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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
SIMON NINA IS
SINKING SHAFT

j. X. Turner and l.. l.. Dellinger
of the Simon Nina company recently
returned from the Simon district.
where they went to inspect the
newly erected surface plant of the
company. The shaft is SO feet deep
and will be continued to 200 feet
before prosecuting to the vein is
started.
The Simon Nina consists of five
claims, the ,Caaih Bird. Camp Bird
No. 1, Camp Bird No. 2, Camp Bird
No. 3 and the Sob Fraction, situated
one mile north of the main shaft OF
the Simon Silver Lead and on the
extension of the vein in which the
Simon Silver Lead has opened a
huge body of ore.
The unleached parts of the veins
in the Simon district are found at
from ESQ to 400 feet. Other COM
panies sinking in the main vein are
the Consolidated West Extension
Simon Mines company, Thompson
Walsh Mines company, Simon
Junior Silver Lead Mining company,
Silver Top Mining company, Norman
Silver Mining company and the
Simon Pagan Mines company. The
last two recently opened good
bodies of gold-silver-lead ore.
Drifts and crosscuts are being
driven on the 40O-foot level of the
Simon Silver Lead to further ex-
plore the orebody.
The ore in the Simon Fagan is
reported to be widening as the work
is advanced Assays taken recently
showed $50 in gofd and silver and
59.6 per cent lead.
The new hoist of the Norman is
nearly complete and conditions in
the mine are reported to be improv-
ing.
The Consolidated. West Extension
is crosscutting on the 110-foot level
In what is regarded as a favorable
formation.
The main tunnel on the Simon
Junior has been advanced 100 feet.
A contact of rhyolite and limestone
is expected to be reached within a
short distance and it is expected ore
will be found at this point.
Ore assaying $50 is reported to
have been found 10 feet from the
surface on the Pierce-Likens, one
and one-half miles from the Simon
Pagan.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
EXPERT TALKS Of
WHITE RIVER OIL
+GEOLOGISTS OF UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA MAKE FAVOR
ABLE REPORT

Frank Ish, who is organizing 4
company to drill for oil In the
White River field in White Pine
county, is now in San Francisco.
Ish sent a telegram yesterday to
Sol Camp, who is also interested in
the field, stating that University OF
California experts had made a fa-
vorable report. on samples of the
shale, providing the everything
strata were unbroken. The strata
are unbroken in the White River
field and the opinion of the Califor-
mia experts confirms that of Camp,
who made this statement following
his first examination of the field.
Camp, who is Goldfield pioneer,
Is considered one of the best prac-
tical oil men in the country and
was one of the first into the White
River district. This field is 40
miles southwest of Ely, on the
county line between White Pine and
Nye, most of the district being in
Nye.
Tonopah and Goldfield men were
the first to enter the field and have
a corner on the claims. Companies
are being organized by lsh. Law
renee and Forman of Tonopah, w.
is. Phillips of GQldfield and others.
The Oil Basin Oilicompany has been
formed in Tonopah.
Camps wide experience in oil
fields makes his statements regard
ing the White River district of par
ticular interest. He says the dis
trict contains all indications that
oil will be found. Oil bearing shale
is expected. capped with SO feet of
sandstone and with heavy Gaping
of limestone over all. In the opin-
ion of Camp. based on surveys
made by E. S. Giles of Goldfield.
the oil sand under the shale will
be found at depth of $500 feet.
The district extends north for 15
miles and appears to be nine miles
wide. Camp scays the anticlines on
each side of the valley are plainly
exposed for from four to five miles
and that their slope is such that the
Ioil-bearing sand should be pene-
trated at not over $500 feet.
Camp has also examined the Fish
Lake field and says that all the
sedimentaries are favorable for the
! finding of oil. Sandstone and lime
are exposed. Camp says the strait
fication at Fish Lake shows steep
incline.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06

