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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-14

Retimbering and cleaning of the
Pioneer shaft will soon be complet-
ed. This work is being done by
the ReorganiZed Pioneer Mines
company, successor to the Pioneer
Consolidated Mines company, the
company having recently been re-
organized.
During former operations the
main shaft was permitted to fill up
to the third level. This material
has been hoisted and the shaft
cleared to depth of $50 feet. The
retimbering is following closely.
The main shaft of the Pioneer mine
is to be sunk to a depth of 500
feet, where the sulphide zone
should be reached, according to the
consulting engineer for the COM
pany, J. X. Turner. This work
will be pushed with all possible
speed and two shifts will be en-
ployed until the S00foot level
has been reached.
w. J. Tobin, president of the
company, stated that actual sink
ing below the 400-foot level will
begin during the present month.
The Mayflower and the Pioneer
mines have combined production
of gold ore to their credit in ex-
cess of $1,OOO,O0O, and much of
the ore mined in the Mayflower
has averaged between $14 and $50
per ton in gold. The ore mined
and shipped to the smelters from
the Pioneer has averaged $43.71
per ton. Much of the ore shipped
gave a smelter return in excess of
800 per ton.
Both mines are well equipped
for operating on big scale and
are expected to contribute in no
small way to the gold production
of the state during the coming
year.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-12-14
MAYFl0WER Mine CONTROL IS SOLD BY v. ]. TOB|N

there is a known orebody with a
possibility of finding ore in driving
this drift.
Fourteen hundred feet north of
the Mayflower shaft lessees sunk
an incline shaft S5 feet on the
vein. On the S0-foot level they
drifted south 40 feet. North at
collar of shaft samples taken from
20 feet of groupings every three
feet and three feet across, show an
average of $3.50. These sam
pies represent an oreshoot 60 feet
long, 80 feet deep and three feet
wide, or approximately 500 tons of
ore. On the S5-foot level a hang
ing wall crosscut, in 80 feet, cut a
parallel vein showing six feet of
$12 ore. By advancing the 800
foot level north drift 500 feet to
cut these two parallel veins at this
depth, would give approximately
10000 tons of probable ore. From
an economic point of view, l would
advise that this work be done on
the 3O0-foot level.
THE cost of stopping varies ac-
cording to the width of the ore
body and the cost of development
work and according to the report
of the former manager, Mr.. Code,
mining costs averaged 50 per ton
for nine months in 1911.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

Sometimes people say there is no
more ore in Goldfield, that the
mines are worked out and that the
future can be nothing but dark, but
here is the story of a mine in the
heart of the district and the work
that is being done in it by men
and who have been rewarded by
the uncovering of ore that assays
as high as $4,000 to 100000 ton.
These men have 5000 tons of ore
on the dump at the shaft through
which they are working that will
assay from 81 to SIS and in the
mine they have one orebody alone
that is from 35 to 40 feet wide and
that assays from 81 to SIS in free
milling gold ore. 1t would be diff
ficult to persuade these men that
there is no more ore in Goldfield.
After securing permission to pros
pect the C. o. d. property, on July
10 of this year, M. F. Hill. John
Goldman, Kenneth Wade and e. A.
Ludwick took a one-year lease on a
block of ground 600x400 feet, COM
prising practically all of the Gold
Bar claim and part of the Victor
claim of the c. o. d.
1t is estimated that in the past
the C. o. D. company spent $780,
600 in prospecting this property
The G. o. D. shaft is 500 feet deep,
the Victor shaft is over 500 feet
deep, the c. o. D. M. & L. shaft is
100 feet deep, the Florence C. o. D.
shaft is 400 feet deep and there is
at least one other shaft on the
property 500 feet deep. A great
amount of lateral work has been
done
Despite this, refore the pres3nt
iessees signed the'' lease they had
cpened five feet of ore that assay
ed $374.74. This ore was found
near the surface ard in a place
where an incline -. re had been
sunk 125 feet in a search for ore.
The winze was found to have been
sunk directly between two shoots
of high-grade ore.
The side lines of the lease run
east ard west through the Gold Bar
claim and the lease includes terri
tory in the Victor ground to, but
not including, the Victor shaft. The
side lines of the Gold Bar and Vic
tor claims run north and south.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

