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AENO EVENING GAZETTE page Nine SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934 ties and Mining in Nevada COfWKACT BRIDGE EXPERTS PLAY IT PRECIOUS METALS TAKEN FROM SEA WATER CAMP CELEBRATES ANCIENT GOLD DISCOVERY UtMwmrw Mining Timber from Cyprus, GROUP BONDED IS Where Ancient Romans Mined, On Exhibition in America MANHATTAN AT BY Today's Contract Problem South Is playing the contract at five hearts. West opens the ten of clubs. How should the hand be played? A 8 6 3 A 8 6 3 8 5 5 Relics of the might and grandeur SHOCKLEY BY E. M'KENNEY Secretary, American Bridge League Solution to Previous Contract Problem Naturally a good scattering of fcces and kings is necessary to arrive at a slam contract. However, I want to warn players who are using a mathematical or high card trick showing system, that there Is something equally as Important as aces and kings.

The partnership must find a fit in the hand. If, during the bidding, your partner shows a long suit and a strong hand and you have a long suit, unless further bidding indicates that of the ancient Rome of two thousand years ago have stood for cen TWO MILLS START OPERATING IN NORTH PART OFjTATE National Plant and One on Buckskin Mountain Turn Over for First Time turies throughout Europe and the Mediterranean lands; ruins of coliseums, stone waterways, stone walls, paved roads, silent sentinels since the time when Rome ruled the surface of the entire civilized world. AJ5 IAKQ92 95 10 7 2 10 9 4 3 AQ 10 98 AK7 6 3 2 I It The great age of the workings In which these old mine timbers are being found today is 6hown by the fact that the material with which the Romans filled their stopes and drifts has. become as solid as the original rock. The present miners do not know they are drilling through the stopes filled by workings until they find the old timbers.

That the wood has come down through the centuries in a state of perfect preservation Is probably due to the presence of copper sulphate solutions, it is said. Copper sulphate is an effective wood preservative. Recovery of the first actual goTa and silver ever taken from sea water, tapping the storehour of metal everywhere dissolved in ocean water, was announced in New York recently by Dr. Wlllard H. Dow of the Ethyl-Dow Chemical Company, and the news was published In this paper at the time.

Now further details are given. This first precious sea water metal is a tiny nugget, one-tenth of a milligram, no bigger than the head of a pin. It Is half gold and half silver. It came from the Atlantic ocean at Wilmington, N. C.

It is part of the gold and silver in twelve tons 'of sea water which was run through the sea water bromine plant near Wilmington of the Ethyl-Dow Company. The twelve tons of water yielded up Last week a new type of relic was Charles Shockley told the Las Vegas Age this week that he had secured an option to purchase the Jumbo group of twenty-three claims in Manhattan. The Jumbo group was located by Jim Coop and Henry Shubert in 1925, and was prospected on until 1928, and in that year discovered a vein sixty feet wide, and four ''thousand GRASS VALLEY, Nov. 3. (JF) Time has rolled back eighty-four years here to the October day in 1850 when a man known to the history of California gold mining only as Mc-Knight stumbled upon a ledge of quartz two feet wide at the summit of Gold Hill.

With Incredible speed that sensational discoveries frequently Inspire, the find McKnight made quickly became common knowledge In the booming mining camps of the day. Soon a rough, fortune-mad horde of men tumbled across the rocky hills of eastern California to launch what became one of the greatest gold quartz mining enterprises In the world. Still a center of gold mining more than three-quarters of a century later. Grass Valley last Sunday staged Its annual celebration of the discovery which turned thousands to search for gold here. A A 10 7 4 4 A 8 7 A 4 Solution in neoct issue borne to Butte from its resting place of twenty centuries In a Roman mine on the Island of Cypress bearing mute evidence that Caesar's legions left their mark far below the surface feet long, drifting with the vein, and carrying an average value in the tun- 8 6 987 4k 10 9 8 4 A 7 4 2 10 9 4 2 5 4 10 6 5 3 2 DeUr I 1 4k None The Romans used a system of timbering similar to that employed' nel of 10 ton.

the paper says. Then trenches on the surface cross-cutting in the Butte mines. Caps were placed part of its gold and silver by a treatment with colloidal sulphur. This sulphur was virtually liquid. It dls solved in the water and when it settled out, like a sediment.

