The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-04
GOLDFIELD IS BUSY.
Leasers Are Helping to Swell the Sum
Total of Good Done
Special to The Tribune.

Special to The Tribune.
GOLDFIELD, New, July 3-Combi-
nation Fraction, Goldfeld Consolidated,
Florence, Jumbo Extension and st.
Ives are prominent among the Goldheld
mines which these latter days are swell
ing the weekly production of the camp
10 an average Of $500 tons, worth in
the neighborhood OF $60o,0o0. Some Of
the output goes through the Combina-
ton mill, some through the Nevada
Goldfeld reduction works and the bal
ance TO the plant at Miller's or direct
TO the smelters, 1t is largely due to
Gold6eld that bullion purchases of the
Carson City mint are greater than at
any other time within the last fifteen
years.
Goldfeld Consolidated mines is cough
ing into mammoth bodies of picture ore
under the old Hayes Monnette and Tru-
EFT lease workings, lifting from the 25O-
foot level quantities Of dirt from an
eight foot face that samples $4,000 per
ton and having stored a heavy weight
Of rock that ranges in value from $500
TO $4,000 the ton, Both General Man
ager J. w. Finch of the Consolidated
and President Thomas g. Lockhart OF
the Jumbo Extension deny that there
is any foundation in fact for the ru-
NOR that an apex suit Is pending be
tween the two bonauzas. the Wedge
Fraction of Jumbo Extension and Con
solidated s Mohawk.
Very shortly there will be four hun
dred men working at the old lsh. Sheets
and Kalfus leases, on the Combination
and Mohawk possessions of the Consol1-
dated, now operated under one manage
ment, that of the newly organized Mo
hawk Combination Lease company.
Shafts are sinking and drifts are run
ming upon ore that daily improves In
value, about two-thirds of the product
now averaging $l25 per ton and the
balance $50 When the workings get
to operating full blast the daily output
shoull run 20 5000 and the earnings
for the six months life Of the lease
should be not less than 81 ,250,000. The
Mohawk No, ! Leasing company, at
10 feet from its shaft. has drlfted at
100 feet into four feet of ore that
promises to develop into shipper.
crosscut is running on the 800 level
for the same lead, The Nevada Pearl
lease on the Combination is down 220
feet in a hattering formation.
Leasers are doing the business on the
Florence, pending the company's com"
pletion of its big mill. In the month
of June the Mohawk Florence lease
sent TO market ] ,342,7S5 pounds of ore,
for which it received returns of 1896
3S9.10, au average of S35 90 per ton,
The Little Florence lease shipped 907,-
sos rounds, the slimmest lot running
S92 l5 per ton and the best S933.6S.
Returns upon the last few consign-
mcnts have not been received but upon
the balances the returns show an av-
craze value Of $2e2.12 per ton. The
January Jones lease on the Cornishman
claim of the Florence is taking ship
ping ore from the l75-foot level. Sheriff
ingalls, has been appointed receiver Of
this lease upon application of Willard
Y. CroXall and Marvin Arnold, having
a grievance against Jones. The Flor
ence Ledges lease on the Firebght claim
has seventeen feet Of ore on the 100
level, five feet OF it averaging $50 per
ton. The main shaft is down $50 feet
a winze is sinking on the pay shoot
from the $50, and an upraise is going
to meet it from the $50.
The Pollard lease on Florence has
sunk to the $50 aud is drifting on what
appears to be the Little Florence ledge
near the Baby Florence line, The Au-
reha lease s double compartment shaft
is past the 2G0,foot on its way TO the
100 level, and has the same ledge a.
drifting from shaft No. 2 on the 2S5-
foot and is sinking for the 250 al shaft
No. |. adjoining the Little Florence
block, The Chicago Florence Mining
and Leasing company is sinking on nom
inal values at It's lease on the Red King
claim. Jumbo Extension has three ship
ping leases and another coming up. In
June the Higginsou lease shipped 229,-
0SS pounds, the ore averaging S1i1 per
ton, The Mohawk Jumbo lease sent
out 65S,74l pounds. The banner lot GO
ing 1856 per ton and the BOBBY $22,o4. !
The Frances Mohawk lease. formerly
the Curtis, has opened on the $50 level |
six TO seven feet Of all-over 800 ore,
with a big streak good for average !
samples of from $1,000 10 $4,000 per
ton. At present the Iligginson lease is |
getting out about twenty tons Of high. |
grade daily An air compressor is be- |
ing installed it being the purpose to
sink 10 The S00-foot and crosscut both .
ways on the 275. The Annex, Hig- |