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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-05-01

ternate basement plans, one with full
cellar allowing the use of furnace,
and the other with cellar under only
part OF the building. Plans for the
house will be sent on application to
the Department of Agriculture, Wash
ington, D. C. Ask for Design No.
1917.
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in stock he can obtain it from near
by wholesale durg store. Specify that
you want the commercial grade 600
to 97@o). The purified is much more
expensive and not more effective.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
STARTS WORK
ON 14G5-FOOT LEVEL

The 1300-foot hanging wall cross
cut from the 1465-foot or ninth
level of the Grizzly Bear shaft is
being cleaned and repaired and the
compressor will soon be ready to
start operating. This crosscut ex-
tends east for 1900 feet from the
shaft, into Atlanta ground, and the
Atlanta company will start work at
this depth by drifting southeast in
a small vein near the face. The
1850 and 1990-foot levels of the AT
lanta have been abandoned, it being
considered that the results being
obtained at this depth did not war
rant expensive repairs to the pumps
and their upkeep. The pumps, after
years of service, were not capable
of controlling the neavy flow of
water in the winze from the 1850
foot level. water containing sui
phuric acid flowing from the Cler-
mont workings being contributing
factor in wearing them out. The
winze to the 190O-foot level is 1000
feet from the Merger shaft. The
water from this to the Merger
shaft, where from the 1325-foot
level 1t flowed to the 1465 of the
Grizzly and from there was pumped
to the surface. A drift was being
driven in an eight foot shoot of
low grade ore when work was
stopped on the 1900-foot level.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27

Development work at the north
end mines, which has been neces-
sarily largely curtailed during the
past few weeks pending the adjust
ment of the wage question, has been
energetically resumed in all five
properties of that group, and along
lines that Is certain to concentrate
renewed attention on the Comstock.
Much new work that has been in
contemplation for some time past
has been inaugurated in especially
favorable territory, apd its progress
will be followed with great interest.
On the 1865 level of the, Ophir.
which is the 1900 of the Con. Vir-
ginia, joint west crosscut is to
be started at once, cleaning up the
level preparatory thereto being un-
der way. The 400 station of the
Con. Virginia shaft has also been
repaired, and recovery work has
started in the west crosscut. which
will open up new additional level
of the mine.
The south drift from the west
crosscut from the old Con. Virginia
shaft on the 1850 level is being
driven forward and continues to
show quartz in the face. Prospect
ing the quartz on the 1850 level has
been resumed to the west of the
1750-1S00 winze and on the 1900
level the crosscut at the bottom of
the winze is being repaired to ex
plore the quartz in that vicinity.
On the 1850 level, near the head of
the winze to the 2150 level, stopping
out ore has begun and car samples
of ore today ran better than $50
per top. On this level cleaning up
is~fn progress preliminary to sam
pling the quartz south of 401 stope.
Extraction of ore continues On the
2100 level. On the 2150-foot level
conditions remain the same in the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
NOTED GEOLOGIST
.|NSPECTS SIMON

DR.. Walter Harvey Weed of New
York left Nina for San Francisco,
after having completed an exhaust
i've examination OF the Simon Sill
yer Lead mine.
During his stay at the Simon dis
trict DIR. Weed made brief visits
to the Fagan, Norman and to several
of the other properties. When asked
for his opinion of the district in
general, he said: The essential
feature of the Simon district is that
large limestone area has been
uplifted, intruded, and in places
metamorphosed by various phases of
a granatic body. subsequently, the
fissured and shattered limestone has
been replaced through the agency of
mineral-bearing solutions, with the
result that large orebodies have
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
NEWS OF MINES OF VIRGINIA CITY