The Tribune has received from
Hopkins & Mittendorf, assayers at
Randsburg, CAL, the -following let
ter:
"The Rand Divide or Kelly mine
near this place, in the bottom OF
their glory hole. drilled into high
grade silver ore the like of which
has not been seen in any western
camp in a number of years. The
ore is being hoisted at the rate of
$4,000 per day with approximately
so tons OF $1,000 ore hoisted Sum
day. A recent shipment of two cars
brought $4,000. This discovery
is growing in richness every day.
The unexpected size and richness
the ore deposit is developing into,
has everyone guessing. What next?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
]. B. KENDALL HAS
FLORENCE LEASE
TO WORK FROM THE SEVENTH
LEVEL OF MAIN FLORENCE
SHAFT

J. B. Kendall has leased block
of Florence ground extending north
from zoo feet north of the Daisy
shaft on the Cornishman claim.
Work was started this morning
from the seventh. or 358-foot level,
of the main Florence shaft. Ken
dali will prospect for the intersec-
tion with the Consolidated-Florence
vein of an important shoot from the
Jumbo vein. Work will be started
on a seam of ore assaying over $50.
The FLORENCE Divide lease started
loading today the sixth car to be
sent to the smelters since the rich
shipment.
The Giles lease is drifting on the
ninth, or 630-foot level, to open an
other oreshoot. 1t was from the
Giles lease that carload of ore Of
a gross value of $1O,097.52 was
shipped recently. OF this sum the
lessee received $6402.93.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
SILVER GLANCE
BEING FINANCED

Efforts are being made to finance
the Silver Glance Mining company.
owning four claims three miles
south of Redlich station on the
Tonopah & Goldfield railroad. The
district in Which the claims are stu
ated is known as the Columbia min
ing district, in Esmeralda county.
The ground owned by the company
is one-half mile southwest from the
10-mile post on the TonOpah &
Goldfield railroad and is reached by
a good automobile road. There Is
an ample supply of water for ordin-
ary purposes two miles from the
claims.
The general for r--lation is 'ime,
with some gneiss. schist and shala
and the veins are well defined.
There are five veins extending
through the claims, striking south.
east, and with a width of from
seven inches to IA feet. Assays Of
from $3.50 to 1922 in gold, silver
and copper are obtained. The prin-
cipal work performed consists of
a 62-foot inclined shaft, with. so
foot drift from the bottom; a verti-
cal shaft from it, and a 15-foot
shaft.
The officers of the company esti-
mate that 1000 feet of stopping has
been done, practically all by former
owners. The organizer of the COM
pany, L.. Sigmund of Goldfield, has
produced 60 tons of ore, giving a
net return of from "a to SIS per
ton. Officers of the company state
that indications are excellent for
the making of large mine. The
company was organized to provide
funds for the purchase of machin-
cry with which to explore the veins
at greater depth.
Smelter returns from a shipment
of 25,760 dry pounds of ore in Sep
tember, 1917, show a trace of gold
and. 25.7 ounces silver. On Octo-
Der 8, 1918, the smelter assay on
over 25 tons of ore was .01 gold,
9.S5 silver and As copper.
Sigmund who has had 25 years
experience in mining in Nevada,
California, Arizona and New Mexi-
CO, believes he has a winner In the
Silver Glance.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
JUMBO COPPER MT.
OPENING ORE BODIES
EAST DRIFT EXPOSES MILL
GRADE ORE FOR $50
FEET

The east drift of the Jumbo-Cop-
per Mountain, controlled by the
stockholders of the Jumbo Extension,
has been driven 626 feet from the
shaft and the west drift has been
kivanced> $50 feet. At 365 feet the
east drift cut the downward en-
tension of the Fox lease oreshoot
and continued in mill ore for 100
feet. This drift is now entering
the downward extension of the La
patti lease orebody, which produced
100000 from above the SO-foot
level
Leases are being granted on the
upper levels at places where the
work of the lessees will not inter-
fere with the development work OF
the company, which will continue
to drive the east and west drifts to
cut at depth the extension OF
known orebodies. Over 5000 feet
of development work has been done
in the mine.
Laboratory tests to determine
treatment method for the ore have
been satisfactory and further tests
are being made on 10o0-pound and
ton lots. a
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
ANOTHER LEASE
FOR FLORENCE
FLORENCE DIVIDE is MAKING
REGULAR SHIPMENTS OF
GOOD ORE