| in the copper sulphide zone. The
lessees are now stopping from two
to five feet of ore at this point and
the showing is considered remark
able by Ludwick, who is a man OF
wide experience.
This ore, assaying from $50 to
$7G.10, has been exposed for 200
feet and the body was sampled by
taking seven mine carloads of ma
terial from it. The ore contains
from two to five and one-half per
cent copper, the remainer of the
value being in gold. Over a dis
tance of 200 feet the body is
practically continuous. Work at
this point was started only eight
days ago, but a production is being
made as rapidly as possible and two
large bins already have been filled.
This ore-shoot runs north and south.
Six men have been employed by the
lessees since July 16, but an entire
month was lost in cleaning out the
old chutes and other workings and
retimbering them in many places.
Dudwick was the first man to
open a body of ore at Rochester
when he discovered ore in the Big
Four lease on the Crown Point
claim of the Rochester Mines COM
pany, and he is a practical mining
man of wide experience.
In discussing the possibilities of
the lease on the c.. o. ID. property
and of the mine in general, he said
there were thousands of tons of
good free-milling gold ore in the
mine and that at one point there
was vein from 35 to 40 feet wide
exposed from which assays of from
81 to SIS may be secured over the
entire width. He said the C. o. d.
was a big mine, that few realized it
and that had it been the intention
of early-day lessees to avoid ore in
their work they could not have
done it more cleverly.
He said all work had been to
the south, the foot-wall side, and
that the main ore zone never had
been cross-cut Practically no work
had been done to the north. He
said the ground was heavily miner
allied and that he believed the ter
ritory on the 200-foot level north
east of the main Gold Bar shaft,
had great possibilities.
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
Observation-Disclosures
sinking DEEP SHAFT
ON MERGED CLAIMS

The great vein of the Divide dis
trict that runs through the Tonopah
Divide property also crosses the
East Divide ground and the most
prominent blowout" found along
the course of this vein anywhere in
the district is on the Merced claims,
which adjoin the Gold zone proper
ty and lie between the East Divide
and the Tonopah Divide.
The East Divide company was in
corporated in March and efforts to
finance it in the east Immediately
were successful. The Auto group
was located by Goldfield and Tono-
pah men and the Merced claims lat
er were purchased for what is un-
derstood to have been a substantial
amount.
The latter claims are considered
by mining men to be of particular
value, owing to the prominent out
crop and the surface formation is
said to be identical with that found
on the Tonopah Divide ground. As
says of from 81 to SO have been
obtained at many places on the sur
face.
The starting OF the shaft is re-
garded as of importance to Divide,
as it means that, under direction of
J. X. Turner, consulting engineer
and vice president of the East Di-
vide, another amply financed and
well-directed company has started a
search for ore in ground that is re-
garded as being particularly promis-
ing.
The officers of the East Divide
company are Joseph Mayer, presi-
dent; j. K. Turner, vice president; /;
Ben Gill, secretary and treasurer.
These officers, with Charles S.
Sprague and C. A. Leager, consti-
tute the board of directors.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
NEVADA NOW HAS
FIVE MINING
SCHOOLS
MEN MAY EASILY FIT THEM
SELVES FOR HIGHER
POSITIONS

Nevada was the first state to
introduce a system of secondary
mining education for the men en-
ployed in it's metal mines and mills.
Beginning with a single school
operated as an extension department
of the university of Nevada, the
system has grown until it now con-
sists of five distinct schools.
Four of these are permanently To-
Gated at Virginia City, Tonopah,
Goldfield and Ely, while the fifth is
a moving school which is at present
in session at Yerington, but is free
to go to any camp in Nevada where
the demand is sufficient.
The object of Nevada's second
ary mining schools is to enable
working miners and mill men to fit
themselves for higher positions
without stopping work. Positions
for which training is given are such
as foreman, sampler, assayer, sur
veyor and prospector.
No attempt is made to train min
ing engineers and metallurgists, but
young men doing well in the sec
ondary schools are encouraged to
go to the Mackay school of mines
at the university of Nevada for en-
gineering training. Thus these
schools fulfill the two-fold purpose
of enabling men at work to study
mining subjects and of supplying
trained men for minor positions
about the mines and mills.
The only requirement for en-
trance into these schools is the
ability. to talk and rei d English,
and the instruction is elementary
and practical in character The
regular class work consists of two
hours daily, excepting Saturdays
and Sundays, divided between two
subjects.
Instruction is given at two differ
ent two-hour periods to accommo-
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Large H|GH-GRADE OREBOD|ES Being Mined IN CO. D..

