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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-24

J. b. KLEIN, President, Okla
hOma City.
President J. B. Klein Iron &
Foundry Co., Oklahoma City
built up from a modest begin
ming to one of the largest and
most efficient plants of its kind
in the whode southwest, under
the personal direction of Mr.
Klein.
uIcT TILE TVDC
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-24

naturally increases in value stock in comparison with
the others The following stocks of companies located
in this field quoted on the exchanges follows:
Fowler Farm Oil Co., first price, s1OO share; since
sold at $15,000-150 for l.
Hog Creek par $780, since s475O has been refused :;
offering $4,000 per share for it
Metropolitan par 800; standing bid $500 per share
for it.
The Wichita, Floydada, Wichita Southern, Columbia,
Couch-Wnfrey, Vindcator, Citizen, Cald, Peoples and
hundreds Of others selling at a to 10 for /.
The other tract owned by this company consists of 40
in Cotton county, Oklahoma the Redwich well
brought In recently with indications of substantial settled
production Twice the purchase price has been refused
by the company for this tract II is considered valuable
property and bids fair to rapidly increase In value
account of being in the trend of production east of Burk
burnett
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-24

Our holdings are clearly designated on the plat The
one the left Of the consists Of 10 2 miles
from Burkburnett directly in the trend of the wonderful
development and large production east of the town. On
the river bank directly from the Abernahy well
known as the Burkbrdge wcl-whch has been cemented
in and expected to be drilled in any day. About ZOO
feet from the wonderful Helen Elizabeth production. A
property that has declared large dividends and whose
stock of 800 par value is listed at about $40O About
800 feet from the Marine whose par value of 500 stock
sold at 750 per share and about the distance from
the Reliable well estimated at 600 barrels day.
This is the tract that this company proposes to de-
veop first There is promising tract in the whole
field Proven by the large producers above mentioned
and the Redwtch well brought in the other side Of the
river
Everything points to as large a production on this
tract the largest present producers in the field and
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-03-24
Not a Sale of Stock For Profit From Y our Money
But From Actual Production That Seems So Certain
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS THAT ANY BANK OR BUSH
Germ IN THEIR RESPECTIVE COMMUNITIES WILL R
MEND FOR HONESTY AND BUSINESS ABIlTT

S. A. MAXWELL. Nice-Presi-
dent, COalgate, Okla.
President Citizens National
Bank, Coalgate Okla. Known
throughout the state as sue
cessful and conservative busi-
ness man.
II. T. RIDDLE, Secretary
Treasurer, Shawnee, Okla.
Vice-President, Shawnee Ma
tional Bank. Shawnee, Okla. A
man recognized as a shrewd but
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
GOlDf|ELD MEN BUY
Mine At CAhDfLARlA
TAKE OVER FORMER NOTED
PRODUCER OF
SILVER

j. w. Dunfee, Tim Connolly and
E. Marks of Goldfield have bought
the Georgian mine at Candelaria, a
noted producer of silver before the
metal was demonitized. The mine
has been worked little since 1882,
but before then is said to have pro-
duced $3.O0O,00O in ore averaging
80 ounces in silver and SIS in gold.
The Georgian also was noted as a
producer of rich silver ore.
The production was made from
three veins stopped from a tunnel
driven $50 feet into a mountain
and which gained depth of 600
feet on the vein. The tunnel had
Just entered a fourth vein when
work was stopped and in this vein
an assay of 10 ounces silver and
$3.50 gold was obtained by the new
owners. The veins average in width
from five to. IA feet.
Dunfee, Connolly and Marks plan
TO organize CIOSc CofpofdliOH "
extend the tunnel an additional 750
feet to cut what is believed to be
the richest of the five veins found
/ in the mine. This vein crops on
top of the mountain and ASSAYS OF
S24 and SAP in silver and $4 in
| gold were obtained from it on the
SUI, face This was the objective to-
ward which the tunn9l originally
was started and driving toward il
had been resumed when worx was
stopped. A distance of $50 feet
from the present face of the tunnel
will give q depth of 1900 feet on
this vein.
The three veins from which the
big production was made are FROM
i so to SO feet apart andthe new
owners plan to sink winze in the
one nearest the tunnel entrance,
where conditions are regarded as
being favorable for opening big
body of ore.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24

