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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
COMP ANY FORMED
FOR MINING At
KLONDYKE
CONTINUATION OF RICH ORE
SHOOT WILL BE
SOUGHT

At recent meeting in Goldfield
the Klondyke-Portland Mines COM
pany was organized with the follow
ing officers Peter Felis, president;
NJ. F. Hill, vice president; J. B. Witt
and Mrs. Helen Rosenthal, directors,
and J. F. Henry, secretary and
treasurer.
The company owns nine claims in
the Klondyke district, north OF
Goldfield, and financing of the
company and starting of work are
planned for the near future.
The nine claims were located
eight years ago and under differ
ent arrangements three shafts have
been sunk, to depths of $50, 100
and 55 feet. The last shaft is dou-
BILE compartment and near it, on the
surface, 100000 worth of high
grade gold-silver-copper ore is said
to have been shipped from the vein
WHlCh tHlo SHdiI was SuHh " pTOS-
pect at depth of SIS feet
The rich ore-shoot on the surface
was quickly worked out and, accord
ing to engineers who surveyed the
vein for the newly-organized com
pany, the former owners drifted in
the wrong direction to cut the vein
and they say only "a feet of lateral
work from the bottom of the shaft
will be necessary to reach it at
point under that from which the
rich ore was taken 1t is the in
tention of the Klondyke- Portland
company to try to find continua-
tion of this ore through work to be
done from the 55-foot shaft. There
is no machinery now on the ground
Good assays still may be secured
from where the rich ore was taken.
only gold and copper now being
found at this place, and at other
places on the surface it is said as
says as high as 5000, principally in
gold and silver, may be obtained.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
NEVADA MINED 6,473,5l9 TONS
OF ORE DURING YEAR 1917

district is in White Pine county
and the Yerington district is in
Lyon county.
Lincoln county produced 10,714,-
1852 pounds of lead and the next
highest lead-mining county was
Clark, with 9,373,S17 pounds.
Eureka contributed 1,7S3,93S, and
Elko 1,O64,145 pounds.
Clark county produced 20,6G0,-
$40 pounds of zinc, from the
GOodsprings district Lincoln
county contributed 1,332,521
pounds.
The total valuation of the prod
uct of White Pine county, in gold.
silver, copper and lead was $26,-
..736,89S.
All five metals were mined in
Nye, which is second on the list
with $7,959,32S.
Lyon is third with $5,250.779;
Clark fourth, with $3,636,05S; Es-
meralda fifth, with $2,363,SS2;
Mineral sixth, with $2,024,514;
Lincoln seventh, with $1,657.6SS;
Humboldt eighth, with $1,154,074:
Churchill ninth, with $909,354:
Lander tenth, with $904,743; Elko
eleventh, with $S25,S64; Storey
twelfth, with $561,166 Eureka
thirteenth, with $263,1S6; Washoe
fourteenth. with $74.O42; Ormsby
fifteenth, with $1544; Douglas last,
with $3.50.
The number of producers in the
several counties varies from 1873 in
Mineral to one in Ormsby.
Placer gold and silver are in
cluded in the totals.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

at far greater depth than was pos
sible with the present equipment
Belmont
In addition to the steady output
of the local mine and mill, the To-
nopah Belmont company has in late
weeks succeeded in putting into ac-
tual commission two more mills at
it's outside properties, exclusive of
the Surf Inlet mill, which has been
in regular operation for nearly a
year. The plants which have re-
Gently started upon ores of their re-
spective properties are those of the
Belmont Wagner Mines company, az
Telluride, Col, and the Eagle Shaw
NUT mine on the Mother Lode in
Tuolomne county, Cal. While neith-
er of these plants has attained its
full capacity as yet, the fact that
they have both been started and
are running steadily is promising
augury for the future of the parent
company, which controls a majority
of the stock of the subsidiary COM
panies.
Very gratifying developments
have been made at the Surf Inlet
mine on Princess Royal island, Brit
| ish Columbia At the 430-foot lev
ell, as work continued in a norther-
ly direction, the vein increased to a
30-foot width, all of it being ore
of very good grade, and the reports
from the directing officers of the
mines state that the Surf Inlet prop
erty is looking better than ever,
that the grade of ore now being
produced is higher, and the devel-
opments all around are of the most
satisfactory character.
The West End Consolidated Min
ing company is rapidly getting into
position to handle it's ores from
all sections of the property. The
work of Strengthening out the trans
/ portation crosscut running between
| the No. shaft and the shaft at the
Ohio ground has practically been
completed, the only work that re-
| mains to be done is the enlarging OF
1 the station at the SOOfoot level to
accommodate more than one track.
This cannot be accomplished until
the ore pocket at the 900 level Is
completed, but since the work is go
ing ahead rapidly the possibilities
are that the West End will soon
have it's excavation work finished
and in shape for the installation OF
the electric motors and the neces-
sary equipment, which will give
greater and more practicable meth
ods of handling ore from the differ
ent portions of the mine.
In the meanwhile the company
CONTINUED on Page Eight
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
GREAT BEND IS EXPLORING Vein

