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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
CRACKER JACKS
WORK PROCEEDS
CROSSCUT ON 32O LEVEL ABOUT
TO CUT GREAT
VEIN

After having been practically at
a standstill for three months and a
half, active work has been resumed
on the Cracker Jack property and
is now making rapid headway, with
a large force of miners and with
the aid of complete and efficient
mining equipment, The opening of
a water channel, apparently asso-
ciated with the Columbia mountain
fault vein system, caused the first
difficulty, flooding the lower levels.
drowning the pumps and causing
the ground to cave badly
A powerful walking-beam pump,
capable of raising all the water that
is likely to be encountered in the
future, has been installed on the
surface, affording ample insurance
against the recurrence of difficult
ties from this cource. Damaged
timbers have been replaced through
out the workings, all loose ground
has been caught up at the bottom
of the shaft and in the lower levels,
and late last week the miners start
ed driving the face to the east, in
a soft, oxidized material, containing
seams of ore from which assays as
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

at a capacity of about 500 tons
daily and effecting a high extraction
of the metals, the Goldfield Con-
solidated Mines company has in
creased it's mining force and is now
opening up more extensively it's
deep-level orebodies, from which
the product for flotation will be de-
rived. In converting the 1OO-ton
mill to flotation, sufficient equip
ment in the cyanide department was
retained to treat upwards of 500
tons daily by this process and a
large tonnage of oxidized ore will
continue to go through this part of
the mill. 1t is probable that in the
near future some failing from the
great accumulation below the mill
will be handled, in order to main
tain a fixed tonnage in the cyanide
department. The final report of
operations in March shows that the
company's mill treated $1,000 tons
of ore in that month and that some
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
RED HILL SHAFT
WORK FINISHED
TWENTY MEN NOW ENGAGED IN
OPENING UP FIVE HUN
DRIED LEVEL

A new head-frame of large pro-
portions has been erected over the
main shaft of the Red Hill Florence
company, powerful double-drum
electric hosting engine will be plac-
ed upon its concrete foundations
within few days and a compressor
of large capacity, now in transit
here. will be installed upon it's ar
rival. The three-compartmen shaft
has been repaired and retimbered to
the 50p-foot level and Manager Nc
Mahon has force of 20 miners en-
played in clearing out this level, in
preparation for advancing the cross
cut which penetrated the main vein
and extending drifts on the vein.
Lateral work was started by the
old Florence American company
from this shaft on the 600, 700 and
SO0-foot levels, as well as at the
point where work is now progress
ing, but none of this work was
carried to the point of exploring the
veins in this territory. The cross
cut on the 500 level was driven
northwest, through the vein, show
ing width of over 20 feet of
highly silicified material, contain
ing small seams of good ore, but
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
ATLANTA NOW SHIPPING ORE
OF GOOD GRADE TO SHELTER

tinuous and carried forward through
the 1750-foot level of the Merger
shaft. AT that time a crosscut had
been started to the southwest to in
tercept the main contact vein on the
15S0-foot level. This was continued
until the vein had been thoroughly
prospected on this level, with the
result that a considerable amount
of low grade ore has been exposed,
together with a few small streaks
showing values as high as $40 per
ton in gold.
THE main southwest crosscut on
the 1750-foot level was then started
feet, where the same vein was ex-
posed, showing a width of 60 feet,
but at this point the values were
very low, averaging only 81 per ton.
A drift was then started to the
southeast, following the vein on the
175O-foot level, and advanced a
distance of about 1875 feet. at which
point the vein was again crosscut
without disclosing ore of CONNER
cial value. The above mentioned
exploration consumed the greater
portion of the year, or up until the
first of November, 1916.
ION the first of November the
Goldfield Consolidated Mines com
pany had advanced with the con-
struction of its flotation plant to
point where it was thought that the
plant would be put in operation on
January L, 1917, and tentative
agreement was entered into with the
Goldfield Consolidated Mines com
pany whereby we would be enabled
to have our ore milled at the new
hotation plant.
I'm the last report you were in
formed that we had exposed on the
property an ore-shoot extending from
the 1750-foot level to the 14OO-foot
level, and having a length of ap-
proXimately 800 feet 1t was from
this ore-shoot that we proposed to
produce the tonnage to be delivered
to the Consolidated mill for treat
ment, and accordingly on November
/, 1916, work was started to make
preparations for mining this ore
Chutes were put in and as much ore
broken as could be stored in the
mine; also the 1750-foot level was
extended to the northwest, exposing
an additional length along the ore
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
KEWANAS IN
PROMISING
DEPOSIT
NEW SOUTH DRIFT FOLLOWS
ORE In CONTACT
ZONE

