Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-09
HIGH HOPES
INDUCED IN
BY WONDER
PLANS ARE RIPE FOR MANY
NEW PROJECTS
WILL TRY NEW COLONIZATION
PROCESS
June Wonder Is Being Watched with
Much Interest on Account Of
the Character of lite
Ore

Special to The Herald.
WONDER, New, Dec. S.-That there
will be at least one mill in the Wonder
district within reasonably short space
of time has ceased to be a matter o.
doubt. Gust Stenfalt, superintendent o
the Lost Chord, has been in San Fran
cisco. where he talked over the mil
project numerous times with Magnus
KJelsberg, principal owner of the Lost
Chord, and one of the most successful
mining men in the country. The result OF
these discussions was determination TO
build the mill just as soon as the 1nan-
cial conditions become such that money
for any big enterprise can be obtained
from the banks.
The plan, as announced by Mr.. Stenfalt
on his return to Wonder, is to build a
mill of at least twenty-five stamps, and
also a concentrator, so that nothing but
the concentrates will be shipped from
the Wonder district.
The cyanide process is not regarded as
practical here for the reason that the
characteristic rock carries both gold and
silver, and would not give up all its
values under this treatment. The only
processes that would make feasible the
shipping of pure bullion from the Wonder
district are smelling and the improved
chlorination process. The Nevada rights
to the latter are controlled by the syndi-
cate of Philadelphia capitalists who are
the principal owners of the Nevada Won
der and the leading mines of Tonopah.
They intend, eventually, to install a
chlorination process mill in this district.
and, with this end in view have COM
pleted preliminary arrangements for
bringing electric power into the district
over a distance of seventy-five miles
from the Carson river. 1t Is not prob
able, however, that this project will be
pushed through within couple of years.
Lost Chord Promising
The present showing on the Lost Chord
gives assurance of a great body of mill
ing ore interspersed with high grade. in
the winze the vein has been proved to
have the remarkable width Of forty-five
feet, with mineral bearing quartz all the
way across, and values in places that run
we'll beyond 500 a ton. Several great
parallel lodges traverse this northwest
section of the district, cutting through
the Spider-Was and other prominent
properties.
Another plan for a mill for the dis
trict is now under consideration py T.
w. Treanor, who made careful study of
the conditions here, and announced, be-
fore his departure. that the prospects
for an enterprise of this kind exceeded
the fact that the latter had been brought
up to a high pitch by the reports of ex-
perts who had been on the ground be-
fore him. Mr.. Treanor went back to San
Francisco to confer with associates there.
One of the most active spots in Wonder
at present is in the vicinity of the main
workings of the June Wonder Mining
company. This was one of the first dis
coveries of pay mineral in the Wonder
district. Under the aggressive manage
ment of the Gibraltar Investment COM
pany of Denver this property was early
equipped with a whim, and the shaft
pushed to a depth of 200 feet.
The June Wonder plant is one of the
most complete in the district and is of
sufficient capacity to sink to a depth of
$50 feet with a maximum skip load of 1000
pounds.
Perhaps no property in this district has
been watched with greater interest by
experienced mining men than the June
W onder. This fact is largely due to the
character of the ore and the extreme reg
ularity and uniformity of the hanging
wall of the vein. The ore differs from the
character of the ore of this camp
in that it carries copper and lead besides
the usual gold and silver values. Values
up to 40 per cent in copper have been
found, and all of the first class ore gives
profitable returns in both
copper and lead, besides the gold and
silver values.