The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-07-17

! camp SATURDAY 10 meet george l..
Parish, consulting engineer, who is
on the road from New York to Ne
yada. Upon his arrival, the two OIL
cials will proceed to National and
formally take over the property of the
National Mines Company, under the
least which became effective last Sun
day.
Proposed Developments
Surface prospecting of the southern
extension of the National vein will
be energetically continued at the same
time that the extension of the Ma
tional Mines workings is going on
The development campaign contem-
plated is the immediate extension of
the eighth level to the National Leas-
ing property, continuing to drift to
the southwark along the vein. De-
tailed assays and geological plats will
be kept and raises will be put in the
vein at points where promising indi-
cations are encountered. The ground
will be further blocked out by sub
levels. If high grade ore shoots are
encountered the National Leasing
Company has, through it's control of
the National Mines workings, COM
| plete equipment and all necessary IA
cilities for preventing theft and for
immediate shipment. If milling ore
is opened up, the stamp mills can be
put into operation quickly.
What may be expected if the mining
| operations now about to begin prove,
as some geological experts have con-
tended, that the most valuable por-
ton of the vein is that which lies
south of the National Mines property,
may be gathered from facts brought
out from testimony in the trial of an
action brought in 1912 by the National
Mines Company in the United States
Circuit Court at Carson City. against
owners of adjoining claims. To sus-
tain it's contention it was necessary
in this suit, among other points, for
the National Mines Company to prove
that its vein extended both north and
south of its property. To establish
this fact, which was finally judicially
j conceded, geologists and engineers of
national reputation were called as
witnesses.
Frank Taylor, then superintendent
of the National mine, testified: "The
| flrst-class ore is worth from $40 to
+ $40 or $50 a pound North of the Stall
shaft we took out of a very small
space $4,000. This bunch weighed
nearly one and one-half tons"
Mr.. Taylor added that this $4,000
of ore was taken out in less than four
hours.
George Stall, one of the discoverers
of the mine, testified that one ship
ment of more than a ton netted him
and his brother SOS pound, or $780,
600 ton.
Mining Engineer Harrison testified
that their second-class ore ran as
high as $4,000 a ton. and that ship
ment of high-grade weighing 4,50O
pounds brought $965,000.
Charles Campbell. one of the high
grade BOSSES" testified that he alone
in an eight-hour shift had taken oat
as much as 1885 pounds of high-grade
ore, while another boss took out a
ton of ore in eight hours. worth $780,
600.
II r. S. Bolam, former superintendent
of the National mine, has stated that
in six and one-half hours, with but
one miner as helper, he took out $751;
600 in high-grade ore. One specimen
shipped to Chicago, weighing 1S6
pounds, netted $91.27 a pound
II al sncfallad fhn
first mill for the early owners of the
National mine, stated that fifteen tons
of ore, just as taken from the Slopes,
produced bullion worth more than
$1,OO0.00O.
Bulletin No. col of the United States
Geological Survey states: The ore
shipped averaged about $4,000 per
ton. About 1912 small mill was To-
Gated at the Stall shaft for the pur-
pose of treating the dump. About
S650,000 was turned out of this little
mill in less than three months"
Horage V. Winchell. the famous
geologist employed by the Anaconda
mine and other great companies, tes-
tilted in the lawsuit referred to above
that the National vein was the most
remarkable and persistent vein con-
: tinuity in his experience; that it was
a fissure vein continuous in depth,
and that the same fissure continued
700 feet and more into the ground
now under the control of the National
Leasing Company.
Waldemar Lindegren. an expert Of
he United States Geological Survey,
who was one of the witnesses in the
National lawsuit, has described this
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