new vein from the south drift from
the west /crosscut where stoping
continues, with the ore holding up
strong. At the c. G. G. shaft, old
pressure column is being removed,
preparatory to installation of new
pumps
The Ophir mine has resumed the
advance of the northeast drift on
the Sutro taunnel level and is driv-
ing north from the old Ryan stope
on the 1900 level. Work continues
in the gypsum stope, where very
good ore is being. extracted. In
the old Hardy vein section a bulk
head has been constructed to cut off
the hot air from below. The cross
cut from the north lateral is being
pushed ahead. On the 1000 level,
south of the Rabbitfoot stope, a
new southwest drift has been
started to get under ore opened in
the stope which is making more to
the west and away from the pres
ent workings, and when completed
the ore will be stopped. Prospecting
the quartz exposed in the 1000, level
between the Rabbitfoot and Raise
stope is also under way.
In the Mexican, on the 1000 level,
prosecuting east and west from the
top of the raise will soon start.
which will open a new level at the
1900. Work is also continued in the
south drift on the 1000 level.
Sierra Nevada is again advancing
the northwest crosscut, which is
following a favorable prospect, and
Union Con. is continuing its south
drift.
The Mexican mill is shut down,
while alterations continue to be
made to the plant. and where exca-
'vations for the addition to the cyan
ide department are now practically
completed Virginia CHRONICLE.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
MINE ENGINEERS
VISIT STEEL
PLANTS

CHICAGO. Sept. 23-There seems
to be no limit to the amount of
work which the American mining
engineer does in day judging by
the second session today of the
American Institute of Mining and
MetallurgiCal Engineers meeting. A
steamer trip to Gary, Ind, where
an observation train took the sew
eral hundred delegates through the
U. S. steel corporation plant, with
technical sessions and social fea-
lures occupying every hour or the
day, followed by an evening of
study of recent developments in
iron and steel and oil make this
one of the busiest periods OF the
weeks convention.
That the production of petroleum
in the United States is not keeping
pace with consumption and that new
sources of supply must be sought
was the statement of DR.. Charles
Baskerville of New York. in an ad-
dress on THE Value OF American
Oil Shales." DR.. Baskerville also
said: The annual production of
crude petroleum of 800 million bar
Continued on Page Eight)
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
GOLDFIELD-TULE CANYON
ERECT BIG WATER TANK

The Goldfield-Tule Canyon Placer
Mining company has completed :he
erection of a 12,000-gallon water
storage tank at the vertical shaft and
has started sinking an incline
shaft to connect with the main
north drift on bedrock. The water
tank, hauled from the old Consoli-
dated mill at Aurora, will pro;lde
ample water for washing gravel
after the pumps have cleared TIE
workings for the miners 10 cEier
in the morning and again ut noon.
In the past several bucke', of gravel
accumulated in the dump. hox nefs re
sufficient water could ~ obtained
in the sump to start tn, purap. The
tank will also provide wate.' reser-
voir for unusually dry seasons sacn
as the present, when The Hump can
be operated for only four seconds
out of every minute, against mini
mum in previous dry seasons of ffo.n
IL to 1S seconds. This summer has
been the dryest yet known in the
canyon. The inclined shaft is be-
ing sunk SO that the cars loaded
with gravel can be hoistad t. the
surface as fast as the gravel can be
washed, giving the quantity produc-
tion necessary for success in hand
ling the lower grades ~ mat ial.
AS the drift is advanced crossculs
are being driven east and west AID
the first of these Is no.! nearing the
channel on the wcst,.o >r.e f 'he
canyon in which high-grade gravel
was found in the sump crosscut.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
OIL
INTERESTED
IN WHITE
RIVER

The Berry brothers, operators in
the Coalinga oil field and the Stand
ard Oil company of California will
send experts into the White River
oil field, in northern Nye county,
to report on the claims of the
United Basin Oil company of Tono-
pah. 1t is said by oil experts that
the remarkable showing in this dis
trict will eventually lead to big in
terests entering the district and
starting drilling.
The entrance of the Standard Oil
company and the Berry brothers
means that for the first time mon
eyed interests and expert operators
will have a part in the investiga-
ton of the oil possibilities of Ne
vada.
Many Goldfield men are heavily
interested in the new field.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
BY JAMES F. o,BRIEN


