The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-07
TUlE CANYON TO
BE ABLY WORKED

A district that came rapidly to the
front during 1918. and one for which
next year appears to hold a brilliant
future, is the Tule Canyon district,
thirty-fve miles south of Goldield
and stretching into the Death Valley
region. Situated so that it is impos-
sible to ship any but ore that can be
classed as high grade" and with its
vast placer u known for years
but still remaining undeveloped, it
now appears that men with the nerve
and knowledge of mining to extract
from the canyon the wealth it con
tains have started work there.
Placer claims have been staked by
Goldfeld meE for a distance Of FIVE
miles along the canyon; but, beyond
the sinking of a few prospecting
shafts, no work has been done, the
owners awaiting the time when they
will be able to start hydraulic mining
on a scale which they believe the re-
sources of the canyon justify. In
some places the canyon is more than
1000 feet wide and shafts have been
sunk from forty to sixty feet in
reaching bedrock.
The upper reaches of the canyon
are narrow and the claims extend
south from where it widens. 1t is
planned to start work n mile below
the north end of the claims and drive
a tunnel to bedrock. 1t is estimated
that bedrock can be reached with a
tunnel of proper grade in 1900 feet,
and it is planned to then drain the
bedrock with crosscuts and start
gravel through the flume while the
tunnel is being continued to the north
end line of the claims.
After the operations have been
placed OF a paying basis through this
work it is planned to start hydraulic
mining at the lower end of the can
yon, and 1t is estimated that only a
short period of work will be neces-
sary to secure funds for the purchase
of hydraulic mining equipment.
In sinking three shafts at the north
end of the claims, it is said the pay
streak was found to be from ten to
fifteen feet deep. and assays showed
SO per yard across the entire width
of the canyon. The overburden is
said to have assayed fifty cents per
yard. A tremendous volume of water
runs through the canyon.
Situated but a short distance from
the canyon proper is the ingalls, mine
with a production record estimated
at $150.000 from ore taken from a
depth of 100 feet. This mine is being
operated under lease by Al Borcher-
ding, P. j. McDermitt and Frank Hill,
the latter having recently become in
terested in the lease. 1t is to Bor-
cherding and McDermitt, who for the
past year have worked consistently
in the ingalls, mine and in prospecting
the placer deposits, that the present
future of mining in Tule is
due.
Borcherding and McDermitt now
have in operation on the ingalls,
ground a mill of twenty tons daily
capacity, and for the first time in the
of the mine-and, it might
also be said, in the history of Tule
,anyon-real mining will be done.
The lessees, after a number of trial
on ore assaying $25 per ton.
have found that operating on this
grade of ore the amalgamating plates
will save 40 per cent of the metallic
content and that the total saving will
,e go per cent. Borcherding states
hat after one run the concentrates
we're found to assay at a rate of more
han $1,000 per ton. A crusher, Hunt
ngton mill and Wiley tables are op-
rated with an 18-horsepower West
IN gas engine.
According to Borcherding, there is
ore in the mine dump to keep
he mill operating for twelve months
nd sufficient ore exposed in the mine
o insure continuous operation of the
nill for several years.
The S-horsepower hoist at the mine
haft will be replaced by a 25-horse-
over Western hoist, and other equip
1ent will be installed for sinking the
haft from the present depth of 100
eet to the 400-foot point. Stations
vill be cut at 200 and 800 feet for
ateral work and the rich vein will
e opened as rapidly as possible. The
haft is in the vein, which is from
We to twenty-five feet wide and is
almost vertical. Wherever I
pened the vein has produced a full J
Tidth of ore of milling grade, and }
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