It carried the long-sought precious metals. The gold in the first tiny nugget represents about one three-hun the vein, fifty feet apart, uncovered the vein showing that it had a width of sixty feet. About one hundred feet from the mouth of the tunnel a raise was put in to the surface, that point having a back of ninety feet. Then the vein was "glory-holed," taking out 2500 tons of ore with hand tools at an A A 3 A 7 A 3 A A 7 6 Duplicate All vul. While it was McKnight's stroke of! luck which popularized the hunt for quartz gold, history records that the first discoveries were made In June of 1850 on the same Gold hill and a short time later on Massachusetts hill of the earth as well, a dispatch says.

This latest echo from the first world empire is a piece of mine timber, a post, as perfectly preserved as the day when it was first put in place by a native miner driven under a Roman lash. The post has been presented to President Francis A. Thompson, of the Montana School of Mines, by Herman Blunk, once a student prospector at the Butte college. Mr. Blunk has recently returned from Cyprus for a brief visit to relatives in Butte.

"The post probably dates from some time before the second century of the Christian era," Dr. Thompson says, "as it was found in workings which were operated by the Romans from 300 B. C. to 200 A. D.

The timber is Cyprus pine and was probably dressed by a native atJze called a Two more mills -went Into commls-Eion tills -week in northern Nevada. One is at at the National mine in Humboldt county and the other at the Buckskin National, four or live miles away. ITS INITIAL RtN J'. D. Leonard, machinery salesman, returned Wednesday from a trip to txsth properties and he said that at the National the plant was making Its initial run after being practically rebuilt and placed in condition for the economical and effective extraction of the gold in the ore.

The sheet includes amalgamation, table concentration and flotation, and it will treat from fifty to seventy-five tons daily. Frank Stall, who with his brother, the late George Stall, operated the first lease on the National mine in 1909-1910 and produced ore to the value of a million and a half dollars In five months, recently bought the above the posts but no girts were employed. The posts were about feet In height and the sets were about four feet apart. The caps averaged about three feet long in the clear. Present-day miners are finding this old timbering at a depth of about 250 feet.

At the-' present time the ancient workings are being operated as the Marounia mine under the managership of J. Tj. Bruce, formerly manager of the Butte and Superior Mining Company and later of the Davis-Daly, who has many friends in Butte and throughout Montana. Mr. Bruce Is the resident director and general manager of the Cyprus Mines Com East 2 Pass Pass dredth part of the yellow metal which the spectroscope indicates exists in South West North 1 N.

T. Pass 2 A 3 A 3 4 A 6 N. T. Pass Pass Opening lead but they excited no interest. the same twelve tons of water which 8 A brief account, picked from a history written in 1880 related that McKnight's find "set miners wild and thousands flocked to the spot and The riay In today's hand we find the- exception to the rule.

Both partners have a club suit, but the glamour of the 150 aces caused several pairs to try for slam at no trump. Most- of them were defeated, while those who bid six clubs made their contract. However, six no trump can be made if East covers the queen of spades. But this is a bad play as, with the queen and Jack In dummy. East should refuse to cover the first honor.

If East does not cover, the hand Is made in the following manner: West opens the queen of hearts, which South wins with the king. A club Is led to dummy and the diamond finesse taken. Another club is won in dummy and the qUeen of spades played. Here, If East makes the mistake of covering with 'the king, the trick is won by declarer with the ace. Now declarer runs off all his OMd tricks, getting down to the three of spades, the seven of hearts, and the three of diamonds.

Dummy is down to the Jack and nine of spades and the seven of diamonds. Now all the declarer has to do Is to lead the three of diamonds; which throws Bast in the lead with the king, and East has to lead from his ten and eight of spades into dummy's Jack-nine, thereby giving the de filled the 'hills with prospectors." was treated with the sulphur. The gold recovered is equal to one-one hundredth of one part in a billion of the water. The spectroscope shows the total gold percentage of 2.3 parts in a billion. The silver is present in large quantities.

