Show SOUTHERN NEVADA CAMPS REVIVING AS RESULT OF ORE production by A J moore reno nev dec 20 one of the best examples of a chan change chane 6 e of attitude towards mining is that of the new york herald up to very recently the new york herald was the leading al highbrown highbrow High brow broN newspaper to decry mining and everything and everybody connected with mining recently in no unmistakable terms it pointed out the dire necessity of further development of the mining industry particularly gold and silver mines it paid a most flattering tribute to the oft despised prospector in its argument in favor of mining investments it was pointed out that american mines had paid in dividends the great 6 sum of and aptly asked if any other industry could make as good a showing the change of attitude on the part of the new york herald is only one example of the change 6 of sentiment regarding this great industry particularly in the east As pointed out in a recent article the public is not in the market they never come in until the big bi b fellows have gone one in and begin to boost prices A good example of that is right 6 at hand near reno the bulkley wells outfit will spend over on the united Com stocks property before a wheel is turned do you suppose that could ever be gotten from the public for that project but when the united comai ock mines company stock is listed on the new york curb they will then buy it on a rising market right alongside of the united comstock mines company is another project for which it is said has been promised within the past few days A L darcy is credited with having raised in the east the needed funds to finance the orleans Horn silver feiwich co of tonopah To are interesting eastern capital in the rossetta divide and goldsmith divide which have recently taken claims in Horn silver the wilsons Wil sons H D cooper the walker bros of salt lake city and others have invested in the new camp of royston with the intent of turning prospects into mines A very good example is that of the super six mining company it was composed of a bunch of good practical miners holding some of the most choice leases in the royston district they tried to raise money from the public they wrote letters advertised and in proportion to the mone money y expended the undertaking was a failure the public did not respond the wilsons came into royston to look the camp over among other properties examined exan dined the super six with the result that they bought boullit b an interest and put up tip the money to go ahead and develop the leases royston has fine surface showing the camp of royston today presents the very best surface showing seen in nevada in many a year the area of the camp is spreading and all one can say of the depth is that at no point has the ore pinched and on the hudson one shaft has gone to feet on an incline and about was taken out in the sinking then the claims got into litigation and no work was done until recently when W H royston after whom the camp was named got the contending parties together and effected a compromise then the leasing system was put in vogue with the result that there is now about tons of high grade ore ready for shipment one delay in shipping has been that everyone is waiting for the opening to traffic of the all nye county road this shortens the haul about four miles and cuts grades I 1 the most recent deal in royston is the sale of the west five claims of the hudson mining company to a combination of new york and san francisco capitalists the five claims sold include the storm cloud aztec sunnyside Sunny side sev ent enty y six and fraction four it is said that these five claims will be divided into holdings for two companies on several of these claims lessees lessels are taking out high grade A homer black has the north feet of the sunnyside Sunny side briz putnam has the middle lease on the sunnyside Sunny side and nording mellberg have the middle feet of the seventy six and mr wills the one adjoining silver jones have a 1000 foot block on the storm cloud and aztec the claims sold are a part of what was known as the quincy group and their ownership was disputed owin owing to overlapping of surveys when located this matter was adjusted when royston got the various various parties together 6 and settled this and all other contests the seven claims sold by bv I 1 briz putnam and W L mcgregor to M L cooper of san francisco have been incorporated PO rated into the royston piedmont mining it company the principal stockholders to date are al L cooper granville moore A A hocheimer and C S gillman the ben hur divide mining company which recently bought the kincaid smedley lease on the C 0 D claim of the hudson I 1 mining b company has three feet of ore that will break down at from to a ton it is claimed A portion of the ithe vein will show around ounces the shaft is is only down 15 feet but the ledge is said to be traceable on the surface for feet paper boom days over in nevada the day of paper booms in nevada is over today every camp is looking to and entirely dependent upon ore the new camp of Horn silver is making a showing that should satisfy the most exacting investor the new ore body on the foot level of the orleans puts that company into the big production class the Horn silver may mining b company the rosetta divide the goldsmith divide and the Horn silver new orleans each give good promise of opening I 1 ore bodies that will take them out of the prospect list we all know what tonopah is doing since the labor troubles were settled each company has gotten back to its stride and in some instances production has has been increased the tonopah divide has reached the 1200 foot level and a station has been cut at that point the shaft is still going down and was sunk 12 feet below the 1200 foot station last week the divide extension has developed a fine body of ore that can be shipped at a profit the gold zone is now shipping and the new alto divide is preparing 6 to follow up the leads of the ore from the gold zone a and nd tonopah divide the ben hur has secured claims over in royston and also bought control of the kincaid smedley lease which is already producing high grade then there are the tonopah hasbrouck and the kernick divide of which A A busey is president and A A codd secretary treasurer they have just issued an exhaustive report on both properties setting forth the amount of work done its character and future prospects of the two companies from this report it appears that the kernick divide has a shaft of a depth of feet and in lateral work feet of drifting and 2782 feet of crosscutting making a total of feet of exploration work the hasbrouck report shows a shaft depth of feet fee length of crosscuts cross cuts feet drifts feet depth of 90 feet and feet of exploration by raises this gives give a total of feet of exploration work with th the e reports I 1 is S a map showing the plan of the underground worl workings dt as and their relation to the development of the two properties in 1 concluding his report on the hasbrouck