LOVELOCK, New. IA strike
that is not only important of itself
on account of the high grade of the
ore found and the fact that it gives
every promise of permanency, but
which is of greater Importance be-
cause it extends the known ore
bearing zone at the camp of Loring
by fully a mile, was made during
the week on the Bangor group of
claims by Thos. Owens, one of the
we'll known miners of this section.
There are number of good look
ing veins on the Bangor group and
Owens has been getting good pam
nings for some time at various
places Finally he decided to get
some depth on place where the
values were good, and he started to
sink He had gone but four feet
when there was a decided improve
ment and the amount of free gold
visible to the naked eye in the live
looking quartz shows that the ore
will run hundreds of dollars to the
ton. The vein at this point is 15
inches in width .and is widening
with depth. There are several
other veins on the property, in two
of which the silver values predOm-
mate. The Bangor group lies a
mile north of the Sheepherder,
which up to this time has been the
northern limit for good grade ore
in commercial quantities.
Loring apparently is also being
extended in the southern direction.
Henry c. Cutting, one of the prom
inent mining men who have recently
examined the camp, was last Satur-
day exhibiting specimens of high
grade bromide of silver ore which
he got that morning on the Forbes
and Loose property, a mile and a
half south of the Honey Bee. There
has not been much work done in
that vicinity, but a 12-inch vein was
uncovered which assayed $216 per
ton. The ore that Mr.. Cutting had
would doubtless run from 500 to
1909 ounces, but 1: is not an aver
age of the vein.
Mr. Cutting is greatly pleased
with the showing at Loring and
predicts an influx of prospectors and
investors as a result of the recent
finds. and an awakening on the
part of mining men and the public
generally to the possibilities of the
district. Mr.. Cutting had the first
lease on the famous Mizpah mine at
Tonopah and when he made clean
up of over 100000 from that lease
in a year, he went to the coast and
become one of the leading realty
operators of Richmond. Cal. He
has been interested in mining also,
but has seen nothing since the days
of Tonopah that impresses him so
much as Loring. Said he:
'T believe Loring is going to
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
FLORENCE DIVIDE
SHIPS CAR OF
$685. ORE

The nineteenth carload of ore
shipped from the. Florence Divide
lease, or the eleventh since the first
high-grade shipment. was sent to
the smelter yesterday. The aver
age value of the ore was $365.60
per ton, according to assays taken
by r. C. Mccarthy. superintendent
for the Florence company. The
nineteenth carload, shipped few
days ago, averaged s134 per ton.
One thousand pounds of first grade
ore, estimated by f.. A. Byler, engi-
neer for the Florence company, and
Superintendent Mccarthy to be
worth 81 a pound, has been sacked
and stored in the John S. Cook
bank.
The high-grade seam now being
mined is considered more promising
and of better grade than the first
seam found in the lease. The first
seam was sorted into three grades.
but the second grade has been
eliminated from the shipments now
being made.
j. B. Kendall has again increased
the force of miners on his lease
and is working on both the fifth
and, seventh levels.
Giles and Murdy are prosecuting
into the foot wall on the ninth
level and the indications are said
to be excellent for opening another
rich orebody in this lease.
Louie Delcic, working in the old
Wheeler block, is preparing a car
load shipment of ore assaying from
$40 to $50.
The west crosscut being driven by
the Florence company into the Com
bination No. claim of the De-
velopment is nearing the 200 foot
point and is being continued at q
rate of 81 feet weekly.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
FLORENCE DIVIDE
LOADS GAR OF
S134 ORE