The raise from the 1O2-B stope
on the 160-foot level has connected
with an adit, air being secured in
this way, and drifting will now be
started from a point in the raise 40
feet above the 113 drift. This drift
will be started on a full face of $40
ore.
On the 100 level, close to 102
stope, two feet of 500 ore is being
broken.
The work of particular interest in
the mine at this time is that being
done on the 375-foot level, as the
drift being driven here will enter
territory directly under the big
slopes on the $50 level, from which
an important production of high
grade ore was made some months
ago.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

The drift on the 375-foot level
of the Great Bend has been advanc-
ed $50 feet in an easterly direction
from the shaft and is being con-
tinued in low-grade ore. Cross
cutting north will soon be started
from this drift to thoroughly pros
pect the big vein and to get under
orebodies opened on upper levels.
Ore of high grade was shipped
from the vein as opened above and
large quantities of low-grade ore
also was exposed at a number OF
places. 1t is now the intention OF
Consulting Engineer ]. X. Turner
to explore this vein at SIS feet and
it is believed the work will result
in good bodies of both high and
low-grade ore being opened in the
near future.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
GRANDMA STARTS
DRIFTING At
800 LEVEL
WATER PIPE NOW is BEING IN
STALLED IN
SHAFT

The Grandma sump cross-cut has
been advanced to a point 100 feet
west of the shaft ana will be con-
tinued to the west side line of the
Grandma ground to prospect this
territory at a depth of SIS feet.
The face is now in quartz and
assays running to $1.90 in gold
have been obtained recently. The
working is being driven in silicified
latte and general conditions thus
far found are the same as developed
in other ore-bearing regions of the
district.
A station is now being cut in the
shaft at the 800-foot point and
pump will be installed here, elimi-
mating the bailing of water. On the
surface the air compressor is in
place and will be running soon,
making it no longer necessary to
pipe air from the Jumbo Extension.
A tool-sharpening machine also is
being installed and the next work
to be undertaken will be placing
the water pipe in the shaft.
The installation of the pipe is
fast work, as the lengths are low
cred on the cable used in hoisting
and as each length is lowered level
with the collar of the shaft another
is attached to it, the work continu-
ing in this way until the pipe reach
es the bottom of the shaft.
In sinking the shaft from a depth
of $50 feet to the S00-foot point it
passed through the vein and the
cross-cut now being driven at So
feet is designed to cut vein paral-
leling this. From the station at
500 feet drifts will be extended
northeast and southwest from the
shaft and cross-cuts will be run to
open the vein exposed at $50 feet
in the shaft.
It is believed the latter vein is
the main vein In the Grandma
ground, which crops at the surface
west of the shaft, dipping to the
east, and which may be traced
south into the Spearhead Gold Min
ing company ground.
From the depth at which the
shale was found in the Grandma
property, it is believed it was ex-
posed at a point not far from the
deepest depression in the shale's
surface, which extends long dis
tance south and it is the general be-
lief of authorities on the geology
of the Goldfield district that the
best orebodies in the shale contact
zone are found along the course OF
this depression and that the explor-
ing of the shale's surface in the
Grandma will lead to important dis
coveries.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