Driving to the south in the shale
contact zone, at a depth of $40
feet, the Reorganized Kewanas has
exposed ore continuously for over
100 feet, varying in width from two
to four feet and of a grade that
will yield a good profit in shipping.
Conditions in the mine, the long
distance to the shaft and the posi-
tion of the workings and flat dip
of the ore, render it necessary,
however, to proceed with further
development and with the further
blocking out of the ore before un-
dertaking regular production.
From the main north drift, at a
point about 500 feet north of the
winze from which the company's
work is conducted, cross-cut was
driven to the east nearly 800 feet,
where it exposed a wide seam of
good ore on the shale A raise was
started on the ore, but the flat dip
precluded economical work here
and Manager Darcy started an
other raise at point nearer the
main drift.
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
GOLDFIELD CONSOLIDATED GIVES
OUT final REPORT FOR March

both to the leaseholders and the
company. This is indicated by the
statement that during the month of
March ore to the value of 1927 was
extracted and shipped by lessees,
from which the company realized
S5994, less the cost of transporta-
tion and milling.
Leasing activities are for the most
part in territory at considerable
distance from the company's main
workings and a larger revenue is
derived by this system than by work
ing these blocks of ground on COM
pany account. The properties gen
orally are said to be in good condi-
tion, with assurance of an ample
supply for both departments of the
big mill, and the flotation process
has proved altogether successful in
treating the copper-bearing ores
from the company's mines.
Manager Hutchinson's report for
March follows in full:
During the month of March, 1917,
the total production of the company
CONTINUED on Page Five)
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
OLD BULLFROG DISTRICT
PROMISES BIG REVIVAL

The Original Bullfrom Syndicate
is being reorganized, on the assess
able basis, and the new company
will endeavor to make producing
mine of the property, from which
lessees have taken quantities of bo-
nanza ore in surface work. The
ground has never been prospected at
depth and it is planned to start de-
velopment from the old main shaft
and possibly to sink another work.
ing shaft, Interest is again being
attracted to the Bullfrog district,
which produced millions during
the boom period, and several long
idle properties are to be explored
in thorough manner
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
NEW FIND IN
JUMBO EX.
IS RICH
ORE OF BONANZA GRADE Is
OPENED IN VIRGIN TER
RITORY

A new discovery, which appears
to be of the first Importance, has
just been made in Jumbo Extension
ground, at a point where large
area of stopping backs, in virgin ter
ritory is made available if the ore
shoot continues for any consider
able distance. This ore has been
opened in driving an incline raise
from the drift extending parallel
with the east sde-line of the Velvet
claim and just over the line in the
Jumbo Junior company's ground.
opened from the SS0-foot level of the
Velvet mine
Samples of the ore broken at this
point by the Jumbo Extension during
the past few days have yielded uni
formly high assays, returns from
the higher grade material assaying
from 1920 to $3.50 per ton. This
ore is found near the hanging wall
of the vein which has not been
prospected anywhere near this point.
y drift was driven north on the no
foot level following the foot-wall
of the vein, but no indication of the
presence of this ore-shoot was found
in the course of that work.
Another find. which is also regard
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

