Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-28

level of the sea and high up and we'll OF
toward the middle of the Silver Peal
range Of mountains has recently beer
established the new Stimler mining dis
trict, and from the indications that now
exist it gives more than ordinary promise
of becoming one of the leaders of Ne
yada's camps.
Will Have New Road
AT present approach to the new camr
is slow and circuitous and requires tine
greater part of a days travel. To gel
there one has to go by train to BlalI
Junction, via Tonopah and thence tc
Blair, where a team is taken and drive
of fourteen or fifteen miles follows over a
road that for a few miles compares favor
ably with any in the country, but the last
section of which is over rocks and through
sandy washes. However, work Is pro-
crossing on the road leading out of the
new camp and within the next few days
II will be put In shape that travel will be-
come comparatively easy, and added 10
this the plan to establish stage route
between there and Goldfeld. now in for
nation, will bring this district within a
very few hours ride of the new camp and
make Go1dfield its chief supply and re-
ceiving point.
The main property of the new district
is that owned by Henry Jagels and Harry
P. Stimler and consists of a group of ten
claims, three of which are being worked
by leasers. Among those at work are the
Consolidated Nevada Mines company,
Watson, Marachi & Coburn, Shirley e. In
gals, Swears & Burton and many others.
Thirty odd leases, however, have been let,
and within a week or so big majority
of them will be at work. The deepest
workings in the camp are on the blocks of
ground owned by the first three named
leasers, and at depth of fifty feet. which
has been attained by all of them, the
showing is truly remarkable and proves
the section to be highly mineralized and
the pay shoots rich and continuous.
Preliminary tests of the ores of the
various properties owned by the Goldfeld
Consolidated Mines company have been
completed and the exact method for their
treatment has been determined Plans
are now being prepared for the mill to
treat the output of the properties.
1t is proposed to handle no ore that
runs over $50 ton in this mill, but the
high grade will be shipped, as at present,
to the smelters.
The mill will at first consist of 100
stamps. all arrangements being made for
enlarging the plant when necessary. In
working out the treatment method 1t was
decided to equip the works with cyanide
plant that will handle the tailings green .
or direct from the mill. In fact, the
change from ore to bullion will be made
within a very brief time, the raw material
passing rapidly from one process to the
next.
The mill will be operated as nearly auto
matically as possible. 1t will handle about
800 tons a day, five times the capacity of
the mill that the company is now operat-
ing on Combination ground.
Material for the tramway at the Pitts
burg Silver Peak mine at Blair is now
nearly all on the ground and the tramway
is being rapidly completed. 1t will be in
working order in abou. one week, when
the first twenty stamps of the mill will
start dropping. The other eighty stamps
will be placed in commission shortly aft
erwards. The beginning of work in this
mill is matter of widespread interest
as the Blair mine, as 1t was formerly
named, is generally conceded to be one
of the richest in the world, not in respect
to assays but TO tonnage.