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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
WIDE ORE FACES
IN PIONEER CON.
BULLION Is GOING REGULARLY
TO MINT FROM SOUTHERN
PROPERTY

Ore of profitable milling grade is
being broken at number of points
in the workings of the Pioneer Con-
mine, in the Pioneer dis
trict, So miles south of Goldfield.
and no less than half-dozen of the
faces of ore are of great width, rem
dering possible the breaking of
large tonnage at small cost for min
ing SO easily is the ore handled in
TIE mine that single miner has
been able to break and tram the
ore required to supply the l0-stamp
mill, which has been treating an
average of about 80 tons daily, OPP
Grating on part time.
AT one point on the 250-foot level
some ore of shipping grade has
been exposed and Manager W. j.
Tobin reports that 40 sacks of this
ore have been prepared for ship
ment. The last three amalgam re-
torts sent to the mint at Denver
from tie Pioneer mine have yielded
returns respectively of $1292.
$1SG1 and approximately $4,000.
While the production of bullion
is now defraying all operating ex-
penses, there is still considerable
loss in the failing and this product
is impOunded for future treatment
when Shining equipment is installed.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27

The use of a core drill, in pros
pecting at depth, has already pro-
duced results that have aroused the
keenest interest and it is probable
that this method of prospecting for
deep-seated orebodies will have a
wide vogue here in future. Com
panies whose properties have been
idle for a number of years, and 9TH
ers that have developed only near
the surface, are securing estimates
on the cost of drilling and are con-
sidering the financing of thor
ough system of prospecting in this
manner. More properties are be-
ing actively developed at present
than for a long time past and a
number of discoveries have been
made recently that are of a most
encouraging character.
GOldfield Consolidated
The Consolidated company is now
receiving some of the equipment
for its new flotation plant. which
will be installed in the present
mill structure and will have ca
pacity of 1000 tons daily. The in
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
GO[DF|E[D 0R0 RESUMES
DEVELOPMENT At DEPTH

With the resumption of develop
work by the Goldfield Orc Mining
company. which will be within the
next few days. operations will be
conducted on a liberal scale and the
work of exploring the company's
ground, on the deepest levels open
ed, will be comprehensive in scope
and will afford better chances than
ever before for securing good re-
suits, in view of what has been
learned of the geological conditions
existing in this territory.
At the time work was suspended,
drifts on the 700 and S00-foot lev
els had entered ground of good
promise and had exposed large bod
les of quartz from which many good
assays were obtained. In the north
ern workings on the S00-foot level
the shale had been exposed, but the
contact zone had not been explored
to any appreciable extent. President
George A. Manning, who arrived
from New York over fortnight
ago. has completed business ar
rangements in connection with
starting the new work, and Manager
Thomas F. Manning will have ev-
erything in readiness within the
next few days.
Preparatory work has already
been going forward under the di-
rection of Superintendent Weldon
Morris, who has kept the shaft and
mine workings in good condition
during the period of inaction and
who will continue in charge of the
company's work. The Orc. property
is equipped with an eXcen.nt sur
face plant, including hosting ma
chinery of ample power for all pos
sible requirements and air COM
pressor for operating the machine
drills and powerful pumps. The
condition of the mine is such that
good progress can be made at lev
els corresponding to those on which
important orebodies have been ex-
posed in adjacent territory.
President George Manning an
nounces that development work will
he started al once. and Oh a COM
prehensive scale, on the Vulture
property at Wonder, not far from
the Nevada Wonder mine, which
now ranks as one of the famous
producers of the state. The Nevada
Wonder has opened ore of high
grade and in large volume on all
levels to a depth of 1850 feet and is
said to have $50 ore for a width
of 80 feet on it's 1500-foot level.
The Vulture property has cOnsid-
cradle quantity of ore in sight, the
product being similar in character
to that of the Tonopah mines.
The New York Orc corporation,
which controls the Goldfield Orc
company and of which George A.
Manning is also president, owns the
Vulture, Golconda. Dickie V. and
Bald Eagle properties, in the Won
der district. On all of these prop
critics pay ore has been found, but
the distance from the railroad and
the fact that they were involved for
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27

