Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1927-10-29
ARGENTINA OPENING
AROUSED INTEREST
Notable Gathering of Mining
and Financial Men Present
at Formal Opening of New
Milling Plant.

Headed by Harry Lee Martin,
president of the Argentena Con-
solidated Mining Company, a not
able group of men high in the
mining and financial world attend
ed the opening of the new mill OF
the company near GoodspTlngs
last Saturday.
The event marked the consum-
nation of program of develop
ment which was carried out by
the company for the past eighteen
months, during which vast
amount of ore was opened in ex-
tensive tunnels and drifts in the
mine and a complete modern mill
ing plant, an ample water system,
large automatic cable tram, an
electric power plant and all equip
ment for handling the ore as well
as substantial camp buildings
were provided by Mr.. Wilson and
associates, without any stock sell
ing campaign whatever.
The enterprise marks a new
epoch in the Yellow Pine Mining
district. Hitherto, the develop
ments have been made for the
most part by prospectors or leas-
ers without any considerable
amount of capital, dependent upon
taking out and shipping ore to pay
expenses as they went along. This
system of development was slow
and presented many difficulties.
Moreover 1t was not an economic
method aid resulted in but little
development beyond what was in
cidental to taking out the ore in
sight
Capital has now the opportunity
to see the advantages of invest
ment in the district.
The Argentena Consolidated be-
gan its program of development
about Is months ago 1t now has
ore sufficient to keep the mill
per day for approximately five
years. The mill was built to meet
the needs after sufficient ore was
developed to make it financially
successful. 1t is "a good example
of sane engineering and financing
applied to mining.
In addition to President Harry
Lee Martin and party from Los
Angeles, a number of guests from
Las Vegas were present, amon..
them the following:
LII. OSkes, County Commission
er James eastman, Will Beckley.
John F. Miller, Ed VOnTObel, Rus
sell Squires, C. c. Boyer, c. L.
Squires, Dr. Roy w. Martin, ]. w,
Hooper, G. d. Baker, Larry Bate,
Jack Mclean and Robert Tibbetts
The forenoon was devoted to &C
going Through the mine. At 1:Oe
pm, the entire panty gathered &
the mill where an elaborate Mnci.
con was served by the ladies o
the Argentena. o.
President Harry Lee Martil
opened the more formal part OF
the ceremonies by giving an int p
esting account of the operation
of the company and paying hiG1
commitments to his assistants ii
the great work.
George A. Tweedy, general mn-i
ager of the Argentena, was called
to the platform and made a neie.
little talk of appreciation OF th3
efforts of President Martin "a.
! the others who had made develc .-
men possible.
Fred Piehl, mine, superinten =
ent, to whose ability and ha
work President Martin aScrib
largely the success of the M =
operations, took the platform l
luctantly and modestly gave the
lions share of the credit to Ii /,
associates.
Ralph Roesberry, manager
the famous old Yellow Pine min
which has recently develop s..
large new ore bodies and bids f., :
to double its dividend record n I
lS3,5OO, 900, congratulated the Ar
gentena management on their 81 =
cess. He expressed the wish G.:
the Yellow Pine management Il
cooperate in every way with I'll
Argentena.
S. E. Hollister, mill superinte. !
ent, told of the construction
the new milling plant which wSq
begun June 1, 1927 and now STAN
completed and ready for opera
tion
To Mrs. George A Tweedy Wa
accorded the honor of throwing In
switch which sent the electric
power from the Goodsprings powsF
plant TO all the machinery OF tn
mill.
Then the ore feeders began
feed, crusher 70 crush, the r0'
mill to roll, the Classifier to cla'7
fy, the flotstion m chimes to fC N
the tables to jog and so on thro
all the complicated processes of
saving tsle values and separa D.
the lead from the zinc. And 2
present felt the thrill OF acc
plishment in seeir~ the start { .
machinery which will. in the nc
few years, contribute millions in
new wealth fresh from moth :
earth. 70 enrich the world.