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for JUNE 15, 1930
DELAMAR MINING DISTRICT SHOWS RENEWED ACTIVITY

Thirty miles southwest of Caliente, Nevada, is Delamar, one of the old gold camps which is showing indications of renewed life. While the present activity may not lead to a return of the good old days, which the old-timers never tire of recounting, a prosperous year seems to be in store for those who still have faith in the hidden wealth of the district, and who are reopening several of the old mines.

Delamar, first discovered in the ‘60’s, but not then known by its present name, has an interesting history. In those pioneer day, the nearest railroad connection was at Milford, Utah, a distance of approximately 200 miles. The cost of hauling supplies and ore by mule and ox-freighting outfits, was $45 per ton, making it impossible to mine anything but high-grade ore. The April Fool Mine, which is said to have produced $26,000,000, was the first discovery in the District. It was purchased by Captain Delamar, associated with the Bambergers of Salt Lake City, and a dry crushing plant was installed. The fine quartz dust inhaled by the workers killed a large number of them, before a water supply was developed, and wet crushing employed.

This was at the time when the country was infested with outlaws, who preyed upon stages and freight outfits hauling bullion. It is recalled that the Delamar operators, in order to outwit the robbers, used a round safe, which weighed several tons. The door to the safe was screwed in, and could be removed only by machinist, when the shipment reached Salt Lake City. Each shipment was accompanied by four guards, armed with sawed-off shotguns, two of the men riding on the wagon, while two rode horses, and it is said that no hold-up attempt was ever made on this outfit.

Among those interested in the present activities, is a company, headed by Springdale, Utah, men, which has leased the Delamar tailings, of which it is said there are a million tons, averaging $8 per ton. The Nevada-Arizona Gold Mining Company, in which A. F. Jensen, of Fredonia, Arizona, B. C. Granger of Sparks, Nevada, and C. T. Banovich, one of the old pioneers of the Delamar District, are associated, has taken over the Little Gem and Rainbow properties. It is said that a lease and bond has been obtained, and that work is under way on the Magnolia Property, which is credited with a past production of $4,000,000. Caliente, which is 30 miles distant from these mines, over a fair road, is now the shipping point.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, operating in Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico, disbursed $8,642,936 in dividends during the month of December. Payment was made at the rate of 75 cents a share quarterly.
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The Reno Divide Consolidated Mines Company has given notice of assessment No. 3, of 2 cents per share, which is payable to Maurice J. Sullivan, secretary, 806 Byington Building, Reno, Nevada. Date of delinquency is January 19, 1930.
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John H. Miller of Hawthorne, mine operator, has located a showing of copper ore, on the west side of Walker Lake, Mineral County, Nevada. Samples have assayed as high as 10 percent copper with some gold and silver, and the average of a number of samples taken at random was 1.42 percent. He has located 26 claims, and has an option on six more. It is planned to use a portable air compressor, and machine drills, in exploratory work. Water is available, and power can be brought to the property by a 15-mile power line.
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The Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, N. H. Getchell, president and general manager, Betty O’Neal, Nevada, shipped a 20-ton carload of high-grade gold ore from the Benane-Miles-Rae lease, to the United States smelter in Utah, just before the expiration of its lease on December 31, 1929.
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Excavation, preparatory to the construction of a 80-ton mill, has been done at the portal of the lower tunnel of the Basque Mining and Milling Company, Frank H. Stewart, foreman, Winnemucca, Nevada. This company is operating in the Sherman Mining District, 28 miles north of Winnemucca, and intends to begin actual construction in the spring. According to a survey, the lower tunnel, now in 800 feet, should cut the vein within 50 feet. This tunnel will be advanced 120 feet, and will be connected with the upper tunnel by a 167-foot raise. The officers of the Basque company are: Franc S. Brereton, president and general manager, 1505 Josephine Street, Berkeley, California; J. S. Brereton, vice president, 803 Kearns Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, and T. H. Perlewits, secretary and treasurer.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, has discovered a two-foot vein of ore, assaying about $20.50 per ton, 97 feet from the shaft on the 400-foot level. This crosscut had been driven to determine whether or not there was a split in the vein. Five, somewhat parallel quartz veins, crop on the surface of the property, showing values in gold and silver. [Rehab Notes: now part of Kinross Gold.]
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Two carloads of ore, netting $22 a ton, have been shipped to the market at Salt Lake City, Utah, by the Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, E. E. Gardanier, superintendent, Black Forest, Nevada. The Black Forest Tunnel, now in 2,400 feet, should cut the first north-south vein, in another 200 feet, and 650 feet of drifting, should intersect an east-west vein. A shaft is to be sunk from the crest of the mountain, to connect with this tunnel at 8,200 feet, and will be used for shipping, in event the proposed railroad is built. Driving of the Spruce Monarch Tunnel has been discontinued, with the exception of development on the 600 level, to permit diamond drill prospecting.
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It has been announced that the Cortez Consolidated Mining Company at Cortez, Nevada, is closing down, and that out of the 100 men employed during the past year, only a few remain. It is understood that this is the result of the low price of silver. No announcement of future plans has been made.
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The R. and K. Mining and Milling Company has completed its new 60-ton mill, and is treating a daily average of 40 tons of ore from its Valcalda Mine, near Silver Peak, Nevada. The ore assays from $12 to $15 per ton in gold. Both the flotation and amalgamation processes are used in milling. Frederick N. Rock, 8820 Falcon Street, San Diego; California, and associates, control this company.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., near Arlemont, Nevada, is operating a small rotary furnace and, is producing from 60 to 75 flasks monthly. This was formerly known as the Good and McKinney Property, but was transferred to this name last July. Elmer F. Good recently bought the interest of J. L. McKinney, his partner, and he now controls 90 percent of the stock.
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The shaft in the May Property of the West Mines Corporation, is now down 70 feet, and will be extended to the 100-foot level, where a station will be cut, and crosscuts driven into both the footwall, and hanging wall. The vein at the present level, is about six feet wide, and on the west side of the shaft, wedges of shale with quartz stringers are showing, indicating that the exact width of the vein is not known. W. E. Sirbeck, Goldfield, Nevada, is president of the company.
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The Mountain City Mine, north of Elko, Nevada, has struck a vein of gold-silver ore, assaying about $100 per ton, in a raise from the main tunnel, according to B. L. Cutler, mine superintendent. The mine crew is now working about 2,000 feet from the tunnel adit on a two-foot vein of quartz, and ore is being stored in the bins and on the dumps, for mill operation in the spring. The high-grade ore will be shipped to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the low grade will be milled at the property.
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Heavier hoist machihery is being installed by the Keystone Divide Mining Company at Manhattan, Nevada, and underground work will be resumed within 30 to 60 days, according to J. Grant Crumley. The 765-foot shaft penetrated 665 feet of water flow, before entering mineral formation, and the last 25 feet show gold stringers. At the bottom of the shaft, a crosscut will be run to the main vein, and a station will be cut.
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The Nevada-Mont Mining Company, Ira Stanley, superintendent, has completed a water reservoir, laid 4,000 feet of pipe, installed equipment, and begun washing gravel, at its property about 45 miles north of Lovelock, Nevada. The gravel tests from 70 cents to $25 per cubic yard, and the company expects to work 200 cubic yards during each eight-hour shift.
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The Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., J. C. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has issued an official letter to bondholders and stockholders, which states that it is advisable to build a concrete dam on the 1,180-foot level, to hold back water released by development, and which will be pumped out by electric pumps. Indications of a new ore body have been encountered in the west drift, on the 1,540-foot level, and on the 1,530 vein. The circular further stated: “It may be feasible, if good ore bodies are found in the near future, to finance through the sale of treasury stock of your company. This could not be accomplished if transferable stock certificates were issued, and outstanding.” The company has asked that the time for issuing transferable stock certificates, be extended to October 31, 1930. This can be effected only upon consent of 90 percent of the stockholders.
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The Gale Mining Company has opened a body of copper ore in its property, in Pumpkin Hollow, 10 miles south of Yerington, Nevada. Seventy-five tons of ore have been mined from a 75-foot shaft, and will be shipped to a Utah smelter. The ore assays $5 in gold, 10 ounces silver, and from 10 to 40 percent copper, to the ton, with small amounts of lead and zinc. The principal stockholders are A. S. Phipps of Yerington, and Jeff Slater, Lon Garr, and Mrs. Farr, of Ogden, Utah.
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On December 1, 1929, the Gold Ace Mining Company at Carrara, near Beatty, Nevada, shut down its mine after completing 361 feet of crosscuts and drifts on the 250 level of its vertical shaft. On December 9, W. W. Herritt, who on August 1, succeeded James Shea as general superintendent, was appointed receiver of the property. A. B. Carpenter has been acting manager for the company since September 15, when he succeeded O. Ray Boggs.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, is said to be considering building its own concentrating plant. At the present time, the company is mining and shipping 3,500 tons of ore daily to the reduction plant of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. About 3,000 tons of this, is of milling grade and the remainder is direct smelting ore. Coppermines would like to increase its production to 6,000 tons a day, and several years ago obtained enough water to justify such an increase in production.
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The Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, William Sharp, superintendent, is making regular shipments from its property in the McCoy District south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, to custom mills. Samples of the ore, carry from $45 to $100 per ton in gold. The ore is being stoped from deposits, 12 to 20 feet wide, on the 50, 100 and 150-foot levels. Some exploration has been done below that depth.
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The 1929 production of Bradshaw, Inc., from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill, was approximately $256,000, according to Mark Bradshaw, manager, Tonopah, Nevada. The plant was in operation from March 15 to December 10, and from 1,000 to 1,150 tons of material were treated daily. It is said that sufficient material remains for three or four years’ production. The company has paid all indebtedness, and may declare a dividend on its common stock.
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Eugene and John L. Sullivan have recently made a gold strike on the Early Bird Property, in the Wahomie Mining District, near Manhattan, Nevada. A six-foot ledge, which sampled from $20 to $100 per ton, was found at a depth of 75 feet. The ore body apparently extends into Mammoth Mountain. Temporary suspension of production, is said to have been caused by litigation.
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A V-shaped ledge of cinnabar ore, averaging from $30 to $600 a ton, has been discovered in a crosscut, from a 100-foot tunnel, near Antelope Springs, Nevada. Equipment capable of treating in excess of 15 tons of ore daily, at a cost of about $1.80 per ton, is to be installed. The property adjoins that of the Nevada Quicksilver Company, which is a large producer. E. L. Burney of Hollywood, and L. C. Newton and Samuel Jay, both of the United Casting Company of Los Angeles, have control of the property.
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, has started operating the new Cottrell dust precipitation plant at the McGill smelter. About 15 or 20 tons of fine dust, averaging 15 percent copper per ton, should be recovered daily. Heretofore this dust was lost, being carried off by smoke from the roasters.
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The Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Mill City, Nevada, manager, has been treating an average of 144.6 tons of ore in the Tungsten Mill daily, producing about a ton of concentrates. Machinery from the 125-ton Humboldt Corporation mill unit, is being moved to the 75-ton mill being completed at the Silver Dyke-Tungsten Mines. The Humboldt Corporation Shaft, which has been advanced from 500 to 590 feet, shows about 65,000 tons additional ore reserves.
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The mining and milling equipment of the Rochester Silver Corporation has been sold by C. T. Stevenson, receiver, 811 Reno National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, to the United States Machinery and Steel Company of San Francisco, California, for a consideration of $15,250. The sale included: Compressor, drills, hoists, electric locomotives, offices and equipment, residences, garages, bins, several miles of pipe, and a complete 160-ton milling plant with 10 stamps, three tube mills, agitators, thickeners, filters and cyanide equipment. Some of the material, including a compressor, has been resold to the Nevada-Massachusetts Company for its new 75-ton plant. Water rights, said to be the most valuable in the County, and mineral rights, are being retained by the receivership.
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According to H. P. Kervin of Los Angeles, California, the ore channel at the Groom Silver-Lead Mine, 120 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been penetrated 50 feet by the lower tunnel, giving 125 feet of backs. The ore body in the upper level was 700 feet long. This mine is under bond and lease to Bohanan and Whitacre, and Joe Kendall is superintendent.