If the spectroscope Is right, there is enough gold In sea water to pave the United States, and enough silver to roof the world. shibarniV pany, an American corporation you have a fit with your partner's suit, or he has a fit with yours, regardless of the suit controls you have, you are not going to make a slam. To make a slam, several of the tricks have to be won with spot cards and, naturally, the spot cards that are going to be winners are the long cards of an established suit. If the bidding shows that you and your partner have a fit in only one suit, then generally the slam should be played in that suit and not In no trump. NUGGET IS FOUND property and, financed by P.

H. O'Neil of Los Angeles, last year commenced the work of -reopening the workings, rehabilitating the mill and repairing Many fortunes were lose in tne decade which followed before such famous mines as the Eureka, Empire, Gold Hill, North Star, Massachusetts Hill, the Idaho-Maryland and others were permanently under way, producing in the thirty years after the McKnight discovery more than in yellow metal. rareIcIpTure put on display average value of $10 per ton milled in Manhattan. Cash return $25,000. There being an abundant water supply in Manhattan district at a depth of one hundred feet Shockley proposes to develop water on the property, and immediately start construction on the first unit of a five hundred-ton mill of oil flotation and amalgamation, the one being free milling ore.

Only on account of the death of Shubert and the property becoming an estate has it been made possible for Shockley to secure the property. Owing to the width and continuity of the vein the people of Manhattan consider this one of the biggest strikes of low grade ore made in Nevada in recent years. Two mining engineers who visited and inspected the property, claimed it was one of the greatest bonanzas they had ever seen, owing to the low cost at which the property can be operated. Shockley formerly operated a lease in the Florence mine in Goldfield, the Gold Mountain mine in Horn Silver, and the Nellie Gray mine in Manhattan. EASTERN CAPITAL EXPECTED AFTER ELECTION COPPER the mine buildings.

DEVELOPINK VEIN Work underground was centered mainly on what is known as the "X' CANYON vein, which runs parallel to the East ledge, the principal producer in the early days. The vein Is mostly the exhibit catalog says: The "Aphrodite represents one of the great types of Greek art and is certainly the earliest and finest Dr. Dow said the sulphur treatment Is not the start of a commercial gold recovery program, but a purely scientific experiment to explore possibilities. At present, he said, the bromine which is being taken from the sea water in. large quantities for making anti-knock gasoline, Is many times more valuable commercially than the gold.

Dr. Dow made his announcement at a meeting of the New York section of the American Chemical Society. They May Use Fluoroscope to Reveal Stolen Ore virgin territory, although It Is credited with a production of $200,000 clarer six no trump. returned last few Mining men who have from the East during the MODERN FIREPROOF Since work was started on? has been encountered in every heading driven on the various levels on the inclined shaft, Mr. Stall said in Reno recently, CUBOPEM WJkM NEW YORK.

Nov. 2. Plans to display a picture of the Sarnos Aphrodite, rare sculpture valued at TTTT. days say, that an influx of capital looking for promising properties may be expected when the elections are over next week. QTELflOIIER' and a large amount of ore awaits treatment.

BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nov. 3. (Special) K. C. Nelson and associates are attracting the interest of the placer miners of this district with the successful operation of a large dry washer which they are operating in Box canyon on a block of ground purchased some weeks ago from the Bartlett brothers.

They are making a very satisfactory recovery of gold and during the week brought in some large nuggets, among Men with money to invest are eager to get into the mining business, and Recently work was started In a winze from the four hundred- most of them have given up the idea foot level and the results are said to SUTTta AT KCARNY STS. San Francisco ROOM WITHOUT BATH ROOM WITH BATH '150 per day iml GEO. WARREN HOOPER. or buying a tailor-made mine, one be very satisfactory. In addition to example of its particular form.

The artist has, in fact, created the figure of a woman so perfect in form and so free from particular expression or suggestion as to typify a goddess. "The goddess is shown at the moment when she is about to enter a bath, or return to the sea from whence she came." TRIAL IS SET SUSANVILLE. Nov. 3. (Special) The trial -of R.