secretary codd says which between the two con companies the crosscut tunnel by agreement is driven from the bottom of the kernick foot shaft has now been driven a distance of 1279 feet at which point a flow of water was struck and which is now bein passed through this is a splendid indication that the main hasbrouck ledge is close at hand in dri driving vint this crosscut cross cin nur numerous nerous stringers of ore were cut which gave assays essays from a few dollars up to as high as over at argentite Z W W watterson president of the natural soda products co is developing the frances mine which is under option from W A sanger and F H taylor the shaft on the property is now down feet and will be sunk another feet and about feet of drifting will be done it is said that the foot shaft is in three feet of 35 ore from the shaft north and south drifts have been run each feet long the north drift taken across five feet showed 2 values and the south drift shows 24 which at a depth of 50 feet has 33 feet of 1200 ore and the neil shively group where a 70 foot dyke has been crosscut showing in an average of for that distance recently a deal was put through whereby the group of claims adjoining the ecklund paget holdings was taken over by F B mechlin of the nevada california power co prof bennett of the tonopah school of mines robert neil W A sanger and ana F H taylor they will start development work as soon as buildings and equipment can be put on the ground camp of eureka striding along one of the old camps that has revived to an extent that it is assuming the aspect of a new camp is the old time sensational camp of eureka eureka was famed not only for the rich ore produced but has the distinction of being the first to successfully smelt silver lead ore in the united states the first equipment along this line was in 1866 and resulted in failure in 1869 70 major W W mccoy and col G collier robbins experimenting with draft and blast furnaces turned failure into success I 1 in 1871 the richmond mining company of london purchased the claims adjoining the eureka consolidated on ruby hill and began the erection of smelting smelling sm elting furnaces in 1878 there were 16 furnaces in blast reducing from 1000 to 1500 tons of ore daily the eureka country around produced all of the natural fluxes required for the reduction of ore there are great quantities of iron silica lead li etc all necessary in the economic reduction of silver lead ores eureka became the smelting smelling sm elting 1 center for all of the mines within a radius of 90 or miles then refining was added to the smelting smelling sm elting operations later improved smelting smelling sm elting methods were in operation at outside points which together with a reduction in freight charges to salt lake city the pinching b out of the rich ore above the water level and the downward tendency of price of silver led to the closing b of the eureka camp now conditions have taken another swing bringing b abou the revival of eureka as a big silver lead producer last summer walter harvey weed one of the famous mining engineers of the country together with two other engineers b made an examination of the eureka croesus and recommended the erection of a smelter along b modern lines meantime the united states smelting smelling Sm elting company had b been een trying many experiments on eureka ores at their midvale utah plant the new board of directors of the Cro croesus estis will follow dr weeds weed s recommendation meantime the eureka holly has worked out a plan of n milling tilling t and b the lead carbonate ores uncle sam making ready to cut loose the eureka uncle sam has also employed employ ed engineer ros anshine and lie he has devised a plan for handling the ores of that mine only a f few ew days a ago 0 o there arrived at eureka several carloads of pline pilline pi rails fuel oil a complete assaying plant for the uncle sam among the and an electric lighting za system pneumatic air compressor of tour four machinery was a chica chicago go drill capacity boarding houses and machinery housar housing q will of devel be completed in a few days ind and a comprehensive plan work will be started it will iii include clude about feet of crosscuts cross cuts drifts and raises raises will be put ul up at three the surface following 0 ore re bodies points and run through to already exposed in the he tunnel one of the sensational pro dubers of the early days was the old hamburg the uncle sam end lines on the hamburg the rhe rich ore in the hamburg is said to have been e tending extending x into the uncle sam ground when the endline was reached and work had to be suspended during the winter months all high grade broken down in exploration work will be shipped to salt lake city but in the spring the new reduction plant planned by L J will be completed and all ore over si will be treated at the new combination mill frank T president of the eureka uncle sam sain mining company states that the company is now well financed for lor the winter development work and that includes the payments for the large amount of machinery and mine supplies just brought in he claims to have one of the most efficient assay plants in the i tate state employed at a small mine all of the underground workings will be lighted by electricity A large amount of mill grade ore along with some high grade has been mined or blocked out it is the intention that this winters work will develop and block out enough ore for a long mill run eureka holly and paddy pride the eureka holly has opened up tip two bodies of high grade in the south one is about four feet wide and the other three feet W A barnes and his brother K B barnes each large stockholders recently recently f paid the camp a visit and made a thorough inspection of the holly it is on their recommendation that the milling process will be introduced the is makiji making a good stoshi showing froni from the foot level down near ho rim of death valley there is the faddy pride mine that now is shipping ore to salt luke lake city at the rate of one car each week shipments are made from the little station of on the T 61 T R R the president of the company john T Overl overbury yury of tonopah To deserves great credit for the persistency lie he ha has shown in overcoming the many obstacles in his way even water tanks had to be erected at storage for gasoline etc provided and the ore is delivered to the auto trucks by the roadside by a foot tramway from the mine while shipments will be kept up at the rate of one carload a week only such ore will be shipped as js is broken down in development woi work k he is planning for a mill later in fact pl plans ans for a ton mill are now being 6 drawn all the work so far has been from the foot level upward the shipping ore will show an average of about 65 a ton A new ore body with a lenta len 1 I ta of 70 feet has just been opened on the or intermediate level with both faces of the drifts in ore it is the purpose of president overbury to soon put the paddy pride into the divide dividend hd class |