Show NEVADA the jumbo extension of goldfield is mak making ng daily carload shipments to its bonnie clare mill since last august the amalgamated pioche of pioche has shipped seventy cars of ore worth about the tonopah belmont mining company is now trying t chalcedony pebbles mined mine d locally in place of danish pebbles in ill its tube mills there are now between fifty and sixty men at work on placers about battle mountain 11 where some good showings have been uncovered in the last few months the 73 foot shaft anthe on the salt lake group at contact shows a threefoot three foot of copper ore the company will drift on this vein as soon as the foot level is reached on the crackerjack at goldfield trench ing is now being done to ascertain the best place to locate a working shaft the small 7 amount of development work done has been encouraging F harder wm win mccauley and mr bersing all of twin falls idaho are in contact nevada planning to resume operations on the portland 11 group of claims about two miles from the town D P sullivan is in charge of the installation stal lation of new machinery recently received rethe rete by the day bristol at bristol the te company is now clearing the right of way for its tramway to the railroad the asmith valley mines company plans to equip its property at yerington thorough ly and push development work the finances having been satisfactorily arranged 0 B E F adams is president of the company the new smoke stack at the steptoe at mcgill has been completed and the smoke from the roasters boasters ro asters turned in this stack is feet high or iten feet s higher than the old one which it replaced there is said 0 0 be a good showing g of ore on the foot level of the victor owned by the C 0 D consolidated of gold J field and under leaseta lease to the goldfield mines operating company of which J K turner is manager the consolidated Copp ermines company has taken in the properties of the now new ely central copper company at ely thus in creasing its holdings largely the copper copp mines company is amply financed for ex e work i the tonopah belmont of tonopah To has declared an extra dividend of ten cents a share payable today the company has paid eleven consecutive dividends of awen cents a share d buting ty five in its short life tile the reorganized blue bell of goldfield is opening up the showing of fine ore recently encountered on the foot level by drifting in a both directions some good assays essays have been obtained the drift on being extended rapidly ba tha is it is stated that the goldfield merger at Gold feild is now ready to start active development and prospecting from the 1750 foot level leval of its shaft all its energy having been devol devoted ted heretofore in this shaft in the fastest possible time it is stated that george wingfield has allowed his option on the montana yering ton at yerington to lapse being unable to get an extension it is believed that he was able to ship enough ore while developing the property to balance accounts the bald mountain district seventy five miles south of elko eiko and ninety miles from ely is the subject of investigation by W G wright for an english syndicate there is said to be some excitement over the copper showings in this new district the lorena mines property of J holman buck editor of the western nevada miner allner of mina have been leased to J H miller and joe malatesta of hawtho hawthorne rne this property is an old producer of silver lead ores A tunnel in feet has shown considerable ore there was recently incorporated at goldfield the lead mines company owning 0 property near the western border of death valley john is president E 1 I S chafey vice president augustus tilden secretary the company has one tractor hauling ore to zabriskie and will purchase another with trailers the ore averaging 40 per cent lead 20 t to 0 40 ounces silver and gold is shipped I 1 to the at midvale utah pany to install an oil burning diesel engine plant for the production of such power as is needed for ithe operating and devel of the industries of this camp and to that end a committee of five ave shall bo be appointed by the chair to formulate plans for the organization of such a company and to get plans and prices from engine manufacturers J W turner chairman of the meeting appointed as a committee ralston mccaig M P H walsh S P domer F M bewley and george T bailey the men who attended the meeting represented operators us ng 1610 horsepower the hecla group of claims located six miles from chewelah Chew elah the only working property in that camp outside of the big lead that has made ore for the united copper and copper king is undergoing its first development work ben foster who discovered the mineral showing last december has interested with him several spokane persons among them city purchasing chas ng agent J C argall the hecla is now being worked without a power plant and only a few feet of opening ihas has been made the bottom of a is down eight feet and streaks of the ore show all through the bottom the sides of the short drift and tunnel also are impregnated with the sulphides sulp hides and the men interested are enthusiastic thusia over the possibilities bu adins s have just been put up and work will 1 e c pushed th s winter even more recent than the hecla development is that of the S security copper company formed by L K armstrong and other spokane men to talce take over another section of the main lead 10 on this two tunnels have been sunk some space apart and ore taken out the security will be entirely a shaft proposition and its owners have now undertaken the job of dropping ther workings straight down to a depth that will give them the ore in place |