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THE MINING JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 30 1929

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The Tybo-Dominion Mines, Inc., has started the development of the Old Dominion Mine on the Uncle Sam fault, near Tybo, Nevada. A shaft has been sunk to a depth of 50 feet and a hoist is being installed to go to greater depth. This ground has been taken over from the Divide Extension Mining Company and development is being financed in New York City.
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The Reorganized Booth Mining Company has levied an assessment of 1 cent a share to pay off an indebtedness resulting from operations in the Wahmonie District in Nevada, and payment on an assessment of $2,242.95 on stock held by the company in the San Rafael Consolidated Mines Company. The indebtedness consists of money borrowed from banks amounting to $10,100.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, general manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has completed retaining walls of concrete for its 100-ton cyanide mill, and is putting in foundations for the machinery. This plant was designed by Frederick Bradshaw, of San Francisco, and Albert Silver of Tonopah. Orders have been placed for a 460-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel oil engine and a 300-k.v.a. electric generator, which will be installed in the mine power house, at the portal of the tunnel. The tunnel, 7,840 feet in length, is equipped with two 120-horsepower Fairbanks-Morse Diesel engines, each directly connected with a 90-k.v. a. generator, and one 120-horsepower engine of the same type, which is operating an air compressor.
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The Mason Valley Mines Company has declared a $2 distribution in liquidation, payable to stockholders on surrender of certificates to the Bankers Trust Company, on and after October 15 and before December 31, 1929.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, reports production for September was $27,244.22, making a total of $174,597.69 cleaned up from the tailings ponds of the Goldfield Consolidated property, since resuming operations on April 15 of this year. This is the third year that the plant has been in operation and Bradshaw estimates that there is enough material to keep the plant going another three or four years. Production for 1928 was approximately $250,000.
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C. H. Lawson, superintendent of the Dumortierite Mine, 17 miles northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, reports 600 tons of ore ready for shipment to the Champion Porcelain Company of Detroit, where it is used in the manufacture of spark plugs for gasoline engines. Dumortierite, commonly known as spark plug ore, is a basic silicate of aluminum, and the Nevada deposit is said to be the only commercial deposit of its kind in the world.
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On the 600-foot level, the Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, J. E. Bevis, manager, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has drifted 90 feet east to get under the Belmont vein, and 80 feet to the west, to intercept the Broken Hills Vein. The latter heading is making considerable water, and is in a block of andesite, in which high-grade values were found on the upper levels. To take care of the flow of water, a sump has been sunk and the water is being hoisted in mine buckets. An assessment has been levied lately to permit continuing development.
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The Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Co., E. M. Dawes, president and general manager, Fallon, Nev., has remodeled the flow sheet of its new mill, and expects to resume operation within a few days. Although originally designed to recover vanadium and other rare metals, the mill will, in the future, recover gold and silver values from the ore.
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Operations in the West End Consolidated Mines, at Tonopah, H. D. Budelman, manager, which were suspended September 30, were resumed October 21, under lease to A. C. Spiers. Mr. Spiers has been the company’s electrician for the past 15 years and is conversant with every part of the mine. Work at present is on the 400-foot level of the West End shaft.
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It is understood that Frank Crampton, who recently returned from China, where he has been engaged in the export business, is reopening the Quo Vadis Mine, 24 miles east of Las Vegas, Nevada. This mine was located by the Catlin Brothers in 1905 and has produced much high-grade ore.
