The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-03-15
KNOXVILLE PLAN
FOR MINE MERGER
Six Companies May Be Consolidated
to Secure Large Production at
Old Mining Town, Deal ls
Practically Complete

Unionville, one of Nevada's old
est mining towns and the first coun-
ty seat of Humboldt county, To-
Gated seventeen miles southwest of
Mill City, may enter the list Of big
producers of valuable metals if a
deal now pending is completed
which would consolidate the six
principal mine holdings there.
A trip to the old town, made by
this writer recently, was full of in
terest. Unionville is located in a
small pocket about which high hills
seem to rise on all sides, but the
mining works proper are located
well up on the hillsides. 1t was
learned that Unionville first became
town of considerable importance
as towns went in those days-in
the year 1862. The mines were the
attraction, and that the ore was
rich is indicated by the fact that
the first owners were enabled to
ship to Sacramento by OK team,
and from Sacramento the ore was
sent to San Francisco by water,
and thence was reshipped by water
around the horn to be sheltered in
the then center of population in
the far eastern states. This re-
quired the transference of the ore
at least three times, a hand-and-
shovel labor proposition that must
have been exceedinly expensive.
The shipment of the ore east Of
course required many months.
Unionville had a recorded pro-
duction of five million dollars
worth of ore during the early days,
but it is the opinion there that if
the unrecorded production could
be added the figure would run
nearer eleven million dollars. At
one time five different mills were in
operation at the camp, all pounding
away on high-grade ore only.
Senator VIM. A. Stewart was one
of the early locators and Mark
Twain lived there at one time, hav-
ing mentioned the camp in his most
famous book, "Roughing It." Union
vile was the first county seat town
of Humboldt county, and it is re-
ported that The Silver State was
started and published there, the
printing plant being shipped to
Winnemucca after the county seat
removal, when the name of the
newspaper was shortly afterwards
changed. Besides mining activities
which keep about thirty-five families
there now, the district has six very
good ranches up and down the val
leys.
The mines consolidated plan,
which if put through by Sacramento
men as now seems practically GER
tain, contemplates the formation Of
the Consolidated Mining & Refining
Company, and would include six
large properties. E. S. Van Dyke,
a man who has long recognized the
possibilities of the old camp and
who has labored for many years to
bring it to large production, will
be the president of the consolidated
company, made up of more than
six thousand stockholders with an
authorized capitalization of $500,
600, all represented by assessable
stock.
The Consolidated Mining & Re
fining Company will also operate a
gold, silver, lead and copper prop
erty at Dun Glen, near Unionville,
with the possibility of later erect
ing mill there. There are now
10000 tons of good ore in sight
at the Dun Glen property, accord
ing to Mr.. Van Dyck, with a prob
able body of at least 100000 tons
Values are now averaging about
$25 per ton. Workmen are getting
out a sacked shipment of higher
grade ore at the Dun Glen prop
erty, called the Sierra Platada,
which will be shipped during the
coming month.
At Unionville an effort has been
made during the last few years to
operate the mill on an oil-fotation
plan, but because of the refractory