[Rehab Notes: this mine is located about 2 miles from the main, above-ground camp, known infamously as AREA 51. It has been in the Sheehan Family since its discovery in 1858, when this portion of Nevada was still part of AZ. Onsite, there is a complete encampment, concentrators, store, school, recreational building and area, and a number of residences for roughly 30 families. Inside of the garages and shops, were some rather pristine vehicles and equipment of old, which were all shot full of holes by invading USAF fighter jets on a practice strafing run in the 1970’s, that mistakenly mistook the old camp as a target. The Sheehan family has a prior run in with the USAF that shot up the new concentrator, soon after its installation in the 1950’s. Though the Sheehan family pursued the USAF for reparations for the damage, no payment nor any sort of reimbursement for the damages was ever made.]
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An air compressor and drills are being installed by the Hasbrouck Divide Mining Company, J. A. McLaughlin, Mina, Nevada, superintendent, at its cinnabar property in Dunlap Canyon. A shaft has been sunk 40 feet in ore said to average 1 percent.
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The Buckinghatn Mines Corporation, E. A. S. Whittard, general manager, Battle Mountain, Nevada, which is sinking a shaft to the 1,000-foot level, reports some improvement in the ore, and the permanent water level appears to be at 798 feet. A pumping station, 16x20 feet, and a reservoir, 24x24 feet, have been cut, and two pumps having a combined capacity of 150 gallons per minute, direct connected with a 50-horsepower motor, will be installed immediately upon their arrival at the mine. Four-inch pipe is being installed in the shaft and a sinking pump, electrically operated, will be installed to lift the water from the bottom of the shaft, to the reservoir. An 86-horsepower Diesel electric power unit has been provided at the shaft, as a standby for mine signals, etc., in compliance with safety laws.
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J. H. Goodman, P. 0. Box 57, Ely, Nevada, president of the Nevada Standard Mining Company, has announced that operations at Cherry Creek will be resumed at once. Work had been suspended on account of the stock exchange condition.
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The Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, Mina, Nevada, J. A. McLaughlin,
manager, has levied assessment No. 19 of 1 cent per share, delinquent January 7, 1930.
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A small concentrator has been installed at the Little Jumbo Mine, 28 miles west of Austin, Nevada, and is expected to begin treating about 10 tons a day, according to Douglas Tandy, owner. The bottom of the 180-foot shaft is in ore, which is said to contain $25 per ton, in silver, lead and gold.
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The Harmill Divide Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president and manager, has been reorganized as the Harmill Mining and Smelting ‘Company, incorporated with 1,000,000 shares of $1 par value. One share of new stock at $2.50 a share will be exchanged for each two and one-half shares held.
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The Joe Scott Property, at Mill Canyon, about 80 miles from Beowawe, Nevada, has been taken under option by the Nevada-Mexico Mining Corporation, H. M. Gilbert, Beowawe, general manager. An air compressor has been installed, and camp buildings erected. The quicksilver plant of the company has been closed down.
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The Western Nevada Mines Company, C. J. Carpenter, general manager, Dayton, Nevada, is preparing to develop the May Day Property, northeast of the Como Property, on completion of the survey by B. Fraser, consulting engineer. A gasoline hoist and a portable air compressor have been purchased, and a shaft site will be selected. The company expects to find the extension of the main Como Vein system.
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Silver ore has been discovered in a crosscut, from the main vein, in the Silver Legion Shaft, of the Nob Hill Gold Mining Company Property, in El Dorado Canyon, near Searchlight, Nevada. Samples have been taken for analysis and a crew of men is building an ore bin preparatory to a shipment to the Garfield smelter. George S. Bates, Hotel Hayward, Los Angeles, California, is vice-president of the company, and Ben Ivey of Inglewood, California, is manager.

[Rehab Notes: The Nob Hill Mines are located just east of the dirt Nelson to Searchlight Road, approaching the mountains from the Searchlight, NV side. A patented mine comprising 11 claims, there is quite a showing of gold and silver ore in rusty ore. Highgrade gold ore on the property had the appearance of limonite on an oxidized iron background. There is a resident living on a part of the property, but some placer gold was obtained from the washes draining SW towards Highway 95. The first mine one approaches is an open cut, varying 4-10 feet in width, nearly vertical for 700 feet, then a curved dip for the remaining 400 feet. Scenic but dangerous! Water in the mine also. John S Sartain was the original locator of the property, and had ties with several nelson, NV mining interests, such as Yeoman Briggs (Capitol Camp), and John Weyerhauser (lumber fame).
During the 1980’s, the australians from Plenty River, built a pilot plant next to the power lines, just off the Nelson Dirt Road, planning to develop some of the area mines, but lost financing for the venture and sold the plant. In the area of Grand-dad Road, off US 95, heading south towards Searchlight, and Arkansas concern had a trommel plant set up for placer gold, and hired a number of college students for summer work. Another placer location of the 1980’s is just west of the Dirt Nelson Road, at its intersection with US95, near the powerlines; though the gold in both operations was small stuff, and the paystreaks anywhere from 15 to 65 feet down. FYI]
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The Newhall interests of California, have taken over the Ivanhoe Cinnabar Claims, including the Mayflower, and Wild Horse, from F. B. Bowers, on bond and lease, for a consideration of $75,000. The property is 14 miles southeast of Midas, Nevada, and 70 miles from Winnemucca. Two carloads of machinery, including a new type furnace, are being shipped to the property. Installation of equipment will be in charge of Mr. Andrews, chief engineer for the Newhall interests.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation of New Jersey, has taken over the Dunfee Mine at Hornsilver, Nevada, from the Calavada Mines Company, J. W. Dunfee of Goldfield, superintendent. Both companies have been financed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The vertical shaft of the mine is down 390 feet, and will be extended to 400, where a station will be cut. The company may purchase the Orleans property adjoining, which has a 700-foot incline shaft, and a winze 75 feet below the bottom level.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has discovered a body of concentrating ore between its Morris-Brooks Property, and the Liberty Pit of the Nevada Consolidated. An estimate of the total new tonnage has not been made, although one drill hole shows about 200 feet of ore, averaging 1.5 per cent copper, while another shows 150 feet of ore, averaging 1.83 per cent. Both high and low-grade ore is being shipped to the smelter. Copper production for the month of November was 2,650,000 pounds.
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Eleven carloads of zinc concentrates were shipped in November by the Treadwell-Yukon Company, Ltd., W. E. Hales, Tybo, Nevada, to the electrolytic plant of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan Company, at Kellogg, Idaho. The shipping route was via Wells, Nevada, on the Southern Pacific, to Rogerson, Idaho, and thence over the Oregon Short Line system to Kellogg. Lead concentrates are shipped to a Utah smelter.
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The Reorganized Carrie Silver-Lead Mine Corporation, C. B. Murdoch, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, is considering building a pilot mill at its property. Both shipping and milling values are found in the drainage tunnel, and assays of heavy sulphide samples, taken intermittently from the tunnel, show values varying from $44 to $854 in gold per ton.
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Operations, said to be financed by Iowa and Idaho men; have started on the Lost Frenchman Mine in the Ten Mile District, of Humboldt County, Nevada. A. A. Duffner of Winnemucca, is in charge.
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The Majuba Hill Mine, 25 miles west of Imlay, in Humboldt County, Nevada, last operated by the Mason Valley Mines Company, has been purchased by Guy Brouilett, G. B. Williams, J. S. Austin and others. The Mason Valley people mined about 2,000 tons of 12 per cent copper, and smelted it in the Thompson Smelter, and it is said considerable ore can yet be taken out by sorting. Brouillett will be in charge of operations.
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A long term lease is now held by the Royston Royal Blue Turquoise Mines, Inc., Deseret Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, on the Royston deposit in the Lone Mountain District of Nevada. This deposit is owned by the Hudson Mining and Milling Company. Four or five grades of turquoise, are found in this mine, and it is the company’s objective to develop the secondary grades on a large scale. Terrazas, which is used in interior decoration, will be produced. Frank Keller has charge of the work.
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NEVADA

The Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has nearly completed construction started last summer. These improvements include a 100-ton cyanide mill, three Diesel engines having a combined energy of 860 horsepower, an additional storehouse, change and bath building, battery charging and assay buildings, and additional cabins. Rather extensive development is planned for the coming year, and includes about 5,000 feet of drifting, 1,000 feet of shaft sinking, and 3,500 feet of crosscutting.
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The 50-ton concentration plant of the Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Company, F. M. Dawes, Fallon, Nevada, president and manager, is working nicely on oxidized lead-silver ore. The company is planning an extensive exploration program, requiring the installation of pumps in order that ore may be developed below the water level.
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The Reorganized Pioneer Mines Company, J. R. Bryan, president and manager. Pioneer, Nevada, is drifting on the 256 Level, with the objective of cutting the bonanza ore body, which is possibly 50 feet from the drift face. Ore from this point, assays about $5 per ton. Future work includes prospecting this section of the mine with crosscuts and drifts, and sinking a shaft where the ore is found.
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The Gordon Mines, Harry Morris, Eureka, Nevada, manager, have been closed for the winter, on account of the low price of silver. Recent work included raising on the tunnel level, and drifting on ore on the 120-foot level.
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The Nev-Mont. Mining Corporation, S. A. Hale, manager, P. 0. Box 607, Lovelock, Nevada, is planning to install another dragline excavator bucket of larger capacity, than the one operating, and add more sluices and larger pumps. The water supply is sufficient, as the water level in the trench was not noticeably lowered by pumping at the rate of 400 gallons per minute for 12 hours. The trench is 700 feet long, 5 to 15 feet wide, and from 8 to 27 feet deep. O. A. Nepstad has succeeded Ira Stanley, as president of the company, and E. A. Rice has succeeded I.
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A. T. Wilkerson, and associates, of Tonopah, Nevada, have 20 tons of high-grade copper-silver ore ready for shipment to a Salt Lake smelter, from their property in the old Ellendale District, 82 miles east of Tonopah. Surface work has been discontinued on account of snow and cold weather, and drifting on good ore is progressing at a depth of 180 feet. As soon as the road is open, trucks will carry the ore to Tonopah.
[Rehab Notes: Ellendale is just on the NE flank of the Tonopah Test Range.]
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The Tonopah Divide Mine, in the Divide District, six miles from Tonopah, Nevada, produced, during the year 1929, 989.70 ounces of gold, and 110,587.88 ounces of silver. Net mill returns were $39,812.84. Production of the Brougher Divide Mine, in the same district, was 289.21 ounces of gold, and 31,816 ounces of silver. Net returns were $18,929.15. Both [of] these properties are operated exclusively by leasers.
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The Consolidated Holding and Development Corporation of New York, has purchased the unissued stock of the Goldfield Yellow Cat Mining Company at Goldfield, Nevada, and will develop the property, according to John J. Goetz of Reno, Nevada, president of the former company. Work done on the property includes a 200-foot shaft, and 800 feet of drifting to the sulphide zone. The Consolidated also owns the Princess Group of claims at Manhattan, where a shaft is down 60 feet, and holds a lease on the Portland Claims in the Tonopah District, which are owned by Sam Lutz of Tonopah, and M. J. Scanlan of Reno. A gas drill capable of making 60 feet daily in this ground is to be installed.
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The tunnel of the Liberty Mines Corporation, at Cherry Creek, north of Ely, Nevada, has been driven 1,600 feet. A crew of seven men is employed. Burton A. Russell of Ely is president of the company.
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The Nevada Gold Dome Company has suspended operations at its property, 30 miles south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Eight carloads of good grade ore, with values principally in gold, have been shipped, but it was discovered that the ore body does not extend deeper than the 150-foot level. A lease has been granted to Joe McCoy, who is planning to ship ore from the dump, and from above the 50-foot level.
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On January 7, the new equipment, at the plant of the B. & B. Quicksilver Company, was put in operation, according to Edward J. Bumstead, general manager, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada. The plant is now handling 140 tons daily, from which the production is nine flasks. It is estimated that 200,000 tons of ore, averaging five pounds of mercury per ton, are available. The 1929 production was 1,075 flasks, which brought about $119 per flask.
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The Kernick Divide Mining Company, A. A. Codd, president, Box 5021, Reno, Nevada, will begin construction of a 40-ton mill near Sodaville, in the near future, as the ore is of too low grade for shipment. Arrangements have been made with the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, to tap the line to its Silver-Dyke, and Tungsten mines, after voltage has been reduced from 66,000 to 6,600. A two and one-half mile power line to the Kernick Mill will be necessary, and a line of that length, which belonged to the Jumbo Camp, near Reno, has been purchased, and will be moved. New equipment will cost about $10,000. There are 8,000 tons of ore, assaying $12.50 per ton in gold on the 35-foot level, and an undetermined tonnage of ore that will run from $7 to $10 per ton. There are also 1,000 tons of ore on the dump, which assayed $15 per ton from grab samples. The ore contains a quantity of free gold, which will be recovered by amalgamation, and a 50-ton Marcy ball mill will be used. The final payment on the Gold Canyon property has been made to Harry and August Priess, at a much lower price than the contract stated.
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December production of the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, general superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, was 1,580 ounces of gold, and 127,700 ounces of silver, valued at $47,900. November production was $81,600.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has opened 12 feet of ore on the 1,200 Level, which assays from $15 to $18 per ton at the present low price of silver. Streaks of especially rich ore, are found in the ore body, and it is about 500 feet above the water level. The bullion valuation for the first 12 days of January was $83,400, which is $10,900 more than the previous 15-day period. Production for 1929 was 44,989.10 ounces of bullion, having a gross value of $450,465.79. During December, Tonopah Extension produced 69,520 ounces of silver-gold bullion, worth $45,200.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. H. Goodman, president, P. 0. Box 57, Ely, Nevada, has opened an ore body, four feet in width, in virgin territory, at a depth of over 700 feet. A sample, which was taken recently, assayed $50 a ton. The gold content is greater than that of the ore in the Star Vein, and the quartz ore contains less lead, and very little zinc.
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The Reorganized Broken Hills Silver Corporation, J. E. Bevis, manager, 15 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has discontinued operations at Broken Hills on account of unfavorable returns from exploratory work. The Broken Hills Vein was not found, although the main shaft was sunk from 350 to 600 feet, and much drifting was done on the 600 level, which was badly faulted. The company intends to acquire another property.
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The Silver Glance Mining Company, Mark Bradshaw, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, is retimbering and enlarging the old shaft to one of two compartments. It is now down 70 feet, and will be continued to 200 feet. The mine is equipped with gallows frame, compressor, hoist, blower and blacksmith shop, which were brought from the Alto holdings at Gilbert. A crew of 10 men, working on two shifts, is employed.
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The Tungsten Production Company, Inc., intends to place its remodeled mill, at Nightingale, Nevada, in operation within 80 days. M. B. Ray of Boulder, Colorado, secretary to the company, has charge of the Nightingale Property.
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Electric power will be installed in the near future at the Montgomery Mine, by the Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada. The company is also considering the installation of a milling plant. Some large bodies of furnace ore have been opened and are being developed. About 20 men are now employed.
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The new mill of the Seven Troughs Extension Mines Company, C. W. Warmoth, superintendent, Lovelock, Nevada, is nearly ready for the installation of machinery. The intermediate tunnel is being driven on a four-foot ledge, sampling about $86 per ton, with bunches of high-grade. The entire ore body is about eight feet wide.
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Harry E. Springer of Mina, Nevada, has purchased a controlling interest in the Nevada Douglass Gold Mines, Inc., and is ready to resume development. There is a cyanide mill on the ground, and funds are available for the installation of a 50-ton Lane Mill. Construction of the latter is expected to start in the spring.
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Whittaker Brothers have taken a lease and bond on the Mary Ann Mine, near Mina, Nevada, owned by Harry E. Springer and his father, I. M. Springer, and Lloyd Wilson. They have sunk a shaft and are drifting on the vein. Some good ore is in sight.
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The Security Mining Company, N. H. Getchell of Betty O’Neal, Nevada, president and general manager, will continue sinking its shaft to the 820-foot level, and crosscut to the vein on which drifting will be done. New camp buildings recently constructed include a bunkhouse, boarding house, shaft house and gallows frame.
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An administration building, a boarding house and two bunkhouses have been constructed by the Pan American Mining Company, George E. Coxe, general manager, Herald Building, Caliente, Nevada. The incline shaft is now down 850 feet, and the plant is being equipped with electricity.
[Rehab Notes: just north of the Comet Mine, which is about 12 miles west of Pioche, NV.]
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Shipments of ore are being made from the property of the Gilbert Homestake Mining Company, L. E. Maxwell, general manager, 501 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California. The last consignment of 50 tons, averaged $51 per ton. M. J. Monette is president of the company.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, P. O. Box 807, Ely, Nevada, is sinking its shaft from the 200 level. A test of 88 tons of ore from a three-foot showing, returned 144 ounces of gold.
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On December 6, the Combined Metals Reduction Company started sinking a 1,000-foot, three-compartment shaft, located one mile west of the No. 1 Shaft. The new shaft site has been equipped with the necessary machinery, including hoists and a compressor, and a complete camp has been built. A 44,000-volt powerline, from the Bristol Silver Mines Company’s powerplant at Jack Rabbit, Nevada, and a substation, have been completed. L. C. Thomas, Pioche, Nevada, is mine superintendent of Combined Metals.
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A 3,500-foot pipeline is to be laid to the Lead Carbonate Mine, J. C. Williams, manager, Box 163, McGill, Nevada, to supply water for domestic purposes. A new bunkhouse has been built, and the tunnel is being driven, to cut the ore body below the bottom of the shaft.
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The Portable Mill Company, Inc., 1569 West Jefferson, Los Angeles, California, shipped a 50-ton flotation plant to a property at Tuscarora, Nevada, and expects to begin custom milling about March 1, 1930. Ore from the company dumps will also be put through the mill. The only available water and pipeline to the camp, has been acquired, and the water supply is sufficient to warrant milling 1,000 tons daily.
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J. R. Keller, who holds a lease on the Mary Mine, at Silver Peak, Nevada, is holding 40 tons of ore, averaging $100 per ton, for shipment to the International Smelter at Salt Lake City, Utah, as soon as trucks are available. The east side of the Western Soldier Fault, east of the Elizabeth Claim, is the scene of the strike. The ore body is now five feet wide.
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The crosscut of the Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has encountered a fault, after passing for about 210 feet through quartz, showing low values in gold in silicifled shale, and has been driven for 30 feet beyond the fault. The shale-latite contact, which is the objective of the crosscut, was not discovered. Prospect drilling is being continued upward in various directions, the sixth hole being in 61 feet, while the fifth is in 97 feet. Drilling progress has been hampered by crumbling ground.
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E. T. Heggland, president and manager of the Heggland Mines Company, P. O. box 61, Mina, Nevada, has made a strike of tungsten ore, on property a few miles west of Sodaville. The vein has been exposed for over 1,000 feet by trenching, and in one place about 30 inches of high-grade scheelite was uncovered. A shipment that will average as high as 45 percent, is now being accumulated, and will be consigned to the custom mill at Thorne, where a new concentrating table is being installed, especially to treat tungsten ores. Heggland has granted two sets of leases, and expects to grant two more.
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Allen Armstrong, and Harry Bennetts, have recently made a mill run of 27 tons, having a gross value of $96.61 per ton, from their lease on the old Haywood Mine, near Silver City, Nevada. The ore came from the 50-foot shaft level, on the north end of the property. The mine is owned by the St. Joe Consolidated Mines Corporation, a holding company, of which Chas. Oster of Wallace, Idaho, is president.
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The Glen Mill group of cinnabar claims, east of Mina, Nevada, which were taken over last October, by H. H. Leighton, P. 0. Box 271, Tonopah, Nevada, has recently produced six flasks of cinnabar, from a four-day run, treating 1,500 pounds [of ore] a day. The ore shows as high as 10 percent quicksilver. Work was not discontinued during the holidays, as only one man is
needed to handle charging and withdrawing, since the ore goes directly to the retort from the mine. A complete outfit of machinery, including a compressor, has been installed. Two ore bodies have been proven.
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The Wedekind, and Arkell mines, three miles east of Reno, Nevada, have been taken on option by J. E. Miller, 420 Clay Peters Building, Reno, who is president of the California Mother Lode Mining Company,and of the Southwest Mines Investment Company. The Wedekind Mines Company, which at one time produced over $500,000, and was worked to a depth of 800 feet, has been out of litigation about a year. The Arkell, a silver-lead producer, is owned by the Combined Metals Company, and almost all the stock is controlled by E. R. Dodge and C. I. Miller of Reno.
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The Rogawa Copper Mining Company has struck ore, valued at $100 per ton, in copper, silver and gold, in the Prince of Wales Mine, at Cedar Station, 35 miles north of Eureka, Nevada. The shaft is 600 feet deep, and ore has been found on the 400, and 500-foot levels. Manager Henry Rose is planning to stope from the 300 Level, to the surface, to determine the extent, and value of the orebody. A compressor, air drill and new rails have recently been installed and, according to Rose, the Eureka-Nevada Railway officials will put in a siding at Cedar Station. The partners in the company are: Henry Rose, College City, California; W. W. Rose, Reno, Nevada; U. S. Gabby, and H. W. Wachsmith.
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The Forvilly Metals Corporation, leasing the south end of the Henrietta Claim, near Unionville, Nevada, has opened the main ore body at a depth of 480 feet below the old workings. The tunnel has been driven into ore, 20 feet and shows values in gold, silver, lead, zinc, and sulphur. It is planned to install a sintering plant, which will recover the sulphur, and lose the zinc, by volatilization. The sintered ore will then be treated by flotation. Walter Ritz of Modesto, California, has charge of the work.
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The Cinnabar King Mining Company, C. S. Clack, Carson City, Nevada, manager, is producing two flasks of quicksilver daily, and intends to increase production to five flasks. The ore body extends to a depth of 150 feet, in what appears to be a true fissure, and improves with depth, in both size and quality. This is the old Harris Property, and is developed by a 150-foot shaft, and a 300-foot tunnel. It is planned to sink this shaft to the 500 level, and to run a 150-foot tunnel, on the 100 level. Mine equipment consists of a compressor, crusher, four Johnson-McKay furnaces, jigs, power drills, hoist, 400-foot tramway, one-mile of water line, and three tanks.
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The Pearl Shaft, of the Diamond Group of mines is down 85 feet, according to Oscar Olsen, manager, Goldfield, Nevada. About $3,000 has been spent during the past year in various improvements, which include a road to the property. An eastern concern is considering taking over the property, although no definite announcement has been made.
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The old Alabama Claims, in the Daveytown District, 48 miles north of Winnemucca, Nevada, have been leased to Tom Turner, and J. M. Donaldson. About 500 tons of ore, valued at $100 per ton, are said to be in sight. There is a five-stamp mill on the property.
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The Tonopah Belmont Development Company, E. C. Belding, mine superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, has announced that its mill at Hamilton will operate all winter, provided that weather conditions permit. The plant is equipped for concentrating, using the flotation process.
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A mill run of 38 tons, which produced 144 ounces of gold, has been made by H. C. Nicholson of Ely, Nevada, who is operating a property at Osceola, about 80 miles southeast of Ely. The ore is being taken from a winze on the 200-foot level, where the vein has an average width of three feet.
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The F. W. Bradley interests of San Francisco, California, have forfeited their option on the bond and lease, held by Bedford, Gunnell and Miller, on the property of the Mina Mercury Mines Company, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. Failure to arrive at a satisfactory financial arrangement caused the withdrawal, although a payment of $5,000 had been made last July. Work was suspended following the death, on Thanksgiving Day, of James A. White, who was Engineer in Charge. It is reported that L. Friedman, of Lovelock, a well-known cinnabar mine operator, may take over the Mina Mercury. The Bradleys now have no interest in Nevada quicksilver mining. They plan to terminate operations soon at Opalite, 15 miles west of McDermitt, on the Oregon-Nevada line, and to remove the power plant, and rotary furnace.
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The Cortez Consolidated Mining Company, operating at Cortez, Nevada, uncovered ore assaying 4,050 ounces of silver per ton, on the eve of closing down the property. The strike was made in a new vein on the Arctic Tunnel Level. Fred J. Siebert is general manager of the company.
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Two claims adjoining the Sullivan Gold Strike, near Manhattan, Nevada, have been acquired by the Consolidated Holding and Development Corporation of New York, and development work has been started. A 500-foot shaft will be sunk before drifting is begun, and power equipment will be installed soon, according to John F. Goetz, manager. This company is also installing equipment on a cinnabar claim near Round Mountain, Nevada, and is working properties in Arizona and other states.
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The Hasbrouck Divide Mining Company, S. A. McLaughlin, Mina, Nevada, is planning to install a rotary furnace at its cinnabar property, in Dunlap Canyon, provided the ore maintains its values. Work is to be started on a tunnel, which will intersect the vein, about 160 feet below the shaft. A raise, for exploration and ventilation, will then be put up to the shaft.
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Wet, and air dried salt, are now being shipped to the Pacific Coast by the Nevada Pure Salt Company, Limited, C. S. Boden, P. 0. Box 861, Reno, Nevada, president and general manager. With the operation of the drying kilns, which will begin shortly, crude salt can be furnished for sheep and cattle, ice cream manufacturers, ice and fish companies, and others. A $100,000 bond issue has been sold, and the stockholders have authorized the sale of an additional $260,000 issue, to be represented by 8 percent coupon gold notes.
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The Flynt Silica and Spar Company, A. F. Flynt, president, 1047 Richmond Street, Los Angeles, California, has been reorganized in Reno, Nevada, as the Silica and Spar Company of Nevada. The company operates alunite, barite and clay properties in Southern Nevada, as well as non-metallic properties in other states. The officers and directors of the new organization are: A. F. Flynt, president; E. T. Grua, vice-president; J. E. Sexton, secretary and treasurer; Governor F. B. Balzar of Nevada, and S. I. Kervin.
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Five tons of concentrates, averaging over $1,000 per ton, have been shipped to the Selby Smelter in California, by the Appian Mines Company, F. J. DeLongchamps, Reno, Nevada, general manager. Drifting has been discontinued temporarily on the Christensen Shaft, which supplies water for the mill, and is in a different vein, from [that of] the glory hole. On the 250 Level, the east drift seems to have reached the end of the vein, while the west drift is in four feet of 50-ounce ore. The mill is treating 60 tons of ore from the glory hole daily.
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Two cars of gold ore have been shipped by the Spade and Dot Mining Company, George D. Mathewson, manager, to the International Smelter in Utah, from its property in Galena Canyon, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. The first car, from the Buzzard Mine, contained some silver and copper, and ran about $25 per ton, while the second car, from the Gold Wedge Mine, was straight gold ore, and should assay about the same.
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Drifts and Crosscuts THE MINING JOURNAL 1 15 1930

Believe it or not—G. C. Measles, Hawthorne, Nevada, has discovered a ready-made mine, with ore all broken, and sacked for shipment.

In opening an old tunnel, Mr. Measles found 186 sacks of gold-silver ore which ran, it is reported, 1.70 ounces gold, and 172.05 ounces silver, giving a total value of about $120.00 a ton.