stallation of this process is or
paramount importance to the en-
tire district, as it will demonstrate
the practica bility of treating at a
profit the low-grade, copper-bear1ng
ores of the district, for the treat
ment of which there have been no
facilities in the past. The new
equipment includes Is Callow pneu-
matte fotation cells, with all acces-
sories. and it's installation will in
volve an expenditure of about $780,
600, while the saving, in operation
of plant alone, will be between
100000 and 100000 annually,
with no account taken of the high
er extraction of metals and of other
important economies to be effected.
Copper bearing ores from deep lev
els of the company's mines, which
could not be treated profitably by
cyanidation, will in future form the
principal output for the big plant.
Jumbo Extension
All indications point to an early
and substantial increase in the pro-
duction and earnings of the Jumbo
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
CONSOLIDATED PREPARING
FOR FL0TAT|ON PROCESS

Interest centers more and more
in the forthcoming installation of
flotation equipment IN the big re-
dcction plant of the Goldfield Con-
s,lidated Mines company and con-
crete results of the application CT
this process to the treatment CT
Gcldfield ores are expected to be-
come apparent within the next
month. The flotation equipment,
which will include AS Callow pneu-
matte flotation cells, is beginning
to arrive here and all preparations
will soon be completed for its
installation. In view of the rela-
lively small expense of installing
this plant, and the great saving III
operation that will be effected over
the present process, 1t is regarded
as certain that the company's
earnings will be increased in large
measure with this plant in opera
tion.
Manager J. w. Hutchinson has
pointed out that the use of flota-
ton equipment, treating 1000 tons
daily, will effect saving of be-
tween $360,000 and 100000 an
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
CLARK'S MINERS
SINKING SHAT I
WORK OF COPPER MAGNATE
STIMULATES INTEREST IN
CUPRITE DISTRICT

A force of men in the employ of
Ex-United States Senator w. A.
Clark of Montana is engaged in
sinking the main shaft on the Tom
Rea property, situated at the base
of Jackson mountain, 15 miles
southwest of Goldfeld, and upon
which Senator Clark has secured a
working option for one year, at a
purchase price announced authori-
tatively as being not less than
down over 200 feet and large bod
les of copper ore of commercial
grade nave been exposed in devel-
opment work on the 100 and 200
foot levels.
Buildings to accommodate con
siderable working force nave been
erected on the ground and a hoist
ing engine of good capacity has late
ly been installed at the shaft. e.
w. Clark, who is in charge of cop
per properties owned by Senator
Clark in Utah and Nevada, stated
while here a short time ago that a
compressor would be installed in
due time at the Rea property, in
order to expedite the work of open
ing the big copper-bearing veins at
depth.
In territory surrounding the Rea
property, and farther west, in the
Cuprite district, there is greater
activity in the development of min
ing properties than for number of
years past Goldfield men have To-
Gated many claims in this region
and arrangements are now being
made to finance extensive develop
ment work in the effort to develop
copper mines of value. The surface
indications throughout the district
are pronounced by experts to be de-
cidedly favorable, resembling those
at the famous Copper Queen mine
at Bisbee, Ariz., but extending over
a wider area
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27

nually. This statement applies to
the actual operation of the plant,
elimination of the use of costly
chemicals and other expensive ele-
ments of the cyanide process, and
does not take into account the
l.igher extraction that will be made
hy flotation. the lack of further
necessity for selective mining, in
extracting only ores of certain
character. and the fact that .he
ore treated in future will in all
probability be of considerably
higher grade than the average
treated during the past few months.
reports issued by the company
recently indicate that development
work is being resumed on the
deeper levels. where large quanti-
titles of copper-bearing ore have
been exposed. Heretofore, with
treatment by cyanidation. only ore
carrying less than one-half of one
per cent has been sent to the big
mill, and as all the deep-level ores
carry copper in excess of this
amount. extraction during a con-
siderable period has been con-
fined to the upper lvls. where less
ccnper is found.
The ore treated during the past
fntxy he I,n
low grade, considerable part of
the output yielding a profit of less
than 50 per ton. Quantities Of
dunn ORE have been handled and
the workings throughout the mines
have been cleared Of everything
that would yield the smallest prof
Il. Development work on these
levels, however, has continued to
expose ore of good grade and
these properties still contain large
areas of virgin territory, in which
there are excellent chances For
opening deposits of bonanza ore on
the upper and intermediate levels
The further exploration Of deap
levels will command much inter-
"st. as the limited extent to which
the mines have been explored at
depth has already served to eX-
nose deposits of gOld-copper ore Of
great magnitude. Ore of this char
acter was shipped to smelters for
treatment for some time, but the
excessive costs for freight and treat
ment, together with the metallurgi-
cal losses, in many cases totaling
from 50 to SIS per ton, caused the
management to defer the further
extraction of this ore until pro
cess could be evolved for it's econ
omical treatment locally. A single
stops at the 1350-foot level of the
Grizzly Bear mine produced ship
ments of this ore valued at about
$570,000. BY means of flOtatiOn,
the company will be enabled 20
secure a profit from low-grade ores,
whatever may be the character or
proportion of the metallic contents.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
LARGER OUTPUT
FROM JUMBO EX.
ORE-BINS AT VELVET SHAFT
WILL PERMIT OF BIG
INCREASE