F. NJ. Dorsey has taker lease
on the Florence northeast of the
shaft. east of the Arnold block and
south of the Riley lease block. A
vein showing seams of good ore is
exposed on the third and fifth levels
in the lease.
j. B. Kendall has started break
ing ground in his lease. on the
Cornishman claim and is working
in a seam of good ore. This lease
was taken in the expectation OF
opening the junction of the main
Florence vein and shoot from the
Jumbo vein of the Consolidated.
The Florence Divide has shipped
another carload of ore. These ship
ments, which are being made regu-
larly, average over $40 per ton.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
new COMPANY HAS MAJUBA HILL MINES

ling smelter deductions but no treat
ment charges, is $137.04." On the
12 per cent ore he ''laces a value or
5000 per ton, sish copper and
silver figured at the above prices.
But both of these metals are now
selling higher and there is every in
dication of a much greater advance.
The development up to this time
has been in a leached zone, the
ore being found in lenses which
have been protected from the leach
ing process, but the big wealth OF
the mine is expected when the zone
of secondary enrichment and the
primary sulphides are reached at or
near the water level. This Is not
an unsupported theory alone-it has
been demonstrated in many other
mines.
! While the management so far has
devoted nearly all Its efforts to the
development of copper, the chances
of opening up at Majuba the only
pay lode tin mine in America are
considered excellent. Ore assaying
as high as 6S per cent tin has been
found and Mr.. Koerner concludes
that part of his report which refers
! to the tin with the following:
This area, showing intense pneu-
matolytic action, is represented on
the surface by prominent outcrop.
This, together with the large
amount of toumaline and some flu
orite, which like tin are high tenn
perature minerals, are encouraging
features"
F.! Though mention of this discovery
of lode tin has not been made be-
fore in print-in fact SO averse was
the management to publicity tbis is
the first published story of the Ma.
/ juba mine--but the U. s. geological
survey heard of it and sent Adolpll
Knopf to investigate. He spent ten
days in his examination and was
greatly Interested. SOTuWdH, bh6
land, has long been noted for Its
lode tin mines, and it is said that
the ore there is associated with cop
per. as at Majuba. 1t may 'be In
teresting to note that tin was ex
ported from Cornwall to Italy
LATTER, if not before, the invasion o.
Britain by julius Caesar which
occurred 55 B. c.
The control of the Majuba Silver
Tin Copper Mines company is ii
strong hands and a deal is nov
being negotiated for big block OF
treasury stock by Boston firm
which represents some OF the solid
financiers of that city who have
made fortunes from copper. Judge
George s. Brown, one OF Reno''
prominent. attorneys. is president Of
the Majuba company. and Jacl
Welch will continue in charge a.
the mine!
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
EXPLANATION OF
OIL LAND BILL

On August Is. 1919, the commit
tee on public lands of the senate
unanimously approved senate bill
2775, entitled "a Bill to promote
the mining of coal. phosphate, oil,
gas, and sodium on the public do
main." This bill has been placed
on the senate calendar and made
the unfinished business. All other
bills on this subject have been laid
aside.
The purpose of this bill is to open
all withdrawn oil, coal, phosphate,
and sodium lands for acquisition
under the terms of the bill. There
are two phases of the bill: One pro-
vides for lease. not to exceed $40
acres, on known oil lands; the other
phase is to grant to a prospector a
prospecting permit for two years on
$3.50 acres of land not proven to be
oil land. If the prospector dis
covers oil within two years he is
given a lease on one-fourth of the
land upon five per cent royalty,
and a preference right to lease the
remaining three-fourths upon a
royalty to be fixed by the secre-
tary of the interior at not less than
oneleighth nor more than one
quarter of the oil produced.
At the present time, and until a
general leasing bill has passed, oil
claims are taken up under the gen.
|eral placer mining law. They are
located in exactly the same manner
that a placer gold claim would be
located. If. however, when the act
goes into effect, discovery has not
been made upon the oil claim, then
the locator simply has a preference
right to prospecting permit under
the bill Ii discovery has been made
before the passage of the leasing
bill. then the locator can go to
patent under thf present existing
mining laws.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
COsisToCK REPORT

