Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-20
WORK IS ACTIVE
AROUND G0LDF|ELD.
LEASING COMPANIES WORKING
OVERTIME
Picture Ore Shipped Said to Be More
Valuable Than That Taken
from the Mohawk-Down
the State

GOLDFIELD, New, May l9.-MlnlnS
operations continue active throughout
the district, and leasing companies are
working overtime.
With machine drills hammering away
on a seven-foot face of ore which
breaks $40O a ton, the Morton-Beesly
lease on the Combination Fraction, with
forty days yet to run, has started out
for a record. Already the output OF the
lease is about $4,000 day, and at TINS
rate the owners will pile up handsome
fortune.
The stope opened in this lease is
eighty feet in length, the entire mass OF
ore being very high class with
seams of pure gold that run away UP
into the thousands. No effort is being
made to keep this picture ore by itself,
however, and the whole mass of tel
lurium and free gold goes to the sam
pier as it is broken. The output Is
about 160 tons every twentyfour hours,
The work Of eight drills.
The Morton-Beesly lease has the dis
inction of having what is probably the
hrgest body of high grade ore ever
pened at one time in any mine in the
district The ledge has been stripped Tor
eighty feet and machine drills are tear
Ing the ore down at rapid rate. The
ridnest ore is in the north end of this
bis stope, and it is we'll known that the
Fnnces- Mohawk left some of Its richest
ore in the face of the stope when the
enL line between the Combination Frac-
tiol and the Mohawk was reached.
the present values of the ore are
maintained, it will pass into history as
the richest lease yet worked In the
camL The average value of the Mo-
hawl ore was $126 per ton. which was
abou the highest average of the dis
trictl The famous Reilly lease on the
Flornce is credited with a production
of $4,000 during the last thirty days of
its 9istence, which about equals the
presnt output OF the Morton-beesly
leas.
Th total production of the Mohawk
leass was 54,363 dry tons. The gross
vale was $6.S41 ,09569, net $5,307, 1921,
anthe company received $1,194, ,274.23 in
roylties. The Morton-Beesly lease is
woking on the same big ore channel
frd1 which the Mohawk lessees took
thi treasure.
Jumbo and Red Top
uihe new shaft on the Jumbo is down
2s feet and two lodges of high class
Milling ore have been opened up. The
saft, which is on the north end of the
coup, encountered the ore at a depth
q thirty feet and passed through
3rty-five feet of it. General Manager
finch thinks this shaft will be one of
he greatest producers of the Consoli-
lated The Red Top shaft is going
Town rapidly, a spur track has been
completed and the ore bins are about
finished. Sinking continues. on the La
guna and the diamond drill gives alb
solute assurance of the presence of q
large body of fine ore at depth
The Combination mill is running and
handling a large quantity of good ore
from the Jumbo, Laguna, Red Top and
Combination mines.
Good progress is being made with the
development work on the January
White-Rock. superintendent Benjamin
Barratt expects to have the shaft down
300 feet in a day or two. A ledge, four
feet wide. was cut few days ago and
the samples showed a great quantity of
sulphides. At the 300-foot level a cross
cut will be driven and Superintendent
Rarratt expects to cut the ledge that
was encountered at the 160-foot point.
The mine has been equipped with a five
drill compressor outfit which also runs
the hoist.
The Mohawk Consolidated Leasing
company which is operating on the
MOnaWk RTOuIlu, 10 uoillilo WI n Oi i-o
shaft. which is down 220 feet. A cave
in occurred in the 115-foot crosscut dur
ing the shutdown, and it was lecided
to send the shaft down to the 320foot
point and updercut the vein from that
level. NJ C. Scully, managing director
of the company which is controlled by
oakland capitalists, is confident that
good body of ore will be opened up on
the 320-foot level.
The shaft of the Mohawk No. Leas-
IN. and Mining company is down 315
feet and drift is being run due east
to catch the rich vein from the Nc
Naughton lease on which a rich strike
was made few days ago. Mr.. Scully
has three shifts of men at work and
expects to be shipping ore from the
lease in a very short time.
New ore bins are being constructed
at the Red Top mine. The railroad
spur is at the mine and when the bins
are completed everything will be ready
for shipping.
The new shaft on the Jumbo is down
28O feet and encountered a 4O-foot ore
body at a depth of thirty feet.
The Goldheld Black Bear has secured
a. lease on the Atlanta property, within
25O feet of the Florence line. There are
two 1O0-foot shafts on the lease.
The Mohawk Jumbo shaft is going
down steadily and sinking will continue
until the vein is struck. A 75-horse-
power electric hoist has been installed
and work is being rushed.
Down the State
1t is announced that the Nevada Hills
Mining company will declare a regular
quarterly dividend of at least 10 per
cent in June.
The Rhyolite-Bullfrog Mining com
pany has been organized to succeed the
Bullfrog Red Mountain Mining com
pany. The new company is 1ncorpo-
rated for $5O0,0O0, par value 81 each, and
the officers are: ]. ]. Taylor, president;
T. t. VOORHEES,, secretary and treasurer,
and these two, together with D. R. Else
and John W. McAlester, as directors.
work will begin at once.
P. A. Busch of Rhyolite reports the
district a real crackerJack'
is the name of new town
started nes" the Amargosa borax works,
with tent houses as beginners, where
autos stop on their way in and out TO
Oscar Hibbard is in charge
of the station. Railroad building Is
rapid. Frank Barber is working the
old Ibex mine
The Golden Gate mine, owned by c. i
ID. Nichols has made its first shipment |