The lease is being worked through
the main shaft on the Gold Bar,
which is 535 feet deep. This shaft
is considered by Ludwick, who is in
charge of mining operations, to be
the best shaft in the district, as it
is sunk in ground that does not
swell. 1t was put down in 1907
and from then until the present
lessees started work few repairs
were made, but the lessees found it
in perfect condition.
The first ore found, opened be-
fore the lease was signed, was dis
covered by Ludwick in an incline
winze sunk 125 feet from a drift
run so feet east from the shaft, or
toward the Victor shaft. This drift
is 65 feet from the surface.
Two ore shoots cross exactly
where former operators started sink
ing the winZe and the ore was lost
at this point and the winze sunk
125 feet, apparently in an effort to
recover it. The present lessees are
working now SO feet below the sta
tion and have stopped back 35 feet
on the ore-shoot south of the winze,
but little work has been done in
the shoot north of the winze.
The value of the ore in this stope
varies greatly, but assays lower
than $84 never have been taken
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
M|N|NGF0R MANYM|NERALS
IS Being CONDUCTED
THROUGHOUT STATE

and the plant will be operating be-
fore the winter, according to pres
ent plans.
Work by the jefferson Gold &
Silver Mining company, in Jeffer-
son canyon, eight miles from Round
Mountain, is proving successful, ac-
cording to statement of S. H.
Brady, general manager for the
company
This property, the Kanrohat,
with adjoining mines, produced sew
eral millions in silvergold ore dur
ing the early period of operations
The vein system has been opened
on four levels, giving 1000 feet of
backs on the main vein. The ore
contains silver and gold in about
the same proportion as the ore
found in the Tonopah district.
Recovery by flotation is reported
to be unsatisfactory and it is said
new equipment will be installed to
insure a higher extraction.
Candelaria. the old camp of the
'70's, is said to be making an out
put that will press Tonopah as
silver producer next year. Candle
laria produced $20,O00,000 before
the decentralization of silver caused
work to be stopped.
The Candelaria Mines company
has taken over the holdings of the
original company and it Is said
100000 tons of ore on dumps will
assay from IL to ! ounces of silver
per ton. Work is now being done
at depth of 220 feet in a tunnel
on the Lucky Hill group and three
veins have been opened. At one
point it is said there is vein which
is believed to be continuous for 500
feet, eight feet wide. and assaying
CONTINUED on Page Eight
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

DR.. H. C. Hall of Las Vegas, ply
sician for the Salt Lake route, has
closed deal for the sale of one
fourth interest in the Davidson
manganese mine at Phoebe. His in
terest was purchased by the Prince
Consolidated Mining & Smelling
company of Phoebe, which already
owned a three-fourths interest. He
received $6O,5OO in cash.
The Prince company has been de-
veloping the mine for the past two
years and great bodies of ore have
been blocked out. The property ad-
joins the original Prince Consolidat-
ed ground and also the Virginia
Louise mine.
Men working at the head OF
Brunswick canyon, near Carson, are
opening vein OF what is said to be
exceptionally high-grade mangan-
ese ore. During the past two
months considerable work has been
done on properties north of the Es-
kay ground and in each instance
manganese ore has been found. As
says are averaging over so per cent,
while good quantities of higher
grade ore are being mined. 1t is
said eastern people are considering
the purchase of the ground and that
it may be developed on "a large scale
in the near future.
The Standard Oil Shale company
is now ready to construct plant
near Elko that will reduce 200 tons
of shale daily. The small expert
mental plant on the Catlin property
will be enlarged.
The Stahlman process will be
used for extracting the oil from the
shale and the crude oil will be treat
ed by the cracking process to con-
vert it into gasoline. Construction
work will be started in short time
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
RED HILL SHIPS
TWELFTH CAR
OF ORE
WORK ON ALL LEVELS EN-
POSING GOOD MILL
ORE