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The Mason Valley Mines Company will liquidate its property at Wabuska, Nevada, shortly through the distribution of $2 per share to the stockholders who surrender their certificates, according to H. E. Dodge, secretary to the company. The Majuba Hill was not included in the sale several weeks ago, but it is expected that it will be sold.
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The London Silver-Lead Company, owning property at Marietta, and at Weepah, Nevada, has been reorganized as the Gold Gulch Mining and Mining Company. The former has 1,200,000 shares outstanding and the latter has a capital stock of 5,000,000 shares of 10 cents par. Exchange will be made on a share-for-share basis and the remaining stock will be sold to assume indebtedness of about $26,000. A 50-ton Denver quartz mill was completed a short time ago. D. A. Whitaker, 102’k Burns Street, Reno, is president of both companies. M. W. Chiatovich, Box 172, Mina, is mine superintendent.
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A syndicate, represented by E. V. Price, of the Capital Insurance Company at San Francisco, has taken a bond and lease on the McNamara Mine at Railroad Springs. According to Mr. Price, a fund of $25,000 has been made available for development of the mine and rehabilitating the mill. Six men are sampling the mine. A road is to be built to connect with the highway, midway between Lida, and Goldfield, Nevada. Eight samples assayed, one coming from the upper stope, returned $36 across four feet. Two of three samples from the big stope gave 53 percent lead and 26 ounces silver, while the third returned 76 percent lead and 37 ounces silver to the ton.
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In compliance with the court order, the Rochester Silver Corporation in Pershing
County, Nevada, is to be appraised and offered for sale, after having been advertised for 20 days. The action follows a petition of the receiver, Charles T. Stevenson. The indebtedness amounts to $51,000, including $21,000 for federal taxes. Until recently, the mine and mill were operated on a lease, to W. G. Emminger and E. R. Bennett.
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J. W. Dunfee of Goldfield, superintendent of the Calavacla Mines Company, developing the Townsite group of claims at Hornsilver, Nevada, reports a rich strike on the 300-foot level. The strike is 18 inches of ore, carrying values of $160 per ton, and made 150 feet southwest of the shaft. The Calavada property is owned by L. W. Dye and Dr. Otto Dieckman of Cincinnati.
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The Arista Mines Company, W. H. Callicott, superintendent, is installing a 60-horsepower West Coast engine and five-drill Ingersoll-Rand compressor, near Carrara, Nevada. Two thousand feet of two-inch pipe have been laid to a recent find of high-grade ore, which assayed $90 per ton. A tunnel has been driven more than 30 feet to reach the downward extension of this ore and has about 90 feet to reach its objective.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, J. G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, produced 66,360 ounces of gold and silver, during September. It was valued at $45,600. This is the greatest monthly production by more than $4,000.
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The Reorganized Rosetta Divide Mining Company, January Jones, Box 1021, Reno, Nevada, president and manager, developing the Golden Rule group of eight mining claims, midway between Virginia City, and Ramsey, reports that the vein in the south drift from the Whip Shaft has been drifted upon a distance of 20 feet. It varies from three to five feet in width and carries values of $75 per ton in gold. Considerable commercial free-milling ore has been exposed in the north and south drifts on the 50-foot level, where the vein shows a width of eight feet.
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The Combined Metals Reduction Company, E. H. Snyder, general manager, Stockton, Utah, intends to install additional flotation machinery in its mill at Bauer, Utah. This plant is three units, and has a combined capacity of 520 tons daily. About 150 men are employed in the mill. At Pioche, Nevada, another 150 men are employed, and arrangements are being made for shaft sinking. R. A. Campbell is mine superintendent at Stockton and L. G. Thomas is mine superintendent at Pioche.

rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

for NOVEMBER 30, 1929
NEVADA MINE ACCOMMODATES THE MINERAL MARKET

There is a mine at Manhattan, Nevada, that enjoys the reputation of being able to produce whatever metal, world industry most needs at some certain period. During the World War, when the nation was badly in need of antimony, this mine, the White Caps, proceeded to mine the needed metal, and ship it out by the carload; when the cotton crops were being destroyed by the boll weevil and the cry went out for arsenical solutions to destroy the pests, among the first to come to the rescue was the White Caps, with almost a carload a day of arsenic from its treasure house of many metals and substances.

When the demand for antimony and arsenic subsided, the White Caps returned to mining gold, and for the past few years has been shipping it at the rate of 15 tons [of ore] a day.

Now this unique mine has sprung another surprise by opening a shoot of cinnabar, that Manager J. O. Kirchen describes as “very, very rich.” He declines to make any further statement, but miners working in the property describe the shoot from three to six feet in width, which has been drifted upon, 60 feet, and is breaking down 80 percent cinnabar, and from $25, to $40 in gold, making a value totaling more than $1,000 a ton.

The new discovery was made on the 1,100-foot level, while exploring for new gold deposits. Once more, this unique mine has met the ever-changing whims of the market.

rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

for NOVEMBER 30, 1929

NEW MINE LOCATIONS WITHIN MUNITION DEPOT INVALID

When the government decided upon Hawthorne, Nevada, as the site for the naval ammunition depot, a considerable area of land was withdrawn from entry by executive order. Included in the withdrawn area is the Pamlico Mine and the Lucky Boy property, together with much potential mineral ground. This led to considerable discussion among mining men and prospectors as to whether locations might be made within the bounds of the withdrawn area.
A request to the general land office has brought forth a ruling on the matter, which sets forth that valid mining claims within the reserve are fully safeguarded, but no new locations may be made.
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It is estimated that manufacturers of dairy equipment consume between 4,000,000 and 6,000,000 pounds of copper annually.

rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

NEVADA

The Calavada Mines Company, J. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, has 400 sacks of ore that run from $100 to $300 a ton in gold and silver, ready for shipment from its property at Hornsilver. The 18-inch streak of high-grade ore is holding up well, and it is understood that it is accompanied with eight or nine feet of milling values.
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C. A. Rose, California mine operator, has gained a working option on the Prince of Wales Mine at Cedar Station, 35 miles north of Eureka, Nevada, owned by Mrs. Jennie Leighton of Eureka. The engine and hoist on the ground, have been placed in working condition, and the 500-foot shaft and drifts cleaned out, preparatory to a thorough sampling of the mine. Mill tests are being made of the ore to determine a suitable process of treatment.
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The Silver Circle Mining Company, operating at Wells, Nevada, has levied an assessment of 1/2 cent a share, payable to Secretary-Treasurer J. W. Luckart, at his office at Contact, Nevada. Date of delinquency is December 2, 1929.
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A reorganization of the West End Consolidated Mines Company was announced in a regular circular to stockholders, mailed November 12, and signed by H. D. Budelman, manager. The new company will operate under the corporate name of the West End Consolidated Corporation. Shares of the old company are exchangeable for shares in the new company on a basis of one share of new for five of the old. The new corporation will have a capitalization of 1,000,000 shares of $1 par value.
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In its regular weekly report, the Gold Hill Development Company, reports a three-foot vein of gold rock, ranging from $25 to $50 per ton, exposed on the 225-foot level. The drift on this level is in ore for 165 feet. H. A. Johnson is general manager.
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The net income of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, during the third quarter of the current year, was $5,717,409, or $1.14 a share, after depreciation, but before depletion and federal taxes. During the corresponding period in 1928, the net income was $4,649,695, or 96 cents a share. The net production of copper, from all sources, amounted to 60,190,553 pounds during the third quarter; 72,616,900 pounds during the second quarter, and 78,881,399 during the first quarter. The net cost per pound of copper produced in the third quarter, after crediting revenue from gold and silver, and other miscellaneous earnings, and income from subsidiaries, was 9.32 cents as compared with 8.96 cents in the first quarter of this year.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, has reclaimed $29,005.51 from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated mill during October, making production for the seven months of this year $193,604.20. It is expected that the Bradshaw plant will operate until December 1, before suspending work until next spring. Production this year will be less than during the 1928 season on account of the shutting off of power on account of storms at various periods.
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Willard E. Hales, superintendent of the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., Tybo, Nevada, reports that the concentrator is treating 300 to 350 tons of ore daily. A station is being cut at a depth of 860 feet in the new shaft, and sinking will be continued to the 1,000-foot point. All of the mine levels are being worked. On account of the long haul from Tonopah, to Kellogg, Idaho, by rail, improvements are being made in the filtering methods, so that a dried concentrate can be shipped during the winter. W. H. Blackburn, representing the Treadwell-Yukon Company, has taken a lease and option on the Byron S. Wilson claims on Dry Creek, 10 miles west of Alpha, Eureka County, where there are said to be 1,000 feet of lead, zinc and silver surface croppings. This ground will be prospected to determine whether or not it justifies more exploration.
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During October, the Tonopah Mining Company turned out 106,500 ounces of gold and silver bullion, valued at $76,000, and the Tonopah Extension Mining Company turned out 65,520 ounces, valued at $43,500.
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The Goldfield’ Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, is taking over a group of four mining claims, 35 miles from Weiser, Idaho. This is a new producing mine in an old district, and ore now being sent out is averaging $50 a ton in gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc. Additional equipment is to be installed later.
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The Nevada Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is negotiating with the Mineral County Power system for the construction of six miles of new line, connecting with its Silver Dike Mine. The cost of construction wilt be between $10,000 and $11,000. The 75-ton mill at the Silver Dike tungsten Mine is nearly constructed.
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J. Grant Crumley, president of the Tonopah Keystone Mining Company, Tonopah, Nevada, announces that work will be resumed in about 10 days. A 75-horsepower hoist has been ordered to replace the old 85-horsepower hoist. The Keystone suspended work about a year ago, at which time the shaft was down 765 feet in values.
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The Empire Trust Company of New York, through its attorneys, has filed a suit in the United States Court at Carson City, Nevada, against the Eureka Smelting Company, to foreclose a mortgage for $1,000,000 with defaulted interest. The mortgage covers the mines of the company at Eureka, and was given to secure the payment upon bonds to the amount of $1,000,000.
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The Eastern Iron and Metal Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, which purchased the mine and mill of the Mason Valley Mines Company, at Thompson, Nevada, is understood to be making arrangements to let leases on the ground. The Majuba Hill property in the Antelope Springs District was not included in the sale to the Eastern Iron and Metal, and, on October 29, was sold to the Newmont Mining Company, at public auction in Reno. During the war, the Majuba Hill Mine shipped about 2,000 tons of 12 per cent copper ore and is said to contain a large tonnage of 3 per cent ore in its upper workings.
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It is stated that the stockholders of the Oro Amigo Platino Mining Company of Los Angeles, have voted to increase the capitalization from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, while the directors have approved the purchase in fee, of 160 acres of prospective oil land, located about one mile southeast of Farmington in the San Juan oil basin of New Mexico.
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The report of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, for the first nine months of the current year, shows a profit of $16,028,182, or $3.29 a share, Computed similarly, the company earned $10,368,093, or $2.14 a share, in the corresponding period of the preceding year.
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The Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., James M. Leonard, manager, Virginia City, Nevada, has installed an electric hoist at the collar of a winze, sunk below the Crown Point Tunnel. A power line has been built and transformers set in place, to permit continuing the winze below its present depth of 48 feet. The workings on the 865-foot level of the Chollar and Potosi mines in the Middlemines group, nearly a mile north of the Crown Point, are being placed in condition for mining and some new ground is being explored with success. The management is considering building a mill at a point advantageous to the two groups of mines.
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A shipment of 50 tons of ore was consigned to the Midvale smelter by the Tonopah, 76 Mining Company, operating a lease on the Garfield Mine, in the Mina District, in Nevada, and settled for at the rate of $15 for gold, and $78.08 for silver to the ton. After deductions for freight, smelting, etc., the net smelter returns on the shipment were $3,601.58.
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It is understood that F. W. Bradley of San Francisco and associates, have purchased the option on the Mine Mercury property, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada, held by Bedford, Gunnell and Miller. Late in August a 25-ton rotary furnace was installed at the property, but some difficulty was encountered with soot, and this was not overcome until recently. The last run of the furnace recovered five flasks one day, and seven during the next, from about 20 tons of ore each day.
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E. A. Montgomery, and Fred Wallace, of Hawthorne, have closed a deal for the Wallace and O’Brien quicksilver mining property at Paradise Peak, 44 miles north of Mina, Nevada. The deal included the transfer of three mining claims, and a water site, four miles distant. James O’Brien has charge of the work there, which includes clearing a road to the tunnel site, and establishing a camp.

