The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-25

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KINGMAN, liz, March 90
Having received assurances as to the
probable date of delivery of the
necessary machinery from the man
ufacturers with whom contracts have
been placed, General Manager G. w.
Long states that the United Eastern
Mining company of Oatman will be-
gin the erection in the next gu
days oil it's proposed mill which
will have an initial capacity of geo
tons per day. The work of grading
the millsite is going steadily ahead,
and a half mile water pipe line from
the Bergman ranch. Sinking oper-
ations in the new or No. 2 shaf
on the property will be resumed in
he next few days, the installation
III the mechanical outfit, including
a 15O-horsepower double-drum cleo
trio hoist and 500 cubic foot COM
pressor, having been completed. On
the 665 level of the old or No. ]
shaft, drifting is being prosecuted
northwest and southeast in the big
orebody. Manager Long says the
values being obtained in such op-
erations are practically the same
as those found in the extension of
the drifts on the 465 and sos lev.
els.
Preparations are being made for
the early Inauguration of develop
ment work by the Oatman United
) lining company upon the Merritt
and other adjoining properties com
prising it's holdings in the heart of
the camp. In addition to its splen-
did location, the ground held by the
company, which was organized by
Charles S Sprague, president and
general manager of the Jumbo EX-
tension Mining company of Gold
rold, New. has a promising show
ins and its development should be
attended by highly gratifying re-
suits J.. X. Tuner, consulting IN
e,neer of the Jumbo Extension
company, through whose efforts the
O?tman United company came into
existence, is a .isitor 1T present
il Oatman and IS mapping out the
Program of development work.
Developments of late of the 500
level of the Unlted Western have
Lcen of a character that augers well
fer the future of the company. The
southwest cross-cut disclosed at a
roint 500 feet from the shaft the
hanging wall of the vein sought out
and has thus far penetrated it a dis
lance Of about Is feet without dis
closing the hanging wall. In the
width named the ledge is made up
of quartz %stringers varying from
averaging around SIS per ton, and
vein matter of low value. AS the
cross-cut advances the quartz is be
coming more solicited and imprOv
ing in appearance. 1t is safe to
say that the drifts to be extended
fter the hanging wall has been dis
closed will open up ore bodies of
commercial size and value.
The main shaft on the IvanEoe
Consolidated has reached the 500
foot point and a station is now be
ing cut preparatory to the extension
of a cross-cut in a sOutherly di-
rection to the main vein. Slightly
over a foot of high class milling ore
is being stopped above the south
drift OF the 5O-foot level of the
Nancy Lee shaft of the same prop
erty. This includes a six-inch streak
of ore that gives values running
as high as $500 per ton. This ore
is sorted out of the general yield
and is being saved for shipment,
About Is tons has accumulated anT
when that much more has been sort
ed out a shipment will be made
probably in the next 30 days.
Big Jim
Notwithstanding the fact that it
is necessary to handle with the
pumps recently installed approx
mately IS gallons of water per min
uute, Superintendent l.. G.. Heating
IS making good Roadway in cos
rinuing the main shaft on the Bis
I'm from the 400 to the G0O-fC ~
Evei. The 5OO-foot point will ~
cached in a day or two. Although