A date was carved in the timber near the find, which indicates when the mine was being worked. The date was 1864.
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According to Mark Bradshaw of Tonopah, Nevada; manager of Bradshaw, Inc., $15,000 was distributed aniong the company’s three stockholders, on June 2, and a similar amount is to be distributed every 30 days, until cold weather when the plant will be closed down. This is the fourth year that the company has operated on the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill, with an average yearly production of $250,000. The Bradshaw Plant is in operation for only six or seven months in the year, because, in cold weather, the [cyanide] solutions do not give satisfactory results.
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. M. Zabriskie, manager, Contact, Nevada, is planning to install a compressor and power drills at the mouth of the lower tunnel, in Claim No. 5. This tunnel, now in 210 feet, is to be driven 1,000 feet ahead to intersect an ore body opened in the upper tunnel, 500 feet above. A carload of ore taken from a recent strike, is now in transit to Salt Lake City, Utah. One carload, shipped from dump material, carried 4 percent copper, and $1.80 gold, per ton, and another shipment from the No. 5 upper tunnel carried 12 percent copper, $2 in gold, and 60 cents in silver, per ton. In driving the lower tunnel, two crossbreaks, one three and the other eight feet wide, have been encountered and are said to assay from 8 to 15 percent copper.
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The Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company, D. A. Walton, 400 Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, manager, has let a contract for sinking its shaft, in the Mud Springs District of Nevada, from the 300 to the 600-foot level. Two shifts are now at work, and considerable progress is being made. The Radiore Company of Los Angeles, California, recently made a geophysical survey of the property. Development work has been principally in the oxidized zone, where leaching is apparent, although some shipments of galena, and carbonate ore, have been made from places protected from water.
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A small mill is to be installed by Roy Cook and associates, who are developing a gold property at Rowland, in Northern Elko County, Nevada. A tunnel is now being driven to open the ore bodies.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, produced 8,100,000 pounds of copper during the month of April. In March, 3,276,000 pounds were produced. Direct smelting oxide ore, from the Alpha Property, averaged 7.5 percent copper.
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The Silver Banner Mining Company, B. L. Cutler, superintendent, Mountain City, Nevada, has let a contract to S. Benjamin Parker, metallurgical engineer and inventor of the Parker Flotation Machine, 168 Helen street, Sugar Station, Salt Lake City, Utah, to erect a small portable mill for testing purposes. Mine operations are being carried on in three tunnels, the Main, the Point and the Queen.
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E. M. Dawes of Fallon, Nevada, manager of the Chalk Mountain Silver-Lead Mines Company, has announced that the mill will remain idle until the market for silver and lead improves. Underground development is being continued.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, has opened two ledges, averaging about 12 feet wide, on the 1,660-foot level of its mine. Samples are said to show 20 to 80 ounces of silver, per ton, with the usual Tonopah gold ratio. The mill is treating 250 tons of ore each day, and 175 men are employed.
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The Seven Troughs Gold Mine. Company, L. A. Friedman, general manager, Lovelock, Nevada, has had most of its new mill machinery operating recently, in order to allow construction engineers to make small adjustments. Crushing plant and belt ore conveyor are ready for operation. A 100,000 gallon water tank is being set up on the hill, and connected by a six-inch pipeline to all fire hydrants around the mill, to provide fire protection. Development work in the mine is continuing. About 100 men are working on three shifts.
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The Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, manager, Lovelock, Nevada, is planning to increase the capacity of its mill in the near future. A pipeline for compressed air, has been laid to the point of the new discovery in the Juniper Mine, and machine drills are now being operated to open the ore body. A tunnel is to be driven, which will cut the ledge in a distance of 70 feet, and at a depth of 60 feet. On completion of loading chutes now being built, some of the high-grade ore is to be taken to the mill, which is now treating from 85 to 45 tons daily. The holdings of the Nevada Quicksilver Company amount to 880 acres.
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T. O. Jones, of Contact, Nevada, is installing a Gardener Denver compressor on his silver-lead mine, one mile north of that city. The property has been developed by a 100-foot shaft, and a 60-foot drift at the bottom of the shaft has been in ore all the way. Mr. Jones is planning to sink the shaft deeper before extracting the ore already opened. This property is considered unusual because it carries values in silver and lead, but lies inside the copper contact.
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C. A. Josephs, and Clarence Ferras, leasing on the Clifford Mine of Western Gold, Inc., have opened a ledge of ore, which, at a depth of 25 feet, assays as high as $137 per ton, $117.80 of this amount being in gold. This strike was made north of the old McCormick Shaft, which produced several hundred thousand dollars during the Goldfield boom. Homer Buckley, another lessee, is getting out another shipment. A total of seven men are leasing on the Clifford property.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has under consideration the construction of complete reduction works, consisting of 7,500 ton mill, smelter and power plant. This copper-gold property is developed by 15 miles of mine workings, consisting of open pits and shafts, 1,840 feet being the greatest depth attained. Diesel engines provide 4,000 horsepower, which is used in producing 8,150 tons daily. About 515 men are employed.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, principal owner, P. 0. Box 307, Ely, Nevada, is planning to install a small hoist. An ore body, two feet wide and valued at $100 per ton, is said to have been opened at the bottom of the 220-foot incline shaft. The property is about 80 miles southeast of Ely [near Fay?]
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Forty-two men are working on mill construction, and in the mine, of the Golden Ace Mines Company of Las Vegas, Sol Camp, Beatty, Nevada, superintendent. The company owns 24 claims in the Fluorine District, of Nye County, a portion of the property being under bond for $120,000 to be paid by royalty. Recent improvements have cost $52,088 and mine development consists of 1,000 feet of shafts, 5,000 feet of tunnels, 2,000 feet of winzes, 160 feet of raises, and 800 feet of crosscuts. Golden Ace stock was recently listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange.
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The Rhodes Alkali and Chemical Corporation, E. H. Hastings, Mina, Nevada, superintendent, is rushing installation of its plant, for recovery of salts and various chemicals. Drill tests are being made of the property, which is situated nine miles south of Mina, in the Rhodes Marsh.
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A 3,000-foot aerial bucket tramway has been installed for lessees, working the Majuba Hill Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada, formerly operated by the Mason Valley Mines Company, but recently purchased by Frank Reber of Reno. Recent storms have made the road to Jungo, the shipping point, impassable. It is said that over 200 tons of 15 percent ore have been broken in the stopes, and that the mine workings contain a considerable amount of shipping ore.
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L. B. Spencer of Mina, Nevada, has given a three-year option on the Dispo, or Shoemaker lead mine, seven miles west of Tonopah Junction, to K H. Brooks, 756 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California, and associates, of the same city, who will operate as the Dispo Lead Mines. A cash payment has been made and royalties are to apply on the purchase price of $40,000. A gasoline hoist has been installed and work has begun under the direction of Roger Scofield, superintendent. The property is in rough country, and the last one and one-half miles, must be made by pack train. The ore is galena, containing 1 ounce silver, and 1 unit of copper to each unit of lead, and it is said that a shipment once returned 65.2 percent lead. The mine has been opened by about 500 feet of tunnels and sha fts, one drift being driven 800 feet in the vein, and a winze sunk to the adit level. The hoist has been stationed at the collar of a 70-foot incline shaft, which will be sunk 110 feet more. where a drift will be run on the vein. A road is to be built to the mine, when development justifies it.
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J. H. McCoy, who is leasing the property of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, has shipped one carload of ore, which returned $40 a ton, to a Utah smelter, and has another carload, of better grade, ready for shipment. McCoy holds a two-year lease on the property and has let several sub-leases.
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The Tonopah Premier Mining Company, Albert Silver, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has resumed work, and is continuing its shaft. The purpose of this work is exploration for ore in the East Tonopah District. Dana T. McIver, 116 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, is president of the organization.
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Donald Terrell and George Robertson, leasing on an area of surface overburden of the Southgold Nevada Mines Company, have opened a vein of high-grade ore. This is the first discovery made away from the vein system of mill ore, which crops on the hill top. At a depth of 15 feet, the ore body is from 18 to 20 inches wide and is valued at from $20 to $50 per ton in free milling gold.
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The Gold Zone Mining Company, Albert Silver, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, has completed an 85-mile road to its shaft, and has constructed buildings for the hoist, compressor, blacksmith house, and powder storage. The shaft has been sunk 12 feet, and a collar set in place for the gallows frame. Practically all supplies and equipment, including enough lumber for 80 feet of sinking, are now at the mine. It is planned to sink the shaft to 100 feet, and to crosscut to the main vein, as well as to two branches.
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The National Consolidated Mining Company, Frank W. Stall, president, 2530 N Street, Sacramento, California, has resumed operations at National, Nevada, and is employing from 15 to 20 men. The tunnel is being driven parallel to the ledge, with an occasional crosscut to it, to determine the quality of the quartz.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada has taken a lease and option on the Shang Gold Mine, four miles from Mt. Montgomery, and is planning to build a 80-ton mill. The purchase price is $30,000, payable in three years, with royalties on ore or bullion produced to apply on it, and 100,000 shares of treasury stock of the company. The president is giving the organization a 30-ton stamp battery, and from one to three assessments are to be levied to cover cost of buildings, etc. The property is developed by three tunnels, which have uncovered a considerable amount of ore. It is believed that mining and milling costs will not exceed $3 per ton and that 98 percent of the values can be extracted.
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L. Hacoccina, of Tonopah, Nevada, lessee of the Olympic Gold Mines at Omco, has a crew of five men working, and is planning to ship 200 tons of ore each month, to the Desert Mill, at Millers. Last year a number of test runs were put through the mill, and it is expected that later about 5,000 tons of tailings, averaging $6 per ton, will be milled. The property has been equipped with a 100-horsepower marine engine, and a compressor.
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The American Pumice Corporation, George B. Wright, president, 21 Cladianos Building, Reno, Nevada, is planning to build a reduction plant at Oakland, California. in order to finance the plant, 10,000 shares of treasury stock are being sold for $1 per share. An additional pumice deposit, estimated to contain about one million tons, has recently been acquired. The corporation now owns four properties, totaling 800 acres in different parts of Nevada.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, Goldfield, Nevada, president and manager, has opened an ore body, assaying from $30 to $50 in copper and gold, in a raise from the 2,150 level, and within 900 feet of the shaft. This discovery was made by following a small stringer, which widened to three feet and has been proven for a length of 10 feet.
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A set of rolls, a crusher, and a concentrator, are to be installed on the old Jim Cain Cinnabar Property, which has been recently acquired by W. T. Childers of Mina, Nevada, on behalf of the F. R. Rudolph interests of California. There are several bodies of good ore in sight. About 800 tons of dump ore, the concentrate of which is said to contain from 10 to 15 percent quicksilver, are to be treated.
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Jim Butler, who is working a lease on the property of the Tonopah Divide Mining Company, six miles from Tonopah, Nevada, recently shipped 50 tons of ore to the Desert mill at Millers. The Butler Lease is near the summit of the mountain, and the ore is carried to the loading bins at the base by large tubes.
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T. F. Logan and H. Fitzgerald of Hollywood, California, recently made a test run at the old Kinkead Mill, near Gilbert, Nevada, and have made arangements with H. J. Fick of Hawthorne, owner, to use the plant to treat 10,000 tons of ore, from a property south of Mina. Arrangements have also been made to treat ore from the Roy Lindsay Property, recently purchased by Los Angeles interests, on a flat rate scale.
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A special meeting of stockholders of Tonopah Mining Company, has been called for June 28, to consider reorganization of the company. The plan includes reduction of stock to $500,000, from $1,000,000, par being $1; proposed sale and transfer of all assets of Tonopah Mining Company, to Tonopah Corporation, and offering 100,000 shares of the latter company to stockholders in the former at $5 a share, proceeds to be used to pay stockholders 50 cents a share in reduction of stock.
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The Consolidated Mayflower Mines Company, W. J. Tobin, secretary, Pioneer, Nevada, is planning to reopen its mine in the Pioneer District, and to recondition its mill. Funds for this work are to be provided by an assessment, which was levied recently. Good milling ore has been opened on the 800-foot level, about 200 feet north of the main working shaft. The leasing policy of the company is to be continued.
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In the Comet district, 12 miles west of Pioche, Nevada, the three-compartment shaft in the Forlorn Hope Mine has been sunk 280 feet, and a large station is being cut at the 200-foot level. About 85 men are employed, and William Franklin is in charge of operations.
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John Valenti has had a force of men at work for the last three months, taking ore from the Mountain Lion Mine near Pioche, Nevada. The second class ore is being placed on the dump, and two carloads of sorted ore are to be shipped soon.
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The Pan American Mining Company, George F. Coxe, general manager, Herald Building, Caliente, Nevada, recently received a triplex pump, which is to be installed in the main working shaft. The electric hoist and compressor, ordered some months ago, have both been installed. In the mine, a raise is being extended to connect with the old Stella workings, from which high-grade silver-lead ore was taken several years ago.
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The completion of a 23,000-volt power line, from the main line of the Sierra Pacific Power Company, to the mill of the Premier Mining Corporation, near Carson City, Nevada, marks the beginning of active operations. The contract for building the power line, placing the transformers, etc., was let to Dachner Electric Equipment Company, 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California. The work was completed in record time, and operation of the mill is now in full swing. Walter J. Bracking, 250 North Virginia Street, Reno, is manager of the Premier Company.
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The Imperial Gold Mines Corporation, E. J. Roberts, 520 Financial Center Building, San Francisco, California, has started two tunnels in the north end of its property, near Battle Mountain, Nevada. The adits are a few hundred feet apart. It is said that steam shovels will be used in mining. C. W. Birum is superintendent.
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The Tonopah Extension Mining Company, John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, on May 19, made the largest shipment of gold-silver bullion in the past 18 months. The shipment consisted of 88 bars, weighing 66,000 ounces, valued at $38,000, and represented cleanup for the first half of May. Gold content of this ore, averaging 1 ounce gold to 100 ounces silver, makes it possible for the company to continue operations with silver around 40 cents. Due to its new, rich ore bodies, the Tonopah Extension is making a better showing than at any time in the past 18 months.
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Considerable machinery is being hauled to the Nightingale Camp of the Tungsten Production Company. Among the items is a 220-horsepower, full Diesel, Allis Chalmers electrical generator plant. This plant was purchased from the Dachner Electric Equipment Company, 116 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, shipped by freight to Fernley, Nevada, and from there transported by truck over a considerable distance to the mines. Installation of this equipment is being rushed and it is expected that steady mill operation will begin in the near future. The initial run of the mill has already been made, although there have been temporary shutdowns for adjustments. The Tungsten company is backed by Boulder, Colorado, people, represented by the following officers: J. G. Clark, president, Box 296; M. B. Ray, secretary and purchasing agent, and H. K. Lidstone, superintendent and metallurgist.
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W. J. Rogers, and Charles Andrews, operating the old Quartette Mine, near Searchlight, Nevada, under lease, recently opened some high-grade ore, as well as a vein of shipping ore, which runs from $200 to $400 per ton. There are four sets of sub-lessees at work.
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The Belleville mine, O. J. Belleville, Mina, Nevada, owner, has been equipped with a 15-ton Ellis mill, operation of which was recently begun. It was necessary to build a mile of new road to haul the mill machinery in, as the country is very rough. This property produced $10,000 from high-grade shipments, which was sufficient to finance mill construction. A return of $238 per ton was received from the last shipment of 12 tons. A small streak in a winze, from an upper tunnel, assayed $4,536 per ton. A crosscut tunnel is being driven 320 feet to the contact, where it is expected to open additional milling ore.
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According to George A. Newhall, Jr., Newhall Building, San Francisco, California, work is to be resumed on the property of the Newhall Corporation of California, near Midas, Nevada. Operations were delayed recently when John Andrews, superintendent, was found dead in his cabin. In a few days a trial run of the furnace will be made on mine-run ore.
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The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, E. J. Bumsted, manager, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, is said to have solved its dust problem by moving the blower from over the dust chamber, where the temperature was high, to a cooler location outside. This results in better precipitation, and in the gas stream going through the cyclone first, and entering the blower free from dust.
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The Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, Tonopah, Nevada, superintendent, reports a profit during 1929, of $193,038, after expenses, charges, federal taxes, and expenditures for examination of mining properties. No mention was made of depreciation and depletion. This compares with a profit of $343,917 in 1928. The net profit from operations of the mine and mill during 1929, was $108,889, and the miscellaneous income, less taxes, etc., amounted to over $100,000. This was largely derived from profits on sale of securities and income from investments. According to W. L. Haehlen, president, certain stockholders have requested partial liquidation of the company which is to be given consideration.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, 0. L. Cash, superintendent, P. 0. Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to have opened a considerable deposit of high-grade furnace ore, between two raises, which entered barren ground, when the property was first developed. The mine is at Opalite, Oregon, just across the Nevada State Line. Winnemucea is the shipping point.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manhattan, Nevada, has purchased the headframe on the Big Four Property, nearby, and will erect it over its shaft. The 100-foot shaft is to be sunk to the 200 level, and the ledge explored to that depth. While machinery is being installed, 30 tons of ore are to be shipped to the Desert Mill, at Millers. Over eight feet of ore, averaging about 8 ounces in gold per ton, are said to have been opened by a drift on the 100-foot level.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, John L. Dynan, superintendent, Round Mountain, Nevada, is employing 45 men in mill construction and mine work. Of this number, 27 are working on the mill, pouring cement and concrete, and framing timbers. Five benches, quarried from the mountain side, are to be covered with concrete, ready for the units of the reduction plant. A fleet of trucks is busy delivering materials and machinery. A new gallows frame, 56 feet high, is being installed over the small frame used while prospecting. The mine crew is working in three shifts, building underground ore bins, and straightening the incline shaft. As soon as possible, the drift on the 400-foot level, will be extended 700 feet east of the shaft, and raises extended to the 800 level, for ventilation, and to block out ore. A crosscut is to be run on the 50-foot level, under the ore dump. The ore will be dropped down a short chute, taken underground to the shaft and used in stabilizing heads when milling high-grade ore.
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Wes Watson of Tonopah, Nevada, and associates, have secured a lease on the Schubert-Coop Property, and the Casperson Placer Property, near Manhattan, consisting of 75 acres, the gravel running 50 cents to $7 per ton, in gold. A complete wet and dry washing outfit has been installed. This equipment is the invention of J. N. Knight of Brawley, California, and has been successfully operated in California and Arizona.
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On June 1, 1930, the Tonopah Belmont Development Company, Earl E. Belding, general superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, turned its property over to a Tonopah leasing syndicate composed of H. D. Budelman, Fred C. kinnis and Homer O’Connell. The lease includes a block of ground in the Tonopah Mining Company’s property. Between 30 and 40 sets of lessees will be employed, and Mr. O’Connell will be in charge as superintendent. All operations of the property are to be assumed by the lessees. Horace A. Johnson, general manager of the Tonopah Mining Company, has assured lessees, that the company’s Desert mill at Millers, will continue operating for at least three months, and indefinitely, if they furnish enough ore to justify it.
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ATTENTION TURNS FROM SILVER TO GOLD PRODUCTION IN NEVADA

