Show GENUINE MiNING AT THE DIXIE Offer of For Property is Turned Turne Down HOW MINE WAS DISCOVERED ONE OF THE BEST DEVELOPED IN GOLDFIELD LD CAMP CAM P Special Correspondence Goldfield Nev June It is re reported reported ported ou indubitable authority that a cah ah offer of Mt has been made to tile the owners of the Dixie mine of Goldfield for br a controlling interest Big is behind the DixIe and it Is i known that the offer has been refused The men who own the property are Louisiana and Utah who bu buy mining properties to them v H Clark vice president of the DixIt Dix Dixie It ie Mining lining company n and resident man manager manager ager of the mine said today loday that the Dixie was in a forward state of de where it could ship or ore at any time it was found advisable At Atthe th the present time an effort Is being made to block out the ore bodIes only The DixIe Is credited by local ocal mining mJ as being at a point where It can enter the ranks of the top notch ship pets IS of high grade grad ore or of the district whenever the management so desires Way down in Dixie means something some something thing in this camp amp fo the shaft of the hE Dixie mine has be boca n lower than any other mme mine for pure Purposes The of thE Dixie is dIfferent from that of any other property in the district It is situatEd more th than n two miles from the thelo lo wn and was entirely overlooked for time after other had bad been taken Liken up and worked 5 How Mine Was Discovered Then down dOn from Alaska came a man named Preble accompanied b by his f fr who had been with him ham in aU all aUhL hL hig mining ventures in the roren north hey were not young yet et not too old t undertake hard work fond and iI EaVor Both Bath of them were E eted ll In all the and much of th the theory ot of mining ng and when Pr 11 ile started out prospecting his wife V as always with him nim with as keen a for the hidden gold god as ever eer he heid id Jd When they came to a afar far ear ago last March the they r were in no nol l nry and devoted nearly a month in inI I looking around They took t I P at the line of f mines In then wIth deduction as 1 ir r an any Sherlock Holmes they J I 1 over an almost t line to tr south southward ard and d through thi th desert waste of hill and hollow the man anI woman 11 I sd d over many a valuable piece of ofF F as they walked and forth t tr 1 the line of the they had Tt out for themselves They were s 5 king for surface and for three months could not find hat they wanted At last one morn morning ing th they y struck it or at leASt Mrs Irs Preble did Her pan showed free gold of unmistakable value Persistence had Won and they had what is S now ow the Dixie mine HaYing Having worked through the months of May and JunE they established four our claims daims and anda a fra five full tl n sat SSt down dOn to wait for a buyer It v as not until Oct 22 that th the ofer oer amI and Probie Preble and his wife Ire went ent iT IV with 5 5 for fo their three work soon oon after the SIlle le hJ by the t tp I Dixie Mining was moor and under unde th the Control of Y H Clark a Salt Lake Lak brok r III wI man and R H J I III wI man and R H J I mining wank president of Shreveport port La Today the Dixie is the show mine ol of tl Goldfield district Although a hi hig in II of high grade l ore has ha f n Ii uncovered no att Hp IS s bein rade to gouge the mine min and the orl ruI nal plan of the property w to the he water fet 1 ng proceeded with water l the question of milling wili wiil j solved and by that time It i k lp ic I r d enough ore will be b blocked out to tn supply II a mill of hi papa d ty 1 1 hE main shaft haft of th the Dixie is dows 1 TheY are gOll goir lown with 1 shaft until the they strike water l lh they expect will be Joe within the theT th T r lO to l 15 e feet When water is h the question of a s isil to trea treat t l will be fl and long Ion the mine is in reAdy to begin mill 1 He railroad will om lel j arI I nT ration which will ill redu reduce the c cast st 1 ll i and su lies DUes Systematic Development I p ork an toe Inc property S h en carried r most SJ st 1 the level drifting ne to the ea et t west w t from fromI t I flain sha t Th st waS th bout twenty feet alf arid is aU all in inn inC n C The Te w wet drift was as run y v fEet and at the en end the aln pin 1 s t well defined orp rp body ah about ut f feet t wide Te next amount of ork wu w done at th the l lAt At t this point drift drifting was a not done to the eat east but was all to the west of thE vein for a distance of ninety q d The vein wags show II a width r of about f feet t tr r the g same as aR at the sev toot foot level At both the seventy II Je levels the ore OrP un from Ii tn tb 1 ser ft ton It Is free milling the level evel a station has hast hasIt It t cut but no work ork has been done rtin ting has bas been Deen started at the M Mt t level howinS the work to be aU all a feEt north C S t f om the te m main in shaft an incline 4 U n has been Mill abut ut fet feet fett t tap ap the ore body which is 18 believed 4 lit ie In tnt tbt direction A very fine iy 1 or of milling ore has bas been teen found in inH th H tunnel A is being sunk T lIch eh will be tap tapped b by R a second tun l J that It hi nan vun at a point lower f fht to strike 1 1 s k now in about l 5 feet 0 f it pea through h high grade mill milI milIj j ore 1 fore frore th the main shaft ft was 85 sunk the was a opened up In twenty dif dlf places In order onEr to determine as as a pes the location of the i 4 before tM the was started It ItI I to this nt work that nhi lis location was decided upon and rag las sine since turned lamed out that no mis mi il 11 was as made since from the very r as TOOtS roots down dowa the shaft and all allt t nit f u workings have ve been J i ore The he shaft Is 18 an all will well timbered l at the seventy sad nd levels ls rack bas hs been laid to bring out the C Business Methods Prevail lI 11 the way through you are im with the idea that the Dixie t I being developed to make a gold Jold mil Thine The is running ir 11 month The They have their own corn com tf as assay ay and samples are care looked after and assays made mede cry 10 other day surveys of thi th underground und workings have been t made the cost ner foot ex ally adly calculated and the they know exact l how they stand in the matter of x an th the time The Dixie is at one end of the nine I ille Hf horseshoe on which all th the pro mines or of Goldfield are situated for a distance of two miles or orore 1 ore between the Dixie and the neat Flor Florence noo mine In direct nath Dath or of fIre Ike lI of claims are ares s k for or the f 11 thE presence of 0 ani hi h yrs WAY yet lPt elapse apse before the full truth or of the 1 richness of oC Goldfields ore deposits will willbe c be learned can best be determined from I J th tact fact that little or no development I 1 worK has bas been commenced on the ground between the Florence 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