The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1901-10-11
A Great Mine.

Superintendent Peter Curtz, Of the
Curtz & Evans mining property in Al.
pine county, just over the Douglas
county line, is in Carson where he
came to have repairs made on an en-
CINE at work at the mine. He also IS
here with team waiting the arrival Of
the Wiley concentration which he
will take out with him and place below
four Frue Vanner machines, in the ten
stamp mill his company has running
on ore.
The company is composed of Mr.
Curtz, Mr.. Evans the pottery manu-
facturer of Pittsburg, and Attorney
Tolerton of the Pennsylvania railroad,
of Toledo, Ohio.
Mr.. Curtz has been in the Monitor
country Off and on ever since its first
discovery and the excitement that fol-
lowed the finding of Boulder hill. He
has always had unlimited faith in the
district and now apparently is about to
be rewarded for his years of labor and
waiting. The property now being
worked is n new discovery of some
three years Lewis was pocket min
or and like many others tried to find
the ledge from which the boulders of
fabulous richness came from. He
PANIED up the mountain on the north
side of Monitor mountain and found
what is now known as the Lewis group
of mines. The postoifice is known as
Loope, but is in the old Monitor dis
trict and the name was changed in
order to comply with requirement of
the postoffice department.
The ore body is of porphry charac-
ter, through which run at short dis
tances apart small veins from two to
twelve inches in width, and which are
very rich. The gangue itself mills 80
to $3, and is soft and easily crushed.
With the quartz seams the whole
body across mills something over "a
per ton, and it is eighty feet in width.
In other words there is ore enough to
run the largest plant in the world for a
lifetime. Much of the gold is free and
is caught on the plates, the rest of it is
in pyrits and the Whitley machine will
be Installed to check the belt machines.
Mr.. Curtz secured two mill men of
large experience and they have sue
ceeded in saving remarkably high
Nf hn roIt IF
the ore carries the silvernite, which
fooled early Cripple Creek miners,
and in fact the ore is said to closely
resemble that of the famous Colorado
camp.
One of the characteristics is that the
gold occurs in interlocking crystals.
SO easily crushed is the ore that 30
tons per day are sent through the ten
stamps of the little mill now on the
ground. The concentrates range in
value from 5000 to $500 per ton, and to
verify the run just completed, upon
Mr.. CURTIS return to the mine and the
installation of the new machinery, a
run of two months steady will be made.
IF this run is then as favorable in re-
suits as anticipated, work win at once
be commenced on the new and extern
sive plant which is contemplated.
The mine is but three quarters of a
mile from the Carson river, TO which
the ore will be run down by means of
q gravity hoist. In the river are al
ways 10000 inches of water, even in
the dryest portion of the season.
There is fifty feet of fall to the mile at
this point SO there will be power to
spare, even for the working of the
mine by electric power as contem-
plated. A chlorination plant will be
installed, and number of Huntington
mills will crush the greater portion Of
the ore which shines with stamps, al
though the latter will be used in crush
ing the quartz proper.
The people who have this property
mean business and it certainly appears
as though they had something in the
way of a low-grade proposition entire
Iy out of the ordinary in size and con
venience to power. Ne,cs.