In the new workings of the Jum-
bo Junior mining company, in the
northwest part of the property and
not far from the boundaries of the
Jumbo Extension and Kewanas,
there is an excellent showing of
high-grade shipping ore and a car
load of this material has been
broken and is ready to load and
send to the sampler.
The announcement has just been
made that the Jumbo Junior COM
pany has secured, under favorable
terms, a lease on the adjoining Ke-
wanas property, covering a block
500 by $50 feet in area and en-
bracing the extension of the vein in
which the high-grade ore has been
found in Jumbo Junior territory
This vein dips into the latter pro-
perty, farther south, from the Vel
vet claim of the Jumbo Extension,
adjoining on the west, and is now
being opened in the Velvet by an in
clined raise from the Jumbo Junior
workings.
Ore of high-grade has been ex-
posed in this vein up to the Ke-
wanas boundary line, on the $50
foot level of the Junior and work is
now continuing beyond the dividing
line and is showing the same gOOd
grade of ore. Some of the ore is
exposed in the new raise, into the
Velvet, has been yielding exceeding
ly high assays, samples taken in
the past few days varying from
1920 to $3.50 per ton.
The Jumbo Junior first opened
what now appears to be the edge
of this orebody, in it's first drift
from the Velvet workings, on the
880foot level winze was sunk
from this drift, following the rather
flat dip of the ore-channel but it
was found impracticable to open up
this ground in thorough manner
b = his method, and it's development
at greater depth will be accomplish
ed by driving into this territory
on one of the deeper levels of the
Velvet mine.
Recent developments on and
above the SSO-foot level indicate
that the company will be enabled
to recover highly profitable ton
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

of the ore broken in new develop
ment work was of unusually high
grade.
Atlanta Mines Co.
Shipments of smelling ore are
now going forward to the sampler
at the rate of nearly so tons daily
and Manager Darcy will begin ship
ping approximately double this vol
ume to the flotation plant of the
Goldfield Consolidated Mines COM
pany as soon as arrangements are
completed by the latter for dis
posing of it's concentrates to best
advantage. In report lately is
sued by the company it is shown
that all Indebtedness, which was in
excess of $4,000 at the time of the
last report, has been liquidated and
the company now has money in the
bank. In an area over 425 feet in
length, throughout the width of
the great ore-channel, and between
the 400 and 1750-foot levels, there
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
SHIP GOOD ORE
At GREAT BEND
SLOPES OPENED AT 3OO-FOOT
LEVEL MAKE GOOD
OUTPUT

Ore of good grade is being shipped
regularly to the sampler from the
Great Bend property, in the Dia-
mCndfeld division of the Go,ificld
district. The delivery of a carload
to the Western Ore Purchasing com
pany's plant has just been com
pleted, another carload is being
sampled at the mine for shipment
and still another is broken in the
mine workings and ready for sam
ping.
Owing to the more or less erratic
and spotted character of the ore
throughout this territory, great care
is observed by Engineer Turner and
Superintendent Dellinger in securing
reliable sampling before the ore
is sent to the railroad cars. To ac-
cOmplish this, plat sampling is re-
sorted to with all ore, every seventh
shovel of ore handled being thrown
on large platform. where it is
tested thoroughly to determine its
value. In this manner the mine as
says are made to conform with the
sampling by the ore purchasers.
A new stope has been opened
lately from the east drift on the 300
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

Shipments of smelling ore, aggre-
eating about 800 tons weekly, or
at the rate of carload every week
day, have been going forward from
the Atlanta mine to the Columbia
sampler of the Western Ore Pur-
chasing company, whence the pro-
duct is shipped to smelters in the
Salt Lake valley for final treatment.
Ore of lower grade will be treated
at the flotation plant of the Con-
solidated Mines company as arrange
ments are perfected for disposing
of the additional concentrate from
this ore.
The annual report of the Atlanta
Mines company issued on April 1G,
and which is now in the hands of a
majority of the stockholders, shows
the financial condition of the cor
pCration to be excellent.
At the time of the issuance of the
previous report, the company had
an Indebtedness of $S5,342S5, in
the form of promissory notes and
bank overdrafts, but every cent of
this Indebtedness has since been
liquidated and the company has y
clean slate, with money in the treas
ury.
The payment of outstanding in
debtedness was brought about
through the sale of treasury stock 70
the amount of S10Q S71 80 Of this
this sum about $4,000 was applied
upon Indebtedness and the interest
thereon, which will not be recur-
rent.
The report of A. H. Howe, secre-
tary and treasurer, discloses the
fact that from April IS, 1915, to
April 10, 1917, the company con
Quoted systematic and extensive
campaign of development. While
the production was limited the COM
ing year promises to witness the
property being entered among the
list of big shippers of the Goldfield
district Secretary Howe states
that there was mined 234.4 tons Of
ore of fair grade, having a gross
value of $2S19.60, and a net real
lied value of $1347.S5.
Regarding general mine develop
ments that were carried out during
the year, A. |. Darcy, general
manager, reports as follows:
Since the last report exploration
work on the property has been con-
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05