D. Powers of Westwood, has been set for Monday, November 5. He was charged with arson when a house burned at West-wood. A survey of several widely scattered with a lot of ore blocked out, equip the new ore available there are sev eral thousand tons of mill tailings which was one weighing 1.29 bounces. jJXat can be handled profitably, hav HARRIS IS ACTIVE IN GOLDFIELD DISTRICT The finding of suchjcoarsegold had not been" anticipated and It is very like the Copper canyon nuggets the ped with machinery, and all thepre-llmlnary work done such as the building of roads and the, bringing in of for there is practically no such animal any more on the market.

They have come to the point where they are willing to speculate on a prospect that' has the proper ear $150,000, on Fifth avenue were abandoned today by Rockefeller Center officials, but the statute itself was exhibited at the opening of the fine arts exposition In the Center forum. Pictures of the statue were to be placed on the Fifth avenue front of-the building, together with photographs of other exhibits, but the plan was abandoned after complaints were received. "In other words," one woman art dealer commented, "it won't hurt your morals to see the sculpture, if you have a dollar to get in." The figure, which Is of Parian marble, was found on the island of Samoa in the Aegean sea, a locality famed from ancient times for its sculpture and where was produced the headless Hera now in the Louvre. Its exhibitors said It is the first time the Samos Aphrodite has ever been shown. best days -of the mining operations In A.

C. Most of Salt Lake Citr. con For Fruit Cakes Mixed Broken Pieces First Quality Glace Fruit Either Light or Dark. (Apricots, Pears, Pineapple, Plums, White and Dark Figs, Prunes, Lemon and Orange Peels, Tangerines.) 50c the lb. QUINBY'S 28 West Second Street A Grass Valley correspondent of the Sacramento Bee says that the officials of one of the main mines there are contemplating the installation of a fluoroscope In the dry house where the miners change their clothes after shift.

By this means a close check can be kept on the health of the men, and any high grade that may have become attached to their persons can be The plan is said to be in use in the South Africa diamond mines. i TWENTY YARDS $105 Amalgam said to be worth $105 was brought to Reno this week by Nick Adams from the lease held by himself and C. W. Goldman, at Rabbit Hole, in Pershing county. It came from twenty yards of graveL VISITS GOLDFIELD J.

W. Conllsk, the powder man, has returned from a trip to Goldfield. A great deal of Interest is being taken lately by Goldfield people lately In the operations of Jack Harris, and mining men who have returned from the camp this week report that he Is putting on a stellar Kansas counties showed about half would assess higher, and the remainder lower, taxes against residents this year. The public health service annually supervises the purity of $10,000,000 worth of medical products sold to the public and the medical marks, and If they can make satisfactory terms with the owners they will dig In, It Is claimed. The state is full of mining scouts at present and has been for Some time, and a number of deals have been made, and there should be many more, for there are numerous prospects and partially developed properties that need only proper development to become mines, well-Informed miners assert.

nected with Colorado Interests, mitw ing near Tenabo, spent some time In Battle Mountain during the week looking after business 'matters. H. M. Armstrong returned from Salt Lake City where he spent several days looking after business matters relative to mining interests in the Galena section. Frank H.

Miller, an associate, continued on to Chicago after the completing of the business In the Utah city. show in the old district and one which Is apparently well planned, A description of the Aphrodite In with plenty of financial backing. He has taken a number of leases GOLD CIRCLE GOLD on the Goldfield Consolidated and has been able to obtain control of potentially rich blocks in the mines of that company that have never been granted a trlbuter before. Value Increases With Assays at National Mine Don-t let vour Child Already he has a force of forty men MAN FORMS tag value of about ten dollars a ton since gold advanced in price. The National mine is credited by Stall with a production of seven or eight million dollars and most of the ore was of the Buckskin "specimen" variety.

PLANT RUNNING The mill at the Buckskin National has been turned over, all the tanks are full, Mr. Leonard stated, and the plant Is being enclosed. The process Is straight cyanide, although provision has been made for the addition later of flotation, when the sulphide zone is reached. The capacity is estimated at fifty tons daily. Like the National, the Buckskin has been noted in the past for Its production Of high grade gold ore.

accompanied by a large mill tonnage. Some remarkable carload shipments have been made in the last few years by leasers. The property Is owned by the Buckskin National Company, with W. J. Bell of Winnemucca, acting as manager.

