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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29

mel and continue sinking the shaft.
which is in the vein. This is now
200 feet deep and the first lateral
work win be done at 225 feet to
explore the extension of the orebody
opened through the tunnels. 1t is
the opinion OF competent mining en-
gineers who have examined the mine
that the chances are excellent for
the orebody to enlarge at greater
depth, as has been the case in nearly
all lead-silver mines in granite and
lime.
Goldfield, 33 miles distant, is the
nearest shipping point, making it an
economic impossibility to ship the
ore in any great quantity except
after concentrating, and If further
development warrants it concen-
trating plant will be erected at the
springs.
$500 feet and climatic conditions are
such that the road to Goldfield can
be Kept open practically all year.
There is an ample supply of nut pine
timber for all purposes, eliminating
the high cost of buying timber and
hauling 1t the long distance to the
mine, which, with water from the
springs, makes favorable conditions
seldom found in a Nevada mining
district.
Corrin Barnes, president Of the
Goldfield Development company and
widely known as an engineer and
geologist, recently visited the mine
and in conversation expressed a
highly favorable opinion of the pros
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new COMPANY is DEVELOPING MAC NAMARA Mine

poets for opening a valuable orebody
of size.
Spur, in the U. S geological re-
port, 1906, on the Silver Peak quad
rangwle, says of The MacNamara
Prospects,"
"The deposit is situated not far
from the contact of the main gran
itic intrusion in locality where the
calcareous sediments are cut by a
complex Of alaskite dikes, which
probably represent a later phase of
granite intrusion. Although quartz
with some copper staining and con-
siderable iron is found at various
points in the intruded sediments.
generally in streaks having north
westerly direction, only the one vein
opened has developed any quantity
of ore. Where the vein is most
productive it consists of quartz re-
placing and penetrating the altered
calcareous sediment on the under
side of an alaskite dixie.
"The vein which has been pros
CONTINUED on Page EiehO
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progressed rapidly, and the tunnel
advanced.
At the north end of the lode. ex-
ploratien work and milling of ore at
the Mexican mill has been continued
throughout the week, with opera
tions proceeding on the various
levels of the Con. Virginia, Onhir,
Mexican, Sierra Nevada and Union
Con. In the Con. Virginia. excellent
headway is reported in opening up
the burned district. and establish
ing connections for more extensive
work
The shaft of the Concordia-C Com
stock Co. has been carried to
depth of 221 feet. and all the way
down has carried values on the west
side At ESQ feet station will be
cut and crosscut sent out toward
the ledge, which Is estimated to be
from 12 to 20 feet distant This
ledge, developed through winze,
had very good values on the $50
foot level.
Through the Combination shaft,
the Middle Mines association con-
tinues preparations for diamond
drilling, according to plans, the de-
tails of which were announced
earlier in the week. and it is ex-
pected that drilling will be under
way in the very. near future.
The Underground mine in Lower
Gold Hill is advancing an explora-
tion drift into new country, and
with good indications showing.-vir-
gin Chronicle.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29
WINE
sunk 80 FEET IN
RICH ORE
DRIFT AT BOTTOM LEVEL NEAR
ING EXTENSION OF THE
ORESHOOT

The winze from the 10O-foot
level of the Arrowhead, in the dis
trict of that name in Nye county,
has been sunk 80 feet in ore some
of which breaks for the full bottom
of the winze as high as $500 a ton.
This winze is being sunk in the east
drift on this level and ore taken
from it is being sacked for ship
ment to a mill in Tonopah, GO
mile haul. The east drift has been
advanced As feet and is still in rich
ore, which is also being sacked.
The west drift on the 175-foot, or
bottom level, is rs feet long and
narrow seams of good-grade orc are
exposed. The east drift OF this
level, at 120 feet from the shaft,
has not yet entered the Oreshoot.
although it is believed to De near
Six other companies have plans
well advanced to start work in the
district, in which interest continues
to increase as rich ore is opened in
the Arrowhead. A town is growing
rapidly.
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CRACKER JACK IS
AGAIN DRIVING
TO vein
CROSSCUT is BEING CONTINUED
FROM THE BOTTOM OF
THE WINE