ing engineers who have inspected
various prospects liz the canyon and
the ingalls,.
The placer field is IL miles long
and the gravel is of almost unpar-
alleled richness, The entire field
is owned by Benton. the Hadford
estate, Smith, Hanus and Field, and
= company of Goldfield men headed
by A. l. Darcy, who, 1t is said,
will not consent to the sale of the
six miles of the canyon in which he
Is interested. Hanus and Field have
one and one-half miles of what is
generally recognized as the richest
part of the canyon and are float
ing a company for work on big
scale. The company headed by
Darcy owns claims from the south
ern end of the Hanus and Field
ground to the southern end of the
canyon and the planned develop
ment of this stretch is regarded as
being the most important mining
scheme under consideration in the
west at the present time.
OF equal Importance. but not in
volving the heavy initial expendi
ture that will be necessary on this
ground, is the work planned by
the Goldfield-Tule Canyon Placer
Mining company, which has taken
over the Hanus and Field claims.
Twelve basins are found in this
ground, as shown by the surface in
dications of ridges crossing the
canyon under the wash, and the
wealth that may be found in these
basins and the vast possibilities of
drift and hydraulic mining are gen.
orally recognized by mining engi-
neers and other competent mining
men interested in the claims to the
south. The Goldfield-Tule Canyon
company has already started work
from the bottom of 42-foot shaft
sunk at the side of the wash. A
crosscut will be extended to the
center of the canyon and drift
driven north. An incline will then
be run to connect with this drift
from the side of the wash and
through hosting the material on
the incline in mine cars quantity
production can be made. The COM
pany to the south plans to mine in
the same manner, except that a
bucket elevator will be used instead
of cars to take the gravel to the
surface. Both companies plan hy-
|draulicking operations on big scale
after the drift mining has been
started.
At the side of the canyon and
near the upper end six claims are
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
NEW COMPRESSOR IS
WORKING At DIVIDE
CUTTING OF FIFTH LEVEL STA
TION RESUMED
TO-DAY

The new compressor of the TonO-
pah Divide is now in full operation
and additional working faces are
gradually being started in the mine.
Work in the fifth level station has
been resumed and following COM
pletion of this the crosscut will be
started. Many people, judging from
irquiries from outside points, are
confused regarding the progress of
work at this depth and 1t has been
rumored that the vein was entered
ON this level and no ore found. Yes
tcrday the station was half COM
pleted and work was resumed this
morning. Following completion of
the station the crosscut will be
started and, progressing at rate
of seven feet daily, which is the
speed expected to be made, the vein
should be reached about June Is.
The fourth level southeast drift
has been advanced well over SOC
feet from the main crosscut. Cross
cuts have been started SO, loo and
800 feet southeast of the main
crosscut and the first and last have
shown the ore to be 35 feet wide,
with neither wall exposed. Two
raises have been started from this
level and have been advanced 80
feet in ore of good grade. One is
60 feet from the main crosscut and
the other is near the face of the
drift
The usual work is in progress on
the third level. Three shifts are
employed on the fourth level and
two at all other places.
Conditions on the lowest level are
satisfactory in every respect and the
ore is of more uniform grade than
on the level above.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
EAST DIVIDE STARTS
CR0SSCUTT|NG ON 400
MAY BE $50 FEET
LONG

The station at the bottom of the
4OO-foot level of the East Divide
shaft has been completed and partly
timbered and prosecuting east to
the north-south vein has been
started, according to J. X. Turner,
consulting engineer for the COM
pany The crosscut will be con-
tinued for a short distance to the
north-south vein and then drift
will be driven south in the vein to
cut the east-west vein, the main OBJ
jective of the work at this depth.
The groupings of the east-west vein
making the prominent blowout" on
the claims that is conspicuous
mark in the Divide district, are
100 feet wide, the position of the
vein In them being unknown. For
this reason the distance the drift
will have to be extended to cut the
vein cannot be estimated. but it is
possible $50 feet of drifting may be
necessary before the vein is en-
tered
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
VIRGINIA CITY MINES
make GOOD OUTPUT

