Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-17
STRIKE STIRS ALL C0LDf|ELD.
Bottom Of Shaft ui Mohawk Jumbo
 Lease in Rich Ore.

(N. '. Commercial. May 25. OIL
 When the pay streak was reached. the rock went Sl,O00 across three feet.
 George B. Holleran. of the !. H. MacMillan company, who Is manag- Ing the lease. says that not one word escaped him concerning the strike, and notwithstanding statements to the contrary, no intlmation Of the shaft being in high-grade was had until Friday afternoon. Previous to that time the highest assay received by the company was $79.
 The ore Is tellurium, and is identical with that taken from the Hayes-Mon- nette and the Frances Mohawk lease on the Mohawk The shaft is now in the ore body for a depth of i've feet. and there are no indications that show II letting up.
 The Mohawk-Jumbo Leasing com pany's lease continues until the first of next year. The company is work ing a three-compartment shaft, and has T5 horsepower double. drym electric hoist, which makes the mines equipment the best in Goldfeld. Ar engagements are being made for an immediate shipment, us 40 tons of thigh grade have been hoisted from ], the mine in the last 24 hours. Strikes crowd upon one another on 1 the Jumbo extension property. An- 1 nouncement is made of another strike 1 the second within two days, or ore at | the 23O-foot level of the Higglnson ! lease which averages from $T0 to $500. The lower grade values are found in almost unlimited quantities tn a strip ] running eight feet across the ledge.
 The ore body also contains tellurlum. {, The ledge is thought to De the same as that ,of the McNaughson Mohawk , lease, which, taken in conjunction with the Higginsop lease. gives an ore body of 100 feet a width of 150 feet in length
 The Mohawk adjons the Jumbo ex- tension on the southwest. and the vein of the former mine Is said to have been traced directly across the leased property.
 We were not at all surprised at encountering the vein.' said a man ! closely connected with the manage | ment of the lease. The surprising thing IS that we didn't run into it sooner. The ore Is uniform in grade and will run all the way from S400 up with a safe average somewhere m between. Of course, a few picked samples will return much higher val ues. Work will be rushed at top I speed and every pound of ore possible J will be taken out before the expira- i ton of the lease.
 The Jumbo Wonder Is another busy lease on the Jumbo Extension prop erty. It Is bounded on the north by | the I.aguna and Red Top. which are within the S00-foot mark of the Won- der, on the west by St Ives and At- lanta. on the west by the famous Mo- hawk and on the east by the Original Velvet.
 These properties have proved to be producers of the highest quality.
 The Wonder is owned by coterle of Philadelphia capitalists who. after thoroughly Investigating the merits of the proposed lease. placed their CHpithl tutItih iHt HiuhuRtutS-ht i' In the hands of John W. Hummer. who is thoroughly equipped by years of practical experience to handle tlie proposition which he has undertaken.
 Before the labor troubles began this company had reached the So-foot level and had done considerable drift ing.
 Alex Comstock of the Buckingham building who is the local representa- tive of the Jumbo Wonder Mining O.. and sever-l Waterbury people who have bougiS large blocks of stock in this company on his advice are high ly elated over private adviccs from the foreman and superintendent of the mine. who declare they would not sell their stock at any price and expect to he independently rich men within the year that their lease on the Jumbo Ex-Mine still has to run. They struck ore that assayed s52s ton at the S0-foot level and as the papers are daily recording almost phenomenal strikes all around they are in daily expectation of making very rich strike and the stock may be with drawn from the market any day.