The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-10
GOLDF|ELD CON. TO
ERECT GREAT PLANT
Combination Mill Not Large
Enough to Handle the
Output of Ore.
Special to The Tribune

GOLDFIELD, New, June S.-George
WlngGeld announces that the present
| reduction equipment Of the Goldficld
Consolidated Mines company is wholly
! inadequate to the several properties
| production. the Combination mill hav,
ing capacity of only 70 tons per day,
/ which is insufficient to handle oven that
one great mine s output. Combina.
+ ton, alone, has stopped out enough ore
/ TO keep that plant humming for nine
I months to come. Consolidated Will
I therefore erect mammoth mill so soon
as present tests shall have determined
trcamtent: Practically the only bust.
/ ness transacted at recent meeting of
/ Consolidated directors was the renewal
/ of some existing leases and the grant
ing of some new ones. The McNaugh-
! ton lease s l15.foot level on Mohawk
| No. has been connected with the 230-
foot level of the lligginson lease on
the Jumbo Extension, and has also
opened on the 300 level, where drifting
an extension of the Red Top, which
yielded fabulous values ut depths of
100 and 200 feet.
1t shows tellurium and rusty gold.
Billy Reynolds, who had charge of the
old Hayes and Monncttc lease on the
Mohawk, is direc ting affairs at the Nc
Naughton, which is a steady shipper. All
differences between the Kalfus lease on
the Mohawk and the 1sh-Sheets on the
iusted, and the Kalfus is hoisting
steadily through its two vertical shafts
The Rickard lease on Mohawk is cross
cutting on the 200 for the continuation
OF the big Jumbo Extension ledge, and
at loo feet depth has connected its
two shafts, lS5 and 260 feet deep. The
east drift at the workings OF the Mo
bo, cd
out 200 feet from the 200-foot station
of the shaft and al 235 feet a drift is
underwriting the ledge below rich
stope that cayed at the time Of the
forty days cIose.down of all Gcldfeld
mines Two new high-grade bodies have
been uncovered nj 100 feet depth on
the Combination. The first ledge is %
feet wide and trends toward the old
Reilly lease, the entire width yielding
800 the ton without sorting. The second
is north Of the incline shaft and ship
mcnts from upraises upon 1T show $500
per ton. The entire product of the
Combination now averages 500 per ton.
That corporation, now owned entirely
by the Consolidated company, has been
formally dissolved From the 200-foot
shaft on the Red Top there is flowing
10000 gallons of water daily.
Iatter-day revelations are proving
Goldficld district to extend it's pay belt
farther east than was heretofore sup
posed. Recent strikes of rich ore in
its neighborhood have added impetus to
the efforts of the Dixie management,
whose past achievement has been the
unearthing of monster deposits of mill
ing rock. probed TO a depth of $50 feet.
Shipping ore is now being uncovered
all around the Dixie, and those in con-
troll expect by added development TO
bring that property into the same class.
Men and teams are grading for the
big mill and sampler to be built on
the Florence, the company workings
containing $1,000,000 in ore blocked
out The Little Florence lease is ship
uiug ore that runs $500 and S400 per
ton. Mohawk Florence is sending to
the smclters rock from three-foot pay
shoot good for $400 to $500 the ton.
The January Jones lease on the Cor
nishman claim of the Florence is mar
keting ore from 40-foot Wine,
dropped from the drift on the l75. and
is crosscutting from the bottom of the
300-foot shaft for the same ledge that
is followed on the 175. An engine has
come to the ard of the S0-foot shaft
on the Baby Florence lease, which at %
feet caught striugers of ore identical In
appearance with that found on the
Little Florence. Sinking is In progress
at the Florence Extension No. lease
on the Florence s Rustler fraction. The
accompaniment shaft at the Aurelia
lease is down 200 feet and complete
plant has been set up at the lease Of
the Florence Goldfield Red King Claim
Leasing company. The Pollard lease
is nearing the values found on the
Little Florence and the Review Is not
far distant.
For present production and lofty as
says Jumbo Extension is one of the
greatest mines in Nevada Numerous
leases arc blocking out high grade and
some are sending it to market. One
of the chief shippers is the HiggInson
lease. which has effected connection
with the McNaugbton lease on Mo-
hawk No. ? and has gained an exten-
sion of life TO December first. The face
of lower drift is yellow with gold.
an upraise is going through five feet of
stuff that all ships without sorting. and
the south drift from the bottom of the
shaft will soon tap the same sort.
Drifts are driving on SIX feet of pic
ture ore from the 4l5-foot station on
the Mohawk Jumbo lease The shaft of
the Jumbo Extension Leasing corpora
ton on the Poleverdc claim, which
found values at 100 and 266 feet, will
soon reach the 800 level, where a cross
cut will 90 out after the ledge from
which the Codd lease on the ST Ives
is regularly shipping $500 ore. The
l5o-foot shaft on the Jumbo Wonder
lease, near the Lucky Boy shaft on the
Jumbo, is down $50 feet ON its way 10
the 250 level, having aleardy exposed
three distinct veins, the Hassell, the
Velvet and the Jumbo. The Frances
Mohawk lease on the Poleverde is
crosscutting on the 800 and the Stan
ton lease on the same claim has reach.
ed depth of 200 feet. The Jumbo
Extension Leasing and Mining com
pany's workings on the Poleverde are
down 270 feet and the Mohawk lease
IS crosscuttiug on the 800.
Alien, New Metal.