Jumbo Extension will be in con-
crease the volume of its production,
as the ore-bins at the new Velvet
shaft are nearing completion and
this shaft will be made the prin-
cipal avenue for production from
the main slopes on deep levels, both
in the shale contact ore zone and
in the great fissure that penetrates
far within the shale. The deepest
level from the Velvet workings, ut
n depth Of $50 feet from the sur
face. has been connected with the
workings in ore farther to the
south in the Velvet claim
Slopes in this territory have been
yielding a large tonnage of ore Of
excellent grade, which is mixed
with lower grade material for ship
ment. Some ore assaying as low
as $40 per ton is included in the
shipments. which have been aver
aging between $25 and $50 per
ton. With the Velvet shaft in use
the tonnage will be increased and
it is probable that there will be
little decrease in the average val
ne of the ore handled.
New development work in tho
northern part of the Velvet claim
continues to give the most en-
couraging results and the prospects
are now regarded as favorable for
a large production from this part
of the mine. On the deepest level
o. the Velvet shaft, at a depth of
$50 feet, the east drift, following
the hanging wall of the big lode,
is approaching the side-line of the
Jumbo Junior property, and upon
reaching this point the work of
continuing the drift will be taken
up by the latter company, but the
work will be directed by the Jumbo
Extension management. whose
knowledge of this ground will aug
ment the Jumbo Juniors chances
for success in opening deposits of
pay ore.
4NOI III anu lOi VI Tie WI
Vet shaft. on the $50 and S90-foot
levels, development work is pro-
cressing with encouraging results
and a raise will be driven from
the deeper level, at a point near
the footwall, through the vein and
t. the hanging wall. This work
will attract interest. as the big lode
has not been explored at depth this
far north. Large quantities OF
copper-gold ore that is of too low
grade to ship to the smelters
have been exposed on all levels of
the mine and tests with flotation
have already demonstrated that
this product can be treated profita-
bly, by the process.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
TUNGSTEN FOUND
IN TULE CANYON
WE'LL KNOWN PROSPECTORS
MAKE DISCOVERY OF VAL
UABLE MINERAL

Specimens of tungsten ore from
veins that have yielded high assay
returns have been brought to Gold
field by P. J. O'Hara and his wife,
both known as pioneer claim own
ers and prospectors of the Tule Can
west of Goldfield. Prior to her mar
riagc. MrG. sO'Hara was widely
known as an energetic prospector
throughout this region, and she and
her husband have spent a number
of ,years in searching the hills and
valleys of Esmeralda county for
precious metals.
Tungsten ores, including what are
pronounced to be scheelite, wulfe-
mite and huebnerite, have been found
in abundance in two parallel veins
about $50 feet apart, on claims that
have been owned for several years
by the O'Haras and upon which they
have done considerable amount of
work in prospecting for gold and
silver, but in other veins
hC principal fciH SuOWS Il seam
of solid quartz, varying from IL to
SO inches in width and impregnated
througout with tungsten, in this
case chiefly huebnerite The paral-
lei vein contains seams of less width
averaging around nine inches, show
ing the mineral in the form of
scheelite and wulfenite Tests were
made with some of the ore and are
said to have indicated an exceeding
ly high average in value. O'Hara
reports the discovery of cinnabar
on claims that he owns and has
been assured by a naturalist that
samples from veins on his ground
contain vanadium.
The property is situated in what
is known as O'Hara's gulch, in lower
Tule Canyon. two and half miles
from the old camp of Roosevelt, a
mile and a half from Sharp's camp
nd an equal distance from the old
Flowers camp. The O'Haras are
now planning to open the tungsten
earring veins and ship their product
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27

