Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
BUILDING MILLS
IN NEVADA HILLS
RICH ORE FROM MINES SENT
TO LOS ANGELES
Local and Eastern Capital Producing
Results In Bonnie Claire Region,
South Of eoIdfieId-AngeI
City Competitor
BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT


the district tributary to Goldfeld is
centering in the developments of min
ing properties in the Bonnie Claire re-
gion, sixteen miles to the south. With
capital pouring into the camp and i'm
portant finds of large bodies of low
grade ore, the district promises to be-
come one of the best of Southern Ne
vada.
Bonnie Claire is one of the oldest
mining regions in the state and attract
ed the attention of prospectors more
than thirty years ago. Reminders OF
the early days still are occasionally
found in the bones of a prospector who
succumbed to the hardships of the
then unconquerable wilderness.
Ore was shipped from the region as
far back as twenty-five years ago and
the mines were worked profitably even
against the almost insurmountable OBJ
stacles of getting the ore to the mills.
The rock was shipped to Bishop,
Cal, and then trans-shipped by the
c. & c.. railroad, via Reno, to the Sell
by smelters. The ore yielded $50 to the
ton and even with this long haul gave
profit. The wagon haul from the
mine to the railroad at Bishop was
more than eighty miles and the rail-
road haul to the smelter at Fort Co.'S
ton was more than six hundred miles.
This made the original value of the ore
about 5000 per ton. The surface show
ings of the entire district are from $50
to $780, which, with the rate of in
crease of the assays with depth,
should yield high values with deep
mining.
To Build Big Mills
The most important development
work of the district is being done by
the San Carlos Mining and Milling
Thau have ore enough in
sight to run the big mill, the construc-
ton of which is to be begun imme-
diately for three years. The workings
show 300 feet of shaft on different
leads and 200 feet of tunneling on
drifts At depth of fifty feet the vast
bodies of ore return assays of from
$50 to $50, with steadily increasing
values as the shaft goes down.
The new mill will treat the ore by
new dry crushing and concentrating
process, which has been proven the
most efficient method for treating such
ores, and will save 70 per cent of the
cost of transportation to Ogden and
Salt Lake. Even without the mill, ac-
cording to the management of the COM
pany, the ore could be shipped profit
ably to either of these towns on ac-
count of it's being easily and cheaply
mined. Twenty dollars is placed as the
minimum shipping value by the opera
tors of the district.
The completion of the plans for the
mill Is being delayed by a wait for re-
turns from a shipment of ore to Los
Angeles, where experiments are being
made with the process that will be
used. The results will determine the
details of the mill and machinery.
Work will be rushed on the mill as
soon as the plans are completed. A
number of other companies are delay
ing plans for the building of mills
until the returns from the Los Angeles
shipment are heard from. The Gold
Mountain Consolidated, the Nevada
Goldfield and the Gold Crest Mining
companies are risking large stakes in
the region and men and machinery are
being rushed in daily With the influx
of an avalenche of capital from Wis
consin and Chicago values are shoot
| ing up and every promising claim has
| been grabbed.
Good Reports from Camp
| Goldfeld became interested in the
district mainly through the report of
Mining Engineer A. P. Mallon. Mr..
Mallon has just returned from the re-
gion with C. c. Crowley, president and
manager of the San Carlos company.
Mr.. Mallon is one of the oldest and
most reliable engineers in the district,
having picked a number of winners
of the bonanza properties of the early
days of Goldfield and Tonopah. He
speaks in terms of the highest praise
of the section and is making large in
vestments.
Although the entire region is tribu-
tary to Goldfield the Clark railroad,
which parallels the Tonopah & Cold
! field railroad from Goldfield to Beatty,
is making a strong bid for the shipping
to Los Angeles and Salt Lake Last
week Goldfeld awakened to the possi-
| bilities of the new region and began
reaching out for the trade.
| The president of the San Carlos COM
pany is G. G. Crowley, for years head
of the secret service of the Southern
Pacific railroad, and a we'll known op-
orator in the district. Mr.. Crowley
severed his connection with the road to
engage in Nevada mining ventures and
he has been so successful that scores
of operators are following his lead and
entering the Bonnie Claire district.
The vice president lis j. II. Schmidt and
the secretary treasurer r. H. Saunders,
secretary and treasurer of the Nye
and Ormsby County bank of Goldfeld.
The company has five claims north
of Bonnie Claire adjoining the property
of the Goldfeld Crest Mining company,
and is leasing on two of the properties
of that corporation.
The Gold Crest company is a Wis
consin corporation and includes in it's
directorate some of the strongest men
in the district.