The official reports from the
mines show fine ore conditions pre-
vailing along the vein in Con. Vir-
ginia and Ophir, where large pro-
duction was made for the week
from the two properties.
The total value of the ore ex-
tracted according to mine samples
was in excess of $4,000, the Ophir
producing 29G tons of gross value
of nearly $4,000 and the Conn Vir-
ginia 322 tons valued at over
$4,000. The average from the Ophir
was high, the values ranging from
$149S to $47.47 to the ton, while
in the Con. Virginia the slopes
yielded ore sampling from $40 to
1920 to the ton.
OF special interest in the Con.
Virginia report is the fact that on
the 2050 level the ore taken out
averaged $46.27 to the ton, which
is a considerable increase over the
average of last week Higher values
are also being taken from the 2100,
where the mine cars ran $20.19
and $2O.25 to the ton. On the
2150 level, in the southwest cross
cut from the c. & C. shaft the ore
averaged 5000 and $3.50 and in
the southwesterly drift at a point
.3S feet from it's junction with the
old north lateral, % tons extracted
averaged $120.77 per ton.
The Ophir. in prospecting and
timbering in the old lateral drift
on the 19O0-foot level, saved 8 tons
averaging $47.47 per ton, and in
No. 2 east crosscut to the south 80
tons. taken out, averaged $3.50
per ton, and to the msin north drift
100 feet from No. east crosscut,
80 tons averaged $500 to the ton.
On the 1000 level, in the raise from
the easterly north lateral, at point
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
CENTRAL DIVIDE IS
new incorporation

The Central Divide Mining COM
pany, owning the Oversight, Liberty
Bell, Liberty Bell No. 1 and Lib
erty Bell No. 2 claims in the Divide
district, has been incorporated for
100000 shares of a par value of
10 cents, of which 100000 shares
have been placed in the treasury.
Following is an extract from a
statement by A. A. Codd, president
of the Central Divide, accompanying
the notice of organization:
"A north and south and an east
and west vein have been opened
a few feet below surface, at their
point of intersection on property of
the Central Divide Mining company.
Silver-gold values range from 81
to IS ton. This vein juncture is
probably the apex or top of an ore
shoot that will widen and increase
in value at depth. A two-compart-
ment shaft is to be sunk at this
point. A level will be established
at each 100-foot interval and drifts
and crosscuts be run out through
the ore. At depth of 500 feet the
shaft should be well into the pay
zone, as in the Tonopah Divide mine
shipping ore is opened from depth
of 16O-foot point.
"The property of the Central Di-
vide Mining company is located
some 600 feet southeast of a group
of claims owned by the Tonopah
Mining company. This group is not,
however, the one at present being
developed. The fact that the Tono-
pah Divide Mining company has
title TO the ground may nevertheless
be accepted as indicative of its
value.
"The Central Divide Mining COM
pany is installing hoist, gallows
frame and two-drill compressor. and
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
STATEMENT IS
ISSUED BY
RED HILL
IL. G. MCMAHON REPLACES J. Il.
KENDALL AS MANAGER
OF PROPERTY

Accompanying notice of assess
ment No. of the Red Hill Flor
ence Mining company, at the rate
of one cent per share, the company
has issued the following statement
of operations for the past eight
months:
During the period of operation
from October Is, 1918, TO May l,
1919, there have been opened 1870
linear feet of new ground in the ma
ture of drifts, crosscut. and winzes.
All of this work has been accom-
plished on the 500 and 600-f0ot
levels, and to date has proven some-
what disappointing, especially On
the 600-foot level where the ore
shoots, though of high value, havs
been small and bunchy. Work will
continue on the 60O-foot level for
short time until we shall have de-
termined the geologic conditions
existing there.
'.The chief development now be-
ing prosecuted consists of drifting
OH the 5O0-foot level in a southerly
direction in the Goldfield Consoli-
dated-Florence vein. This vein has
been recently picked up in territory
owned by our company. 1t has a
width of about 20 feet and appar-
emily is in place and quite undis-
turbed. The values so far are low
grade, the best assays returning
81 gold per ton. There is every
geologic reason to believe that de-
velopment along the strike and to-
ward the surface in their vein will
meet with success. 1t is our inten-
ton to extend the drift for dis
tance of at least 500 feet where it
will enter the September claim, on
the surface of which very encourage
ing prospects exist. The ground now
under development is wholly un-
prospected. At other points in tho
mine operations are being carried
on where good gold assays are to
be had
On account of multiplying activh
ties, Mr.. J. B. Kendall, general man
ager of the company, has found it
impossible to devote to the affairs
of the company the time and atten-
tion necessary to it's welfare and
the successful prosecution Of ITS
| development work, and accordingly
has rendered his resignation to take
effect at once.
"Mr. H. G.. Mcmahon, the con,-
pany's vice president, will assume
the duties of general manager in
Mr.. Kendal's stead Mr.. Mcmahon
was the company's first general
manager and resigned on account
of a protracted absence. He is
more familiar with the Red Hill
, Florence ground, its geology, and
it's prospects than anyone else"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
INFANT DIVIDE CITY
IS GROWING FAST
NEW BUSINESS HOUSES PLAN
TO OPEN ON
JUNE 1