According to report issued by
c. V. Heikes of the U. S. geologi-
cal survey, Esmeralda county pro-
duced $2,363,SS2 in gold, silver,
copper, lead and zinc in 1917.
The production of the entire
state in these metals was valued
at $54,424, $50, as against $49,-
546,424 in 1916. In 1917 there
were 953 producers, as against
779 in 1916.
Sixty-one mines in Esmeralda
county produced 349,655 short
tons of ore, from which metal was
secured as follows: Gold, 96.-
O72.S fine ounces; silver, 1928
fine ounces; copper, 762,627
pounds; lead, 44S,431 pounds
and the recoverable zinc content
of the ores was 5,402 pounds.
The average value of the metals,
taken in reaching total of $2,-
363.SS2, was: Gold, $20,671S per
ounce; silver, 1924 per ounce
copper, $.273 per pound; lead
$.086 per pound, and zinc, $.102
per pound.
The leading gold-producine
county of the state was Nye, with a
production of $97,099.94 fine
ounces. Esmeralda was second.
The leading iilver-producine
county was, of course, also Nye
with 7,172,642 fine ounces, pro-
duced mainly in Tonopah.
The two big copper counties
White Pine and Lyon, produced a
total of 113, ,1S3,330 pounds, White
Pine contributing 93,786.32S and
Lyon 19,397,OO2 pounds. The Ely
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
(Tonopah Miner)


After a series of delays in the ar
rival of electric equipment at the
Tonopah Divide, it all has been re-
ceived and is on the ground ready
to be installed and connected up.
The management hopes to have the
electric current switched on within
the next week or ten days, which
means greatly increased develop
ment for the Tonopah Divide. 1t
means that drifting in both direc-
tions on the vein can be carried on
at the same time, as we'll as devel-
opment work in other parts of the
property.
The management contemplates
resuming operations in the south
cross-cut on the 260-foot level,
which was extended several hundred
feet in a southerly direction for
the purpose of cutting vein that
was worked on the surface in the
early stages of development,
and which is several hundred feet
south of the ledge which has been
opened up on the 160. 26O ana ef0
levels. After the electric power is
installed it will be an easy matter
tn carry on this york as well as de-
velopment work on the S7O-toot
level, in several places.
The development on the 37O-foot
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
IR0N-0RE DEPOSITS MAY BE Mined IN THIS COUNTY

extensive and are part of the iron
mining. the ore being designated
among the grades of iron ores. In
the manganiferous iron ore the man
ganese varies from l to so per cent
of the metallic content.
AS the manganese percentage
increases the iron percentage de-
creases, the combined percentage
of the two metals being usually
about so to 60 per cent of the ore.
Until the last three years mangan-
ese ore carrying less than 35 per
cent of manganese was not used
and iron ore carrying between 2 to
35 per cent manganese was not de-
sired.
During the past few years the
smelling of iron ores has been so
advanced that today, under ordi-
nary conditions the manganiferous
iron ores are used for three pur-
poses.
Iron ores containing from to s
per cent of manganese are premium
iron ores and are used as fluxes in
reducing the average ore to pig
iron, but is lost in the Stag ant
serves as cleaner during the
smelling, making a better grade of
pig iron.
The ore containing from s to 35
per cent of manganese is used to
make pig iron which contains from
10 to 25 per cent of manganese and
is known to the iron trade as spie-
geleisen. Ore containing 35 or more
per cent of manganese is used to
make ferro-manganese which con-
tains from so to 70 per cent man
ganese and the balance iron.
The Importance of the manganif-
erous iron ores may be seen in the
fact that these ores have been put
in the preferred class and in ship
ping have the right of way over
other iron ores, by rail and water.
Owing to the fact that the Coal
dale district has coal mines which
have extensive beads of good cox
ing coal within 10 miles of the iron
deposits, which would furnish all
the fuel required in the reduction
of the ore, also the presence of an
abundance of all the materials need
ed for fluxes in iron furnaces and
with a plentiful supply of water for
all purposes, the plans under con-
sideration may lead to the estab-
lishment of furnaces in the district
to produce ro-manganese, spiegel-
eisen and pig iron on the ground,
rather than ship the raw ore to the
coast. Leaving out of consideration
the fact that the Coaldale deposits
are said to have qualities not pos
sessed by other western deposits,
they can compete with the Utah
iron mines on account of better
transportation facilities.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
TonOpah Mining