Old Timer remarked, “I’ve allers held that some good comes out of everything; there’s plenty of gold in Nevada, and our wrecked silver market may be just the thing needful to spur us on to dig for it.” Necessity does seem to be a good leader, as many new and promising gold prospects are being worked, a number of the old mines are being re-opened, old dumps are being profitably treated, and the state is showing a remarkable gain in gold production.

Round Mountain activities are employing 150 men, and the Round Mountain Company is having an unusually successful season, with more water available, than for several years. The Gold Hill Development Company, operating four miles north of Round Mountain, is rushing construction of its 100-ton mill, which is to be operating by August 1. At Manhattan, the Donald Placers are being churn drilled with satisfactory results, and several other small placer operations are udder way.

The White Caps is producing 15 tons of ore daily, and the Gold Metals Company has started shipping from its recently acquired Sullivan Claims. Two carloads of gold ore a month, are being sent from the old camp of Gilbert, and five sets of lessees are operating in the old Clifford property, 45 miles east of Tonopah, taking out high-grade ore, some of which has been shipped.

The new gold ore body in the Tonopah Extension Mine is causing many to speculate on the old silver camp’s chance of becoming a gold producer. It is recalled that Leadville, after being known for years as a silver-lead camp, became one of Colorado’s big producers of gold, through discovery of the famous Johnnie Mine, almost in the center of the District. On the 1,622-foot level of the Tonopah Extension, samples have been taken running $100 gold, in addition to 500 ounces silver per ton. One sample ran $400 gold and 1,000 ounces silver.

At Goldfield, Bradshaw, Inc., is recovering from $30,000 to $35,000 a month from the tailings of the old Goldfield Consolidated Mill. Enough of the material is left to keep the plant operating for two or three years longer.
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NEVADA

