Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-29
GoLDFIELD MOHAWK MARVEL. :.
Gus TREASURE VAULT
THE KALFUS SHAFT DROPS INTO
HIGH GRADE ORE
Prediction Made That the Mohawk.
Combination Leasing Company
Will Soon Be Lifting
$1,ooo,ooo a Month
snecial To The Herald.


shawk- Combination Leasing company:
prediction that the Hayes Monnette rec
ord of 100000 would be beaten is liable
to be fulfilled. Ever since work on th'
ground was started production of from
15O to 200 tons a day has been made, while
the work of crowding down the shaft foi
an additional lift, as well as drifting botf
ways on the ore shoot, has not beer
neglected At present the gross value OF
the ore that Is being mined daily is S15,-
900, or S450,000 month, and judging by
the way the ore bodies are opening up il
will not be any less during the life of tbs
lease with every indication that it will he
doubled for the greater portion of the
time.
All the ore that is now being shipped
comes through the incline shaft. The
skip car in use here holds a ton and one
half, and a round trip is made with II
every five minutes. On the vertical shaft
on the old Ish and Sheets lease consider
able work is also being done, and when
connections are made with the lower
workings it will be used for the lowering
of timbers and the raising of waste rock.
1t may be necessary to press 1t into SER
vice for the hosting of ore also, as the
old incline shaft, with the Kalmus, may
condition of affairs has been brought
about by the discovery of the vein and
ore shoot in the Kalfus workings.
Ore Body Sixteen Feet Thick
Recently the ledge on the Mohawk dip to
the east and also the ore shoot was en-
tered at a depth of 275 feet in the Kalfus
working shaft 1t already has been proven
to be sixteen feet thick. and with no indl-
cations of the nearness of the footwail,
and ASSAYS on the rock have been OBJ
tanned that run as high as $50. No atten-
ton has been paid to sorting the ore, but
later on the pile will be worked over.
When the wide ledge is run through the
work of cutting station VIII be started.
It was the intention to do this at the
sOO-foot point, but it may be necessary to
continue deeper. The incline shaft on the
Combination is still in ore, and it will be
continued down far enough so that con-
nections can be made with the drift that
will be extended from the perpendicular
shaft If the ore is found as good as 1t
appears in the shaft in all probability the
Kalfus will be continued down for an
other lift, and the incline will also be
driven to greater depth. The lessees IN
tend to get out all the ore possible in the
next five months, and the Consolidated
people, the owners of the property, who
receive royalty of 25 per cent on the ore,
are not putting any stumbling blocks in
the way.
In order to facilitate the removal of its
huge bodies of high grade, the Mohawk
Jumbo, on Jumbo Extension, has taken
over the fine air compressor equipment or
LOTUS & Davis, on the latter's lease on
the Combination Fraction, which expired
recently. The plant is but few rods
distant from the Mohawk-Jumbo shaft
and will remain where it is. high grade
streak of six inches is being sacked. A
few tons of it have been shipped, as there
is no place on the lease to store it. Man
ager Holleran says that he soon will be
shipping fully 100 tons day, and that
even this record will be eclipsed There
are fifty men to a shift now employed.
There is but one shaft used for hauling
out ore at this time. The shaft is 43O feet
deep. Cross-cutting to the west and drift
ing to the southeast are being done at
present. The Slopes and drifts are all In
ore. The returns from the last nine lots
of ton grade ore sent out show that the
ore went all the way from OBS to S57 ton.
The output from the little block of ground
at present is not less than $4,000 day.
Daisy Bonanza
The Goldfeld Daisy Mining Syndicate's
property at Diamondfield has all the ear
marks of a genuine bonanza. Following
closely on the strike of high grade ore
on the 20O-foot level by the Daisy Leasing
and Mining company comes the news OF
a big strike in the workings of the parent
company. For reasons best known to
themselves the Daisy management have
had little to say about the strike, but on
the other hand they have frankly ad-
nnitted the facts, when asked concerning
the report The strike was made on the
21O-foot level, about thirty feet from the
shaft, a four-foot body of ore being I'M
covered that returned an average assay
Of s577 a ton. This streak of high grade
is part of the big vein that was first cut
on the 15O-level. The vein is between
thirty and forty feet across but the best
ASSAYS on the upper level were SIG a ton.
The ledge dipped toward the shaft and
when the 210-foot level was reached a
crosscut was started to tap it at that
DEPTH The vein was encountered much
sooner than was expected and is fully as
extensive as on the upper level. The ore
was all of a low grade until the four
feet. lying along the hanging wall was
reached. 1t has been sampled in various
places and assayed all the way from SJ1O
to nearly $500.
Found the "Stuff"
The Nevada Hills Leasing company
made a big strike almost at the eleventh
hour; however IL IL SuIiSleh'iS IN si"
the four months time will enable them
to take out a cool million. The strike was
lucky. but not more so than have been
the managers since they started in to
equip for the production. The fifth week
since the strike is just drawing to a
close, and within that time every particle
of machinery that is or will be needed
has been assembled at the mine, so that
there now remain nearly three months in
which every facility will be afforded for
extraction of shipping ore.
Two months and twenty-five days
time to work on big ore shoot, with a
plant like the Nevada Hills Leasing COM
pany has, will be sight to warm the
blood of the most pessimistic mining In
yestor, and one that mining man Will
travel across a continent to see.