Show NEVADA it is reported that a deal is on for the sale of the mendha mandha mine at pioche to eastern parties hugh davey is installing a mill and cyanide plant on his properties at awakening and expects a profitable summer from his operations there in working over tailings in dry gulch near osceola worth of gold was recently taken out iby by a small gang in a few days james mariot of osceloa was one of the owners of the dump an excellent body of ore has been opened on the 1400 foot level of the amalgamated pioche no 1 shaft at pioche where a discovery was made sometime ago the ore is three feet wide with good values in gold silver lead zinc and copper george W abel has purchased machinery for the property which he owns in lewis canyon near battle mountain A crusher fine grinder and concentrating table have been added to the motive power already on the ground the plant will have a capacity of baty tons a day it is reported that in one of the lower levels of the old national mine at national which was the victim of much high grading twenty two sacks of high grade ore were recently found cached away the value of the lot has been placed at approximately the facts as to the amount and value of the ore have not been verified but there is little doubt that a cache of high grade has been unearthed the istanish belt silver mines incorporated po rated has been organized at tonopah to take over the spanish belt property where work was suspended on account of water and plans are being perfected for driving a tunnel at a lower level the mine is eight miles east of manhattan and six miles from belmont was first operated by spaniards in 1871 was idle from froin 1876 to 1885 after which some rich ores were taken out and a concentrating plant built about 1890 the mine was shut down and sold in 1892 to the present owners the aurora consolidated mines company operating at aurora recently taken over by the goldfield Gold ifield consolidated mines company of goldfield has elected officers of the latter company as officers for its own company george wingfield Wing ifield is president albert burch vice president and general manager A H howe secretary and treasurer additional directors J H miller charles E knox frank manson and henry M hoyt the goldfield com coin pany acquired of the shares share issued L H has taken charge charge of the mine and the mill is at p present resent in the hands of the designers kirk leavell salt lake the final papers have been signed and tile the manhattan consolidated at manhattan now has the milling facilities which are so essential for a property which contains such a tremendous tonnage of medium grade ores already developed and blocked out the associated mill a complete sampler and ten stamp cyaniding cyan iding mill with tube mill for fine grinding is to be handled by the consolidated company and it is understood that amalgamating plates are to be added to the mill equipment at once so that the free milling ores which have been exploited by the consolidated company work during the past few months will be immediately available for milling the raising of the fifty foot gallows frame at the white caps manhattan constitutes utes the final part of the installation ol of the equipment the property can now boast of the most complete and largest mine plant in the camp the installation ot of air lines for the machine drills is to be proceeded with immediately mining operations should soon be under way again with renewed vigor the sinking of the vertical shaft from its present depth of two hundred and ten feet for another hundred foot lift is to be the most important mining work carried on although it is the intention of the management to tb carry forward development work both in a the east and west ore shoots from the intermediate levels |