The Cracker Jack is again cross
cutting east to the vein from the
bottom of the winze from the 800
foot level and the vein should be
reached in three or four more days,
according to estimates of Manager
H. G. Mcmahon. From work done
in the vein through raises from the
crosscut, indications are that when
the vein is again cut there will te
exposed ore at least eqcs, to the
high-grade mill material exposed
in these raises and in drifts from
them. The oreshopt will then have
been proved for a long distance on
the dip of the vein and TIE result of
the driving of drifts from The cross
cut 10 determine the lateral extent
of the ore will be watched with IN
terest by mining men. as the work
will be- of great importance to The
district.
The work done thus far in onen-
ing the orebody has been long and
costly, but the results being OBJ
tanned now warrant the expenditure
of additional sums necessary to
prove the extent of the shoos and to
search for the rich lenses that-are
believed to be in it, The cratic ma
ture of the gold and silver content
of the ore leads the naSement TO
the belief that there may be places
in the vein where conditions were
favorable for the deposition of the
metals in equal quantity, which
would make a high-grade ore. 1t
has been found in almost all work N
the G0Idfield district that the large
bodies of low-grade material, when
ore of good mill grade is persistent,
contain lenses of varying size in
which the picture ore the district
is fasaans for. is found. .S....
/ Starting work through vertical
shaft sunk near the apex of the
vein. which dips at from 80 to As
degrees, the Cracker Jack opened
the vein to a depth of 120 feet, ex-
posing to this level shoot esti-
mated to contain $4,000 tons of ore
of an average value of from 81 to
IS per ton. A short distance below
this level the vein walls Come to-
gether and a good width was not
found again until the shaft had been
sunk to 500 feet and crosscut
driven 500 feet east to the vein. AT
this point the width was only fair
and it was not until a 60-foot winze
had been sunk and the vein again
cut that eight feet of ore assaying
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BUREAU OF Mines RESCUE CAR VISITING GOLDFIFLD

apparatus and how to use it. A
miner wearing the apparatus can
enter mine Immediately after an
explosion, and work in smoke and
black damp for two hours.
Many thousand miners have been
trained in the use of this rescue ap-
paratus at the bureau of mines cars
and stations. 1t is hoped that in
the near future every miner in this
country will have working knowl-
edge of the apparatus, and that
every mine will hape equipment
ready for use in case of emergency.
Many miners have been saved after
explosions by rescue parties wearing
the apparatus; also, the apparatus
has proved of great value in fight
ing mine fires.
Free instruction and training IN
methods of first aid to the injured
are also given by crews OF the res
clue cars and stations. and this in
struction is given either in connec-
tion with rescue apparatus training
or entirely separately, hence is ap-
plicable not only to underground
workers, but to all thoss employed
in or around the mines and metal
lurgical establishments.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29
NEWS OF MINES OF VIRGINIA CITY

Mining operations along the Com
stock are forging ahead this week
in many properties along the lode,
and the general situation continues
to hold out great promise for the
future of the camp, with the pric2 OF
silver at a point that places in the
coiNnercial and profitable milling
class great tonnage of ore thai
formerly was too low to mine and
market That the operators are
placing the properties in condition
to take advantage of the high price
of the white metal is indicated by
the large amount of development
work under way, not only at the
north end of the Comstock. but IN
the Gold Hill section.
At the Gold Hin Con. Imperial
group. under the direction of Alex
Wise. the. sinking of the Stevenson
shaft has now reached the 4O0-foot
point, and cutting out for station
will be put under way next week.
When this is completed, develop
ment work will be carried out at
this depth in all four of the proper
ties operating there, Con- Imperial.
Challenge, Confidence and Alpha
Con. When these properties were
taken oyer by the new interests, the
shaft was down to the 2e0-foot
level, and since that time 1t has been
sunk an additional 200 feet. and
much exploration work done on the
200-foot level. Work at the Trojan
tunnel by the same company has
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29
MINE OPERATORS
DISCUSS LIVING
COSTS HERE
ASSOCIATION ELECTS NEW OF
FICERS AT MEETING HELD
THURSDAY

