The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-04-06
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DIVIDE MINE
PROMISING
GoLDFIELD OPERATOR GIVES IN
TERvIEw ON CONDITIONS
AT DIVIDE

on days of the Tonopah camp, with
the possibility of bigger things for
the district than have ever before
been dreamed of, is the prediction of
George Wingfield, holder of the con-
trolling interest in the Tonopah Dr.
vide, and who last night returned
from a visit to the southern camp.
Briefly, Wingfield stated that the
values, which have sent Divide stock
skyrocketing from 80 cents a share
to close to 81 are excellently main
tanned and show no signs of dimin-
ishing; that preparations are being
made to develop these values to the
limit at the earliest possible moment,
and that within the next 80 days
from Is to 20 companies will be OPP
Grating in the Tonopah Gold Noun
tain district, where today there are
not half that number.
This, said Wingfield, is due to the
attention called to Tonopah Divide
by the recent extraordinary showing
which has not only led to the re-
viving of dormant companies, but
which has resulted in many new
companies being incorporated.
Wingfield, interviewed last night,
said:
There will be from Is to 20 COM
panies operating in the Tonopah
Gold Mountain district within the
next 80 days.
1--WE have drifted about 100 feet
on the Divide. The vein Is about
80 feet in width and the foot wall
has not yet been found.
"Cross-cutting for the foot wall
started yesterday.
"On the surface the groupings are
about 1875 feet wide and there are
three other veins that show on the
top of the hill. The maximum length
of the cross-cut to cut these veins
would be 27O feet.
1.-The values still continue in both
faces, east and west.
1.-THE company has recently in
stalled a larger engine and in the
next three days will have a larger
compressor in operation where they
can operate three drills which will
develop the east and west drifts as
we'll as the south cross-cut.
''In a short time they expect to
sink another 100 feet, which will
give them $40 feet vertical depth
upon the vein.
1.-The Tonopah & Goldfield rail-
road has started to make a prelimi-
nary survey from McSweeney's Sta
ton to the Divide property.
Mill tests r now being made
in different places and as soon as
these tests are completed and cor
roborated the management will de-
eide as t o at what point they will
treat their ores. 1t might be that
they will treat them at Tonopah or
Goldfield, but 1t is likely that a
mill will be built upon the Divide
property.
THE management is figuring upon
securing electrical power which
would be furnished from the main
line of the Southern Nevada Power
company from Tonopah."
Wingfield stated that he had &C
quired the one-third interest of Will
liam Taylor in a couple of claims adj
joining the Tonopah Divide holdings
at Gold Mountain and about ITO feet
from the Divide shaft. This gives
Wingfield a t%wo-thirds interest in
the properties in question, the re-
naming one-third being held by H.
C. Brougher. 1t is understood that
the property will be worked on a
"fifty-fifty" basis.
Taylor disposed of his interest in
Mammoth No. 3, which Is nov known
as the Divide Extension, a month
ago.-Reno Journal.