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rehab · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 939 Location: NEVADA

THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

The report of the Consolidated Coppermines Corporation for the first quarter of the current year shows that 208,975 tons of ore were mined and treated from the Emma Nevada mine and 951 tons from the Alpha property, which is a much curtailed production. The metal contents recovered from these ores were 5,820,921 pounds of copper, 2,885 ounces of gold and 6,471 ounces of silver. The operating costs per pound of copper, after crediting income from gold and silver but before writing off development charges applicable to the tonnage mined and before provision for depreciation, were 7.666 cents, as compared with 8.886 cents per pound similarly computed for the year 1980. There was a reduction in the amount of development work done and, in view of the unsatisfactory immediate outlook for copper metal prices, steps have been taken to effect a still further reduction. Net current assets as of March 5, 1931, with unsold copper carried at 10.5 cents a pound were $1,775,620.27. With unsold copper valued at 8.5 cents a pound this figure would be $1,540,686.68. Under existing conditions, the company’s policy is to conserve resources and to reduce operations and expenses to the point most consistent with efficient operation.

Dumortierite is being dumped into the new ore bin of the Champion Sillimanite Company in Limerick Canyon, northeast of Lovelock, Nevada. It is to be shipped to the company’s spark plug works in Detroit, Michigan. C. D. Woodhouse of Mocalno, California, is manager of the mine and the office for the mine is in Mocalno.
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L. F. Jacobson, who has been leasing the property of the Bullion Mining Company in the Yellowpine District in Clark County, Nevada, for the past few months, has shipped a second carload of ore to the Ozark Smelting and Mining Company at Coffeyville, Kansas. The car contained 65 tons of ore and the control assay was 81.5 per cent zinc and 14.9 per cent lead. After deducting $554.50 for freight from Goodsprings to Coffeyville, the shipment returned $1,101.15. The first shipment was made in June and returned $1,175. According to Mr. Jacobson, good ore is showing in two or three places, and production will be continued.
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July 29, the Pilot Range Mining Company, J. F. Milton, president, shipped six and one-half tons of ore to the Selby smelter from his lease on a block of the Belleville mine, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. The ore is similar to a three-ton shipment, which these lessees made on
June 30, and which returned $747.25 a ton. The Belleville Gold Metals, Inc., which was being organized in April, was never fully organized and the property is still owned outright by 0. S. Belleville. On his own account, he is driving a working tunnel 120 feet lower than the present workings to cut the contact, and the adit will give a depth of 100 feet below water level. Mr. Belleville says that the dump contains a good grade of milling ore.
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The Consolidated Virginia and Andes Company, Inc., organized by Los Angeles capitalists, has begun the development of an extensive area of practically virgin ground on the north end of the Comstock Lode. Charle E. E.gan, mining engineer of New York City, is in charge of the mine. Sections of the Consolidated Virginia mine are to be opened from the Andes shaft and an east-west drift driven to the Consolidated Virginia ore body at the 600-foot depth. An electric hoist is being installed. It is probable that the old C. and C. shaft will be used later and connected with the Andes.
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The sinking of a 800-foot shaft in the old Montezuma gold-silver mine at Silver City, Nevada, will be started immediately upon the installation of a hoist and compressor. The property has recently been acquired by Dr. John W. Ross and Irwin B. Hall, 205 East First Street, Long Beach, California. The Montezuma lies near the Dayton, Kosuth and other noted producers.
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Both the quartz and placer claims of the Copper Canyon Mining Company, near Battle Mountain, Nevada, are on production. The ore from the quartz claims, is averaging $20 a ton and the placers are said to be yielding $5 and higher a cubic yard, although a shortage of water and crude methods of operation hamper operations somewhat. Control of the property is vested in southern California, and S. C. Brumblay of Winnemucca is field representative and manager for the company.