The American Development Company, Ed. Benane, superintendent Fallon, Nevada, is planning to resume operations in a few days, at its barium property, at Eagleville. The mine has been closed down for about two weeks, and shipments were suspended because of lack of storage room, at the new Berkeley, California, plant. V. H. Carter, general manager, is expected to come from Berkeley to visit the mine.
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A subsidiary of Balfour, Guthrie and Company, known as Balfour, Guthrie Investment Company, San Francisco, California, is planning to build a 300-ton plant, for washing silica sands on the property of the Steamboat Springs Mining Company, which it is operating under lease, with a flat, per ton royalty. The plant site is to be about half way between the upper and lower basins, where excavating is now in progress. Mercury, occurring as a filament on the particles of silica, is to be removed, and saved by the washing process, but the plant for concentrating the quicksilver is not to be used. The silica product is to be shipped to San Francisco for the manufacture of glass. Deposits of kaolin and sulphur are also found in this mine, which is located about 10 miles from Reno, Nevada.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, general manager, Tonopah, Nevada, has reduced the wage scale 50 cents a shift, effective June 16, 1930. Miners will now receive $5.25 per day, while muckers will earn $4.75. This action was taken because of the low price of silver, and it affects both mine and mill employees.
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The Bruneau Mining Company, Roy Cook, manager, Rowland, Nevada, has purchased machinery for a 40 to 50-ton cyanide plant, which is to cost about $25,000. The plant is to be built within 60 days, and, according to the designer, Walter Techow, 620 Eye Street, Sacramento, California, the process differs from the counter-current decantation method, usually employed in cyanide mills, and has been thoroughly tested. Situated near the Nevada Idaho line, the property is said to contain enough ore to run the mill for two years. About 20 men are employed in the mine, under the supervision of Lew Blewett. The company is being financed by H. E. Barnum and associates, of Los Angeles.
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E. C. Henry of Reno, Nevada, operating as the Lakeview Mining Company, is preparing to drive a 1,500-foot tunnel to explore at depth, a surface showing, in a silver prospect, at the southeast end of Pyramid Lake, about 40 miles from Reno. An Ingersoll-Rand portable air compressor, jack-hammer drill, sharpener, tugger hoist, and half a ton of steel rails have been purchased, together with two Ford trucks, to haul the equipment to the property. Philadelphia capital is said to have financed the company. Mr. Henry was graduated this year from the Mackay School of Mines.
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The Jumbo Extension Mining Company, Charles S. Sprague, president, 309 South Hobart Street, Los Angeles, California, has given permission to experienced miners of Goldfield and Tonopah, Nevada, to examine its Goldfield property, for leasing. If leases are taken, work will be conducted through the Claremont shaft of the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company. It is said that the plan to reorganize the company on an assessable basis, is meeting with approval, and if it goes through, the company will develop its property in the Diamondfield section of the Goldfield District, adjoining the Great Bend Mine. J. K. Turner, 1227-28 Rowan Building, Los Angeles, is general manager.
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Nevada Quicksilver Mines, Inc., L. A. Friedman, Lovelock, Nevada, president and general manager, has ordered a 15 percent stock dividend, paid to stockholders of record, July 19, and has approved listing stock on the Montreal Curb, and later on the New York Curb, to be called whenever directors and underwriters deem it advisable. The company’s three mines are responding well to development, and seven to eight flasks of quicksilver are produced daily, from 35 to 40 tons of ore. Lloyd J. Lathrop supervises the crew of 45 men. During the year ending April 30, 1930, $490,395.36 were received from sale of quicksilver and other sources, while operating costs were $78,975, and development work $244,908.98. The report also shows $116,333.84 paid on mining property and $79,560.75 cash paid for buildings, equipment, etc.
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The Gold Hill Development Company, John L. Dynan, superintendent, Round Mountain, Nevada, has laid concrete foundations, and set the heavy crushing and grinding machinery. Cyanide tanks are up and filled with water, the 56-foot head-frame is also up, and the ore skip has been slung on the cable. A pump, having a capacity of 500 gallons per minute, has been set on the 400-foot Level of the mine, and a five-inch water column is now being laid in the shaft. This will allow preparations for stoping in the East Drift, on the 400 Level. Plans are also being made to drift West, through a fault which cuts the vein, about 170 feet from the shaft.
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The Bristol Silver Mines Company, E. H. Snyder, Stockton, Utah, manager, is said to have purchased the Pioche Pacific railroad, the deal including 15 miles of narrow gauge railroad, running from Pioche, to Jackrabbit, Nevada, one locomotive, 12 ore cars, and other equipment. A railroad terminal, and round-house, are to be erected at Jackrabbit, and Ernest Neilson is to be in charge of the line. A two-mile aerial tramway hauls the ore from the Bristol Property, to the loading station at Jackrabbit, and it is believed that haulage costs can be cut from 76 cents to $1 per ton. Production is under way from the 500, to the 1,200 levels of the mine. J. H. Buehler of Pioche is superintendent.
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Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, superintendent, Mina, Nevada, recently made its first shipment since taking over the Mina Mercury Property. The shipment consisted of 15 flasks, which were taken largely from ore left on the dump, by the former owners, although new ore, containing more than 5 percent mercury, has been opened. About 12 men are employed.
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R. H. Rowland, and O. W. Warmoth, owners of the Auburn Mine, near Winnemucca, are planning to equip the property with a 25-ton mill. Mill and camp are to be supplied with water from a spring, two miles distant, and a two-inch pipe is now being laid. It is estimated that there are available about 6,000 tons of dump ore, which will average $8.90 per ton in gold.
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It is reported that 25 sets of sub-lessees, are at work in the Tonopah Belmont Property, near Tonopah, Nevada, which was recently leased for three years, by H. D. Budelman, Fred C. Ninnis and Homer O’Connell. Truscott and Wiley started on a streak of high grade, followed it to the south, with a raise for 40 feet, and are now working on a five-foot face of high-grade ore. They are to make a shipment soon. Owing to the fact that a considerable amount of track and pipe has been removed, in parts of the mine that offer opportunities to lessees, work has been somewhat retarded.
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The Forlorn Hope Mining Company, William Franklin, superintendent, Pioche, Nevada, is receiving electricity over the line, which provides power for the Pan America Mining Company. General conditions at the mine, are said to be good, and the shaft has reached a depth of 360 feet.
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Stock of the Golden Ace Mines Company of Las Vegas, Sol Camp, superintendent, Beatty, Nevada, which was recently listed on the Salt Lake Stock Exchange, has been temporarily suspended from trading. This action was taken pending settlement of details concerning transfers of stock.
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C. M. Griffin and associates, leasing on the Shamrock Mine, near Ione, Nevada, recently equipped the mill with a new concentrator. They have shipped 21 tons of ore to the smelter and are preparing to mill a considerable tonnage of lower grade ore in the Shamrock Plant. Matt Doonan, another lessee, is operating a retort on high-grade ore, which he is taking from a
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The Pueblo Mountain Mining Company, R. W. Hallett, president, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to have purchased the Buckaroo 20-stamp mill. It is reported that the mill is being moved from its location, 10 miles north of Quinn River Crossing, to the Yellowstone Mine, 30 miles south of Winnemnucca.
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Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is operating its mill, near Sodaville, on three shifts, and is treating 45 tons of ore daily. An ore body, from four to eight feet wide, has been developed by a 126-foot drift, from the crosscut tunnel, at a depth of about 400 feet, and a shoot in the old workings, which was formerly overlooked, is now being opened. Water is being saved, by using a conveyor to move the tailings, instead of sluicing them. The road, washed out in recent storms, has been rehabilitated.
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C. E. Moulton of Tuscarora, Nevada, has practically rebuilt the Independence Mill, owned by Dan Zuccone, and W. G. Foister, and will use it for treating free milling ore. The plant has a capacity of 25 tons daily, and although it has not been in use for two or three years, the machinery is in good condition.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, president, Arlemont, Nevada, recently shipped 41 flasks of quicksilver. Returns from the last shipment was $114 per flask. Since the furnaces were enlarged, from 110 to 115 flasks are being produced each month.
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Due to the decline in silver prices, the Northern Belle Mine of the Argentum Mining Company, F. G. Grube, general manager, 2401 Sacramento Street, San Francisco, California, has been closed down. During the past year, the sulphide zone on the 1,900-foot Level, was opened 500 feet into virgin ground, four raises were driven, and crosscuts extended through the vein, at the top of the raises. A connection was driven to the 1,700-foot Level, and a considerable tonnage of ore opened. According to Art Nelson, superintendent, the construction of a flotation plant depends upon a better price for silver.
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The Raymond Van Ness Mining Company, Peter Buol, manager, 4845 Angeles Vista Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, has sunk its shaft 70 feet, where a ledge six feet wide, and assaying from 1 to 2 percent quicksilver, has been uncovered. The plant, which will treat about 15 tons daily, is expected to be in operation by July 10. Enough water for the furnace and camp, has been developed through two tunnels, although the company had applied to the state engineer for water, about a mile away, and had acquired enough pipe for carrying it.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has let a contract to sink the first 50 feet, of the three-compartment shaft, at night, so that it will not interfere with grading, and building work, of the day crew. A temporary plant, including compressor, has been installed for the night work, and for surface blasting. Lumber has been received for building and for timbering the shaft, which is now down 15 feet.
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During May, 12 standard carloads, averaging about 53 tons, and ranging in grade from 8.6 percent, to 14.75 percent copper, were shipped from Copper Canyon, and Copper Basin, leases. Huntley and Tibbs, who shipped the highest grade car, are operating the Henrietta Lease, at Copper Basin, and have opened another ore body, 50 or 60 feet north of the one they have been working. The Copper Canyon Mining Company, owner of the Copper Basin properties, has completed a new pipeline, which will convey pure spring water to the mine.
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Missouri Monarch Consolidated Mines Company, Fred W. Hanson, Black Forest, Nevada, has driven its Broncho Tunnel in 1,400 feet, with 2,300 feet containing seven fissure veins, yet remaining, before connection is made with the Black Forest Tunnel, now in 3,200 feet. The portals of these tunnels are so situated, that ore can be loaded, no matter on which side of the range the proposed railroad is built. A maximum depth of 800 feet, will be attained by the Broncho Tunnel and it is at an elevation of 8,501 feet, while the elevation of the Black Forest Tunnel is 8,487 feet. Work in the Old Monarch Tunnel has been halted temporarily, although on July 1, sinking of the winze on the Monarch Fissure, is to be continued from the 200 to the 400-foot Level. Shipments have been suspended pending construction of the railroad.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation, J. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, is said to be preparing to build a 100-ton cyanide plant at Hornsilver (NOW Goldpoint), 30 miles south of Goldfield. Albert Silver, mill designer of Tonopah, has looked over the old plant, and has estimated that $82,000 will include purchase and installation of necessary machinery, electric power, and construction of a water pipe line eight and one-half miles long. It is said that two estimates for power were given, one for construction of a 28-mile line from Goldfield, and purchase of power from the Nevada-California Power Company, and the other for installation of a Diesel engine and electric generator, the cost of both being about the same. The old cyanide mill on the Great Western Property, was purchased several months ago by Esmeralda County, at a tax sale. County Commissioners will be asked to put the property up for sale, and the Ohio company will bid it in. Foundations and mill buildings are in good condition, and cyanide tanks are intact and filled with water. Harry DeVotie, operating a lease on the Great Western, is endeavoring to raise capital to install a hoist. He plans to deepen an old shaft on the property, and drift to a shoot of gold ore, opened on the surface.
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The Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, George H. Wood, president, c/o Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, is installing additional machinery. Work in the mine, consists of sinking and drifting, 80 feet being the greatest depth yet attained- The property is located a bout 15 miles northwest, from Caliente, Nevada, in the Chief Mining District, and is said to have at one time produced about $10,000 in gold. Values in silver, lead and copper are also present.
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The Nevada Standard Mining Company, J. H. Goodman, president, P. 0. Box 57 Ely, Nevada, has opened the Gray Eagle Vein, 1,250 feet below the surface. The vein is six feet wide, and the ore is of good mill qrade. A 1,000-foot crosscut is now being driven to intersect Imperial and Exchequer Veins, at a depth of 1,000 feet. In the Star Vein, where 800 feet of backs are available, stoping is in progress on an ore shoot 900 feet long.
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James Whitcomb is reported to have opened ore containing 50 ounces silver, and 50 ounces lead, per ton, in his property, 40 miles south of Caliente, Nevada. The vein is 25 feet wide and 20 feet thick.
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Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, S. A. McLaughlin, superintendent, has levied assessment No. 20, of 1 cent per share. Stock upon which the assessment is unpaid, will be sold at public auction,
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The Yellow Pine Mining Company, Charles K. Barnes, Goodsprings, Nevada, general manager, recently purchased a new locomotive, which is operating between Jean, the shipping point, and the mine. The new mill is of the flotation type, and is about three-fourths completed. According to the company’s report, there are now 50,000 tons of ore available. The payroll includes 34 men.
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The Cinnabar King Mining Company, C. S. Clack, manager, Carson City, Nevada, is planning to install a Newhall rotary furnace, to replace the old Scott furnace, now on the property. The plant is to be placed down the hill, below the shaft, and a 300-foot crosscut for transporting ore, is to be driven in order to do away with the aerial bucket tramway now in use. At the bottom of the 200-foot incline shaft, a face of ore, said to contain 40 pounds per ton, has been opened.
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Installation of new cast iron condensers, now under way by the Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. F. Loufek, First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, president, will increase the cooling space, 22 percent and allow treatment of greater tonnage. The plant is now treating 25 tons daily, and producing 110 flasks of quicksilver per month. A shipment of 70 tons was recently sent to H. W. Gould and Company at San Francisco, California. Two dividends, amounting to $80,500, have been paid by this company.
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The Humboldt Sulphur Company, Charles S. Haley, president, 618 Crocker Building, San Francisco, California, is making plans for refinancing and building a refining plant at Stockton, for the manufacture of dust sulphur, used by fruit growers. A valuable deposit of sulphur, at Sulphur, Nevada, is owned by this organization. The entire indebtedness of the company was recently paid, and the receiver, H. L. Hazen, was discharged.
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Steady production has been started by the Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, Manhattan, Nevada, and 100 tons of ore are being sent daily to the War Eagle Mill. The company is planning to acquire the old Lemon Mill, provide additional equipment, and treat its own ore. Installation of hoist and compressor is progressing, and the electric power line has been completed. A ledge of good ore is said to be showing in the shaft.
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J. E. Amenda of Reno, Nevada, director of the Mammoth Quicksilver Mining Company, has taken over the Wurtzler Claims, joining the Mina Mercury Property, and consolidated them with his three claims into one property. Values have been exposed at the grass roots, making this a promising producer. Noble C. Smith, 138 Inez Street, Fresno, California, is president of the company; B. F. Baker, first vice-president; E. F. Stites, second vice-president; Ralph D. Vianello, secretary and treasurer, and B. F. Baker, of Mina, resident agent.
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Tonopah Extension Mines, Inc., John G. Kirchen, Tonopah, Nevada, general manager, produced, during May, 131,940 ounces of silver-gold bullion, having a gross value of $73,200. During March, the best previous month, 119,450 ounces, valued at $70,200, were produced. In the McKane Section of the mine, ore assaying 21.92 ounces gold, and 1,386.40 ounces silver, has been opened.
The Desert Mill of the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, produced $23,000 during the past month, 889 tons of ore having been received from the Tonopah Belmont leases, and 239 tons, from miscellaneous sources. Belmont leases were cancelled on May 15, and the new lease became effective June 1, although output for the first half of the month is expected to be small.
Tonopah Mining is prospecting a gold property in northern Humboldt County, owned by Guerney Gordon of Reno. Trenches are being extended across the vein to determine its extent. W. J. Pike is looking after the work, which is in charge of Ernest Rackliff of Mina.
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W. T. Moran and associates, of San Francisco, California, have taken over quicksilver claims in the Ivanhoe District, owned by Waddle Hunt, and Henry Ingalls, and have formed the Midas Quicksilver Mines, Inc. Development work is to begin immediately.
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The Gold Star Mining Company, George B. Wright, president, P. 0. Box 637, Reno. Nevada, has sold its property to the Indian Peak Corporation, of which Mr. Wright is also president. All debts of the Gold Star Company have been paid, 99 percent of its stock called in, and it is soon to be formally dissolved. The property comprises about 800 acres in the Rochester District, near Oreana, and carries values from $20 to $50 per ton in quartz porphyry. A camp has been erected, roads built, a water supply developed, and 1,000 feet of underground work completed.
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Wiring of the new mill of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, L. A. Friedman, Lovelock, Nevada, general manager, has been completed. The mill will have a capacity of 100 tons daily, and is to be operated by a 350-horsepower Diesel engine. Two 175-horsepower Diesel motors will furnish power for the mine. Fred Bradshaw and Albert Silver of Tonopah, designed the mill.
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George and William Brandt, and W. B. Bellinger received returns of $1,335.80 per ton, on a sample from their new strike. The sample was sent to the American Smelting and Refining Company of Salt Lake City, Utah, which stated that the ore contains 63.15 ounces of gold, 16.2 ounces silver, and 10 percent copper per ton. A drift has been extended 15 feet on the ore, with walls gradually widening, and a talc streak, which pans considerable free gold, has been encountered in the footwall. Several tons of the best ore are to be shipped in order to provide funds for development.
