The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-07-19
CONSOLIDATED
ORDERS BIG RE-
DUCTION PLANT
TOnODah Daily Sun.

| Tonopah Daily Sun.
JOHNNIE, July ia mill will
be crushing ore within four months
in the Johnnie district The machin.
cry has been bought. the prelimin.
airy surveys have been made and
shipment has been started from Los
Angeles, by Fairbanks, Morse & Co.
who sold the plant to the new own
ers of the Johnnie Consolidated Gold
Mining company. w. w. Elliott, the
millwright, 'and H. G. Perry, the en-
gineer for the syndicate owning the
property has just left Johnnie for
Los Angeles. They made surveys
for the mill and started excavating
for the mill plant.
The mill will be of the Nissen
type and will have daily capacity
of a stamp mill, of Nissen batteries,
1875 tons daily capacity, operated by
eighty horsepower gasoline engines,
100 horse power air compressor
plant for operating machine drills,
operated by 100 horsepower gaso-
line engines with new fifty horse
power hoist. Contracts have been
let for the erection of the plant and
it was specified that the stamps must
begin dropping within four months.
This will not allow any loss of time.
1t was contracted for by the new
syndicate which has just bought the
Johnnie Consolidated mine for a
sum, it is said, approaching $780,
900. A new wagon road will be
built from the mine to the railroad
to facilitate the hauling of supplies.
The syndicate which has gained
control of the Johnnie Consolidated
is headed by d. G. Doubleday. 1t
bought the property. mill and also
water rights. It changed the entire
directorate of the company. the fol-
lowing being the new directors:
Humboldt Gates, president; ID. G..
Doubleday, vice president; R. F.
Crist, Central Trust company, San
Francisco, w. F. Botsford, president
American National bank, Los An
geles: H. G. Perry, mining engineer;
George f. Moser, mining superinten-
dent, and Robert Burgh, secretary.
Mr.. Botsford is the only member of
the old body whose name appears
among the new directorate, all the
other members having been retired.
George F. Moser was the superin-
tendent of the Johnnie Consolidated
for number of years and is the
man who has developed the mine
from the 400 level down to the 100.
He will be retained as superinten-
dent.
The Johnnie Consolidated shaft is
down 700 feet with levels opened
at every hundred feet, and on all
the levels the ore bodies have been
developed, being continuous from
the surface down. The ledge is from
five to twenty feet wide and shows
free gold values from $12 to $40
per ton throughout the mine. The
formation is lime and quartzite. the
ore being quartz, considerable iron
stained carrying no sulphides or
base metals, the gold being entirely
free and is easily crushed under the
stamps. The main shaft follows the
ledge at an angle of IS degrees. 1t
is estimated that over 100000 tons
of ore are blocked out which means
over a million dollars. Besides this,
the Crown Point Globe which end
lines the Johnnie Consolidated. has
made arrangements to have it's ore
treated at the plant. thus assuring
sufficient work for the mill for years
to come.
There will be no question of water
for the syndicate purchased four
good sized springs that will furnish
good water in abundance. A new
two-inch pipe will be laid for the
new water system.
The leases which showed such a
rich ore in their development on the
Minnie Mae claim have all reverted
to the company and the management
has signified its intention of COM
mencing aggressive development on
this claim which should prove very
valuable ACQUISITION.