/ rercrts from the north end
of the Comstock for the past week
show mill shipments continued by
the Con. Virginia an6 Ophir. SAT
tons ihving gross <11ue of $11,-
451.5o, of which Gpn. Virginia
shipped ss2 tons averaging $21.74
per ton. and totaling $s,3l2,ss. and
Ophir- 165 tots averaging s1s.o1
per ton, and a gross value of $S,-
1871. Ten bars of bullion were
shipped to the San Francisco mint.
The. bulk of the ore from the
Con. Virginia came from the 21oO
level this week. where SO tons
averaged $36.75 per ton and Ill
tons $30.7S; 55 tons from the 2100
level averaged s16.70 and $13.12
per ton.
Ophir continued operations on the
1900, 1900 and 1000 levels, ore
from the Rabbitfoot stope and raise
on the 1000 level averaging $22.S0
and $3.50 per ton, and ore from
the 1900 level showed average val
ues of SCI and $40 to the ton
Virginia Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
GOVERNOR IN TOhOPAH

Governor Emmett D. Boyle, who
has been in Ely in conference with
employers and employees, and
through whose efforts the labor
difficulties in that camp were fin
ally settled, arrived in TonOpah yes
terday. The governor comes here
at this time for the purpose of in
vestigating the local labor contro-
versy and will probably remain for
some time.
Robert F. Cole, labor commits
sioner of Nevada, and w. A. Burns,
superintendent of the mint and
member of the executive board of
the Mine, Millworkers' and Smelter-
mems union of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, also arrived in
Tonopah yesterday, their, visit at
this time being due to the local
strike. These gentlemen, immedi-
ately upon their arrival, began look
ing into the controversy between
employers and employees, but had
no statement to make regarding the
result of their efforts or their plans
for the immediate future.
A. M. Allen and E. a.. Morgan,
representing the United States de-
partment of justice, came in yes
terday from Reno. but it is not
known If they are here on account
of the strike.
The report was persistent yester-
day that many of the Divide COM
panies will start work Thursday AMI
pay the dollar increase, but this ap-
pears to have been erroneous. 1t
is said that while number of the
companies favor the increase and
are willing to grant same, they have
made no plans regarding the early
resumption of work. - Tonopah
Times.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
TWO COMPA
WASHING GRAVEL

The Goldfield-Tule Canyon Placer
Mining company ana the Tule Can
yon Placer association are washing
gravel on their claims 35 miles
south of Goldfield. Following COM
pletion of q sump in bedrock the
former is driving two drifts In the
gravel with good results and the
latter is driving west toward the
canyon side. with xne shaft. which
is sunk in the center. A drift has
been driven 20 feet in material as
saying about SIS per yard and the
cleanup of one short length of riff
files Saturday night gave one ounce
of gold after a 24-nour run.
The managers of the companies
are still experimenting with their
equipment to permit the handling
Of larger tonnage. The Goldfield-
Tule Canyon is working five men
on one shift and the Tule Canyon
association is working a total of
six men on two shifts, with third
shift soon to be added.
Old timers in the canyon say this
year is one of the dryest on record
and the water Is now rising only
from five to six feet in the Gold
field-Tule Canyon shaft.
The workings of this company to
date are taken to indicate that
dredging of the deposits economic
ally would be impossible, as bowl
ders weighing many tons have been
found ali through the gravel.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
EUREKA CROESUS Is
DEVELOPING OREBODY

Additional work is increasing the
ore exposures in the winze from the
4OO-foot level of the Eureka Croe-
sus, where an important discovery
was made recently. A new hoist
has been erected at the top of the
winze and larger skip makes pos
sible the raising of from 1000 to
1900 pounds each trip. An in
clined track is being laid from the
mouth OF the shaft to the ore bins
in the canyon. which will greatly
reduce hauling costs and increase
the output. New mess and bunk
houses to accommodate larger
force of miners are being erected.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
CON. SPANISH BELT
OPENS RICH OREBODY

Five feet of ore averaging 1854
has been opened in crosscut from
the 15O0-foot tunnel of the Con-
solidated Spanish Belt Silver Min
ing company on Jefferson Peak,
seven miles west of Belmont. The
company has spent 100000 in
opening the vein, which is believed
to be continuation of the Ernst
vein, from which rich silyer-gold
ore was shipped 40 years ago. Fifty
thousand dollars has been spent for
equipment in the past three months.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
FIVE CLAIM .PR0vs0
MAY Be ELIMINATED
fROMASSESsMEATLAW

Last evening the Tribune received
a telegram from Senator Charles B..
Henderson saying that he had in
troduced resolution in the senate
the effect of which,, If adopted,
would be the elimination of the five
claim proviso from the existing law
suspending assessment work.
The present law exempts five
claims, making it necessary, for in
stance, for the owner of six claims
to do the work on one.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
BY JAMES o'BRIEN.