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The Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company has decided to build its own reduction plant, one of about 25 tons’ daily capacity, according to Charles Meyer, 138 North Virginia Street, Reno, Nevada, secretary and general manager of the company. A substantial tonnage of gold-silver ore has been developed, ready for treatment; the shaft is 400 feet deep, and the main ore vein that has been followed more than 40 feet averages seven and one-half feet across. C. L. Richards, an attorney, also of Reno, is president of the company.
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The Snyder interests of Salt Lake City, Utah, of which B. H. Snyder, 220 Felt Building, is president, are carrying on some development in the Bristol and Raymond Ely Extension properties at Pioche, Nevada. In the former, the work is confined to drifting beneath the old Hillside property, which yielded heavily on the upper levels. During 1929 and 1930 the Bristol was the largest lead producer in the state and also enjoyed a heavy silver production. The latter is a prospect, financed for the purpose of finding the extensions of the Raymond Ely and Meadow Valley vein systems, which were highly productive west of the fault. Jackrabbit, a mile distant, is the loading station and the power plant which serves the various Snyder projects in the district, is located there.
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The Rhyolite Consolidated Mining Company, D. M. Findlay, manager, has remodeled its amalgamation mill and is considering installing a cyanide unit. With the old arrangement, a recovery of 85 per cent was made, and tests have shown that the addition of cyanide will allow a recovery of 92 per cent. Power for both mining and milling will be furnished by two Diesel engines of 100 and 150 horsepower, and either of these machines will be able to carry on the work in the case of a breakdown of the other. Approximately 48,000 tons of $12 ore is on the dump and it is estimated that the tailings ponds hold another 120,000 tons that were recovered largely from the Overbury lease, which paid $100,000 in 15 days. William Kidd, formerly with the Tonopah Extension, will have charge of the mill, and M. A. Nelson, formerly at Creede and Cripple Creek, Colorado, will have charge of the mine. A four-inch pipeline is being laid from Indian Springs, five miles distant, and will be in place before the end of this month.
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The Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company has purchased a group of five claims in the Sawtooth Mountains in Pershing county, Nevada, not far north of the new camp of Scossa. The claims are known as the Golden Locks and were purchased from A. E. Ludwig. Water rights for mining and milling purposes will be filed on, and it is understood that they will do some work on the new ground this fall. Tonopah Hasbrouck has completed the annual assessment work on a number of its claims.
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W. S. Baxter, M. C. Stromer, John Berlin and George M. Lerchen of Broken Hills, Nevada, are installing a hoist over the old Reader shaft in the Aspen camp close to the Nye-Churchill county line, nine miles north of Lodi Tanks. This shaft was sunk to a depth of 50 feet a little more than 20 years ago and is included in the 12 claims taken over by the Broken Hills man. After cleaning out the old workings they resumed sinking and are now below the 100-foot point. The formation is getting harder and it is understood they intend to crosscut to the ledge, which has passed out of the shaft.
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Ore from the Mustang Extension mine in the Manhattan district, Nevada, is being treated in the local custom mill, owned and operated by Matt Kane, at a rate of approximately 50 tons daily. The mine is owned by Lowell Stanley but is being operated by a syndicate composed of Mr. Kane, J. B. Cowden, George Ferrick and H. W. Tucker, all local men. Since June 9 they have been working the property and have sunk a 110-foot shaft and drifted 70 and 110 feet east and west. The quality of the ore has improved from $10 to about $14 a ton in gold in the drifts. The water supply is adequate.
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With all departments of the mine and mill working nicely, the Gold Hill Development Company at Round Mountain, Nevada, is extending its shaft from the 400 to the 500-foot point, in pursuance of a policy outlined by J. K. Kitto, president of the company. All the stopes are full of ore and approximately 8,000 tons are being delivered to the mill a month. Notwithstanding the two-day holiday over July 4th, the production was $11,800, as compared with $10,600 for the previous two weeks. George E. Spitzer, formerly on the staff of the Tonopah Mining Company, is assisting H. A. Johnson of Tonopah, manager of the company, as mine superintendent.