The Red Hill Florence company
recently shipped to the smelter the
18th car of ore and enough ore for
several other carload shipments is
ready and will be sent to the smelt-
er as rapidly as cars can be secur-
ed, according to Manager ]. B. Ken
dali.
Six working faces continue to
show shipping-grade ore at points
from the 800 to 500 level and the
mine production depends entirely
on the ability of the management
to secure cars.
In addition to the shipping-grade
ore being mined, work on all levels
is exposing good bodies of mill ore
The best shipping-grade ore has
been coming from the Rogers vein,
in which two ore-shoots have been
cut on the 50O-foOt level, east of
the main workings. Good-grade ore
also is being mined in new terri
tory on the 800 level.
The average grade of ore being
broken continues excellent and the
showing in the raises from the 400
and 500-foot levels is particularly
gratifying. These workings are in
territory leased from the Florence
Goldfield company and below the
Red Hill apex, the ore mined thus
coming under the lowest royalty in
the extralateral-rights agreement
between the two companies.
The station on the 600 level, to
which point the shaft has been re-
timbered. has been enlarged and
prepared for exploration work north
and south from the shaft. Exten-
sive work at this depth Is planned
as soon as development work on
the upper levels has progressed
further.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

Mining operations on the proper
ty of the East Divide Mining COM
pany, owning the Auto group of
six claims and the two Merced
claims in the Divide district, now
are progressing rapidly.
The sinking of a shart on the
north end of the Merced ground has
been started in the hanging wall of
the vein and is gaining depth rap
idly. A complete plant of hoisting
and other machinery will be INSTALL
ed in a short time.
A great amount of excavating has
been done in the past 10 days into
the side of hill near the shaft for
the erection of a building to house
the hosting and other machinery,
and 10000 feet of shaft timber has
been hauled to the property. One
building has already been erected
and two others are on the way. A
complete outfit for the blacksmith
shop is on the ground and ready to
install.
The East Divide shaft is 5000
feet from that of the Tonopah Di.
vide mine and the power line to the
Divide will be tapped at point
5000 feet from the East Divide
shaft. This work will be started
Immediately by the Nevada-Califor-
MIA Power company and, as the
erection of poles and the stringing
of wire will require but short
time, the East Divide soon will have
the advantage of electric power in
sinking the shaft to a depth of 800
feet, as it is the plan of the man
agement to sink to at least this
point, although lateral work may be
started before the shaft reaches this
depth, depending on conditions
found.
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and ore worth 50 and SO a pound
frequently is found. The ore-shoot
has been found to be from five to
IL feet wide.
This ore is lowered through the
winze to the 200 level and from
there taken to the shaft for hoist
ing to the surface. Two carloads
of ore that Ludwick estimates will
run over 5000 per ton now is ready
for shipment. In addition to this,
20 sacks of ore, or about three and
one-half tons, some of which assays
$4,000 to $4,000 ton, is ready
for shipment.
Included in the ore to be shipped
unsacked is a considerable quantity
of high-grade which 1t is necessary
to ship in this way because sacks
cannot be obtained. Canvas for the
75 sacks had to be purchased and
the sacks made by the lessees.
Cars for the shipment were or
dered 10 days ago, but have not yet
been delivered by the railroad.
In addition to the free-milling
gold ore taken from the winze,
there is ready for shipment one car
load of ore that it is estimated will
average well over $50 per ton. This
was taken from the 200-foot level,
near the Victor shaft, or almost ex-
actly on the Gold Bar side line, and
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14
TONOPAH DEVELOPMENTS
SET FORTH IN REPORTS