A meeting of the Goldfield Mine
Operators association was held
Thursday afternoon for the purpose
of informally discussing the work
ing and living conditions in the
Goldfield district, and the different
matters entering into the cost of
living in Goldfield. 1t was decided
that the cooperation of the associa-
tion should be offered the merchants
of Goldfield in the matter of re-
ducing the cost of living in Goldfield
and other things that the association
might be able to do in the interests
of the merchants to bring about this
end, and 1t was the sense of the
meeting that the first step to be
taken should be meeting with as
many of the merchants as possible.
For the purpose of meeting with
the merchants committee of five
was appointed, consisting of Gerald
B. Hartley, A. I. Darcy, Ben Gill,
Mat Murphy and A. H. Lawry, and
this committee met with practically
all merchants of the town last night.
The meeting was merely prelimin-
ary one and nothing of Importance
was done Another meeting is to
be held within few days and the
matter will be discussed further, and
plans devised for reducing the cost
of living in Goldfield.
The companies represented at the
meeting of the association were the
Consolidated, Development, Ke-
wanas, Blue Bull, Atlantas Spear
head, Florence Divide, Lone Star,
Silver Pick, Grandma and Great
Bend. The meeting was opened by
A. H. Lawry, vice president.
IIpcn 0 .mation made. byS L. x.
Turner, to the effect that as it ap-
peared majority of the officers of
the association had left Goldfield
and taken up residences outside of
the district, preventing them from
serving or being of any assistance
to the association, all offices be de-
clared vacant. This was done and
new officers we're elected as fol-
lows:
President-A. HI. Lawry
Vice President. X. Turner.
Sec.-Treas.--Ben Gill.
The Florence, Florence Divide,
Spearhead and Lone Star companies
were elected to membership.
The next meeting of the associa-
tion will be held on the afternoon of
November %.
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may have been injured or en-
tombed
The saving of human life and
lessening of sufferings of injured
miners are the central features of
the bureaus work.
Miners are shown how to use res
cue apparatus, and how to take care
of an injured comrade. The lee
lures are illustrated by lantern
slides and moving pictures which
show good and bad methods of
mining and how many accidents are
easily prevented. These lectures are
given In the car when suitable
meeting place cannot be procured
elsewhere. but lantern slides and
moving pictures cannot be shown in
the car.
Each car carries oxygen breath
ing apparatus. supply of oxygen
in cylinders. safety lamps, field
telephone with 1000 feet of wire, a
collapsible steel mine cage, an ap-
paratus for reviving miners who
have been gassed. and the charts,
splints, and bandages for demon
strating first aid methods. Some
of the training with rescue appara-
tus will be inside the mines. also
in smoke or fumes, so that wearers
will understand the value of the
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29

Mine rescue car No. l of the
United States bureau of mines, in
charge of E. d. Gardner, engineer.
and crew of trained men
reached Goldfield on Monday. The
car will be on exhibition every day
from 9 o'clock in the morning until
O'Clock in the evening, until De-
cember 8, and free lectures will be
given to miners on safe methods of
mining, the use of safety lamps and
rescue apparatus. and mine gases.
On December A the car will go to
Goodsprings, New, where it will re-
main until December 13.
This mine, rescue car is one of II
now in use by the bureau of mines
for training miners in first aid and
rescue methods and the use of
oxygen breathing apparatus. Each
car has a crew that includes two
experienced miners, mining engi-
neer, and a mine surgeon, and is
equipped with the latest rescue and
first aid apparatus and supplies. At
a moments notice the car is ready
to proceed to the scene of mine
disaster, where the bureau men
place themselves under the direction
of the state mining inspectors and
mine officials to do everything pos
sible to assist or save miners who
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-11-29
EXTENDS
PAYMENT DATE
TO DEC. 81
sTATENIENT SAYS NEW POWER
PLANT Is READY TO
OPERATE