The Florence Divide loaded a
car of ore yesterday averaging s134
per ton, according to samples taken
by r. C. Mccarthy, superintendent
for the Florence company. This
was the twentieth car shipped from
the lease and the tenth since the
first high-grade shipment. Eight
hundred pounds of ore estimated to
be worth IS a pound has been saved
from the newly discovered rich
seam. The estimate for the carload
yesterday did not include the silver
and copper content.
J. B. Kendall has again Increased
the force of miners in his lease and
is now working on both the fifth
and seventh levels. Giles and
Nurdy are prosecuting into the
footwall on the ninth level and are
working in highly promising ma
terial. Louie Delcic, in the old
Wheeler block. is preparing a car
load shipment of ore that will aver
age from $40 to $50.
The west crosscut being driven by
the company is 175 feet long and
is being continued at a rate of 81
feet weekly. Promising seams of
material assaying about So are be-
ing cut.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
DEVELOPMENT co.
TO ENLARGE
SHAFT

Despite reduction in the work
ing force caused by the Tonopah-
Divide strike, the work Of the Gold
field Development company is going
forward rapidly both in the mines
and mill.
The main shaft having been found
in poorer condition than was antici-
pated, making necessary the retim-
bering of $50 feet, it has been de-
cided to enlarge the entire shaft one
foot and retimber it with 10 by 10
timbers which will provide 20 per
cent greater hosting capacity large
ly through the more substantial
shaft permitting greater hosting
speed.
The long crosscut to the Florence
has practically been completed and
a branch from it is being driven into
Florence ground. Raises to tap the
ore will be driven from about 400
feet into the northern part of the
Florence.
The surface equipment at the
main shaft is all in place, includ-
ing ore bins with capacity of 500
tons, and 900 feet of spur track to
and beyond the bins has been COM
pleted.
Heavy machinery for the mill is
being moved from Aurora and the
enlarging and alteration of the plant
to treat the lower grade product of
the mines is making rapid progress.
Additional electric equipment for
use underground in the Combina-
tion, which will give the company
total of four locomotives. has been
ordered.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
QUICK OUTPUT
SHOWS DECLINE

The output of quicksilver in the
United States from April to June
80, 1919, according to figures COM
piled by F. L. Ransome. OF the
United States geological survey. de-
partment of the interior. was 394O
TASKS of 75 pounds net. decrease
of 1920 TASKS, or of nearly "a per
cent, as compared with the output
in the first quarter. Only 16 mines
were producing in the second quar-
ter of the year as against 2S in the
first quarter. OF the 3S40 TASKS
produced, 1882 TASKS is credited
to California, 1244 to Texas, "a to
Nevada. and 80 to Oregon.
The quicksilver on hand at the
mines or in transit to market at the
end of the second quarter amounted
to 1886 TASKS, which was 2S4 TASKS
less than the quantity on hand or in
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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
GRANDMA IN sHALB.

The Grandma confines driving
south at q depth of 81, feet. Sha "
recently was entered far south Of
,bc shaft and assays II s11 were
secured The shale was found to
be dipping east, hi,n,y siiitjfie q.
and it is believed the tue cortact
was not cut, as the r:sI't Of wnik
in nearby mines ,nd;"atrs that The
shale will be found dipping west
at this point. After the true con-
tact has been found drift will be
driven from where the $11 assays
were secured.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
WEST DIVIDE ORE
OPENED FOR
So FEET

The oreshoot in the West Divide
has now been opened for a length
of SO feet. The first 1S feet from
the shaft is from Is inches to two
and half feet wide and assays 100
ounces. The second Is feet is from
two and a half to three and a half
feet wide and averages rs ounces.
The seam from which 1000-ounce
assays are obtained still shows
strong in the face of the drift.
The drift is being continued and
shows a gradual widening of the
vein.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
NINE ENGINEERS
TALK TAXATION