There is going to be cabaret at
Divide and things to eat and drink
and entertainers and everything and
the lady from Los Angeles who is
going to do all this will call the in
stitution 1.-The Beach," for some
unknown reason, probably because
it is so far from beach. The
cabaret and all the trimmings will
start about June 1.
Divide City is growing con-
stantly. The hotel is nearly COM
plete and reservations for rooms
already being made. A garage is
being constructed to start business
on the first and three new restaur-
ants also plan to open about the
first. A general merchandise store
heavy hauling company, assay of,
flee and a number of other business
houses are planning to open in the
near future.
More residences are gradually ap-
rearing along the main street and
Divide City is rapidly assuming the
appearance of a typical minins
town.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24

mine and lease, said: In the early
days of Tonopah and Goldfield
could sign my check for 100000
and in a year l will be able to do
it again. will make a hundred
thousand in Tule." Borcherding
is now worth the 100000, as the
sale of the ingalls, and the lease,
the turning of his option on placer
ground in the northern part of the
canyon, and his interest in the huge
placer deposits at the southern end
will put him on Easy street.
The ingalls, was. sold for $4,000
cash and the remainder in pay.
ments, the first of which is due In
60 days. Associated with Borcher.
ding in the sale was John Creighton
of Elko county. Creighton iS the
man who sold the Long Hike mine
at Jarbridge.
Clark bought the mine after ex,
amining it himself and his engi-
neer will be here Monday to exam
inc it further. Borcherding and a
party of mining men left this mcrn-
ing for Tule to inspect the placer
ground owned by c. w. Benton, the
Radford estate and Hank Smith
and on which Borcherding holds an
option. 1t is said this ground will
be sold for $4,000. Borcherding
also has an option on lode, claims
adjoining the ingalls,, on which il
is expected deal will be turned
today.
The vein in the ingalls, has been
orened for a length of 5000 feet
During the so years it has been
owned by Sheriff Ingalls, the esti.
mated production has been 100000
in silver ore. The shaft is 100 feet
deep and drift short distance
west from the shaft is now in one
foot of 2O0O-ounce ore, with the
six foot vein averaging $50. There
are numerous other workings alons
the vein, in which the ore exposed
is estimated at 100000 tons aver
aging $40 ton.
Tule is 35 miles south of Gold
field and the mining activity prom
ised there will be of great benefi,
to this town. For Is months, with
one exception, every line of news
regarding the canyon has originated
with the Goldfield Tribune and the
predictions made during that time
are coming true, Tule canyon is
regarded by competent mining engi'
necrs as one of the richest placer
fields in the world and what de-
velopment on a largo scale of the
ingalls, and other lode mines in the
district will show would not be diff
ficult to predict, according to min
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
DIVIDE OPERATORS
FORM ASSOCIATION
A. /. DARCY OF GOLDFIELD
HEADS THE NEW
ORGANIZATION

Representatives of "a Divide COM
panies met Monday night in TonO-
pah and organized the Divide Mine
Operators association with the fol-
lowing officers: A. /. Darcy,
president; Joseph w. Hutchinson.
vice president; r. ]. Ravey, secre-
tary and treasurer. The executive
committee is composed of Ed. j.
Roberts, J. X. Turner, Allen Rives,
l.. r. Robins. H. F. Bruce, Joseph
w. Hutchinson and A. !. Darcy.
Various committees were ap-
pointed by the president and the
executive committee will meet next
Monday night in Tonopah.
The formation of the association
puts the future of the district in
the hands of responsible men. Be-
fore the meeting adjourned, Mr..
Darcy said: '.aThe Divide district
has made wonderful strides in a
short time and some operating or
ganization is necessary to further
! the pans of the companies operat-
ing there"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24