LUCKY TIGER BUILDS MILL This year the El Tigre-Combinatlon Company, operating largely In Mexico, entered the field with the Buckskin National Company, and a subsidiary corporation was organized called the Nevada Lucky Tiger Mining Company, with R. T. Mlshler, manager. During the summer the main supplies necessary for operation during the winter have been trucked in but perishables will have to be packed in over the enow when the property is Isolated from the outside world. For the mine is high up on Buckskin, and heavy storms rage.

Already tfia weather there is blustery and some snow has fallen. ANOTlFH Pack This Rib-cone Mill at work and It Is believed that the number will be Increased to a hundred when he gets going to capacity. Several cars of ore have been shipped Anywhere! jlx1 a i from his Laguna lease and a mining study in Poor Light! Heaviest piece 285 lbs. Total. 850 lbs.

Easily portable "anywhere a mule can go" 1 man who was underground during the week said that he saw some very substantial orebodles. Harris Is known to a number of Only $220 Direct from Reno people, who describe him as being full of energy, ambition and Prank Stall recently shot Into a "hot spot" in the National mine, according to a recent visitor. A hot spot in mining parlance is unusually good He took a sample across four feet and had it assayed. Results, $900 a ton. must have salted myself." he told the assayer.

"IH cut another sample across the same place." Result: $1400. It was suggested that he repeat the act, but he said $1400 was good enough for anybody. JOHNSON FAMILY IN RENO H. A. Johnson, manager of the Tonopah Mining Company, and Mrs.

Johnson and children are at the Golden today. Factory for 2-4 ton capacity, 14 H. P. mill. Others up to 259 tons.

Screening or screenless. Send for Bulletin 115; learn details, see pictures of complete milling equipment. SINCE STRAUB MFG. 1902 527 Chestnut Oakland, Cal. optimism.

i AT OVERLAND E. Treulthlck of Nightengale, the tungsten camp near Winnemucca lake, is stopping at the Overland. Gold in every form bullion and concentrates from the mills, dust and nuggets from the placers high grade smelting ore from the lodes swelling the output of the Gold Circle mining district, a Humboldt Star correspondent says. Placer production Is becoming Increasingly Important. In addition to the recoveries of Van Orman and Gabbart from their original strike In the Black Cloud, Bob Richardson and partner are sluicing about ten tons a day of gravel that carries some 10 to the yard.

Johnson and Conn are piling up about five yards of $20 gravel dally "which they will haul to Squaw creek for washing next week. Brinton and company are searching for the channel on the East Standard and J. B. Lamb of California is getting ready to put a steam shovel near the mouth of Midas gulch south of town. Great Britain will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the enthronement of King George next year.

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Pitt and D. R. Judge, who sell various kinds of mining equipment, were among the guest3 at the Golden during the week. i SHARP PASSES THROUGH William Sharp, field engineer for the Tonopah Mining Company, Is In town today on his way from a visit to mining camps In northern California, to Tonopah, his headquarters. GOES TO MONTANA Let us guard the eyes of your family il FURNITURE Buy to Sell STORE Phone 4725 1043 South 'Virginia St NO TICE fhe Sierra Nevada Company will Install a seventy-five-ton mill to treat its own tonnage and to handle custom ores, Arthur L.

Thomas said yesterday. The plant will be shipped from another property, owned by a corporation which he controls, he stated and a contract has already been let for Its removal to the Comstock. Sierra Nevada owns a large area of ground on the northern end of the Comstock lode from which considerable ore has been shipped in the past, and recent developments have been very Important, it is reported. Mr. Thomas is at the Golden with Mrs.

Thomas and they will make their home In Reno soon if they can find a suitable domicile. Frank Meiklejohn left yesterday for Montana, where he will make an ex TO THE PUBLIC: amination of a mining rrotertv. by making this free check-up Our eyes were built for daylight Without enough good light indoors, eye-strain, headaches, even near-sightedaess may result. But not one home in ten has enough light 1 Wouldn't you like to know for sure whether your home is correctly lighted? Just phone us. We'll send out an expert with a Sight Meter, an amazing instrument that measures light as a thermometer measures heat.

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