The Majuba Silver Tin Copper
Mines company has recently been
incorporated to take over and oper-
ate the Matuba Hill group of mines
in the Antelope district. 20 miles
west of Inlay. II the name is long
and seemingly takes in consider
able territory," 1t is still appropri-
ate, as the company owns 1880
acres of mineral ground and pro-
duces all the metals mentioned
Majuba Hill being one of the very
few places in the country where tin
has been found in veins or lodes.
The 70 claims of the company
completely cover mountain IT
volcanic origin, two miles long by
one and one-half miles wide, which
is known locally as Majuba Hill.
The property has been under devel-
opment for nearly three years. most
of it having been under the direcT
ton of Jack Welch, field man for
the Mason Valley Mines company.
Naturally but small portion If
this immense acreage has been even
prospected to date, but an idea OF
its disabilities may be gained from
the fact that with the limited de-
velopment there have already been
shipped to the Thompson smelter 33
lots of ore. aggregating about 1000
tons. which averaged 1872 per cent
copper and Ia ounces silver to the
ton. 1t is doubtful If there is a
capper mine in Nevada with bet
ter record in this regard n at the
same stage of development. Ore
that runs better than IL per cent
copper as it is broken down and
shipped in carload lots is not
common.
AS is true with all big copper
mines; however, the bulk of the in
come will come from the medium
and lower grade ores. In report
that was made some time ago, after
a thorough examination by VIM,
Koerner, prominent engineer, ne
figures that the Maiuba has $4,000
tons of measurable sulphide ore
that will go better than 3 per cent
copper and 1.95 ounces silver to
the ton, and r00O tons going better
than IL per cent copper and l.a
ounces silver. When conserva-
tive engineer figures $4,000 tons
of measurable" ore, 1t is usually
a safe bet to figure on 100000 tons
of probable" ore.
Further on in his report Mr.
Koerner says: Although no test
has been made on it, the three per
cent ore should give Is into ra-
ton of concentration" Figuring on
only 75 per cent extraction he also
says: "The value or ton of con-
centrates on 221sc copper and sill
yer at $1.0S per ounce. after max
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
WEST DIVIDE DRIFT IN
TWO FEET OF GOOD ORE

In a 15-foot drift from the bot
tom of a 60-foot shaft the West Di-
vide has opened from 18 inches to
two feet of ore averaging 9sh
ounces in silver. This is the most
important result obtained from the
work In the West Divide to date
and indications are that an ore
body Is being entereu.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06
CAL. BANK ROBBED

SANTA CLARA. Sept. 3.-Two
daylight bandits robbed the Garden
CITY bank today. The amount OBJ
tanned was not announced.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-06

ALBANY. Ore. Sept. 3.-Eleven
fires are burning in the Santiam
national forest, six of them severe
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-06-30
Louisville Popular To-day

Louisville, KY, June 30.-Louisville,
the stronghold Of John Barleyeorn, will
not exactly be dry after July !, II will
be damp under foot for many day af.
ter that date.
Officially Of course. the curtain on
booze will drop, unofficially, however,
there will be enough booze in cellars
Of Louisville to float the George Wash
ngton.
Followers Of Baeehus, with blstered
palms from hard work with the pick
and shovel digging themselves in, will
pay last respects 20 the old boy today.
Old Taylor, Old Charley, Old Grow,
Mellowwood. Coon Hollow and all his
relatives viii be taken care Of
Pet brands have been discarded
''Just give me any old brandt 5
all good, is the general reply TO the
barkeeps question
Preparations have been made for the
lasl general rush by the down town
hotels, thirst emporiums and well
known establishments. To give the Old
Scout last farewell. Delegates are
numerous from Indiana, Ohio and other
desert states.