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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09
TWO COMPANIES AT WORK
IN RICH TULE CANYON
GOLD PLACER FIELDS
ONE OF RICHEST PLACER MINING DISTRICTS IN WORLD BEING
EXPLORED By GOLDFIELD MEN-35 MILES sOUTH-A. l.
DARCY HAS $4,000 AT COMMAND FOR DEyELOPMENT.N

but one 1T is believed D'Arcv, now
that he will have more time for
his personal ventures since resign
ing as consulting engineer for many
of the Divide companies, will soon
devote his attention to.
The upper part of the canyon
was worked almost a half century
ago by Chinese, some of whom are
reported to have taken fortunes
from their diggings. They had no
facilities for reaching bedrock
through the heavy flow of water in
the canyon and the floor, where the
richest deposits are found in placer
mining, had never been explored
|, until Hanus and Field, using a
powerful pump, mastered the water.
The Tule Canyon Placer associa-
ltion, under direction of A. l.. Bor-
cherding, an experienced placer
miner and one of the men inter
| CSlCu III ~ ocooNAotAOhS hoo Nh
a shaft in the center of the canyon
and seven feet from bedrock has
opened Sc gravel. A head frame
has been erected, a gasoline hoist is
on the ground and sinking will be re-
sumed when the pumping equip
ment has been erected. This work
is being done at the southern boun-
dairy line.
The crosscut of the GOldfield-
Tule Canyon Placer Mining COM
pany has been driven 70 feet toward
the western rim of the wash, most
of the working being in bedrock,
which slopes toward the main pay
channel on the western edge. This
channel is separated from the main
wash by a ridge under the sand
and the crosscut is now cutting
Through this ridge.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09

Two companies, the Goldfield-
Tule Canyon Placer Mining COM
pany and the Tule Canyon Placer
association, have work well under
way in the rich placer field, 80
miles south of Goldfield. The for
mer, organized by Frank Hanus and
F. NJ. Field of Goldfield, is devel-
oping through a shaft one and one
half miles of the middle ground
of the canyon, and the latter, or
ganized by A. I. Darcy, vice presi-
dent and general manager of the
Goldfield Development company and
former consulting. engineer for the
Tonopah Divide mine, is exploring
in the same the northern
end of the canyon from the Gold
field-Tule Canyon boundary line.
The association organized by Darcy
has $4,000 available for develop
ment and it is his opinion that only
a small part of this amount will be
necessary to place the venture on
a paying basis. The Goldfield-
Tule Canyon, which has driven a
crosscut almost from rim to rim on
bedrock and is starting to drift
north, still is selling treasury stock.
The gold at the upper end Of Tule
is coarse, the grains gradually
growing finer as the canyon widens
to the south, showing that the
metal was deposited from the upper
end. Attention to the placer field
was first attracted in recent years
when Darcy formed an organiza-
ton to take over six miles of the
lower end of the canyon, starting
at the southern end of the Gold
field Tule Canyon claims. Here
the canyon is wide and the problem
of working the millions of tons OF
sand will be a great and costly one
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09

purchased for cash a large interest
in the Development company.
Whicher, president of the Flor
ence, recently was elected a director
in the Development, and Mcmahon.
secretary and treasurer for the De-
velopment, was elected a director in
the Florence.
The Whicher syndicate bought
into the Development on advice of
DR.. Walter Harvey Weed, and the
Florence was bought following an
examination by F. Sommer Schmidt.
When Weed and Schmidt place their
stamp of approval on proposed min
ing operations it means the plans
have been subjected to an acid tel
The effect of the two deals IS
that, while Goldfield had her two
big bets gone to seed in the fall of
1918, she now has them on their
feet. both prosperous and assured of
a long and productive life.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09
CONTACT IS BEING
PROSPECTED BY.
SPEARHEAD
BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH
DRIFTS BEING DRIVEN IN
QUARTZ