Dr. O D. Thomas of Las Vegas, Nevada, has taken over the Pompeii mine at Searchlight, Nevada, and has a crew of seven men reopening it. The 10-stamp mill will start work shortly.
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The Seven Troughs~ Gold Mines Company has closed down its mill, near Lovelock, Nevada, and has reduced its crew in mining to 15. Most of the work is confined to prospecting with diamond drills the Mazuma Hills area. L. A. Friedman is general manager.
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Harry W. Boyer, 2406 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California, has optioned the Childress-Welter group of five claims about 80 miles south of Battle Mountain. This property adjoins the Gold Dome mine, controlled by the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, and of which air. Boyer is president.
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What has all appearances of being a large body of ore has been uncovered by lessees in virgin ground in the Potosi mine at Virginia City, Nevada. The property is owned by the Sutro Tunnel Coalition, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of the Comstock Tunnel & Drainage Co. The ledge is 25 feet wide and was located at a depth of 90 feet from the surface. The ore carries an average metallic content across the ledge of $10 per ton; however, much richer ore exists on the hanging wall side of the vein, and this is being taken out and shipped separately. Two railroad cars, sampling $40 per ton, have already been shipped to a Utah smelter. The men interested in the lease are Frank Erno, Andy Antunovick, Henry Harrington and George Antunovieh. James M. Leonard is general manager of the company.
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G. S. Woodward and associates of Salt Lake City, Utah, have acquired the old Hartley mining property in the Spruce Mountain silver-lead district, about 20 miles I from Tobar, Nevada. A company organized as the Centennial Consolidated Mining Company is getting the property ready for development and installing machinery at a cost of approximately $6,000. It will include a Fairbanks-Morse hoist and a Gardner-Denver compressor. The Hartleys had shipped considerable high-grade ore from the shaft and, upon investigation, it was found that the lower grade had been put back of poles and stulls, since decayed, leaving the ore in a mass that is easily broken. Copper and iron are associated with the silver and lead values.
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Development at the Fireball camp in Washoe county, Nevada, 10 miles from Hot Springs, is said to be going forward by leaps and bounds. In the few weeks since the rich gold discovery attracted attention, general camp equipment, a compressor, pipe, rails, power drills, cars, blacksmith tools and small supplies, costing approximately $4,000, have been placed on the ground.
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Some development has been undertaken by a group, known as the Yellowgold Mining and Milling Syndicate, on property 20 miles north of Springdale and about six miles east of the Beatty-Tonopah railroad. The work follows the discovery of a new vein that runs from $25 to $80 a ton in gold in the bottom of an old 100-foot shaft. The new district has been christened Yellowgold.
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Both wet and dry washers are being installed on the Andy Pruett placer ground in Limerick Canyon, 23 miles northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, and tests of the placers will be made as soon as the installation is complete. The work is being carried on by a group of San Francisco capitalists, represented by T. FL Bacon, who have recently taken an option on the property.
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To carry the company over the industrial depression, the Basque Mining and Milling Company has amended its laws to permit assessing the stock and has levied an assessment of ½ cent a share. The funds from the assessment together with the regular proceeds from the operation of its mill at the mines, 17 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, are expected to provide for regular operations for six months. B. T. Godfrey is general manager and has a force of 13 men employed. W. R. Benedict is mill superintendent.
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Five days after the rehabilitated McTigue mill at Silver City, Nevada, was placed in operation by the Comstock Speculator Mining Company, it had cleaned up 76.13 ounces gold, which netted $839.70 at the mint, according to Charles G. Stuart, president and general manager.

