The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-02-23
lUN|NG IS ACTIVE
DISTRICT At
PRESENT
MANY PROPERTIES NOW PRO-
DUCING ORE OF EX-
CELLENT GRADE

- hoo OSSh Nhot
la of the several deals recently
mentioned, involving the erection
of a reduction plant at or near Lun-
ing for handling both low and high
grade ores at a minimum of ok
pense, has now reached the point
where it seem certain to be car
lied through to quick consumma-
ton and actual construction COM
menced. 1t is reported that con-
Tracts have been signed and a sub
atantial first cash payment made.
The deal involves the sale of the
entire property interests of the
Wedge Copper company and those
ot the Fermina Sarrias, adjoining,
the taking over of the Darms coal
property of 1900 acres at Coaldale,
the erection of a flotation plant
near Luning, and the construction
of a reverberatory furnace smelling
plant near Sodaville. The fact that
President Walser of the Wedge
company has been working On this
deal for some time Is we'll known
and the visit of the engineers rep
resenting the eastern interests was
reported at the time.
The winze at the Calavada mine
is now down to the 1175-foot point,
Is still dry and in lime. No more
molybdenite has been found for
some days and the pieces picked up
at the %1115-foot point evidently
came from a seam. The north
west drift on the 1000 level Is go
ing ahead nicely, with very little
change in conditions.
In the face of the southeast drift
on the 1000 there Is a vein, Is
inches wide, of crumbly dark col
ored leached sulphide, ~assaying 2
ger cent copper. There are Occa-
Sional punches of chalcopyrite also.
Manager Giesendorfer expects i'm
portant developments in this drift in
the near future, and he seldom yer
lures anything in the nature of a
prediction without good 8
Harry Lind Is making things
hum on the Iroquois company's
ground. The Mastodon tunnel has
been cleaned out to its face, 800
feet from the portal, from which
point a raise has been put up IL
feet The Blue Star tunnel has
been started and advanced 25 feet.
This tunnel is being driven to cut
at depth one of the greatest sur
face mineralizations in the Luning
district, having an area from SO to
$50 feet wide and more than 600
feet long. At 800 feet in, 1t should
encounter the monzonite.
John Marcalja has bought the
Noone lease and Is taking out ore
that should go better than 10 per-
cent copper. In two weeks he has
mined rs tons and expects to send
out a 50-ton shipment shortly. John
O'Connell, a new lessee, Is mining
an equally good grade of ore on
the New York claim, which adjoins
the Mary and whose orebodies are
probably closely related to the lat
ter.
George Jordan, another Iroquois
lessee, has recently made a ship
r1ent from his lease on the New
York lode. Con Bachmann has
also made a shipment, his lease be-
ing on the Mastodon lode at a point
at one time selected by the chief
engineer of the U. S. Smelling COM
pany for a proposed deep shaft, he
deeming the spot an ideal one for
the purpose. In this selection he
guided by typographical and
geological conditions and by the
heavy naturalization of the imme-
date vicinity.
Little change is reported from
the Luning-Idaho mine. For about
GO feet the upper half of Stockham
tunnel No. 2 has been in line, while
the lower half shows porphyry,
with occasional punches of high
grade copper ore in that portion OF
the vein which has not been leached.
Under the direction of John Col
vert, work has been resumed by
the Esmeralda Copper company,
which is controlled by w. H. Stay
back, mayor of Corona, New Jer-
sey. The shaft is all in gossan or
low-grade ore and sinking on 1t
with machine drills is now In
lrogress.
Steady, If not as rapid progress
as might be wished when the I'M
,~,orfanca 0f the ~davelODment is con-