The Spearhead is employing a
large force of miners in exploring
the 91O-foot level. The south drift,
which will eventually reach the
shale-latite contact on the dip to-
ward the Merger, is over 400 feet
long and is being continued in
quartz. This drift is being driven
under the general surface of the
shale. The north drift has been
driven over 700 feet toward the
Grandma boundary line and the
face of this drift also is in quartz.
Two hundred feet north of the
shaft a raise is being driven in a
narrow seam of medium grade ore.
The Grandma. Merger, Atlanta
and Spearhead are all exploring on
or near the contact, the Grandma
at SIS feet, the Merger and Spear
head at go and the Atlanta at
1900. OF the four the work of the
Spearhead is more widely known
than that of the others because of
the discovery of rich seams 800 feet
south of the shaft in November of
last year.
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ORE TO Be MINED

Continued from Eage One)
profit to the company which the
general manager recently %conserva-
lively estimated at $4,000, 000.
The Development also has in the
Florence 100000 tons of ore on
which no value has been placed, and
an estimated tonnage of 1000 in
the Red Top, valued at from 81 to
So per ton before the discovery in
place of a huge tonnage, 5000 tons
of which, averaging from $22.40 to
$3.50, recently was broken in two
blasts. )
These statements and figures il
lustrate the brilliant future of the
company as a dividend payer.
The upper levels of the Combina-
ton and Red Top r ideal for
glory holing" operations, as the
vein in each instance dips sharply.
The Development started opera
tions by taking 1000 samples of
the stope filling in the Combination,
which resulted in an average value
of $500 per ton being placed on
the 100000 tons of ore in a block
40 feet wide and 1000 feet long.
The Combination shaft, being in the
vein. would be of no use in mining
the ore and it was decided to drive
N ar0ScntIf from tho main drift On
the 3SO-foot level southeast of the
shaft to a shaft ideally situated in
Combination Fraction ground.
The shaft now has been com
pletely repaired, a powerful surface
plant, including the hoist formerly
used at the Mohawk, has been
erected there and the construction
of ore bins will be started within a
short time.
Throughout the length of the
1000-foot drift on the 3SO-foot level
raises have been driven at 50-foot
intervals to tap the stope filling.
The drift is in solid rock, the stope
filling being not less than 80 feet
overhead anywhere, which will af-
ord ample protection for the min
ers. The raises are driven in two
parts, the first vertical and the sec
ond inclined. The vertical part is
two compartment, IL serving as a
manway and for lowering to the
main drift the timbers that will be
drawn with the filling and the other
to be used as an ore chute. At the
top of each vertical part will be a
compartment in which the separa-
ton of ore and timber will be made,
the former then being shoveled onto
grizzlies. This method will ssh
the reduction to a minimum of the
only difficulty that can be antici-
pated in drawing the filling, the
blocking of the raises with timber.
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and lessees may bring forth.

and lessees may bring forth.
From $50 to 400 feet has been
considered the bonanza depth in the
Florence, but a carload of ore of
an average value per ton of $3.50
recently was shipped from the
Giles lease. on the ninth level. In
February of this year the Red Hill
Florence, leasing in the Red King
claim, opened a small body of rich
ore in the Rogers vein at a depth
of 600 feet, the entire face of the
northeast or hanging wall drift for
a short distance assaying $3.50 per
ton. Assays of as high as $427
were secured from this ore and sew
eral carloads assaying from $40 to
$50 per ton were shipped, proving
that there is rich ore from 200 to
$50 feet below the levels from
which the bonanza ore was taken by
early-day lessees.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09