is now blocked out or in sight a
vast tonnage of gold-copper ore, es-
timated to average at least $17 per
ton and all of it an ideal product
for flotation. The hanging wall
drift on the 1750-foot level is be-
ing advanced to the north and is
showing ore of shipping grade.
Jumbo Extension
Two new finds have been report
ed within the past few days, either
or both of which may prove of great
Importance, as both are in virgin
territory where there is ample
space for the existence of large de-
posits. At the eastern boundary
of the Velvet claim, near the Jum-
bo Junior boundary, raise from
the 8S0-foot level has exposed some
ore of bonanza quality, picked sam
pies assaying from 1920 to $3.50 per
ton. This is on the hanging wall
OF the vein, in a part of the pro-
perty that has not been prospected
at depth. The other find was made
in raising from a west cross-cut on
the 770-foot level, in the north
western part of the Velvet claim.
The ore, which is of shipping grade,
is apparently the extension of the
rich shoot opened by the Consoli-
dated Mines company, in a strip of
ground leased from the Jumbo Ex-
tension. The latter will seek this
ore On it's deeper levels, as it dips
to the east.
ReOrganized Kewanas
The keWanas mine is in far bet
ter shape than at any time here to-
fore and no doubt remains that in
future 1t will take rank as one of
the important producers of the
Goldfield district For more than
100 feet the south drift from the
cas- cross-cut on the 840-foot level
has advanced on ore of shipping
grade, varying in width from two
to over four feet, but conditions in
the mine demand that further de-
velopment work be performed be-
fore production is undertaken, as
the ore. is a long distance from
the working shaft and only reach
ed, as yet, by circuitous workings.
At a number of places in the mine
good flotation ore is exposed.
Great Bend
Regular shipments are being
made from the slopes opened on
the 300-foot level and in the in
! termediate workings above. Three
! Continued on Page Eight
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-05-05
OLD PRODUCER WILL
AGAIN BE WORKED

The reorganization of the old
Diamondfield Triangle Mining COM
pany, under the name of the Re-
organized Diamondfield Triangle
Mining company, has been perfect
ed and stockholders have been no.
titled of the privilege accorded them
to exchange their shares in the old
corporation for that of the new.
Steps will be taken shortly to list
the stock of the new company on
the San Francisco exchange The
directorate of the company includes
j. x. Turner, w. A. ingalls,, Clyde
p. Johnson and Ben Gill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-11
Mechanical Horse in War.

Recently a mechanical horse" was
driven through the streets of Chicago
to attract fighting men" to the army
recruiting stations. The powerful trac-
tor, to which a field gun and caisson
were hitched, was controlled entirely
by two reins in the hands of a driver.
1t was taken through the congested
loop district" thoroughfares with per-
feet ease. The plan was employed
daily for a fortnight and apparently
melted good results, for during the pc
Rod large numbers of volunteers flied
into the recruiting places. Although
still little known, the machine is not
new type. Primarily it is intended
for agricultural purposes. 1t is suffi-
GENTLY striking in appearance and op-
GRAFTON, however, to prick the curiosity
of the street crowds, and in this capac-
ity il performed valuable work for the
army.-Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-11
French Colonial Possessions.

