The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-29

working without friction, the shaft is
down 300 feet, and the first crosscut is be-
ing made at the 250-foot level.
The Thorpe mine has been incorporated,
with capital stock of S500,000, in 20O00O
shares at 81 so par value. The stock has
not be until developments warrant.
The principal stockholders and officers
of the company are: f. H. Rosenbaum,
president; f. Ewch, vice president: &. A.
Schuster, treasurer; A. T. Frey, secretary
L. Allgewahr, superintendent. The office
OF the company is at 567 Market street, San
francisco. The company owns $50 acres
of land, through which the mother lode
runs for one mile.
Superintendent AlIgewahr has had many
years experience mining in Idaho. He is
working superintendent, doing all his
own assaying and personally superintend-
ing ali the details about the mine. Mr..
Allgewahr is very sanguine that the COM
pany has big mine. He states that the
crosscut on the $50 level has passed through
sixty feet of quartz, with neither hanging
nor foot wall in sight.
The vein will be crosscut to both walls
and then drifted on both ways. The
quartz in the vein is low grade, carrying a
good percentage of sulphurets. Some of 1t
will pay to mill, but none will be stopped
until large resources are opened up. After
this level is thoroughly opened up the
shaft will be sunk 200 feet deeper, when
Mr.. Allgewahr expects a bonanza, as all
the indications seem to point to continued
improvement in depth.
All the machinery at the mine is the
best to be had and gives great satisfaction.
The hosting engine is thirty horsepower
and the pumping engine forty horsepower.
The Cornish pump is able to raise go, 600
gallons of water in twenty-four hours. AT
present it is only working about quarter
of the time. Demarest & FuIlen of the
Altaville Foundry built most of the ma
chinery and set it up, and their work is
highly commended. Making speciality OF
mining machinery and letting nothing i'm
perfect go out of their shops, their reputa-
ton is extending throughout the mining
counties of the State.
The Thorpe mine at present employs
fifteen men, forming the nucleus for a lit
tie town at Fourth Crossing, which will
become an important place should the
company develop the bonanza it is looking
for. The magnitude of the property is so
great that four or FIVE mines larger than
the average size could be worked, on 1t
should developments in the present shaft
Justify. Probably there is no single mine
along the lode where the development of
an extensive ore body would create more
general rejoicing, or where the result
WOulQ De more important ana 1dr-TedCn-
ing.
Immediately north of the Thorpe is the
ranch of A. II. Wells, the hotel-keeper at
Fourth Crossing, comprising $50 acres and
containing within its boundaries several
quartz veins Of the mother lode series,
most OF them unprospected. On the
continuation of the Thorpe vein, which
is supposed to be the Utica or east
ledge, prospect hole is being sunk al
present which at a depth of eight feet
ties of very large and strong vein. The
mining claim has already been bonded
while the parties doing the work try to
secure capital to develop it.
a. J. BROOKS.