The herald., 1898-07-02

RANDEBURG, June A.-The Yellow A.
ter company has shut down the Visalia mill
at Garlock, after a cleanup Of sixty-hve
tons of ore, which ran over 500 to the ton.
During the past ten days the company has
had seventy tons. of ore, run. at the johann
nesburg mill, which averaged SIS per ton.
The company is now shipping daily to thu
Barstow mill approximately carloads Of
ore, or about fifty tons. enough to keep
twenty-five or thirty stamps running all the
time. The ore is shipped loose in the car,
and is of such value that 1t IL necessary to
send Waterman with It from Johannes
burg to turn it over to the mill authorities.
A very rich pocket was encountered In one
of the company's mines (Trilby No. . one
day this week, and In less than twenty-four
hours time something like $1,000 was taken
out
One Of the best-known and most reliable
mining experts In the country was in Rands-
burg this week, travelling incog, and in his
Investigations he visited the Yellow Aster
company's mines. To your correspondent,
who has had an acquaintance with him
of many years's standing. he said that he
believed that the Rand group of mines was
composed of the richest gold mines In the
world, and that it would not be long before
this fact would be developed. As an evil
dence, he cited the 300-foot tunnel In the
Triby No. q which, he said. was maze
of lodges andstringers In the entire length
of the tunnel there is not ten feet of wall
which is not cut by ledge matter and ore,
some carrying a value as low as u or $l0,
and some running into the thousands. One
man, he said, was working on an eight-inoh
stringer from which he was taking $500 a
day. If the company had hosting and
milling facilities, he said, there would be
room in the mines for the employment OF
500 men.
| At the Yellow Aster company's wells work
is progressing satisfactorily, and 30 600
gallon output Of water has been secured.
This will be considerably augmented when
| the tunnel now being driven connects the
new wells with the old SHILLING well. The
| pipe to convey the water from the wells to
the millsite in town will be f1ve-inches In
diameter, and the Fulton Iron works Of Los
| Angeles has a representative here figuring
on the job.
Rand District Production
The johannesburg Chronicle correspond
ent writing under recent date says: THE
tOtdl dAlOuuk " SOlu plouuSVu ia Lac Asei'N
district for the first five months of the year
will amount to over $3.50. 900. OF this $40 900
was milled in January, $4,000 in February,
SS5 900 in March, $50 600 in April and so 900 in
May. The falling off during the last two
months was due to the lack of milling ia
cilities for the Yellow Aster company's ore,
and the breaking of the engine at the Jo-
hannesburg reduction works, causing 1t TO
lie idle for several weeks. For several!
months the yellow Aster company has been
keeping the stamps Of three mills at Gar
| lock dropping and their monthly cleanup
has been from $40 900 to $44, 900, while during
May it amounted to only $13 900. During the
month of June this company will send 100
| tons of ore daily to the Barstow mill, keep
five stamps of the Johannesburg reduction
works dropping day and night besides one
mill running at Garlock The outlook for
June Is excellent and will probably result
| in the largest cleanup so far this year. Dur
ing May the Eureka mill at Randsburg
| Uwo stamps) handled ore from several DIFF
ferent mines, amounting to $4,000, that of
! the Napoleon running over 500 per ton
MERGED $40; Santa Ana, $3.50; Sunshine, $3.50;
4 Kinyon, $3.50; Blackhawk, 1876, and Maggie
Meta $780,"