The San Francisco call., 1906-10-08

recent appreciation of silver change
has come Surface trenching just over
the hill from the Diablo has opened
ledge four feet between walls. with
ore showing value of $3.50, ore
which in the old days would have only
been valuable as milling asset Now
it may be mined and marketed for less
than $40 per ton. including wagon
haul of seven miles.
The discovery was made by W. p.
de Remer and Harry Richardson, who
are associated with @. R. Potter. Pot
ter has purchased a whim. which will
reach Rock Hill, the loading station,
early next week. and a shaft will be
sunk down 100 feet, when stoping will
| begin.
Candelaria was contemporaneous
with the Comstock, and has a record
of S27,000.000 output within twenty
seven months. The star performers
were the Diablo and North Star, but
the earnings went to England. The
richest of the ores at that time were
roasted and concentrated. but the meth
DDS were crude and the old Stag dumps
contain what are now regarded as high
values. Owing TO the roasting, how
ever, these are hard to treat, and no
method has been introduced which will
extract their values.
The vein is a contact between lime
and quartzite, and may be traced across
the country for miles.
A new enterprise has been opened at
Monarch, and lime is being burned
there that compares favorably with any
| in this section. The supply is said
to be inexhaustible, and a large busf-
ness will probably be built UP.
The Potter lease on the Silver Pick
| improves with depth. The shaft is
down 135 feet. and an electric hoist has
arrived and will be installed at once.
Colonel o. P. Posey and Colonel Hef-
from went down TO Cuprite yesterday to
look over the Parrott group of copper
claims, embracing $40 acres, in which
en- at a depth of ten feet show $3.50
in gold, 116 ounces of silver and 1873
per cent copper. and $14.40 gold and
20 per cent copper. respectively. 1t
is the intention on this trip to locate
two working shafts.
The Goldheld-Bullfrog Railway
passes through Cuprite District. and
within two miles of the Parrott. The
track has been built out for a distance
fof eighteen miles from Goldield. and
construction is being rushed.
]. r. Davis of Davis & LOTUS has
started for a two weeks trip for Round
Mountain and Fairview to look after
the interests OF the firm AT Round
Mountain they are putting in a four
mile pipe line and mill.
Hedrick & Kind have purchased the
Bush lease on the Laguna, at Goldfeld,
and Forest J. Swears will have charge
of the work. The shaft is down 130
feet. 1t will be timbered. sunk thirty
feet deeper and then cross-cut to the
ledge, which shows values around $15
Work will be commenced on several
buildings at the Mohawk Companys
shaft shortly. These will include an
Office building and a change room
The shaft is now at the 240-foot sta
ton, and one more set will carry IL
to the level at which 1t is purposed
to connect with the Hayes-Monnette
lease workings
A shaft is being sunk by the Com
bination Mines Company, Just across
the railroad track from the Frances
Mohawk lease, near the side line Of
the Slim Jim Fraction. 1t Is sup
posed that the intention Is to deter
mine the question of apex which has
recently involved the Combination and
Mohawk companies in litigation.
Shipments from the ground Of the
Mohawk Leasing and Development
Company average a carload of high
grade ore a day. This lease covers
width of but fifty feet, but after four
months and half work ranks as one
of the heavy producers OF the district
At the northern extremity of the
Combination Fraction ground the
Sweeney LOTUS Davis lease has a shaft
down $40 feet. Sinking will be con-
tinued for some distance further be-
fore the ground is prospected by drift
ing and cross-cutting.
The shaft on the Curtis lease, on the
southern end of the Mohawk No. 2
has reached a depth OF $40 feet and has
entered formation which Manager s
H. Peterson believes to be the casing
of the ledge from which the Frances
Mohawk and other bonanza producers
are now shipping.
Sinking will be continued until the
ledge is penetrated, and as the vein
pitches at an angle of thirty degrees
Peterson had expected to accomplish
this at the 360-foot level. The bottom
of the shaft is becoming muddy and
shows a tale mixture with some sui
phides.
The faith of mining men in the con-
tinuation of the bonanza ore bodies
under the town of Goldfeld and across
to the malapai is illustrated in pur-
chase Just made by the L. M. Sullivan
Trust Company, through r. l. Col
burn, of the Lou Dillon. Morning Star
and September claims from 6. ;.
Phoenix for 100000. The Lou Dillon
adioins the Silver Pick on the west.
There are three leases working on the
claim. two already in ore. The Morn
ing Star lies on the north end of the
Lou Dillon, and a shaft will be sunk
on a well-defned ledge that carries
values of s14 at the surface. The Sep
tember is the best illustration, per-
haps, of the faith shown in the theory
that the ore bodies trend under the
town The claim runs through the
business and residential section Of
Goldheld. north of Hall avenue, and
its surface rights carry many substan-
tial buildings.
This same faith was shown month
ago by Hayes & Monnette when they
purchased the Esmeralda claim of
Phoenix and started to sink shaft in
the heart of the town of Columbia, a
mile from Goldfeld.
Manager Billy Mckay has 135 men
at work on the Frances Mohawk lease,
on Mohawk No. 2, and the daily output
of high grade ore exceeds 15O tons.
An electric and a gasoline hoist are kept
busy. and new ore bins are being con-
structed with a capacity of 100 tons,
which will facilitate loading and ship
ping The ore is dumped from these
bins into cars on the railroad spur
direct The ore now being shipped is
being stopped above the 220-foot level.
and the net returns have reached the