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The lower tunnel in the Urania Mine, east of Goldfield, Nevada, is now in about 1,200 feet, and is opening stringers of ore, similar to that opened in the old tunnel, 400 feet vertically above. According to Adolph Neher, who is developing the mine, the old tunnel provided 400 feet of backs, and it is expected that the new one will provide about 800 feet. The property is in the Cactus Peak Mining District.
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Thomas Nicely, and E. A. Mee, of Fresno, California, are said to have taken a bond and lease on the property of the Nevada Quicksilver Company at Ione, Nevada, and plans are being made to establish camp, and hire a crew. A Scott furnace is now on the property, and a Newhall furnace is to be installed later. The mine adjoins the Ione Quicksilver Mine, and is said to have produced 5,000 flasks of mercury.
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The Gilbert Standard Mining Company, George L. Harma, Tonopah, Nevada, manager, is to hold a stockholders meeting July 7, 1930. By-laws are to be amended, and the board of directors is to be elected and increased. The property is in the southern end of the Gilbert District.
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The Consolidated Coppermines Corporation, J. B. Haffner, general manager, Kimberly, Nevada, has, since April, increased its porphyry ore reserves from 2,000,000 tons, to 82,000,000; a two years’ supply, at the current rate of extraction. Further additions to the reserves, are expected as churn drilling is still in progress, and ore has been opened in several isolated holes. High grade has been uncovered in several faces, from the Alpha Shaft, and drifts are being driven into the Richard Shaft territory. All porphyry ore is being hoisted through the new Emma-Nevada Shaft, and smelting ore, through the Alpha Shaft, while work in the Morris-Brooks, Old Glory, and Richard Shafts, has been suspended.
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The Premier Mines Company, Walter B. Cole, P. 0. Box 417, Ogden, Utah, has sunk its shaft to a depth of 120 feet, in the old Grand Prize Property, near Tuscarora, Nevada, and has encountered indications of an orebody. One carload of mine timber has been received on the property, and another is expected shortly. This will be a sufficient amount to timber the shaft to a depth of 800 feet. The work is being done by a crew of six men.
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W. A. Smith, P. 0. Box 778, Las Vegas, Nevada, is building a pilot mill at the old Kelly Mine, about 90 miles north of that town, in order to determine how to treat the ore profitably. The property is equipped with an Ingersoll-Rand air compressor, and air hoist. From the bottom of the shaft, which is down 260 feet, a drift has been run 140 feet on three and one-half feet of ore, carrying $30 in lead, silver, and gold. [Rehab notes: this mine is located about 9 miles south of the main Area 51 Groom Lake Camp.]
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. H, Hill, superintendent, Contact, Nevada, has shipped a carload of ore, from a drift, about 270 feet from the upper tunnel portal, where a four-foot face of ore along the granite limestone contact, is being followed. A station has been timbered, and sinking on the vein, has been started. The proposed lower tunnel, which will intersect this shaft at a depth of 300 feet, and in a distance of about 800 feet, is not to be started until more ore is developed in the upper tunnel.
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The surface plant of the Lone Star Consolidated Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 112 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, has recently been overhauled, and new motors and generators of larger Capacity, installed. While this work was going on, water has been held to the 350-foot level, and the shaft is now to be completely unwatered, lowered from the 425, to the 525 Level. Some exploration has been done beyond a faulted section, which it is believed, caused the cutting off of the orebody, and bunches of gold values have been discovered.
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At the recent special meeting of the Tonopah Mining Company of Nevada, no action was taken on the proposed plan of reorganization, and readjustment of the capital structure, and the meeting was adjourned until October 6, to provide time for further consideration. Arrangements are to be made for new subscription warrants to the Tonopah Corporation, and under the plan, the present warrants expire August 1. In answer to a stockholder’s question, President Haehnlen stated that none of the Tonopah Mining Company properties at present are earning a dividend.
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The White Bear Mining Company, George W. Young, manager, Mill City, Nevada, is installing a Swett Mill, to replace the ball mill that burned down over two years ago. This company is operating the Dun Glen Property, about 15 miles east of Mill City.
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Thomas “Dry Wash” Wilson has taken a lease on the old Thanksgiving Property, near Manhattan, Nevada, The property consists of two claims, and it is Mr. Wilson’s plan to keep a small block of 200 square feet, and divide the rest for sub-lessees. In 1910, the Hesperus Leasing Company worked the mine, and produced a considerable amount of milling ore, and some high grade. The name “Dry Wash” was given Mr. Wilson because of his successful placer operations near Round Mountain.
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The Security Mining Company, Noble H. Getchell, Betty O’Neal, Nevada, president and general manager, has pumped out the old shaft of the Eastern Star Mine, at Gold Circle. While the pump is now handling around 300 gallons per minute, a flow of about the same quantity is coming into the new vertical shaft, from another source. This is being handled with a bailer, and it is believed to be just a pocket. The old workings are to be sampled, and the new vertical shaft has reached a depth of 200 feet.
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The Interstate Mining and Development Company, C. J. Carpenter, Dayton, Nevada, manager, is to move a compressor, from a Western Nevada Property in the Lower Como Basin, to the May Day Property in the Upper Basin, where power drills are to be used in sinking a shaft. R. A. Fraser, consulting engineer, will be in charge of the work.
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Owing to lack of demand for tungsten, the Nevada-Massachusetts Company, O. F. Heizer, Mill City, Nevada, manager, has closed down its Silver Dyke Mine, and new 75-ton concentrator. Development work is to be continued by a crew of eight men, under the supervision of Alex Ranson. The company had recently invested over $100,000 in development, and new equipment, at the Silver Dyke, rebuilt the Wagner Mill, and put up a seven-mile electric power line. Charles C. Segerstrom of Sonora, California, is president of the company.
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Thomas F. Cole, 1280 South Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, California, and Associates, have six men employed, sinking a three-compartment shaft, on a group of claims, north of Round Mountain, Nevada, and also working on a road to the property. It is said that the gallows frame of the Amalgamated Mine, owned by the Nevada Coalition, will be moved to Gold Hill.
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The Tungsten Production Company, J. G. Clark, president, Box 296, Boulder, Colorado, is again operating its 200-ton mill at full capacity, following a 10-day shutdown, caused by broken pistons and cylinder, in one of the engines. In the recently completed Group No. 2 Tunnel, of the Nightingale Property, the vein is 35 feet wide, and carries 2.5 percent tungsten. Three stopes have been cut out at various places, and drifting is being done both north and south on the footwall. Ore is also being taken from the Star Group, located about six miles from the Nightingale Property and Plant. The ledge in the Star Property, can be traced for 4,000 feet, and it contains a vein from 1 to 60 feet wide, and carrying 1.1 percent tungsten. The company employs 25 men, the mine crew working two shifts, and the mill crew three. Stockholders have recently decided to place the company upon a dividend basis of 1 ½ cents per share, quarterly, the first dividend to be paid July 15.
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In the Murphy Lease, on the Star Vein, of the Nevada Standard Mining Company, at Cherry Creek, Nevada, ore assaying 100 ounces in gold, and 2,292 ounces in silver, and valued at $2,779 per ton, has recently been opened. This is the same type of ore which made the camp famous about 50 years ago. The stope is now in good ore for 150 feet, and the high-grade streaks appear to continue east into leased ground, and west into company unleased property. The new mill has been running for a short time on company ore, and is recovering about 95 percent of the values. It is said that the lessees have 1,500 tons ready for the mill, and that it is to begin operating soon, on ore from the Murphy Lease. The company has a reserve of 5,000 tons of mill ore, already broken, to supply any deficiency in tonnage, although it is believed that lessees will provide at least 50 tons daily.
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The Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, J. C. Kinnear, general manager, McGill, Nevada, has laid off about 200 men from its mine at Ruth, and its smelter at McGill, on account of the depressed condition of the copper market. No reduction in production is contemplated, and with tonnage from the Consolidated Copper mines, 10,000 tons of ore are being treated daily. One of the three smelter units is being operated, and the others are ready to be blown in, as soon as the market justifies it. Development work is now well in advance of mining, and the remodeling program is practically completed.
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The New Alto Divide Mining Company, George Wardle, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada, is operating two machine drills, stoping ore above the tunnel level, and has opened the vein for 200 feet, with 500 feet of backs, in its lease at Cherry Creek. The vein contains a streak of high-grade, which assays as high as $410 gold, and 55 ounces silver per ton. Although it is now treating 50 tons a day, the Nevada Standard Flotation Plant has a daily capacity of 85 tons, and makes a recovery of from 96 to 98 percent of the values. The New Alto Divide expects to have 700 tons of ore ready for the mill in a short time, and to furnish the same amount each month thereafter.
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According to E. S. Bumsted of Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, manager of the B. and B. Quicksilver Company, the new 84x40-foot Gould Rotary Furnace is producing five flasks of mercury daily, from about 70 tons of ore, and the other furnace is idle, awaiting a shipment of refractory brick, with which it is to be relined. When the two furnaces are operating, about eight flasks of quicksilver are to be produced daily.
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William Geffeney and Associates, 716 Spring Street, Los Angeles, California, who purchased the Van Ness Interests in seven claims of the Sentinel Group, have taken over the Barcelona Mercury Plant, near Manhattan, Nevada. C. E. Van Ness still holds an interest in the Sentinel Property, and Peter Buol retains his original holding. The mine has been opened to a depth of 70 feet, and ore the width of the shaft sets, is being broken. Within two or three weeks, the 20-ton furnace is to begin treating from 12 to 14 tons daily, of ore that carries from 1 to 3.5 percent mercury.
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The Como Consolidated Mines Company, William Joy, superintendent, Dayton, Nevada, has opened the old Boyle Tunnel, to the 1,800-foot point, where the adit connects by crosscut, with the Elgin Shaft, on the Oversight Claim. Arrangements have been made with George Elgin, of Dayton, and Judge Clark Guild, of Yerington, owners of the Elgin Shaft, to use it for ventilation, and a blower is to be installed. Three shifts are working, and a mechanical mucking machine is being used.
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The Roberts Mining and Milling Company, Belle McCord Roberts, 608 Heartwell Building, Long Beach, California, president, has a crew sampling a property, at the head of Troy Canyon, which is owned by Herman Hildebrand, and William Hohn. The vein is opened by a tunnel, and a considerable amount of good mill grade ore is said to be exposed.
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President Samuel Shannon, 155 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California, has notified stockholders of the Rescue Eula Mining Company, that the corporation has been dissolved, and that all assets have been reduced to cash, which is ready for distribution. Shareholders are to receive $0.0108 per share. Certificates should be presented, or mailed, to the president’s address, and persons holding stock in the names of others, should first have the stock transferred into their names.
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The Ohio Mines Corporation, S. W. Dunfee, superintendent, Goldfield, Nevada, recently received $80.87 per ton, from a 50-ton shipment of gold-silver ore, sent from the Townsite Mine, to the Desert Mill, of the Tonopah Mining Company. No other shipments are to be made, since the company is planning to build its own mill.
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According to B. S. Sears, part owner of the Imlay Mine, near Imlay, Nevada, rich ore is still showing at the bottom of the 40-foot shaft, and 45 sacks of ore carrying $200 per sack, have been extracted from the rich streak, in sinking. The shaft is to be continued to a depth of 100 feet, and thorough tests are to be made, to determine the best method of treating the ore.
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The Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, recently received its new 150-horsepower hoist, skip-cages, sheave wheels, and hoisting equipment, together with machinery for the sawmill. The hoist is of the modern type, with structural steel base, 42x86-inch drum, a seven-inch drum shaft, 60x10-inch main gears, ring-oiled bearings, post brakes, and flexible coupling to the motor, and four-foot dial indicators. Excavations for buildings are being made, and a change room for employees, is being built. Work on the two-mile electric power line is progressing nicely. The company employs 12 men.
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Streaks of ore, varying from 4 to 24 inches in width, and worth from $3 to $25 a ton, have been opened in a 12-foot quartz vein, in the property of the Gold Note Mining Company. Some picture rock, that assays as high as $2,500 per ton, in gold, has been found. This property is in the Velvet Mining District, 25 miles northwest of Lovelock, Nevada, and is owned by A. E. Worswick, 3065 South Seventh East Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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It is understood that some drill prospecting has been planned for the Dexter Mine, just below the famous Grand Prize Mine, that is credited with a production of $5,000,000, to the 780-foot level. The Dexter is owned by Governor George H. Dern, of Utah, and the Milner Interests, with headquarters in the Newhouse Building, Salt Lake City. It is located in the vicinity of Tuscarora, Nevada.
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The Silver Butte Consolidated Mining Company’s shaft, in the Mud Springs District, Nevada, 28 miles from Curry, on the Nevada Northern Railroad, has reached a depth of 375 feet. At 355 feet, it entered a highly mineralized limestone, and is soft and full of vug holes. A depth of 600 feet is to be gained, to reach the sulphide zone indicated by a geophysical survey made by the Radiore Company of Los Angeles. D. A. Walton, 400 Atlas Building, Salt Lake City, is manager.
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On account of the low prices of lead, and silver ore, the Gold Gulch Mining and Milling Company at Marietta, Nevada, has suspended work. From four to eight men had been working; a 150-foot shaft had been sunk on ore that ran as high as $47.50 a ton, in a vein at the 100-foot point, and a 50-ton Denver mill installed. About 400 feet of tunnel work have been done in the various claims, numbering 14. Diesel power is available to a capacity of 25 horsepower, P. A. Whitaker, 102 Burns Street, Reno, is president of the organization, and is active manager, when the mine is working.
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The Champion Sillimanite Company is preparing for a resumption of operations at its dumortierite deposit, at Oreana, northeast of Lovelock, Nevada, under the management of C. H. Lawson. Water and air lines are being repaired, and equipment put in shape, for development. The ore mined will be shipped to the company’s plant in Detroit, Michigan, for use in the manufacture of spark plugs.
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Drillings from the churn drill hole in the Wedekind Mine, operated by the South-West Mines Corporation, J. E. Miller, president P. O. Box 990, Reno, Nevada, assayed from $7 to $15 per ton, in silver, gold, lead, and zinc, while some coarse pieces showed galena, and lead carbonate. The material was taken from between the 244, and 249-foot levels. At this time, the hole is about 80 feet below the deepest old workings.
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George Chrysler, Nevada quicksilver expert, has discovered a cinnabar deposit, in the Pilot Range, 22 miles east of Mina. He is planning to install a concentrator and retort, and to begin work within two or three weeks. Mr. Chrysler discovered the properties now being worked, by the B. and B., and the Red Rock, quicksilver companies.
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Work at the Majuba Hill Mine, near Imlay, Nevada, has been discontinued temporarily, on account of the almost impassable condition of the road, to the railroad station. Two carloads of ore have been shipped to a Utah smelter, the first car returning $1,642, while the second returned only $900, because copper prices dropped before it reached the smelter. Eight men have been employed for several weeks.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald H. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president, has built a new portal for the No. 3 Tunnel, in the Shang Mine, and is preparing the extension to a crosscut tunnel, 80 feet below No. 3 Tunnel, for work. The caved area is to be timbered, and the tunnel advanced, in order to get under a winze, sunk from No. 2 Tunnel, which was said to be in high-grade ore. The tunnel is in 75 feet, with about 50 feet to go. The tents, which are being used as temporary headquarters for the crew, are to be replaced by more substantial buildings.
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The recent assessment levied by the Tonopah Hasbrouck Mining Company, A. A. Codd, P. O. Box 5021, Reno, Nevada, is to cover the cost of additional development work. A shaft has already been sunk 60 feet in the company’s quicksilver property, near Mina, and a tunnel is to be driven into the mountain, to connect with the shaft.
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The Flowery Mines Company, Roy Hardy, superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, is sinking its shaft from the 100-foot, to the 200-foot, level. Mr. Hardy, and Alex. Wise, at one time, owned this property, then Wise operated it alone, and is said to have made a good clean-up. Later, Homer Gibson, of Homer Gibson and Company, mining stock brokers of Toronto, Canada, became interested with Hardy, and reopened the property.
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Because the California Corporation Commission has increased the calling fee from $100 to $200 per year, and has ruled that foreign companies must maintain register and transfer offices in California, 23 Nevada mining companies have withdrawn from the San Francisco Mining Exchange. It is proposed to list stocks either in Salt Lake City, or to establish a mining exchange in Reno, Nevada.
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L. C. Newton, of Los Angeles, has leased the property of the Antelope Springs Mercury Mines, Inc, at Lovelock, Nevada, and with Montana, and Los Angeles Associates, is equipping the mine. A compressor and drills are being installed to facilitate driving a 200-foot tunnel, to develop two veins of ore, at an additional depth of 200 feet, according to Mr. Newton. A rotary furnace of 20-ton daily capacity, has been purchased, and the mill site is being prepared for its installation. J. W. Hall is in charge of operations at Lovelock.
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The Portable Mill Company is operating a 15-ton mill at Tuscarora, Nevada, prior to installing a plant that can handle between 75 and 100 tons of ore daily. Superintendent Moulton is in charge of the work. The Portable Mill Company has acquired dumps, estimated to contain from 200,000 to 400,000 tons of ore. Power for the mill is supplied by a Diesel engine, and the ratio of concentration is about 25 to 1.
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for AUGUST I5, 1930

