The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-12-18

have to be spent here for supplies
and wages.
1t should be stated, however, that
the figures above quoted are not
those of Mr.. Adams, but compiled
in the office Of this newspaper from
data secured from Mr.. Adams. They
should be correct, however, if the
ore holds up to figures established
during previous operation of the
mine, which produced regularly up
% a few years ago with more or
less dilapidated machinery which
was practically destroyed by fire.
Adverse tariff provisions prevented
further work at the mine following
the fire. This situation being rem
edied, Mr.. Adams entered the COM
pany, providing adequate capital for
proper construction. The Goldbanks
property was primarily developed by
w. 6. Adamson, well known mining
nan of this city, and his associates,
who s.iil bold a substantial interest
in the company.
1t was not stated by Mr.. Adams
how much money has been expended
N bringing the mine plant to its
present state, but the sum must
have been of very respectable size
for at the present time, he said, be-
tween 20 and 80 men are employed
there, and work has been going on
at fast pace for several months.
Mr.. Adams also stated that it had
been necessary to erect and equip a
practically new extraction plant, for
the reason that not much of the old
equipment was found to be in US
able condition.
Mr.. Adams will return to Cali
fornia after initial tests at the plant
have been made. He is a mining
and oil operator with huge interests.
extending from Canada to Mexico.
His largest mine is probably the
Weeden in Canada, though he has
another big producer in Arizona.
lie is also a part owner in produc-
ing oil wells in the Long Beach,
California, district. He mentioned
that the Goldbanks plant is the
smallest he has yet erected, but pro-
portionately the highest in cost. He
said that construction costs are ex-
tremely high in Nevada and consti-
tute a serious factor to be reckoned
with in contemplating mine inn
erovement, running more than dou-
Bile similar costs in some other
states. Wages here are far higher
than elsewhere, he said, and he in
that production per man
was not what it might be. From
lis attitude it was gathered that if
wo similar mining proposals were
nade to him, one in Nevada and
mother in some other state, this
ligh construction cost Ntor would
,e of serious consequence. 1t
hould not be taken from this, how
,ver, that his attitude is one of dis
ppointment in his investment in
he Goldbanks property, being mere
y general comment on conditions
IS he finds them and over which no
particular man has any control.
The Goldbanks mine is said by
Competent mining men. hereabouts
20 contain what is probably the
argest body of cinnabar ore in the
9orld, and is one of four producing
quicksilver mines in the United
states. Cinnabar mining, they say,
differs from other mining in that
the ore is formed in a different
The mercury is deposited
in the rock probably by the action
# spring, thousands of years ago
out of which mineralized water
flowed and seeped back to deer
levels, leaving the mineral in the
rock as it flowed. Such constant
action of the water eventually left
a body of ore sufficiently impreg.
mated with mercury as to at thi.
time prove valuable as mining en-
terprise. There is no telling t
what denth the ground NAV have