this company
shipped 81 sacks of concentrates
weighing S100 pounds and valued at
$4,000 by express to the Midvale
Steel company at Pittsburg. which
has a contract for the output OF this
property. The concentrates average
about 65 per cent tungstic acid, and
bring the top market price.
In addition to it's mill operations
this company is also making good
recovery by placering the black soil
hn In main Uu1nh
leading up the mountain and also
the surface dirt associated with some
OF the veins.
Arrangements have been made by
this company for the purchase of ores
produced by other properties that are
not equipped with a mill, thus pro-
viding local market for the small
operators. Prices range from $24
per unit for per cent ores to $50
per unit for ores carrying 10 per cent
tungstic acid.
About Is veins are under pros
pecting and development. The main
vein, known as the Hub, is opened for
a horizontal distance of approximate
ly half a mile by a series Of adit tun-
nels which develop it to a depth of
about 700 feet. Practically all of
the ore is now packed down the
mountain to the mill by burro and
mule trains, there being about 60
animals in use, but a raise Is now be-
i,,o M 10
which has been driven 1900 feet from
the portal near the mill, to connect
with some of the upper workings
and when this connection is made the
ore from various levels will be drop
ped down to the main tunnel through
which 1t will be transported to the
mill
A new wage scale embodying
uniform increase of SO cents per day
for all employees has recently been
inaugurated by the company, which
has also adopted profit sharing sys-
tenn upon the following basis:
When the output of the mine ex-
ceeds fourteen tons of concentrates
per month. exclusive of ores pur-
chased, all employees who have been
in the corporations service continu-
ously during the month will receive
an increase OF 10 per cent over the
scale for that month.
The new regular scale is SIS per day
For machine MON hIaekcm;tho m
gineers. mill shift bosses and machin-
lists; $3.50 for carpenters; $3.50 for
machine helpers. single e-jackers and
crusher men, and 81 for muckers and
all surface labor.
About $50 men are employed, and
the camp is assuming extensive pro-