Tonopah Miner: w. H. Black
burn, general superintendent of the
Tonopah Mining company and its
subsidiary companies, has recently
returned from an extended trip to
the Eden mine, located in Nicarag-
ua, in the Pts Pts mining district,
and which is controlled by the To-
nopah Mining company. Mr.. Black
burn in an interview with a repre-
sentative of the Miner stated that
the tunnel which was being driven
to convey water for hydraulic pow
er was almost completed and that a
new power head would soon be in
power from 500 to 700 horsepower.
At the same time work is in prog
ress N installing a new unit, which
will furnish an additional 700
horsepower, giving a total of 400
F! horsepower, which will be ample to
operate the mine and the mill at
the same time. On account of in
adequate power it was decided to
close down the mill last March and
apply the entire power to operating
the mine, which resulted in ma
terial amount of development work
being accomplished, which other
wise could not have been done. The
management confidently expects
| that within the next month or two
sufficient power will have been de-
veloped to run both the mine and
mill at full capacity with most sat
isfactory results.
TOnopah FIX.
The Tonopah Extension Mining
company has completed it's founda-
tion work on the 16SO-foot level
upon which will be installed the
large pump that was purchased re-
Gently. The new pump, supple
menting the first-stage pumps on
| the 1540-foot level, will be more
than ample to take care of the
needs of the property in regard to
keeping the workings clear of the
water, which. in the Extension, has
at times been a serious handicap to
the steady working of the mine and
the development of the big veins
that exist in the Victor section OF
the property.
1t is also expected that within a
short time the new powerful hoist
which the company purchased some
time ago, and the headframe to ac-
company it, will be installed; and
with these construction works COM
pleted the Extension company will
be in position to put through the
plans which the directors have In
mind. namely, to explore the mine
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

ganese ore is usually free from
iron and is used chiefly for chemi-
cal purposes. When this mangan-
ese is sufficiently low in silica and
PHOSPHORUS it is used in the man
ufacture of steel and iron..
The deposits of this ore are gen.
orally erratic and pockety, so that
the mining of straight manganese
ore is a hazardous business.
Ry far the largest amount of
manganese used in the iron trades
is derived from the manganiferous
iron-ore deposits, which are usually
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

The work so far done indicates
that considerable tonnage of high
grade manganese ore may be ex-
pected in addition to the immense
tonnage of manganiferous iron ore.
and Esmeralda county may become
a factor in the production of man
ganese ore.
In passing, it may be stated that
the deposits of straight manganese
ore differ considerably from the
manganese found associated with
iron deposits The straight man
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07

The statement made recently by
a prominent banker of San Francis
CO that plans are maturing for the
investment of $25,000,000 of San
Francisco money in the development
of western iron-ore deposits and
the iron and steel industries on the
Pacific coast by establishing iron
furnaces and steel works in the bay
district is of special interest at
this time to Nevada, on account of
creating a market for the vast ton
mage of high-grade iron ore and
low-grade manganese ores in the
state.
Locally this is of great interest,
since the large iron deposits at Cup
rite and the manganese and man
ganiferous iron properties near
Coaldale, which are estimated to
contain from 100000 to 15,000,-
900 tons of ore, are owned by Gold
field men. In view of the demanl
in the near future for these ores, a
number of properties in southern
Nevada have been recently investfe
gated and plans made for their de-
velopment by A. H. Elftman of
Goldfield, mining geologist who
has had wide experience in iron
mining in the Lake Superior iron
ranges.
DR.. Elftman states that the Coal
dale deposits contain the best quail
ity of Bessemer iron ore so far
found in the west. The Harris iron
mine in this district, located only
three miles from Rockhill siding,
on the Tonopah & Goldfield rail-
road, has the largest body of man
ganiferous iron ore known west of
the Rockies. The iron Gaping
above the ore is extensive over an
area 1000 feet long and 500 feet
wide, in places showing a solid iron
ore cropping 800 feet wide.
Several pits and tunnels have
been dug through the capping into
the ore and one shaft is 45 feet
deep in solid iron ore which runs
from 54 to 81 per cent iron and
averages Aiive per cent manganese,
giving an ore which contains total
me lie content of iron and man.
ganese of from SO to 67 per cent,
with less than four per cent silica
and low in phosphorous, placing the
ore in the Bessemer class.
This is a high-grade ore when
comapred with the eastern iron
ores. which as shipped run from 10
to 60 per cent in iron and the bulk
of the 5O,OOO,O00 tons shipped an
nually from the Lake Superior
mines averages only SO per cent
natural, in iron or where mangan-
ese is present in combined iron and
manganese content.
While manganese is present in
every part of the ore. one bed OF
iron 22 feet wide and which was
opened for a distance of 500 feet In
length is said to average 22 per
cent in manganese A pit ten feet
deep in this vein cut ore which is
said to have assayed 33 to 46 per
cent manganese.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-07
SILVER PICK PREPARING
TO START LATERAL WORK