CHICAGO, Sept. 23.-How to tax
the Country's mines with a fair al
lowance for the wasting assets of
the industry was the subject of a
spirited discussion here today be-
tween government agents and the
brains of the American mining pro-
fession. Today marked the open
of the 120th meeting of the Ameri-
can Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers, who will csn-
tinue in session for five days.
Some 1000 persons will attend
from every mining center and the
questions before them are of vital
Importance to the country's indus
trial progress.
The result of the mine taxation
meeting today was a decision to Sc
cure close cooperation between the
gvernment and the taxpayer with
the mine owner and mining engineer
giving assistance and advice and the
government making use of 1t in de-
termining the basis of taxation. DR..
l.. C. Grafton headed the govern,
ment representatives.
Some of the outstanding features
of today's session were the state
ment of A. S. Learoyd, of the t.. S.
fuel administration, that in case of
future rationing of anthracite coal
the same system as in use during
last winter viii almost certainly be
followed; the advantages pointed
out by Charles F. Willis. of Phelps
Dodge corporation, of physical ex-
aminations of employees and of GER
tain methods OF curtailing forces with
out unstabilizing labor or business
conditions in the community; and
survey of enormous domestic man
ganese deposits developed in the
war emergency which will material
ly aid in the development of the
country's steel output This situa-
tion was presented to the institute
by E. C. Harder and D. F. Hewitt
of the U. S. geological survey.
There were seven sessions of a
business kind today and this even
ing the delegates met for smoker
in the Chicago University club. The
evening developed much fun-making
in which some of the leaders of the
industry participated even to the
extent of being the Victims of the
sport. The engineers gather from
almost the ends of the world twice
a year, and the social side of their
meetings is no less important than
the business end.
Tonight DR.. F. G. Cottrell, George
S. Rice and Frank H. Probert, of the
U. s. bureau of mines, told the result
of their observation in the devast-
ated regions of France last month
and showed pictures of the mining
and metallurgical districts which
portrayed the condition they are in
as concerns future mining opera
tions.
Tomorrow the convention takes
an all-day steamer excursion to
Gary. Ind.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
MINING NEWS FROM lORING DISTRICT

make good camp. You have the
conditions here that have made big
mines in other places. You have
the gold here-I don't have to ask
an assayer If it's there when can
see it, and lots OF It. There is
plenty of live quartz in evidence
and there has been work done at
some depth which shows big veins
and good values at three widely
separate properties which are not
on the same vein systematic
Honey Bee, Treasure Hill and
Sheepherder. | believe, though, you
will have to go deeper for the big
thing. There are no values in the
lime-shale or schist formations
themselves-they are found in the
fissures and show that the minerals
were deposited by ascending solu-
tions, indicating that the big bodies
of the best ore Will be found at
Depth,
On the Finland group, which is
now owned by the Nevada Honey
Bee company, a vein was opened up
near the top of the mountain above
the Honey Bee gulch. A tunnel was
run 40 feet and winze sunk 20
feet below the tunnel level. Here
the vein is four feet wide. between
we'll defined walls, fand averages $40
per ton. What appears to be the
main vein of the Honey Bee has
not been much prospected, but it
will be crosscut by the Benedetti
tunnel, now in 2S5 feet 1t pans
well on the surface and assays as
high as $50 to the ton. Owing to
a breakdown of the compressor
there has been no work in the NAL
ley shaft and Benedetti tunnel for
several days, but the broken parts
will be replaced shortly.
The Mayday group ON which has
been organized the Nevada Loring
Mines company by the owners, Col.
T. j. d. Salter, Tom Ward, VIM.
Houston and J. C. Foster. has a big
vein 40 feet wide alongside mas
sive dixie which is believed to have
an important bearing on the min
eralization of that section. On
what is thought the hanging wall of
the vein an assay was taken across
four feet and returned $3.50 per
ton. Further along another assay.
also across four feet, gave $16.S0
per ton. A picked specimen of
dark-colored rock which would
have been passed up by the average
miner was assayed by the U. S.
Smelling company at Kennett and
returned values of $399.74, of
which $11.OS was in silver and the
balance gold. On the southwest end
of the Mayday No. vein has been
uncovered from which an assay of
$102.50 was secured. of which $5S
was in silver and the balance cop
per. This is a cross vein and runs
about due north and south. It
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