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Show (PIONEER COMPANY IS SEEKING DEPTH The main shaft of the Reorganized Pioneer Pio-neer Mines company, formerly the Pio-neei Pio-neei Consolidated Mines company, is being be-ing sunk to depth under direction of W. J. Town, president and general manager. The Pioneer mine was first worked during dur-ing the early days of the Bullfrog district, when the town of Pioneer was the center Of one of the most speolacular booms In the history of Nevada. High on the side 1 of Mount Tobin, the Pioneer lease be-J be-J came the largest producer in the southern fj Part of the state and 300,000 in high-f high-f grade gold ore was shipped from the fa-I fa-I raous Bonanza stope. Later the lease was acquired by the present company, addi-I addi-I tional ground was ipurchased and a ten-atamp ten-atamp mill erected. Ooldfield (Nev.) J Tribune. |