DIRECTORS OF SEVEN TROUGHS VISIT PROPERTY AUGUST 8

On August 8, the directors of the Seven Troughs Gold Mines Company, including Messrs. E. W. Villeneuve, and Paul Galibert of Montreal, assembled at Lovelock, Nevada, and inspected the main development and extraction tunnel, which has reached a point, nearly 9,000 feet from its portal, and is being extended to intersect additional valuable ore bodies. They also inspected the development of ore that this tunnel heretofore encountered, and from which ore is being forwarded to the new cyanide mill, recently completed. In the afternoon they inspected the crushing plant and mill, and witnessed the pouring of bullion into bars, that will be shipped promptly to the United States Mint, at San Francisco. This shipment initiates production from a large mineralized area that shall supply ore for a profitable enterprise for several years. The directors are well pleased with conditions at the consolidated properties.

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THE MINING JOURNAL

NEVADA

The Wendell P. Hammon interests, 505 Balfour Building, San Francisco, California, are said to have taken over the Donald Placer Properties, near Manhattan, Nevada, and to be planning installation of dredging equipment. In order to sample the deposits, 28 holes, varying from 60 to 100 feet in depth, were drilled to bedrock, and results are said to have been satisfactory. The property consists of 1,000 acres.
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The B. and B. Quicksilver Company, B. J. Bumsted, Mt. Montgomery, Nevada, manager, is said to be developing a new deposit of cinnabar that samples from 10 to 30 pounds of mercury, per ton. This is one of the best ore bodies opened by the company. Since both furnaces were put into operation on July 29, production has been gradually increased and, within a short time, 200 flasks are to be produced monthly. A shipment of 20 flasks was made on July 26.
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Southwest Mines Investment Company, J. E. Miller, P. O. Box 995, Reno, Nevada, president, has sunk its third drill hole, to a depth of 153 feet, in the Wedekind Mine, exposing values in lead, rosin zinc, gold, and silver. The first hole was lost, because the casing came apart near the bottom of the hole, about 142 feet down, while the second hole was drilled to a depth of 317.5 feet, through ore from the 200-foot point on.
Assays showed 1.92 ounces gold, 49.6 ounces silver, 7.4 percent lead, and 10.8 percent zinc per ton. The second hole was abandoned because the casing could not be landed below a depth of 230 feet, and the material began to cave and bridge over tools, endangering their lives. The third drill hole may be sunk to a depth of 500 feet, in order to cross two veins of sulphide ore. The Arkell Orebody, which dips into Wedekind Ground, should be opened at about 500 feet.
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The Argyle Mining Company, Gerald B. Hartley, 122 East Second Street, Reno, Nevada, president, is preparing to move the mill at Seven Troughs, owned by Mr. Hartley, to the Shang Mine, near Mt. Montgomery, recently taken over by the company. Foundations have been prepared for the machinery. Work of cleaning tunnels No. 2 and 3, and of driving No. 4 Tunnel, is being pushed under the direction of James L. Bryson. It is said that 60,000 tons of ore, with values principally in gold, are in sight.
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Production for June, of Bradshaw, Inc., Mark Bradshaw, manager, Tonopah, Nevada, was $34,165.40, compared with $37,296.83 for May, and $40,241.99 for April. While June production is below that of the previous two months, it is an increase of about $3,500 over the same month last year. A crew of 22 men is now employed.
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The Gold Metals Mining Company, A. Homer Black, manager, Manhattan, Nevada, is negotiating for a small mill to be installed on the Sullivan Property, which it is operating. Two 50-ton cars of gold ore, were shipped on July 29, to the Desert Mill at Millers. It is said that the cost of mining, hauling and milling amounts to about $7 per ton.
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Gross return on a shipment of 30.895 tons of ore, made to the Utah Plant of the United States Smelting, Refining and Milling Company, by the Gold Circle Consolidated Mines Company, George W. Sias, president, 68 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts, amounted to $3,224.61. Freight and smelting charges amounted to $331.16, leaving a net of $2,893.46. The ore carried $78.39 in gold, and $36.20 in silver, per ton. Gross production of this company from July 27, 1927, to June 14, 1930 was $590,685.26. Noble H. Getchell of Betty O’Neal, Nevada, is vice-president and general manager of the company.
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The Mammoth Quicksilver Mining Company, Noble C. Smith, president and general manager, Mina, Nevada, is installing a 100-ton mill on the Cornelius-Mace Property, in Dunlap Canyon, East of that town. Nine new outcroppings of cinnabar, ranging from .5 to 60 percent mercury, have been discovered. The output, at present, is confined to that from one small “D” retort. The highest returns received from ore on this property, was 119 pounds of mercury, valued at $164, from 262 pounds of ore. E. P. Stites is assistant general manager.
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Rails, and a new mine car, have recently been shipped to the property of the Caliente Cobalt Mining Company, George H. Wood, president, % Hotel Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. A cabin has been constructed, and other improvements made. At present, work is being centered on driving a tunnel, to open at depth, a blowout, occurring on the limestone-quartzite contact, about 110 feet distant. About September 1, an incline shaft is to be sunk on the Gold Vein, which in one place shows three feet of $20 gold ore. The property is about 15 miles northwest of Caliente, Nevada, and William Robinson is superintendent.
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The Uvada Copper Mines Company, C. H. Hill, Contact, Nevada, superintendent, is planning to install an air hoist and skip, in order to expedite sinking of the winze, from the Middle Tunnel. Another carload of ore is being mined for shipment. Development, rather than production, is being pushed, as the company wishes to ship only enough ore to pay expenses, while the mine is being prepared for capacity production. All ore shipped previously has contained copper, with some silver and gold, but values in lead are now being opened.
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According to L. Bacoccina of Tonopah, Nevada, who is leasing the Olympic Gold Mines at Omco, the Omco Mill was put into operation on August 1. A sufficient reserve of ore, averaging $15 per ton in gold, is in sight on the 150-foot Level, to keep the plant in continuous operation. Mr. Bacoccina has been developing on that level for the past two years, and has made a few shipments to the Desert Mill. The Omco Mill was designed by Fred Siebert, to treat 60 tons daily, but was destroyed by fire in 1918. It was then rebuilt, and operated for three years, when the company closed it down.
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The Eldorado Rand Mining Company, P. A. Keegel, general manager, P.O. Box 943, Las Vegas, Nevada, recently shipped 87 pounds of gold bullion, valued at more than $18,000, to the mint. This shipment represents a months’ run of two shifts daily.
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The Belmont Uncle Sam Mining Company, W. A. Powell, mine superintendent, Virginia City, Nevada, is taking ore, from a raise, from the 400 Level. A shipment of 50 tons is to be made soon. Plans are also being considered for the erection of a 50-ton mill.
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George Lerchen and John Berlin, who are leasing the Illinois Mine at Lode, south of Quartz Mountain, Nevada, are said to be planning to add some new equipment to the mill, and treat the ore on the property. At the present price of silver, the ore is not of high enough value to ship profitably.
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Harry W. Boyer, 111 West Seventh Street, Los Angeles, California, and George Vickers are making arrangements to finance operations of the Nevada Gold Dome Mining Company. Mr. Vickers has recently gone to New York City to obtain capital for the construction of a mill on the company’s property, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. There is said to be a considerable amount of ore developed that will average $18 per ton. Until his death, a short time ago, Walter D. (Curly) Brown was financing the property.
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The Smoky Development Company, H. A. Baird, P. 0. Box 454, Ely, Nevada, has contracted to deliver 50 tons of ore daily to the McGill Smelter, of the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company. Values average about $6.50 per ton in gold, and it is said that a considerable tonnage has been developed through a 400-foot tunnel, recently completed. The ore will be used as flux at the copper smelter, because of its silica content. Shipments will begin at once from the 60-ton ore bin at the portal of the tunnel, and a crew of six men are employed in breaking, and tramming ore. The property is at Lane City, via Ely, on the Nevada Northern Railroad.
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Operations of the Desert Custom Mill, idle since June 1, have been resumed by the Tonopah Mining Company, H. A. Johnson, superintendent, Tonopah, Nevada. About 700 tons of ore have accumulated, and the Tonopah Belmont leases were expected to produce 500 pounds during July.
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The American Development Company, Ed Benane, superintendent, Fallon, Nevada, has taken a lease and option on a barium property, near Carlin, from W. J. Mahoney, owner of the claims. According to Mahoney, a tramway is to be installed, to carry the ore down to Maggie Creek. Later, a tunnel is to be driven, to open the mine, near the floor of the canyon. In the Eagleville Property, a deposit 12 feet thick has recently been opened. Fourteen men are employed at the latter mine.
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A 400-ton mill run, on ore from the New Alto Divide Mining Company lease, has been completed by the Nevada Standard Mill, at Cherry Creek, Nevada, and ore from another lease, is now being milled. The yield from this run was 20 tons of concentrates, valued at $350 per ton, Values are about two-thirds gold, although some of the best ore runs high in silver. The New Alto Divide Company has more ore available, but will await its turn for another mill run.
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The new condensing equipment, made of special iron, is being operated successfully by the Castle Peak Quicksilver Company, H. E. Loufek, 306 First National Bank Building, Reno, Nevada, president, and has eliminated trouble resulting from generation of sulphuric acid, which ate holes in the light steel pipe formerly in use. Two or three tons of mud, obtained by cleaning the dust tanks and the old condenser, were put through the furnace with the ore and 15.5 flasks of mercury were recovered from the first two days’ run. The haulage tunnel, 810 feet north of the glory hole, has been advanced 80 feet, and has opened a mineralized zone, which may prove to be the main ore channel.
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The Red Rock Quicksilver Company, Inc., Elmer F. Good, Arlemont, Nevada, president, is operating its furnace again after having suspended work for a short time, on account of the condition of the quicksilver market. The 50x50 furnace is being relined, and will be put into operation shortly. A body of ore, averaging about 10 pounds per ton, has been opened.
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One carload of $100 ore was shipped for sampling, to the Desert Mill at Millers, Nevada, from the Galvin, Howler and Erickson Lease on the Tonopah Belmont Mine. The vein of ruby silver recently opened on the Morrison Lease, has pinched to four inches, but is as rich as ever. Production for June was 240 tons of $20 ore, and July output is expected to be about 500 tons of the same grade. Ore is being broken by 85 men.
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W. H. Swett is installing a 50-ton mill of his own patent and design, on the Black Hole Mine, 20 miles south of Mill City, Nevada. Mr. Swett conceived the idea of this mill, which he calls the “bucking board,” while grinding ore samples on the bucking board in the assay office. The mullers are of granite, weighing about 1,200 pounds each, and are driven by a gasoline engine. Cost of operating this plant is said to be only one-fourth as much as cost of operating a stamp mill.
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Balfour, Guthrie Investment Company has erected the walls of its plant, for washing glass sand on the Steamboat Springs Property, south of Reno, Nevada. Machinery is being placed as fast as it arrives and the plant is expected to be in operation by August 1. According to J. C. Harry, superintendent, the plant capacity is estimated at 800 tons daily. The company’s attempt to secure a supply of cold water was not successful, and both a churn drill and diamond drill are being used to secure hot water, which is known to lie under the deposits. The property contains a considerable deposit of kaolin, and it is said that a plant to handle this material is to be constructed later.
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The Goldfield Deep Mines Company, A. I. D’Arcy, president and manager, Goldfield, Nevada, has driven two crosscuts, for a total of 40 feet, on a 35-degree angle from the top of the new raise. This raise is being closely timbered, as it is in heavy, sluffing ground. It is said, however, that practically all the ore opened in this district has been in ground of this type.
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Concrete foundations, having set sufficiently for placement of machinery, the 17-ton double-drum hoist has been hauled to the property of the Pittsburgh-Goldfield Mining Company, Corrin Barnes, manager, Goldfield, Nevada, and is being assembled. Erection of the 60-foot steel headframe, will start next week. A meter house has been constructed for power company meters. A concrete floor is being built for the transformers, which consist of modern outdoor equipment, without housing, and will be enclosed by a high wire fence for public protection. A disconnecting switch and modern lightning arrestors are to be put in for the transformers.
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The Mercury Mining Syndicate, O. L. Cash, superintendent, P. O. Box 667, Winnemucca, Nevada, is said to be planning to double the capacity of its furnaces. It is believed that the entire hill can be worked profitably, if a steam shovel is used in mining, and the furnace capacity increased.
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Al Annett, Andy Smith, Jack Ingalls, and Graham, have taken a lease and bond on the old Drew quicksilver property, 12 miles east of Mina, Nevada. The new operators are re-timbering the shaft, which had caved, and they hope to begin production as soon as that work is finished.
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A 25-ton pilot mill has been installed at the Rip Van Winkle Mine, on the west slope of Lone Mountain, 80 miles north of Elko, Nevada, by Dan Zuccone of that town. Operations began on July 20. Concentration only is employed at present, although flotation equipment is to be installed later. Mr. Zuccone finances himself and works alone.
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George B. Bent of Skull Valley, Arizona, has purchased the Duplex Mine, near Searchlight, Nevada, from George R. Colton, son of the original locator, and is planning to build a 50-ton mill. A substantial cash payment is said to have been made on the purchase price of $200,000. The property is credited with a production of one and one-quarter million dollars, and the ore is of a complex nature, with gold values predominating. A. B. Peach of Prescott, and E. L. Sweeney of Phoenix, Arizona, have examined the mine.
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An eight-inch vein of free gold, estimated to be worth $450 per ton, has been discovered in the Lassie Jean Mine at Osceola, Nevada, by James Henry, and V. Miller, lessees. The vein has been opened for a depth of 80 feet, and values are not diminishing. The property is owned by Marion and Jasper Fox of Shoshone.
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The Southern Mines, Inc., W. T. Childers, superintendent, Mina, Nevada, has made another shipment of 15 flasks, which is the third during the past month. About 26 tons of ore are treated daily and the monthly production, when operations are stabilized, is said to be 45 to 50 flasks, valued at $5,200.
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Tom Morrison, who is operating on the Tonopah Belmont property, near Tonopah, Nevada, has opened 14 inches of ore, valued at from $1,000 to $1,500 per ton, at the present price of silver. The gold content of the ore makes up half of the value. Some of the ore is said to be almost pure metal, banded with one to two inches of ruby silver. The ore is being broken in the drifts and put into powder boxes, which will be hoisted by block and tackle. A small hoist is to be installed to facilitate handling waste and high grade, to the 1,000 Level. The ore must be shipped to the Selby Smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company, as the values are too great to be recovered by cyanidation. The discovery is believed to be a branch of the famous Old Favorite Vein. Harry Polin is backing the lease, and Ben Richardson is working with Morrison.
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The Nicholson Mining and Milling Company, H. C. Nicholson, P. 0. Box 807, Ely, Nevada, principal owner, has made a shipment of 94 ounces of gold, which is the product of 40 tons of ore. A recovery of about $47 per ton was made. This ore was taken from the deepest level, the bottom of the incline shaft.
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The Salt Lake Pioche Mining Company, C. S. Martin, president and general manager, 722 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, is sinking the 100-foot Apex Shaft on its property, near Pioche, Nevada, for another 100 feet, in order to intersect the Bowery Vein. A light hoist has been installed to facilitate sinking. This property has been held for 21 years by Martin and his associates. George Peterson of Milford, Utah, is directing the work, and W. A. Free is in charge of the mine.
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Clarence Perras and Charles A. Josephs have received $3,549 from the Desert Mill of the Tonopah Mining Company, as settlement for 80 tons of gold-silver ore from their lease on the Clifford Mine of Western Gold, Inc. The ore samples 4.48 ounces per ton gold, and 88.72 ounces silver. In taking out this ore about 800 pounds of high grade were sacked for shipment to California, to the Selby Smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company.
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The Interstate Mining and Development Company, C. J. Carpenter, manager, Dayton, Nevada, has completed installation of a gasoline hoist and headframe, at its May Day Property, near Como, and sinking has been resumed. The shaft is down 30 feet, and has been timbered. A sample taken 30 feet south of the new shaft, assayed 1.3 ounces of gold, and 1.24 ounces silver per ton.

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