AT a depth of 1850 feet the Silver
Pick company is now cutting a sta
tion and preparing to drift in two
directions from the shaft At 1850
found in the alaskite in other parts
of the Goldfield district, was found
in the shaft.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
DOLL BAZAAR A THING OF BEAUTY
Hundreds of Dolls Make At tractive Display and Sales
 Are Brisk

Large crowds were in attendance yesterday at the Children's Hospital baaar. located at the store formerly occupied by the Rich shoe store, First avenue. anG those in charge report a brisk sale of dolls, dull clothing, pre- serves and other articles The dolls are the principal feature of the hazar. however, and there is a bewildering array of dolls of high and low degree, dainty doll accessories and furniture, which are offered for sale at reason able prices.
 The ladies in charge state that the sales have been good so far. There is choice collection yet to choose from and many of the daintiest and most beautiful dolls are unsold.
 The bazar is attractive in every par ticular. for as we'll as the wonderful display of dolls the decorative effects are strikingly effective. Everybody is invited to call and see the lovely his- night with "victcry'' ball at the Country club.
 Among the ladies assisting in the affair are Mrs. Crawfoyd Johnson. president of the Children's hospital; Mrs. Mortimer Jordan. chairman of the soldiers doll committec: Mrs. John |. Yeatman and Mrs J. Mercer Barnett of the doll committee; Miss Margaret Coleman, doll accesscries; Mrs Ted Joy, housekeepers booth Mrs. Be M. Allen. chairman decorative committee, and many others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
'STROCK IS GIVEN PERMANENT PAROLE BY THE GOVERNOR
Since Incarceration Former School Teacher Taught Many Prisoners to
 Read and Write

Montgomery. December 4.-(Speeial1 Arthur A.. strock the prisoner who had charge of the illiteracy campaign among year, and whose parole was revoked by Governor Henderson because of alleged acts of insubordinatnn, was granted 8 permanent parole by Governor Henderson Wednesday afternoon. Strock's prison record has been an unusual one
 He pleaded guilty to false pretense Il Morgan county and was sentenced five years. It was alleged that he forged the name of a Decatur merchant to : check for so, the check being returned, Strock eonteuded that the merchant au-
 thorzed him on the telephone to sign
 his name and the bank accepted the
 signature. After his arrest he refused
 to call on friends declaring he would
 not embarrass them by letting them
 lSrow he was in trouble
 Immediately after beginning his term, Strock, who had been school teacher and newspaper man, took an interest not read and write. He was paroled for this work and travelled from camp t. camp A charge Of insubordnaticn then was preferred against him by warden and the parole was revoked. Since that time StroclS has been at Flat Top Strock is well educated and recently 3 poem written by him was purchase by national magazine He has con trihuted ito Alabama newspapers through out the time he has been in prison. In stead of denying the charge against hin, Strock has admitted it and has declared that the lesson he has learned will be of value throughout his life.
 Strock has already been offered ans accepted position in Washington Whicf will pay him good salary. In grant ing the parole the governor stated tha' his record since the revocation of the parole had been excellent and he believes justice would be done by the return q Strocl1's liberty. Citizens of Morgan county and the bank which lost the money joined in the request. Strock friends reimbursed the bank for it's los shortly after his arrest.