We appreciate too little the great
magnitude of the French colonial pos
sessions, observes the Manchester
Guardian. French Indo-China alone
has an area of over a quarter of a
million square miles and a population
of over 100000 Of which about 49,
600 are Europeans, excluding military.
In face of heavy difficulties the French
have effected great Improvements,
trade has been organized and In some
parts cotton growing is extending. And
in recent years the rubber industry has
been developed, more particularly in
AMMAN and in Cochin-China The
French colonial possessions altogether
Cncluding Algeria and Tunis) have an
area of about 100000 square miles,
with a population of well over 10000
600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-11
BUYS STATUE MADE IN 1877
American Collector Pays $4,000 for
Piece of Art Once Owned by
King of Prussia.

For the reported price of $4,000,
an American art collector has acquired
la Frileuse," or ''The Shivering Girl"
bronze statue by Houdon.
1t bears the famous sculptor's sigma
ture, and Is dated 1887.
The statue was first exhibited in the
Salon, at Paris, in 1887, and is said to
have then passed into the possession Of
the king of Prussia, although this he's
never been verified. 1t was sought In
all of the royal collections of Germany
by Lady Charles Dixie, but she never
found it.
Later the work turned up in the col
lection of Richard Wallace, which was
bought almost in its entirety by Sir
Murray Scott. Sir Murray Scott left
his objects of art to Lady Sackville
West, who sold them to Jacques Selig-
man Of New York for about 100000.
Houdon made the same statue in
marble, which now IS in the Musee de
Montpelier, France. In the marble
work, however, he added a drapery to
the form, apparently to make it less
likely to be broken. No other example
OF this statue of the same size is known
to exist.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-11

know 1t! Could l suffer the tortures
of the damned IL I didn't? Could I
come to you with q mans blood upon
my hands If didn't? If the prince
lives. 1t is simply the accident of fate.
I tell you that Il we had been alone
should have driven the breath out of
his body. Love your
He rose slowly to her feet. She
leaned with her elbow upon the man
telpiece, and her face was hidden for
a moment.
LET me think p she said. 81 don't
know what to say to you. ] don't
know you, John. There isn't anything
left of the John I loved. Let me look
again !"
She swung around.
"You speak OF love" she went on
suddenly. do you know what 1t is?
Do you know that love reaches to the
heavens, and can also touch the Meth
ermost depths of hen2 If I throw
myself on your knees before you now,
if link my fingers around your neck,
If whisper to you that in the days
that were past before you came had
done things 1 would fain forget, if
told you that from henceforth every
second Of my life was yours, that my
heart beat with yours by day and by
night, that had no other thought, no
other dream, than to stay by your side,
to see you happy, to give all there was
of myself into your keeping, to keep
it holy and sacred for you-John,
what them"
Never line in his face softened. lie
looked at her a moment as he had
looked at the woman in PiccadilIy. into
whose hand he had dropped gold.
"Are you going to tell me that 1t is
the truth?" he asked hoarsely.
Think for a single moment OF that
feeling which you call love, John !"
she pleaded. Listen! love you. 1t
has come to me at last, after all these
years. 1t lives in my heart, a greater
thing than my ambition, q greater
thing than my success, a greater thing
than life itself. love you, John Can't
you feel, don't you know, that moth
ing else in life can ~matter?'
Not line in his face softenad. His
teeth had come together. He was like
a man upon the rack.
at is true? 1t is true, them" he
demanded.
She looked at him without any reply.
The seconds seemed drawn out to an
interminable period. He heard the
rolling of the motorbuses in the street.
Once more the perfume of the lilac
seemed to choke him. Then she leaned
back and touched the bell.
1.-THE prince spoke the truth" she
said. 81 think you had better goI"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-12-11

A gruesome manifestation of prim-
tive belief that exists in many parts
of the world is described by a recent
English writer. K. ]. Beattie, In his &C
count of the human leopard trials held
in 1912 in Sierra Leone. Africa. Near
ly all primitive peoples believe in this
power of certain men to convert them
selves into wild beasts. The werewolf"
legend of the French-Canadians is an
example. In Sierra Leone a certain
cult took advantage of this supersti-
ton to terrorize and kill their fellows,
whom they cooked and devoured
These men were supposed to be able
to take the forms of leopards at will,
and ewing to the spell Of terror in
which they held the people their muir
ders were extremely hard to detect.