several years in litigation, prior to
their acquisition by the New York
Orc, prevented their operation on
a producing basis. In tunnel work.
ings of the Vulture property there
is exposed a considerable quantity
of ore assaying around $35 per ton
and with silver at prevailing prices
it is believed the property can at
once be placed upon profit-earning
basis.
The greater part of development
work on the Vulture property has
been performed through a tunnel,
but there is 350-foot shaft which
may be sunk to great depth in car
rying out the new development
plans, while the orebodies exposed
in the tunnel workings will be
further developed and an effort will
be made to block out sufficient ore
to justify the equipment of the prop
erty with a reduction plant. 1t is
said that officials of the Tonopah
& Goldfield Railroad company, who
are the chief stockholders in the
Nevada Wonder, are considering an
extension of their road to that dis
trict.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
GRANDMA CON. SINKING

Satisfactory progress is being
made in sinking the new main
shaft of the Grandma Consolidated.
adjoining the Kewanas on the east.
In a short time sufficient depth
will have been attained to permit
when a surface plant of the most
approved and efficient type will be
installed and the shaft will be
sent down at the greatest speed
possible to reach the main Grand
ma vein.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
Atlanta PROSPECTS GOOD

The Atlanta property is being eX-
plored on deep levels and low
grade copper-gold ore has been en-
posed in large quantity on the
1850, 1920 and 15S0-foot levels.
Work will be conducted on the
140O-foot level to seek the extern
sion of ore found in the adjoining
Grizzly Bear.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
SANDSTORM DEVELOPING

Development work continues to
make satisfactory progress on the
35O-foot level of the SandstOrnl-
are being driven to explore the
rhyolite- -andesite contact. in which
deposits of exceedingly rich ore
have been found elsewhere in the
mine.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27

Reports received here from Of
ficials of the Vernal Mining COM
pany in Philadelphia indicate that
work may be resumed on the prop
erty in the near future and that
core drills may be employed to
prospect the ground at depth.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-05-27
HARRY STIMLER HERE

II. C. Stimler. discoverer of Gold
field, has been a visitor here. He
has completed the sale of valuable
claims in Nye county.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
WORKING TO AMEL|ORATE
SHORTAGE SITUATION
Representatives OF Railroads and
Shipping Interests in Con-
ference on Plans.
WIDE DIFFERENCES or OPINION
Proposals of Companies to Enforce
Penalties of From $:S to 81 a Car
for Reconsigning Unanimously OPP
posed by Shippers.
fBy Associated PROSE-. ,


w = IL NC TO y, December %
Representatives. OF :hc railroads and
shipping interests Of tho country who
met her" to-day to consider plans for
amclioratinr tho ear shortage situa-
tlon through curtailrnont of the re-
consignment privilege. ended their
first session with apparently irrccon-
cilable differences Of opinion.
The railroads proposals. to enforce
penalties OF from 50 to s. 81 car for re-
CONSUMING was unanimously opposed
by the shippers Tn" plan provides
for 50 penalty If the car be recon-
signed in transit. 81 IL roconsigncd
within twenty-four hours after reach
inE It's destination and 81 thereafter
Shippers agreed that while some
pennliy might be desirable, il should
b" applied only to certain commodities.
and declared thnt many small shippers
in certain industries. chiefly lumber
would be seriously affected unless
exempted. The meeting was attended
by representatives Of tho Interstate
Commerce Commission and by O. w
Anderson. United States attorney at
Boston. in charge IF the Govcrnmcn t's
inquiry into the high cost Of living
Information gathered by the rail-
roads and Interstate Commerce Com
mission officials is said to Indicate that
Spectators in foodstuns and other
necessities. by abuse of tho reconsign-
'ncnt privilege. have withdrawn cars
from their normal uses for unwarrant-
ably long periods, thus contributing to
the car shortage and the higher cost
Of living.
Under existing regulation. il is pos
sible FOR spectators TO ship cars to
their order. reconsign them uDon de-
livery To other destinations. and con-
tinuc tho practice indefinitely. keeping
cars in transit awaiting favorable mar
kets. and virtually using the railroads
as warehouses instead OF carriers
Thousands Of cars are said thus TO
have been made unavailable for lcGiti-
mate shipments of manufacturers and
other producers
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
HELPED TO RAISE: STANDARD
AT MEDICAL COLLEGE

