The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-10-25
MINING ENGINEERS
GATHER At L0R|NG
Especial Correspondence)

engineers and operators who have
been here the past week will be found
Illuminating. This list includes Will
liam Sharp, engineer for George
Wingfield. who was taking a general
look over the Loring district; Major
w. III. Ferguson, who examined the
Loring Treasure Hill for New York
interests; w. II. Blackburn, general
manager for the Tonopah Mining
Company OF Nevada, who was at Lor-
ing; William J.. Loring, consulting
engineer and general manager Of the
Nevada Honey Bee at Loring, as well
as of the tungsten properties at
Tungsten, near Mill City; Messrs.
Jennings and Moore, vice-presidents
of the U. s. Smelling, Refining and
Mining Company; F. B. Weeks, en-
gineer for the same company; Chas.
H. Segerstrom. treasurer Pacific
Tungsten Company; E. ]. Schrader,
who has been on Herbert Humphreys
Ch6ihScihh6 Stdh ioI ooiuc tlIiic, anu
Colby Dodge, engineer of Los An
geles. Tomorrow ]. C. Weir, of the
firm of Weir Bros. & Co. with a dis
tinguished party of New York finan-
ciers, will arrive in a private car and
will spend a day or two in going owe
the Loring district, with special at
tention to the Nevada Honey Bee.
Loring Treasure Hill and Maydays.
At the Nevada Honey Bee, General
Manager Loring decided to crosscut
for the Oddie vein from the 165-foot
point in the Malley shaft, instead of
going to the 200 as was originally
planned. The crosscut is now out
thirty-three feet and will cut the vein
at the greatest depth yet attained at
Loring. The increased force which
was put on surface prosp. citing is
meeting with success and during the
week a new ledge was uncovered on
the north end of the Finland claim.
This has been opened up for 4 width
of eight feet and shows good-looking
quartz that assays as high as s34 to
the ton. Tom Ward is still cross
cutting on the ledge he opened up
above the Benedict tunnel, with little
change in the good showing. Near
the surface the veins are pretty well
hrnEnn IN NTH tho nttarf1 paiyo6 nv
with shale. a condition that it is x
pected will be found changed with
depth.
The lessees on the Prospector's
Dream, which adjoins the Sheep
herder on the west, have opened up
the vein sufficiently now that they
have no further doubt of its being the
extension of the SheepEerder vein
from which the Jose-Davis Company
is taking such rich ore. On the south
west end of the Prospector's Dream
the vein is opened for a width of four
feet in one of the cuts and neither
wall is in sight. Paintings at differ
ent places have indicated values up
to $50 per ton.
Thomas Owens, whose strike of
rich gold ore On the Bangors several
weeks & attracted much attention,
has had considerable of his time
taken up with surface improvements
in getting ready for the winter. He
is now back at work running a tunnel
on the vein and the property is look
ing better every day, the free gold
showing in the ore being sufficient
evidence of its value.
Without e%ndeavoring to anticipate
the report of Major w. II. Ferguson
on the Loring Treasure Hill-and of
course he is too good an engineer to
talk much before he has reported to
his clients-it is said by those who
accompanied him over the property
that he gave evidence of being much
pleased with the showing, and it is
believed that his report will be as
favorable as that of Oscar Hershey
and other engineers who came before
him. Ore showing free gold can be
found at numerous places for hun
dreds of feet in length along the foot
wall Of the East vein, and the several
hundred tons of ore ON each of the
dumps, which vas taken out in de-
velopment. indicates that a big ton
mage of mill ore may be expected.
The new Oliver filter has been in
stalled at the mill of the Rochester
Nevada mine and from $50 to 200
tons of ore are being put through
daily. The mill heads are averaging
ten ounces silver and $3.50 to $500
gold per ton. The drift on the goo
foot level beyond the fault is still