While the mill has only 15 stamps it has been reconditioned to a degree that it can treat nearly 50 tons of ore a day. Additional stamps may be added to keep pace with the tonnage that is being mined. The ore is coming from the face of a 70-foot drift in the Flora Temple property, which has a production of close to a million dollars in gold to its credit.
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The Mt. Montgomery Quicksilver Company at Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, is ready for the installation of a 25-ton furnace, according to L. W. Whiting, president and general manager, but on account of the difficulty of financing it will probably operate the two retorts on the property for awhile. The ore is soft and is expected to average 6 to 12 pounds of quicksilver to the ton, with some shoots of higher grade. Six men are on the payroll.
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The Trinity Gold Mining Company has completed a tunnel to a winze that has produced $30,000 in sinking 100 feet, but the lease expired before all the ore could be extracted and the winze was destroyed by caving it in. The winze has been found to be in such condition that it will be very much cheaper to sink another, on or near the same fissure. Since the ground is dangerous in its immediate vicinity, the work will begin soon, according to H. M. Gilbert of Beowawe, Nevada, president and general manager. The mine has been opened to the 100-foot level and found to contain much low-grade ore that is now being milled. Nine men are working. J. F. Gilbreth is assistant general manager, and Clyde Herbert is mine superintendent.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, controlled by F. W. Bradley, 1022 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, has been succeeded by the Bradley Mining Company. The new concern has the same backing and its operations are being conducted under the general supervision of 0. L. Cash, who was in charge for the Mercury Mining Syndicate. The change occurred when the former company had exhausted its supply of low-grade cinnabar ore, and the Opalite reduction works, 15 miles west of Mcflermitt, Nevada, which had treated the ore, is still in operation under the new name. But, it is treating ore that is being trucked from the Bretz property, just across the state line in Oregon, at the rate of 50 to 60 tons a day. This property was optioned last February and is being operated by power shovel, tractor and scraper. The company has also optioned the Corders prospect, 20 miles southeast of Opalite, and the Buckskin prospect in the Buekhorn Mountains, 40 miles southeast of Opalite. H. Burmeister is in charge of the furnaces. A. V. Lidell of San Francisco is general manager of the company.
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The Esmeralda Gold Mining Corporation intends to change its shaft to vertical and to install a larger hoist and a compressor, according to Engineer C. D. Wilkinson, Box 174, Tonopah, Nevada, president and general manager of the company. The company has been idle since 1919. The equipment is being operated by gasoline power. Six men are engaged in development and are producing the ore that is accumulate by development. At the present time the workings are 100 feet deep.
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Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, president, Tonopah, Nevada, has declared dividend No. 8 calling for a distribution of $10,000 to its three or four stockholders, and making a grand total of $100,000 paid since the company went on a dividend basis last year. This is the fifth year of operations and gross production to the close of June, 1981, has totaled $1,041,415.88.
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SALT LAKE CO. TO WORK OXIDIZED
AND SULPHIDE ORES AT WABUSKA
The Eastern Iron and Metal Company at Salt Lake City, Utah, has announced the development of a new reagent for the treatment of oxidized ores, and as soon as copper prices warrant, they intend operating the 1,500-ton flotation mill at Wabuska, Nevada. The new reagent can be use’] In the regular flotation circuit and the sulphide and the oxide ores floated at the same time.
At the present time the Mason Valley and the Bluestone mines are being developed by lessees, who have opened up five new faces of ore, averaging 10 per cent copper, according to Joseph Rosenblatt of the Eastern Iron and Metal Company. A large tonnage of 2.5 to 8.5 per cent oxidized copper ore is blocked out, as well as a large tonnage of 1.5 to 2 per cent sulphide ore. Eastern Iron and Metals has owned these mines and concentrator since July, 1929, when it closed a deal with the Mason Valley Mines Company, now dissolved.

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