IN episode chapter in the history
OF the Medical College of Virginia was
written during DR.. Johnston's connec-
ton with that institution. AT the time
OF his election Ia the faculty in 1898.
the course extended through two years
only. The college had no hospital, and
only about three clinics week were
given, the patients being walking cases
from the dispcnsary. In accepting the
chair OF surgery, DR. Johnston laid
down the condition that the college
should have q hospital conducted under
its control, the proviso being met by
the establishing OF the hospital of the
Medical College OF Nirg inia afterwards
the Old Dominion Hospital He de-
voted himself with great zeal TO his
new duties. and aligned himself with
tn. progressive clement of the school,
soon becoming its leading spirit
Ambitious TO make the Medical COL
lcEe of Nirgi the leading medical
school Of the South. he saw that its
greatest need was an adequate hos
Dital and TO this end h. devoted his
time and energy. Finally he was able
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
Rescued From Mine
After Explosion
Happy Scenes Follow appear
ancc Of 800 Workn1cn, Fol-
loWing Brief Entombmcnt.
fRy Assoclntch Irrss l

- BIRMINGHAM. Ala Dcccmbcr,20-
slate picker was killed. q negro coal
loader seriously burned. and the lives
OF 500 miners endangered early to-day
when gas explosion occurred in the
lower lift of the f:dgewater mine OF
the Tennessee" Coal. Iron and Coke
company. twelve miles northwest Of
birmingham. Twelve hundred men are
employed in the two lifts day and
night. and when the blast took place
many OF the night miners had not left
tho shafts.
Rescue workers. answering II call
soon after the explosion. found little
difficulty clearing tho Openings The
500 men. IL is said stampeded after the
blast. but on tho appearance Of res
cu"rs became calm and left the shat,
in single file.
Happy scenes followed their appear
anc" as they came one by on" to the
surface. Eager women and children
fell upon their nccks. When il was
learned that no fatalities other than
the death Of the slate picker had oc-
CURED. TIE gathering at the opcninp
became an occasion for rejoicing
Officials say tho explosion was no,
sufficient TO do more than break down
door and small bratticc at. the bot
tom Of the mine, 700 feet below tho
surface
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21

gcon To tn" First Virginia Brigade OF
Volunteers. and surgeon To the First
Virginia Regiment. lSSi-Sc lie was
at one time president Of the Virginia
Society Of the Sons of tho Revolution
and was member Of tn" Phi Beta
Kappa Society. of the Beta Theta ri
Fraternity and of the wcs,moreland
club.
Or Johnston WAS married at AbinE-
don. in 1850. TO Miss Mary McclunG.
n granddaughter Of Judge connally
TrigS, of Virginia. She died in July.
1881, few months after the mar
riaEe. ON November II. 1892. he mur-
ricd Miss Helen Coles rutherford. of
Rock Castle. on the upper James.
The Richmond Academy of Medicine
and Surgery will meet at o'clock this
afternoon in tho auditorium Of the
Chamber Of Commerce TO take suitable
action on Dr. Johnstou's death.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-12-21
START FOR HOME
ON DECEMBER 27
continued From First papcl

''''U'" TTVTI TITSt I'dSc.D
signed telegram from that company
charging the War Department with dis
crlinlnauon in ordering home troops.
was received by Governor Stuart lie
Was in New Orleans when he learned
that the First Infantry was ordered
home
Mayor Ains!ie. in selecting the COM
mitt"c 10 perfect plans for WELCOMING,
the troops home mad" il a large one
IN order that much work could be ac-
compiished in a short time He will
call the initial meeting Of the com =
'nitt"". which viii elect it's chairman
and appoint committees to get down
to work