Tonopah Miner: The Tonopah
Belmont sent to the mill 1895 tons,
the Tonopah Mining 1900 tons, the
Tonopah Extension 2184 tons, the
Jim Butler 217 tons, the West End
TT tons, the Rescue &C tons, the
MacNamara 315 tons, the Montana
1872 tons, the Halifax 112 tons, and
miscellaneous 22 tons, making the
total production for the week 1886
tons, the estimated value being
$15S,695. This valuation is calcu-
lated on the gross milling value of
the ore.
Tonopah Mining
While the development in the To-
nopah Mining company continues
along the same lines from week to
week without any special change,
this property is maintaining a most
satisfactory rate of production, both
from the underground workings and
from the Silver Top dump. About
$50 tons per day is being extracted
from the Silver Top and Mizpah sec
tions of the mine and sent to the
Belmont mill at Tonopah for treat
ment, while the dump ore, which
amounts to about $500 tons per
week, is being milled at the COM
pany's mill at Millers. The old
Mizpah dump which has stood as a
land mark near the Mizpah shaft
since the early days of Tonopah, has
finally disappeared after supplying
the Desert mill with a large ton
mage for many months past The
task of continuing this substantial
production is confined solely to the
Silver Top dump, which, judging
from it's size, is thoroughly capable
of fulfilling the duty which has been
assigned to it.
Belmont
The earnings of the Tonopah Bel
mont Development company, in it's
operations at it's Surf Inlet subsidi-
ary, are showing substantial increas-
es in the succeeding months. The
profits for July, as reported to the
local officers by the management at
Surf Inlet, were $31, 1884, which
would mean a total of nearly $40O,-
900 for the year if maintained at
the same rate The company, how
ever, expects to do considerably bet
ter than this, for in late weeks the
mine developments have been show
ing greatly improved conditions. A
3O-foot width of vein has been de-
veloped at one of the lowest work.
ings on the property, and, according
to the reports, the ore is of excel
lent grade.
The second semi.monthly melt at
the local mill was completed on
Thursday, but the results have not
as yet been made available for pub
lication Through it's operations
on company ores, and those from
the Tonopah Mining company and
the Jim Butler mine, the Belmont
mill every two weeks reports the
biggest clean-ups in the district, and
it is expected that the final cleanup
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-09-14

for August will be fully up to the
average.
TOnopah Ex
With a production of 27 bars of
bullion, which had an aggregate
weight of 54,633.2 ounces, the To-
nopah Extension Mining company
reports that the final cleanup in
August, which was completed early
in the week was worth approximate
ly SCI, 1886. This figure includes
both the silver and gold contents of
the bullion bars and added to the
result of the first cleanup for that
month indicates that the mine is
now producing nearly 100000 per
month. AS this average should be
maintained, and in fact constantly
increased, the Extension mine will
undoubtedly show that it's produc-
tion will be at least at the rate of
$1,500,000 per year.
Jim Butler
The company has just issued a
condensed statement of operations
from January 1, 1918, to June 80,
1918, showing that $294,353.70 was
received from ore shipped, while op-
Grating and administration expens-
es were $131,70S.61, with net earn
ings for six months amounting to
$163,645.09 The net income for
the six months amounted to $780,
$3.50. Available resources as Of
June 80, 1918, amounted to $780,
266.19, which includes $48,421.24
due for ore shipped, 100000 rep
resented by Liberty bonds, together
with cash in banks of $117, ,8A4.95.
There was dispersed upon to June
80, 1918, on account of company's
interest in Belmont Shawmut Min
ing and Belmont Wagner Mining
companies the sum of $328,035.87.
On Aug. / checks were mailed to
stockholders in payment of dividend
No. of per cent from accumu-
lated earnings.
Midway
What promises to be the most i'm
portant discovery made in the Mid
way mine during it's entire period
of operation, was made during the
week on the 6OO-foot level, about
500 feet southwest of the shaft.
The discovery consists of a well-de-
fined vein four or five feet in width
and carrying excellent values, with
punches of high grade occurring all
through it. The vein has been drift
ed on for a distance of Is feet with
every indication that it will develop
into an important orebody. The
discovery of this ore channel was
rather a surprise, as it was discov-
cred by means of a raise that was
being put up on another and entire
ly different vein. After this raise
reached a height of about 30 feet
1t encountered this vein, which was
dipping at right angles to the
course of the raise. A cross-cut
was then started from the 600-foot
level and the vein intersected about
10 feet out.