1t is believed the stope pillars will
case readily and give little If any
trouble.
The ore will be hauled from the
chutes to the shaft with electric
locomotives, sent to the mill owe
the railroad controlled by the COM
pany, and subjected to simple
crushing and c~yanidation treatment.
The mill is being prepared under
direction of F. Dean Bradley of
San Francisco, a widely known mill
expert who will remain with the
Development company and have
charge of the milling operations.
The plant, which was expected to
start the treatment of ore August l,
is now expected to start during Sep
TENDER, the delay largely being due
to difficulty in securing the delivery
of machinery and betting. The
company will operate the mill to ca
pacity, which is about 1900 tons
ievery "a hours.
The mill will be started on ore
taken from the Red Top through the
first level of the Laguna shaft. The
material will come from a block
800 feet long, 60 feet wide and ex-
tending 165 feet from the surface.
In July two blasts were fired in this
block, the first bringing down 5000
tons of $22.4O ore and the second
breaking 5000 tons of $3.50 ore,
or a total of $142,SOO worth of ore
in the two blasts. The ore Is be-
Ting broken into a glory hole" and
raises to extract it have been
started. In the second blast the
drillings from six 6-foot drill holes
assayed $50, illustrating the high
grade of some of the ore broken.
Five hundred pounds of dynamite
was used in the two blasts, the
ground first being loosened by light
charges and then broken by heavy
charges placed in small drifts.
The first estimate of 1000 tons
of ore in the Red Top vas based
on an orebody 800 feet long and
this has since been increased to
400 900 tons by exploration which
has disclosed that the body may be
opened for 800 feet.
The company has made no an
nouncement of details regarding the
ore in the Florence. but extension
into Florence territory of the main
drift on the 3S0-foot level of the
Combination was started a short
time ago.
The estimated tonnage in the
Combination, Red Top and Florence
Is sufficient to keep the mill turn
ing put bullion for we'll over five
years. with the possibility that the
comprehensive prospecting plans of
the company will result in the dis
covery of other important orebodies.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-08-09
LONE STAR WORKS

CONTINUED from Page One)
ing about the same as the north
drift.
The work in general is progress
ing at a satisfactory rate and the
showing in all faces is encourag-
ing.
1t is the plan of Superintendent
Gerald B. Hartley to resume sinking
of the new shaft at an early date.
A semi-yearly report will be is
sued and mailed to all stockholders
of record soon.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
e. E. HAper' '"ei---
SOLDIERS LOOK UPON THE WAR
France. Dec. IS. 1918.
Mr.. Fred Endicott,
Carmi, Ill.


Mr.. Fred Endicott,
Carmi. ILL.,
Friend Fred
Well Fred soon another year gone
into history, but such glorious year
for the world as we'll as the U. S
A year to go down as one of the great
est of our hopes are all realized. But
we who are over here where we hear
and see so much, have some reason
to think and wonder if it would have
mot been much better to have carried
this war into Germany to have made
them suffer as France and Belgium
have been made to suffer. We hear so
much from our boys who have been
prisoners in Germany that We know
the German army has been beaten,
but the German people have not been
conquered. We hear that they have
formed republic, but it is very much
like the old government The Hohen-
zollerns have vacated the throne. but
for how long. and are they not really
the government of today using their
puppets to blind the eyes of the world.
Their policy is, I'VE take what we
Nant anu uo rs we iihe- lie ullltT-
ence between 1t and the old one is in
name only. The predominating spirit
is still arrogance The people may
be tired of war. not. however, because
the war was a monstrous iniquity. but
because 1t was a failure II America
had not entered the war. so our boys
were told they would have been fight
ing England and France and the
kaiser would have still had his job.
So we can see that if the Allies had
not first defeated the Hohenzollern
power. the people of Germany would
not have raised a finger against the
autocracy. The Germans are today
devoid of independence and their he
lief in the German arms has. unfortun.
ately. not been shaken by recent
events. They are firmly convinced
that their armies have not been de
feated but simply betrayed by Austria
and Bulgaria. This is manifest in the
enthusiasm which the returning troops
arouse everywhere when returning
home. Received as an army of victory
not one who were defeated. Just as
the Hohenzollern propaganda since
tie war of 1870 was directed to instill
into the minds Of the nation that Ger
man arms were unconquerable, the
propaganda OF the new regime was dir
Iected to install into the nations mind
the idea German arms have not been
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
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Venie Holyfield has returned to
school after a two weeks absence.
Neva and Naomi Henney are new
students registering this week They
formerly attended the Olathe high
school.
The basketball grounds are being
put in shape A new ball has been
ordered and irterclass games VIII prob
ably be held.
Howard Foster had the misfortune
to sprain his ankle last Thursday
which has kept him out of school fer
few days.
While playing foot and half"
Tuesday noon, Bruce Kesling had the
misfortune to Jump on stone and in
jure his knee joint He will be absent
from school a few days as a result.
Military and gymnastic drill was
started the first of the week for tho
boys Tied" Wilcox was appoin ed
captain. with Clarence Gmisolus as
first lieutenant and Harold Beltz sec
ond lieutenant Games and calestIian-
les was also started for fhe girls. I he
basement of The Methodist church Will
be used twice a week until the wealth
er permits outdoor exercise for the
caiis'hcnic drills
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31

