The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-01
ONE Of FOREMOST
MINES IN NEVADA
James ?. LOTUS Entertainingly
Talks About Famous Gold
Bar Property.
SALT LAKERS OWN
CONTROL OF COMPANY
A Hundred.TOn Concentrating
Mill Will Be Rushed Speed
lily to Completion,

After an absence Of six weeks on the
coast, Mr.. J. P. Lotus returned to
camp Wednesday, the press of business
demanding his return here at once. To
Goldfeld News reporter he said
being in the southern part of Cali
fornia, it seemed best and most con-
veplent to come into southern Nevada
over the new Clark road. Before leav-
ing Los Angeles / had talk with Mr..
Clark, president of the new road, and
road into Goldfeld. This statement is
in no way qualified, and the whole thing
is settled as a matter of business-the
surveys to this point being practically
completed. He said they would come
in through Rhyolite, touching all the
principal mines, keeping up along the
face of the mountain, crossing the Bull
frog Gold Bar ground, and through the
pass at that point on TO Goldfeld. This
work, Mr.. Clark tells me, will be pushed
forward as fast as men and material
can accomplish it. It is the expecta-
tion that the line viii reach this camp
by the first Of January, | find that
portion Of the road already constructed
running through an interesting country,
and the equipment of the road bed is
very substantial. We had TO get off at
make the rest of the distance by stage,
although the road is actually completed
and rails laid within six miles of
Beatty.
This is my first visit to the district
since It's early period, and the growth
of the camp was n revelation, and much
as 1 would have Liked to go into various
mines into detail, owing to the press of
business my time in camp was given TO
fho (yn16 Tho Opnpra1
which places the Gold Bar foremost
among the great gold mines in Nevada,
is amply justified by what / saw in my
visit. The main working shaft is now
down TO q depth of 400 feet and has
been in a continuous ore body from the
surface to that depth, without particle
Of change In the character of the ore,
l.. e., free, gold in quartz, not an ounce
Of sulphide appearing anywhere. From
drifts at the $50, 250 and 350-fooJ
points. The total underground work
fngs aggregate 5000 feet, and it is en-
tirely within the nmits to say that
over 2500 feet of this work is in con-
tinuous ore body. Development to date
indicates uniform ore body extending
TO depth of 400 feet, having an aver
hge thickness between walls of about
fifty feet; the distance between walls
ut one point is 164 feet, and the actual
gross value of the ore now blocked out
in the mine will approximate S3,000000.
Up to the present time we have never
stopped pound of ore, our entire atten-
tion having been given to equipment
and development, and believe we have
the largest amount Of development in
the district
For some months past we have been
exploiting the country for a water sup
ply, with the intention OF bringing it
into the mine for milling purposes. We
have been successful in opening
splendid flow of water about five miles
east from the mine and engineers were
with me and arc now surveying for
pipe line. We will at once place an
order for the necessary pipe to carry
the water onto the ground. Meanwhile,
the first unit OF 100-ton mill will be
built, and unless we are DELAYED in the
matter of assembling our machinery and
material, the Gold Bar will begin pro-
duction within sixty or ninety days
Having now settled the question of
water supply for milling purposes, We
will proceed as rapidly as possible this
winter to equip the mine in every way
adequate to its needs, and within the
present year we propose to have mill
on the ground equal to the treatment
of 250 tons day, and from the present
appearance of the mine we are conf
dent that the mine can produce at a
splendid profit such a tonnage for a
half century,