The Reorganized Pioneer Mine
issued statement t
stockholders who nave not yet pai
assessment No. /, levied March .
# this year. The delinquent .iat
or this assessment, according 10 III
has been extended 20 dc
ember 81.
The letter. in part follows.
The officers and directors
of your company urge that this
assessment be paid promptly III
order to protect your shares
from being sold as delinquen.
Your company has been pro-
crossing satisfactorily with the
plan of work outlined and earlv
success of our enterprise is in
dicated. All of the debts and
obligations of the Pioneer Con-
solidated Mines company, which
were assumed by your company,
have been paid in full and the
company has no debts at this
time and has sufficient funds
for immediate needs.
During the past few months
the surface plant of machinery
has been thoroughly overhauled
and put in first class condition.
and in addition to the old
equipment, new power plant
to operate the compressor has
been purchased and installed,
putting everything in splendid
condition for economical opera
tion. Sinking has been resumed
in the main working shaft and
the recommendation of our
consulting engineer will he fol-
lowed. This plan was fully out
lined in previous letters. The
shaft will be sunk to a depth
of 500 feet, where it is antici-
pated the permanent water level
. will jbe reached. CrOsscuts
will then be driven to cut the
vein at which depth and 1t is
expected the orebodies will be
found within we'll defined
walls. and not in lunches as
they occur on the upper levels.
There is a possibility of the
water level being reached be-
fore the depth of 500 feet is
attained in the shaft, as there
is a showing of some water at
the present depth of less than
500 feet.
1t is the opinion of your Off
GERS and directors that at this
time the stock of the Reorgan-
lied Pioneer Mines company Of
fers splendid opportunity for
a profitable speculation.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
Street Car Men Gain

San Antonio, Texas - Organized
street car men employed by the San
Antonio Public Service company have
raised wages 26 per cent. The new
scale is 40 cents an hour the first year
for motormen and conductors, and AZ
cents thereafter The old scale was
80 and 35 cents. The increase means
an additional 95 cents day to first
year men and 65 to 70 cents for those
employed more than one year. This
is the third advance these workers
have secured within the last three
years.
Topeka, Kan.-Wage differences be-
tween the Street Car Mems union and
the Street Railway company have
been ended by the workers accepting
the company's offer to raise wages
to "a and 38 cents. The men asked
for 40 and 45 cents.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
Steinmeier Celebrates

Otto Steinmeier believes in sharing
the good things of life with his
friends, and accordingly invited about
half a hundred of them to his sub
urban home last Sunday afternoon.
He had just completed clearing the
underbrush from a thirty acre tract
of woodland, as brush piles numbering
something less than thousand gave
evidence. To this woodslot he escorted
his guests, and here the time honored
custom of burning the Easter fire was
revived, and here also was spread a
bounteous repast consisting of every
thing in the way of good eats, not to
mention an inexhaustible supply of
"Whistle" and other beverages, to
which ample justice was done by the
hungry horde. A fine string orchestra
enlivened the event and added much
to the pleasure of the occasion.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
.Step-at-a-Time Plan
Succeeds in Unions

Baltimore-In an editorial on the
trade union movement the Baltimore
Sun prints a good illustration of or
ganized labor's policy, which was con-
tumptuously referred to a few years
ago as a step-at-a-time plan by So
called revolutionists. The Sun says:
"Forty or fifty years ago chess
player by the name of Steinit4 Invent
ed what is know as the modern style
Of chess play. It's chief characteristic
was what he called "the accumulation
Of small advantages"
"The old chess masters staked sue
cess on bold and reckless strokes.
More often than not they came to
grief. Steinitz moved prudently, eau
tiously, gaining a small advantage
here and another there, and finally
winning out through the accumulation
of these trif1ing advantages. The
Steinitz method has driven out the
old method among the frst-class
players. 1t is the style, that wins.
"The Federation of Labor, in the
three decades during which Mr.. Com
pers has been it's leading figure, has
played the game of labor advance
ment in this way. 1t has striven to
get reduction in the hours of labor
here, an increase of wages there, bet
ter working conditions in this place
or that. 1t has resolutely put out of
mind all dreams of the achievement
of the millennium overnight and kept
its mind always on the next step in
advance"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
Death Breeding Jobs
MANY OF INDUSTRIAL POISONS
TRACED TO LEAD
Expert Recommends Strict Sanitary
Code for Workshop and Employees
The Longer the Hours the
Greater the Danger