in the County of Ouray and State of
Colorado, leaving, as it is alleged, as
his sole and only heirs at law Eliza
beth Delano Porter, his widow. since
deceased, and Jennie Kuhlenbeck. for
merly known as Jane Porter Dono-
van. daughter; that the property to
be affected thereby is described as
follows, to-wit:
An undivided one-half interest in
and to that fraction of the Northeast
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter
(NEA SWA) of Section Nineteen
(19) Township Fifteen (15) South, of
Range Ninety-five (95) West of the
Sixth Principal Meridian; beginning
Northwest corner of said Northeast
Quarter of Southwest Quarter of Sec
ton Nineteen and thence running
east 1920 feet; thence south $50 feet;
thence West 1920 feet; thence North
$50 feet to place of beginning, con-
tanning twenty (20) acres; together
with all waters and ditch rights there
unto belonging.
And you are further notified that
by order of Court the 18th day of
February, 1919, has been fixed for the
hearing of said petition before said
Court at the County Court House in
the City of Delta County of Delta,
and State of Colorado, and that upon
said date the Court will by its judg-
ment find and determine the heirs
of such decedent and the persons en-
titled to interest in the above descrf5-
ed property and the interest to which
each shall be entitled, and that pu
or before said date any person inter-
ested may appear and answer said
petition and set up any proper de-
fense or assert any interest he may
have therein.
GUS SCHLAPP,
Clerk of the District Court
Seal
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
Notice Of Foreclosure Sale.

Notice is hereby given that pursu-
ant TO a Judgment and decree of the
District Court of Delta County. Colo
rado rendered on the fourth day OF
january. 1919. in a cause therein
pending in which Mrs. William Helm
Ike is plaintiff and Napoleon Lambert
and Marie E Lambert are defendants.
| am commanded to sell the property
hereinafter described to pay the
amount of the said Judgment. to-wit:
Twenty-Five Hundred Eighty-four Dol
lars and Ninety Cents. and costs and
expenses of sale. l will on the First
day of February, 1919, at ten o'clock
in the forenoon at the South front
door of the County Court House. 10
the City of Delta. Delta County. Coo
rauo, offer for sale at public auction
and sell to the highest bidder for cash
the following described lands. prem
ises and water rights, to-wit:
The East half of the Northwest
Quarter of the Southeast Quarter OF
Section Thirty-six. in Township Thir-
teen, South, Range Ninety-five West
of the Sixth Principal Meridian. in
Delta County. Colorado, containing
Twenty acres more or less. together
with Ten Shares of the capital stock
Of the Lake Fork Ditch company and
all ditch and water rights used In the
irrigation Of the said land.
NJ. A. DAVIS. Sheriff.
First pub Jan. 10: last Jan. 81. 1919.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31

America surely has picked their best
men and when you tell them all Amer
leans as rule are large they will not
believe it. So let's see America have
"a wonderful military machine and
never be caught again as we were
this time.
With best wishes.
A Merry Xmas and a Happy New
Year.
SGT. EARL E. HARRELL,
Co. &C." 309th Fld. sig. Bn.
A. P. o. 925, American f. F.
France.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
Notice of Hearing of Petition to Sell
Real Estate.

