Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1916-09-08
MANHATTAN SHOWS
BIG IMPROVEMENT.
BY VIM. Mcclure eotwaIdt

in the huge discoveries in the White
Cans in the development OF the
Mustang by the operations of the
Train.Cbase lease. in the building of
the Putney mill, in the operations OF
the Salsberry properties, In the re-
sumption of operations in mill and
mine IN the Big Pine and Big Four.
and in a half score OF other under
takings of merit.
But one of the most important sign
boards of the times Is that of the
Union Amalgamated stock in which
will shortly be listed on the New
York Curb and the San Francisco
Mining and Stock Exchange. II is a
company incorporated in 1915, con
solidating the Manhattan Litigation
Hill Merger company the Manhattan
Amalgamated Mining company, the
Manhattan Earl Mining company, all
contiguous. together with outside
acreage of very promising character.
Charles F. Wittenberg is the presi-
dent of the company and its control
ing factor. having made not only
heavy original investment, but has
financed the company through its ex-
perimental and development stages
James Forman Is vice president;
Charles T. Olney, secretary, and the
additional directors are Hugh H.
Brown and Arthur Raycraft. L. l..
Mushett. the superintendent, devotes
his waking. and what should be a por
ton of his sleeping hours, to direct
ing operations. giving TO this task
tious care.
The entire acreage is in the ore |
zone on the chief Cambrian lime belt, |
which extends for $500 feet along
the lode. The main ore bodies in
Litigation Hill are in shattered lime
rather on the fault planes. from
which they enter the lime. The hill
arises in a southerly direction from
the point of intersection of Dublin
and White Caps gulches and this is
the general trend of the Cambrian
lime until 1t comes in contact with
the Devonian lines on the upper
reaches of the mountain.
Running easterly and westerly |
across the lower portion OF the hill, |
which is covered by the locations of |
the Union Amalgamated Mining com
pany, there are series of faults
showing the Cambrian lime into con
tact with lime shale They have
been subjected to secondary enrich.
ment, practically all of which is gold.
Eight of these fault plane veins were
examined and in all there were pay
paintings secured. In places the veins
are almost too narrow to be worked
at profit, but in others that may be
stopped to a width of ten feet, all
commercial grade.
The Bath shaft. where operations
are now conferred is an incline of
approximately 40 degrees. 1t is 500
feet deep and at the stump level there
is the richest ore in the mine and in
payable quantity.
Until a few months ago the ore
bodies In the property were low
grade. the owners Just getting by"
although they had mining and reduc-
ton costs reduced to about IS a ton.
Lately however, as depth was OBJ
tanned and the formation so well I'M
derstood that waste could be obviated
and lurking lenses brought to light.
the grade has been materially i'm
proved. while the available tonnage
,has been enormously increased AS
nearly as the ore in sight can be
determined, the result of innumerable
assays, 1t will average $40 ton.
which should yield a profit of SIS.
to be diminished only by the amount
oil dead work that is undertaken.
There are three levels opened up
ana your correspondent prowled
through all of them, with some diff
euity, especially where work has been
suspended for some time and there
hau been considerable caving. The
'enses In each seem to have been
merely touched
rne company has complete and
eioseiy extracting mill. 1t is equipped
with 10 stamps. AZ by 10 tube
nun ior regrinding, 10 by l6 Joshua
hehdy Hercules cruNher and an au-
tomatic sampler with two sets OF
A'''s-chalmers rolls. After the pulp
caves the battery II passes through
Dorr classider. the overflow going
70 TWO Dorr thickeners, from which
s drawn to Pachuca agitatinp
tanks, thence to a Buffers filter with
ieaf capacity. The values are
precipitated on shavings in zinc
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