Washington - In pamphlet on
"Women in the Lead Industries"
written by Alice Hamilton, M. D., and
issued by the United States bureau of
labor statistics, it is stated that lead
is by far the most common industrial
poison, being responsible, according
to Teleky, for no less than 95 per cent
of all the poisoning due to occupation.
The popular idea about lead poison
ing, held especially by foremen and
superintendents, says DIR. Hamilton,
is that the workman poisons himself
by eating his lunch without carefully
washing his hands, but it is safe to
say that there is abundant proof that
lead dust and lead fumes, not lack OF
personal cleanliness, are responsible
for most of the industrial lead poison
ing in this country, as in all countries.
"If man employed in lead smelt-
ing, for instance, were to get into his
mouth every bit of the soluble lead
that is clinging to his hands at the
end of a days work he would not get
as much lead as he breathes in dur
ing two hours exposure to the dust
and fumes in the air.
"It may be laid down as an abso-
lutte rule that the dustier the work the
greater will be the amount of lead
poisoning. In the pottery trade in the
United States the writer found one
case of lead poisoning for every seven
women employed in lead work, while
in the British potteries the proportion
of cases to those employed was only
/ in g."
DIR. Hamilton recommends strict
sanitary code for employe and work
shop. "In deciding as to the length
of the workday for women lead work.
ers," she says, "it must be remem-
bered that the longer the hours the
greater the dose of lead absorbed, and
the shorter the period for elimination
of the dose before the next workday.
1t must also be remembered that ia
tigue increases susceptibility to lead
poisoning and so does heated or
humid atmosphere"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
Injustice to the Miner
IGNORANCE OF WRONG CAN'T
BE OFFERED AS EXCUSE
British Newspaper Discusses COndi-
tiOns Existing in Coal Mining
Industries-Queen Visits
Slum Districts

London, England-"Our ignorance
is no excuse; if we were blind it was
only because we would not see," says
Reynolds Newspaper, in discussing
conditions that government COM
mission has shown exists in the coal
mining industry.
"a great shock" says the editor,
"has been given to the comfortable
classes by the revelations before the
commission as to the conditions under
which miners, who do such vitally
necessary work for the nation, have
had to live, and some appreciation of
the feeling of intolerable injustice
that the miner suffers has been i'm
pressed on many who cared nothing
for miners so long as they got coal.
"But the facts are not new. Every
student of social affairs knew them,
though our knowledge has been added
to when, side by side with the picture
of the appalling housing conditions in
mining towns and villages, we have
placed the gigantic profits of some of
tn every companies to whom such
houses belonged.
"We are all in some measure to
blame for the fact that, knowing that
these scandals were in existence-and
if We did not know, we ought to have
known-we allowed them to go on. 1t
is almost as if the public conscience
can only be truly aroused by sensa-
tion.
"A few days ago the queen visited
one of the worst slum areas of the
east end. She was shocked, as every
body would be shocked if they saw
these places with their own eyes. And
now many feel that something ought
to be done to remove these blots on
our good name.
"But why does it require the indig-
nation of queen to rouse people to
a sense of their civic duteis?
"The prime minister told US some
time ago that it was the aim of the
government to make this a country
fit for heroes to live in, and it does
seem at last to be meeting with some
general recognition that heroes can
not properly be bred in hovels."
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-04-25
Equal Pay for Women

Washington-The national war la
Dor board has recommended that the
Western Chemical company of Denver
give women employees equal pay with
men for equal work, and that the en-
ployes elect a committee to take up
complaints with the company. The
board ruled that there was no justi-
fication for reducing wages, since the
complaint was filed against the COM
pany last November, and that the
original wage should be restored with
back pay from the time of the reduc-
tion. The board recommended that
employees be granted time and one
half in excess Of eight hours a day
and double time for Sunday and holi-
day work.