Notice of Hearing of Petition to Sell
Real Estate.
State of Colorado. County of Delta IS:
In the County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Louisa
J. Landers, deceased.
The People of the State of Colo
RADIO. to H D. Perry, ]. H. Murphy.
J. NJ. Perry. Minnie Marrish, Milford
j. Perry. Ada Johnson LaRogue, Lii
lian Johnson and James johnson and
persons in interest in said Estate,
Greeting:
You are hereby notified that on
1918, Harvey D. Perry. Administrator
of said estate. presented TO and filed
in this Court his petition for the sale
of certain real estate belonging to
said estate ana situate in the County
of Delta and State of Colorado. more
fully described in said petition. refer
ence to which is hereby made.
1st South Half of Southeast Quar-
ter of Northwest Quarter of South
west Quarter of Section II. in Town
ship Is. South of Range e5 West of
9th P NJ
Lots II and y in Block of Nc
Murray's Subdivision of the Town.
now City of Delta. Colorado.
You are further notified to appear
and answer and otherwise plead to
said Petition in writing on or before
the 9th day of January A. D. 1919,
the day set for the hearing thereof.
or on or before the day to which such
hearing may be adjourned, or said
Petition will be taken for confessed.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court at Delta in the County
of Delta and State of Colorado, this
2Srd day of November A. D. 1918.
(SEAL) ADAIR ]. HOTCHkISS.
Judge and Acting Clerk of the Couu-
ty Court of Delta County, Colorado.
The hearing in said estate on said
Petition TO Sell Real Estate is hereby
adjourned to Monday. the Gath day Of
February A D. 1919. at 10 O'Clock
a. m.
(SEAL) ADAIR ]. HOTCHKISS.
Clerk of the County Court.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31

and elected and installed the follow
ing officers for the year 1919. VIM.
Wood. w. NJ, l., ID. King s. w. b. r.
Shelledy, J. W.. c. w. Weaver, Treas i.
F. c. Fogg. Secy.. Roy Ashley. S. d..
f. N. Packard. j. D., Il. A. Miller, S.
s.. Harry Stanton. ]. s.. J. w. Stell.
Tyler. Lodge meets 2nd and tth
Saturday evenings,
Miss Florence McHugh OF Cedar.
edge spent Sunday with Miss Rather
Inc Estes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Hibbs Of Retilands
mesa were visitors at the Miller home
Wednesday.
Miss Nita Hanson IL galnin. ,'--y
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
Notice

State of Colorado. County of Delta
SIS.
In the Matter of the Petition of Mae
Ferne Remington for the Determine.
tion of interests in the lands and
tenements of George r. Porter
To all Heirs at Law OF and persons
interested in the property OF George
r. Porter, Deceased:
You are hereby notified that peti-
tion has been presented to the Dis
trict Court within and for the Counay
and State aforesaid for the determine
alton Of interests In the lands and
tenements of George r. Porter. de-
ceased. who departed this life on or
about tho i4th day OF March. 1895.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
Notice of Final Settlement.

Estate of W. E. Obert, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that on the
third day of February, A. D. 1919, the
undersigned will present to the Coun-
ty Court of Delta County, Colorado
her accounts for final settlement OF
administration of said estate. when
and where all persons in interest may
appear and object to them. if they so
desire.
MINNIE E. OBERT, Executrix-
First pub. Jan. 10; last Jan. 81, 1919.
The Delta independent., 1919-01-31
LEGAL NOTICES.
. 90 - 90 - .
Notice of Sale of Ditch Stock


Notice is hereby given to Ella and
charles A. Wright, equity owners of
Certificates No. 10 and 13 for total
of fifty-three shares of the capital
stock of the Delta Enterprise Ditch
Company, that there is due. unpaid
and delinquent against said stock for
assessments levied at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of said com
pany in the year 1918, the total of
S4490, and that in the event the same
is not paid on or before February %.
1919. l will on said day offer for sale
at 10 a. m. at the south front door of
the County Court House in the city of
Delta and State of Colorado, and will
sell the said fifty-three shares of stock
to the highest and best bidder for
cash, to make the amount of said
assessment or so much thereof as must
needs be sold in order to make the
amount of such assessments.
Dated at Delta, Colorado. this 25th
day of January, A. D. 1919.
VIM. LAWTON,
Secretary of the Delta Enterprise
Ditch Company
First pub Jan 81; last pub. Feb. 81.