Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-09
CONTRACT is
LET FOR BIG
STAMP MILL
BULLFR0G RESUMES
ACTIVE WORK
DIAM oND QUEEN PILES UP HIGH
VALUES
Gold Bar Plant Is Expected to Be
Completed by the Middle
Of the Current
Month
Special to The Herald.

| RHYOLITE, New, Dec. 1.-The contract
for the Homestake King mill has been let
to the Colorado Iron works, represented
by John E. Rothwell and w. b. Milllken.
The Homestake-King officials also made
contract with the Nevada a-California
Power company for 400 horsepower the
contract covering period of ten years.
A five-mile spur from the Rhyolite sub
station will be built at once to accom-
modate the Homestake-King and Gold
Bar mills.
The mill will be built at the mine, close
to the workings, at point only a few
hundred feet north of the Gold Bar
plant.
The officials decided to put in a larger
| mill than they at first had planned, the
| accepted. plans calling for twenty-five
stamps. which means a daily capacity
of 125 tons. The survey for the millsite
has been made and excavation work will.
be started at once. Mr. Milliken esti-
mates that 1t will require at least four
and perhaps five months to complete the
work. ~
The mill tests show an extraction of
9S.1 per cent in gold and 81 per cent in
silver, making a saving of So per cent in
values. which is high saving. Eighty
two per cent of the values are saved
by amalgamation and the balance by
cyaniding.
T. G. Blair, superintendent of the Au-
rora Bullfrog near Springdale. has re-
sumed sinking at the property and he
says it is his intention to go down $50
feet further before undertaking any more
lateral exploration The shaft is now
down 100 feet. At this level the vein was
crosscut and showed a width of seventy
feet.
The highest values appeared on the
M M inc xyoIl lie A,,t.,
on the footSwall gave an average of from
SIS to $40; and about ten feet on the hang
ing showed similar values
Drifts twenty feet each way were run
from the level. The south drift returned
averages of about sl2 in gold and Mr.
Blair says there has been a steady i'm
provement with distance
I The values in the north drift were moi,
quite so high, but it is thought to be
nearing rich shoot which dipped out OF
the shaft at twenty-five feet.
Streak Rich
Fred Strehlke, who is interested in the
diamond Queen, reports the mineral
showing there one of the finest to be
found in any part of the Bullfrog dis
trict.
He says that there are eighteen tons
or ore on the dump and that the lowest
assay ever obtained was $25S In gold.
Even the waste dump returned values
of from $19 to $2S
The ledge on which the development
is now being done measures forty feet
IN width, and the lowest return from
sampiirg all the way across, Mr..
Strehlke says was 49, while the biph
grade streak goes into the thousands.
Ihe formation IN which the values occur
is porphyry oe'-
Some sixty feet away is another nor
phyry dixie covered with a lime slide
where ASSAYS as high as s19 have been
optaineo' This vein has been only par
tally prospected but Mr.. Strblke
thinks that it will prove equally as rich
as the other
Inc property Is situated north of Bare
mountain, and about eight miles from
roses wells. 1t is now being operated
oy leasers and it is their intention to
get out shipment in short time.
The Pilgrim property, embracing four
Claims situated about 25O0 feet north of
the Mayfower will start up very soon
unoer the management of q. G. Giles. At
present crosscut tunnel has been run
tnlrty feet to crosscut a ledge that shows
up Wen ON the surface. This tunnel, it
is said, will be bored 100 feet farther
Phillips & Moesser. leasers at tho
Gibraltar, are assembling shipment and
Will SEND 1T out as soon as the smelters
are IN position to handle the ORE They
have over four tons of high grade which
VIII go in the vicinity of $500. and the
rest OF the consignment will be made up
from lower grade material which has
accumulated on the DUMP
A sample of the waste assayed a. few
Gays ago responded with $50 in gold The
leasers have lot of ore of this grade
and they have concluded to ship 1t along
with the high grade.
The leasers say that If there were a
custom mill in the district they could
a of
ing ore.
Looks Good
L. 70. Bedford, superintendent of the
Gold Bar, states that the mill now under
construction at the property will be
completed by the middle of December.
Inc only contingency regarding the
operation on this date is the possible de-
lay OF power by the Nevada California
Power company. Things in this direc-
lon' however, are being rushed and the
power people think that they will be able
to get the line completed by the time the
mill is.
The plant is ten stamps and the pro-
cess. according to tests, is we'll adapted
to the treatment of the Gold Bar ore.
Z. Kyle Smith, general manager of the
Lee Gold Crest, reports a very salts
factory mineral condition in this prop
erty. Tunnel No. 1, drift on the vein.
is in fifty feet ard recent samping OF
the face returned an average of s26S to
the ton in gold.
Mr. Smith explains, however that this
Is not to be regarded as an average of
the mine. Rich punches frequently oc-
cur, and the average stated was made
from samples when one of these punches
The general average, he says,
Is ore of an excellent milling quality, but
IS considerably below the figures named.
Picked samples go into three figures.
Work has been suspended on tunnel No.
for the time being, and the men former
" employed there are building road
fro mthe main road between Rhyolite
and the Keane Wonder to the property.
This will reduce the distance to Rhyolite,
he supply point, about four miles.
The Mayfower ores are being tested at
both Los Angeles and Denver, and 1t Is
understood that when the company is
thoroughly satisfied as to the process best
adapted to their treatment contract Will
be let for milling plant.
The Mayfiower has already an i'm