Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-08-04

of ore was taken out which will average
more than 81, 900. The new shaft is
now 100 feet deep and prosecuting will
begin from the 132-foot mark.
KAISER FRACTION.
The incline shaft in the dyke on the
Foster-Kaiser fraction lease is down
40 feet and the ledge has widened con-
siderably and is looking better with
each foot of depth. No recent assays
have been made but the rock pans well.
The SHAFT will be continued to the 100
foot mark and then drifting will com-
mence.
FRANCES-MoHAWK.
On the Mackenzie No. 2 lease the
Frances-Mohawk Mining and Leasing
company have broken all records to
date. The lease on this block of ground
which is really a suitcase from
Hayes-Monnette, was signed or the 9th
day of May, work was commenced on
the 10Th of May; ore was struck on the
/, 18th instance and the first shipment
made on the 23d instant-the total time
elapsing from the day the first pick was
struck into the ground until the first
shipment of ore was made, being just
SO days. In the meantime the shaft was
sunk 220 feet, ITS feet prosecuting
done, two lodges cut, one in each cross
cut and a curious. coincidence both
lodges were cut in the same shaft and
both lodges contained ore. A completely
equipped hosting plant was installed
consisting of a 25-h. p. electric hoist.
Machine drills, the first in the camp
were installed and in operation. The
mine and buildings are electrically
lighted throughout, and the entire plant
and mine is the most modern in South
ern Nevada and the equal of any in the
older mining camps.
The Frances-M Mohawk company have,
! on this lease, broken allrecords to date,
, with the exception Of that of the pay
q ment of dividends, and it is the deter
mination of the management that this
record will also DO smashed in the neal
future, and at the rate shipments are
: being made daily at the present time il
i will be a matter of only weeks until q
dividend could be paid.
Forty-three men are today employed
on this lease and the force is being
n gradually increased as space is opened
in the mine to permit of the employ
ment of additional men. Drifting is il
progress both ways in both ore shoots
and this week sinking and raising will
: be commenced in both leads for the pur
u pose of blocking out the ore and pre-
pairing the mine for enormous produc
Z ton. Also the shaft will be sunk an
other hundred feet and work will b,
commenced on this level in the cours
IN of a very few days.
Id AS an evidence of the conidenc
he which the Frances-Mohaw compan
W had in their mine, within a week afte
lg work was commenced on the lease, the
had made a contract for the laying of
re switch to the lease and work on thi
o. switch was completed less than a wee
before ore was struck. Thus, as 500
as the large ore bins, which are in tn
course of construction, are completed
he the ore will go direct from the mine
the car, thence to the sampler an
smelter.
he HAT OF THE BLUE BULL.
he On the Hammocker and Doughert
as lease on the Hat claim of the Blue Bu
IRE group a more cheerful aspect prevail
ch than has for some time been entertaine
he At the time of the News represent
ver tive's last visit the leassees were sin
ing an incline on a ledge which pann'
ms very well. Having attained a dep