The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-01
PROMINENT ENGINEERS
IN PERsHIhe COUNTY
THE ROCHESTER, NEVADA MILL
TREATING $50 TONS OF
ORE DAILY

prominent mining engineers and
operators who have been here the
past week will be found illumin-
ating. This list includes William
Sharp, engineer for George Wins
field, wEo was looking over ,he
Loring district in general: Major w.
H. Ferguson, who examined the
Loring Treasure Hill for New York
interests; William j. Loring, con-
sulting engineer and general man
ager of the Nevada Honey Bea at
Loring, as we'll as the tungsten
properties at Tungsten, near Mill
City; Messrs. Jennings and Moore.
vice presidents of the U. S. Smelt-
ing, Refining and Mining company;
F. B. Weeks. enfineer for the same
company; Charles H. Segerstrom,
treasurer Pacific Tungsten com-
pany; Il. J. Schrader, who has been
on Herbert Humphreys engineering
staff for some time: and Colby
Dodge of Los Angeles. Tomorrow
j. G. Weir, of the firm of Weir
Brothers & Company, with a dis
tinguished party of New York fl
nanciers will arrive in a private
car and will spend a day or two in
going over the Loring district, with
special attention to the Nevada
Honey Bee, Loring Treasure Hill
and the Maydays.
At the Nevada Honey Bee General
Manager Loring decided to cross
cut for the eddie vein from the 1861
foot point in the Malley shaft, in
stead of going to the 200 as was
originally planned. The crosscut
is now out 33 feet and will cut the
vein at the greatest depth yet at
tanned at Loring. The increased
force which was put on surface
prospecting is meeting with sue
cess and during the week a new
ledge was uncovered on the north
end of the Finland claim. This has
been opened up for a width of eight
feet and shows good looking quartz
that assays as high as $34 to the
ton. Tom Ward is still prosecuting
on the ledge he opened up above the
Benedict tunnel with little change
in the good showing. Near the sur
face the veins are pretty well hrok-
en- up, with the quartz mixed up
with shale, a condition that it is ex-
pected will be found changed with
depth.
The lessees OF the ProspectoI's
Dream, which adjoins the Sheep
herder on the west, have opened up
the vein sufficiently now that they
have no doubt of it's being the en-
tension of the rich Sheepherder
vein. On the southwest end of the
claim the vein is opened up for a
width of four feet in one of the urs
and neither wall is in sight. Pan
nings at different places have indi-
Gated values up to $50 per ton.
Thomas Owens, whose strike of
rich free gold ore on the Dangers
several weeks ago attracted much
attention, has had considerable Of
his time taken up with surface im-
provements in readiness for the
winter. He is continuing the tun-
mel on the vein and it is looking
better every day, the free gold
showing in the ore being sufficient
evidence of it's value.
Without endeavoring to antici-
pate the report of Major w H.
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 eyi-
dence of being pleased with the
showing, and it is believed that his
report will be as favorable as that
of Oscar Hershey and other engi-
neers who came before him. Ore
showing free gold can be found at
numerous places for hundreds of
feet in length along the footwall of
the east vein. and the several hun
dred tons of ore or each of the
dumps. which was taken out in de-
velopment, indicates that a big tom
mage may be expected.
The new Oliver filter has been
installed at the mill of the Roches-
ter 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 9O0tfoot level beyond
the fault is still in good ore, this
being at a point further south in
the mine than ore was yer found
before the nreSent management took