The Rip Van Winkle of all min
ing districts, Tule Canyon, is COM
ing to the front after sleep Of
over 90 years.
The ingalls, mine and mill and
the lease held by Borcherding, Nc
Dermitt and Hill on the mine have
been sold for $125.00o, 100000
for the mine and $4,000 for the
lease. The buyer was Patsy Clark,
known throughout the west for his
mining ventures.
r Less than year ago, when
southern Nevada was so quiet that
the ringing of the fire alarm in
Goldfield could be heard in Cuprite,
A. L. Borcherding, who sold the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
ENGINEERS ORGANIZE
new. DIVIDE COMPANY
STRONG ORGANIZATION FORMED
TO WORK BI-METALLIC
GROUP

A group of prominent mining en-
gineers have taken over the Bi-Me-
tallic group in the Divide district
and a strong company has been or
ganized to work the claims. The
group, which takes its name from
the noted bi-Metallic mine at Gran
ite and Mountain, Mont, is sur
rounded by ground owned by Wing
field, Brougher and Miller COM
panies and is regarded as among the
choicest territories in the district.
In the company are J. X. Turner,
H. D. Hudleman, L. L. Dellinger,
Otto Falk, C. A. Calhoun, Branch
H. Smith, Homer Williams, w. H.
Royston, J. M. Gilfoyle and John
D. Ferris.
All of these men are prominent in
mining circles and nearly all hold
positions at or near the head of big
Goldfield, Tonopah and Divide COM
panies, this making the organization
one of the strongest yet formed at
Divide from an engineering stand
point.
An unusually promising vein trav-
erses the entire length of the Vic
tor claim of the company and seams
from which good assays in gold
have been obtained are found on
the surface.
The Bi-Metallic group parallels
the Hercules on the west and end.
lines the South Divide on the north
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
IMPORTANT MINING DEAL is CLOSED AT TUlE CANYON

owned by Joel Holman and Joseph
Hamilton of Goldfield. A rich
quartz vein and sand carrying gold
in quantity is found on these claims,
the nuggets found in the sand CIV
ing to the canyon along which the
claims are located the name of Mug
get Gulch.
Tule has history dating back
over 80 years and it Is confidently
believed by men aware OF tho
riches contained in its rocks and
sands that modern methods and
modern engineering talent have yet
to write it's real history, one that
will make the canyon known where
ever mining is talked.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-05-24
NENzEL PLANS
BIG MINING
At CACTUS
THE ORESROOT is SAID TO BE
THE LARGEST IN
NEVADA

The unparalleled mining activity
that has caused to flock to southern
Nevada the biggest interests in thu
country, has drawn to the Cactus
district, "a miles west of Goldfield,
John F. Nenzel of Rochester, who,
with some of the most prominent
mining men of Nevada and San
Francisco, has bought the. Bailey
group of seven claims, said to con-
tain the longest oreshoot in the
state. Interested with Nenzel in
the deal is a we'll known mining
engineer.
Buildings and mine machinery
are being shipped to Cactus at "a
rate that has convinced Goldfield
people who have been watching the
developments of the past few days
that Nenzel's engineer must have
found something worth while there
and men connected with the COM
pany that has been organized to de-
velop the Bailey group say the en-
gineer did find something that con-
vinced him it woud be worth at
least $4,000 to find what the vein
looked like at greater depth.
John R. Magee, superintendent
for the Cactus Nevada Mining conf
pany, formed to develop the Bailey
group, states that sampling of the
vein showed, a body of mill ore
1000 feet long and from two anil
one-half to six feet wide, with an
average width of four and one-half
feet From another source it was
learned that 80 samples were taken
of the vein groupings and that the
average value or the ore was found
to be $25, which is ample explana-
tion for the years Bailey spent in
developing his ground and for the
stiff price it is rumored he sold it
for. The sale price is not known,
but it is improbable that, after the
years spent in exploring the claims.
Bailey parted with them for any
thing but a big sum.
Cactus lies in huge fracture
zone over two miles long, with nu-
merous veins paralleling one an
other, striking north through the
district. The vein material is
found in perfect fissures and the
ore contains from 80 to 95 parts
silver to one of gold. The veins are
found in the contact between rhyo-
lite and andesite.
Paralleling the vein in which the
shafts are sunk are two others,
neither of which has been ex-
plored. Good assays have been OBJ
tanned on the surface of one of
these veins and this, with a width
of from six to eight feet, is said to
hold greater possibilities for de-
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