Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-09-13
EXTENSIVE WORK
ON SKIOOO Mines
VAST AMOUNT OF MONEY TO BE
EXPENDED ON GREAT
PROPERTY.

T.. y. montgomery. VINO nOldS q
controlling interest in the Skidoo
Mines Company, is here for the first
time since he and Mrs. Montgomery
returned from their European trip
Mr.. Montgomery arrived yesterday
from Skidoo, coming up in his auto
mobile. While not very great deal
has been given to the public in re-
gard to the operations of the Skidoo
Mines Company, it is destined to de-
velop one of the greatest properties
in this State, or in the United States.
The operations are being carried on
on a most satisfactory scale, and
there will have been spent nearly a
million dollars before a cent is taken
out of the mine.
This will come, or the greater ma
jority of it at least, from the pockets
of Mr. Montgomery, for there is very
little stock of the company out, and
none at all has been sold for treas
ury purposes. Mr.. Montgomery is
now figuring on putting up mill,
and tests Of the ore have been made,
and are still being made, for the pur-
pose of deciding upon the best meth
cd of treatment. Meantime, there is
pipe line being run into the prop
erty, and the latter is being devel-
oped by means of tunnels and shafts.
There is a network of lodges on the
24O acres of the company's property,
and there is not a claim which has
not ledge cropping out. The pipe
line, when completed, will have cost
$4,000 in hard cash, and the mill
will make two items of expense which
will alone amount to more than
100000.
Il was in San Francisco recently, .
said Mr.. Montgomery, ito consult
with Mr.. Bosqui, who designed and
put up the Montana Tonopah mill
He has a great testing plant, and our
| Mr. Mccormick is going there to
| make his tests Mr.. Bosqui is now
making tests on the ore of the Gold
field Consolidated, and / do not know
whether | can get our work done
| right away.
we have had tests made by Henry
Woods & Company, and DR.. Hendryz
of Denver The former recommends
concentration, amalgamating and cy.
aniding, while Hendryx favors only
amalgamating and cyaniding. Mr.
| Mccormick, who has been checkinN
up both methods, inclines to that OF
HendryX. The latter makes saw.
ing of about SO per cent, while that
of Woods saves between 81 and 90
Mr.. McCormick's test was 97.46.
will put up a unit of a 10O-stamI
mill, and put up the rest as we pro.
gress.
| I'VE have one shaft down 335 feet
the bottom of which is looking fine
We have been sinking this on the
ledge, which varies in width from
two and half to nine feet wide
The main working shaft is down 22E
feet and has cut four veins, ranging
| from three to five feet. The last
vein We cut was at depth of 207
feet, and was five feet in width. The
ore on this will average from SIS tc
$23 or $24 ton. None of these arc
the veins which we expected to Gu,
and only one of them crops on the
surface.
I'VE are in 100 feet on a drift OF
the 100 level, and are making for {
big vein which crops on the surface
We are prosecuting a vein into which
we are already four feet, with tho
indications that it will be much
larger. | received a telephone mes
sage today that this ore averages
$22 a ton. Back of this there is still
another vein, which can be FOLLOWED
on the surface for distance of 140(
| feet. We have tunnel in for {
| ulotdACc vi fOU l0el, WHICH Is already
connected with the air, and which
will have to be run 1900 feet before
connecting with the main shaft. W.
have still another tunnel which is IL
500 feet and which cut ledge at
distance of $50 feet.
Most of the ore on ledge No. 9
which is the ledge with the long out
crop, runs over $40 a ton. There ii
! 100 feet of it that will go over $40 {
ton; 200 feet that will go better thar
$50, and 700 feet that is better thar
$40. The lowest we ever got wa
IS ton.
above the tunnel levels, we hav,
100000 tons of ore that can be ru,
out of the mine by gravitatiol
through the tunnels into the mill
One of the shafts is 100 feet beloy
the tunnel levels, and the other i
twenty-eight feet below. We hav
in all $500 feet of shafts and tun
&c ,aop,,