The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-24
EQUIPMENT FOR
kEANE WONDER
New Owner Expects Credit i0r
Producing First Bar of Bull
lion at BUlIFrou.
MOHAWK LEASE DIVIDEND
ONE OF $4,000 POSTED BY
FRANCIS COMPANY.

Goldheld, New, Sept. 22.-Homer VIII
son, who bought the Keane Wonder
mine at Bullfrog several weeks ago, left
this morning for that camp to start
work on a tramway which is to convey
the product Of the mine to a mill which
has been ordered to treat the ores. Just
before stepping into the benzine buggy
which is to convey him across the in
tervening seventy-mile stretch of des-
Rrt, he declared that the Wonder would
produce the first bar of bullion in the
BuIfrOg district. unless some of the
other big properties down there get a
big hurry on. For the past three months
ne mas been carefully sampling the
mine and testing the ore and has
adopted a milling process combining
concentration and cyaniding which will
leave little or value in the tailings The
plans for this structure have been
drawn and the machinery and all sup
plies ordered. and in a comparatively
short time the mill will be blowing it's
whistle.
Mr.. Wilson is not building his reduc-
ton works on surface prospects; while
other work has been going on, the mine
has been developed by means OF TIM
snels to a depth Of 300 feet, and drifts
and raises, WINES and cross-cuts have
been run into and through the big
Hedges, exposing about 5OO 900 tons of
ore. Another tunnel has been started
which Will tap the ore assures 500 feet
deeper, and when II is completed the
tore reserves will be sufficient to keen
the mill going steadily for half a score
of years.
Starts Things at Ida.
Before his departure Mr.. Wilson
went down m lido md LAT o,n4roof
10 sink a double compartment shaft
100 feet on the old Centennial mine
(which was purchased recently by the
Centennial-Goldfeld Mining company.
OF which Mr. Wilson is the manager
The contract illustrates the style i'm
which the company does business the
shaft is already down thirty feet and
Mr. Wilson made it one of the condi-
ttions of the contract that the work
must be completed in three weeks. or
3 forfeit be paid. For every day under
three weeks the contractors are to re-
ceive a bonus.
The Centennial is one of the old pro-
ducers of that old camp. The forma-
ton is lime intersected by dykes of
porphyry, and the lead which was
worked from the surface is very wide
measuring sixty feet in places From
the old workings the chloriders took
very rich silver ore, and the company
II iH poSSeSSiph OF specimens carving
as high as 5000 ounces The ores are
ostly sulphide, and carry a consid-
cradle percentage of copper The mine
lies b'tween the Ida Belle and the
Blue Dick both the once happy home
OF the high graders who were wont TO
roam over that section OF the desert
country.
Mohawk Lease Dividend.
The Frances Mohawk Mining &,
Leasing company has declared a divi-
oend of cents a share, or $50 600 from
the proceeds of ore sales from its Mo-
hawk lease. After laying this dividend
the company will have $50. 600 i'm IFS
treasury from the ores now unsettled
for OF in transit. besides the revenue
from a production amounting to an
proximately $4,000 a day.
The record established by this COM
pany is fair Illustration of the randi
ity with which fortunes are amassed
by leSsees in this camp. But four
months have elapsed since ground was
first broken for the shaft. Since then
ffhe shaft has been put down go feet.
and drifts extended on two levels for
distance Of seventy-flve feet in ore
The lease is equipped with fine hoist.
and the improvements and facilities for
handling the ore would do credit to an
old mine ~
On the 22O-foot level is one Of the
greatest bodies of high-grade gold ore
ever found underground. SAMPLES
across six feet above this level. in a
raise. assay $500. $3.50 and ss44. From a
Wine near by, taken the first three DAYS
or this week, were $3.50, $5034 and
$3.50 per ton. 1t IS this class of ore
that is being hoisted from seven shafts
on Mohawk ground, from which the
company derives in royalties in excess
of $4,000 day. Only four months
have rolled by since the first ore was
struck, and already the Mohawk
treasury contains quarter Of a million
dollars.