The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-20
OLD lORlNG DISTRICT

mostly ron IluuluS at uuUeTouS
places wonderfully rich ore in which
free gold is plainly seen with the
naked eye-and sometimes is pep
pered as thickly as freckles on a
red-headed kids FACET is from
milling big bodies of low-grade ore
on the ground that the dividends of
the future will be paid.
The most active operations at
this time are being conducted by
the Nevada Honey Bee Mines COM
pany, on which Superintendent J.. H.
Bell is working two shifts with 20
men. A good plant, including a
four-drill compressor and a 10 h. p.
hoist, has been installed. 1t was on
the Honey Bee that the original dis.
covery was made, and there are at
least three main veins, with m
Gus spurs and ros veins, on the
property. Though some of the ore
shows so much free gold that no
assay is necessary, it is the smelter
returns of ore shipped as it is
broken down from the full width of
the vein that gives most satisfaction
to the owners. The first shipment
under the above conditions returned
average values from the smelter of
$34.06 per ton-and it is figured
that $40 ore will be highly profit
able at Loring.
The report of J. Carlton Bray, E.
NJ, says: 1.-The main veins are from
six to twenty feet in width and
carry from two to five feet of richer
ore, the rest being of fair milling
grade.
The country is somewhat broken
up on the surface and it is figured
that it will tighten up at depth
and concentration of values be
found. The Malley shaft is down
10 feet and at a depth of 200 feet
it is believed it will be under the
schist formation. Good develop.
ments are looked for when cross
cuts and drifts are run at that level.
The officers and directors of the
Nevada Honey Bee Mines company
are: Col. r. J. D. Salter, president;
Moses Reinhart. vice president;
Geo. B. Hutchins, secretary treas
urer; C. l.. Despard, E. B. Caldwell
and Francis B. Hutchins. The lat
ter is a prominent corporation law
yer. and all but Salter and Rein
hart are of New York. A treasury
fund of s25O,0OO was raised by
Weir Bros. & Co., and some wealthy
clients.
The Treasure Hill group of the
Loring Treasure Hill Mines Co. lies
to the southeast of the Honey Bee
and has a fine surface showing,
which redeems it's promise as depth
is gained. 1t was while on this
property that DR.. Weed made the
remark quoted previously. Two
main veins run parallel through the
property about 400 feet apart. The
east vein crops for 1900 feet and
shows good values all the way.
There is a high-grade streak on the
footwall, from two to II inches in
width, and there is scarcely an
opening on it that does not contain
ore which shows free gold to the
naked eye-and rock in which no
gold was visible PANIED like a
is that the gold is disseminated
through the rock and not merely
in seams. Smelter returns tell the
tale here also, the first carload of
ore shipped from the Treasure Hill
returning values of SOS per ton.
Several hundred tons, in which
there is no high-grade, are on the
dumps and will mill better than $40
per ton. This property gives prom
Use of proving second to none in the
camp. w. H. Goodin, president of
the Overland Trail association, Col.
Salter, o. H. Olsen and James Gar
nier are among the biggest owners
of Treasure Hill stock, and the COM
pany's treasury was financed by
Weir Bros. & Co.. of New York.
w. I. Beauchamp-unlike his dis
tinguished cousin, Champ Clark
is not much of a talker, but he is
opening up lots of good ore on the
Sheepherder, which, in addition to
the Pershing group owned outright,
is operated under long leases by the
Jose-Davis Mining and Milling COM
pany, of which he is manager. Beau
tiful specimens sprinkled with gold,
the color of which proves that il is
OF unusual purity, are frequently
found. Like other properties in the
district 1t has a network of veins,