The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1903-08-14
Our Condemned Mines.

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ed by the lessen brothers and P. G.
Wilder, is another example of how val
liable properties have been butchered
and condemned by San Francisco
stockholders. This property was
worked to some extent during the
summer of 1874 by the silver Lake
Mining Co. and the sworn statement
of the uperintendent, John B. Win
tiers, as given to the County Assessor
at that time, under the bullion tax law,
gives the following result of the reduc-
ton of the last ore taken from the
mine:
Receipts, exclusive of freights
on 225 tons of ore sold Teco-
ma Go. at Truckee, CALI. S8,000. 90
Expense of producing same 5,079.23
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This ore was packed on mules three
or four miles to a point where it could
be reached by wagons, hauled to Car
son and then shipped over the V. & T.
and q. p. railroads to Truckee. Not
outstanding this extraordinary ex-
pense, there remained balance of S13
per ton-a fair profit as a business in
yestment, but not sufficient to answer
the stock-jobbing purposes of the own
ers, and work was abandoned with
nearly 1000 tons of ore on the dumps
md two tunnels, designed to cut the
ledge, one at 200 and the other 500 feet
below the surface.
| After a lapse of twenty-nine years,
during which time the property was
condemned and turned down by a
score or more so-called California min
ing experts, the mine was purchased
| by our townsmen, Messrs. Wilder and
lessen. three-stamp mill with con-
eentrator was erected ON the mine and
put in operation about two months
ago, on ore from the old dumps, which
| is paying the owners handsome prof
it. The tunnel which taps the ledge
At depth of something more than 200
feet was extended about so feet, until
it cut the vein, and thence along the
edge over 100 feet, opening up a six
to eight-foot body of rich silver-lead
ore the entire distance. They are now
having surveys made for completing
| the lower tunnel, which will open up
ore bodies to the depht of some 500
feet. They also propose erecting an
other and larger mill, to be operated
by water power, with tramway to
transport the ore from the mine to the
MILL
The Mammoth groupings, which
were examined and condemned by the
same class of people in the '6Os, and To-
Gated on the Bodie stage road, where
every mining capitalist and expert has
been compelled to pass for thirty years,
is now being worked by local capital
and found to be valuable.
A few miles further on, and in plain
sight of the same road, the groupings
! Of the big silver-lead ledge of the POGO
riempo property loom up like city
block and can be seen for five or six
niles. This has been passed for years
rs unworthy of notice, although the
eroppings showed values of $40 per ton
n gold and silver, with a good per-
,entage of lead. This property has
been opened up by Carson and Gard
leryille people and a five-stamp mill
md concentrating plant is in opera
ion, yielding good profit to its own
RS.
The much-abused and disgraced AL
zine mines were brought to the notice
of Eastern people, through the efforts
Of apt. urtz, and the regular ship
nent of gold bars from their mill tells
tae balance of the story.
The Golden Gate property Preferred
to elsewhere) is another example.
Only few miles further south is
mountain of porphyry and quartz car
rying from 81 to $40 per ton in free
gold, with splendid water power
which is being Investigated by local
people, and which will probably be
producing bullion before many months.
The gravel beds and sand banks of
the Carson river, which have been
worked in small way by sluces and
rockers Tor years past, are now in the
hands of Eastern people who are in
stalling an expensive plant and I'M
doubleday know what they are doing.
1t has taken a great many years to
cast off the odium thrown upon every
mining property within radius of 100
miles of the Comstock by Pine Street
stock gamblers, but the truth is slowly
coming to light.