Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-01
MOHAWK STRIKE TO
MAKE 1T THE LEADER
CONSOLIDATED WILL SURPASS
OTHER MINES
Six Hundred Tons Daily with Gross
Value of $4,000 - Some-
thing of the Big
Find
Consolidated Leads


Consolidated 600 tons daily at $40. S94, 900
Portland mine 800 tons daily at $50. 6,00o
Homestead mine 1900 tons daily at 81 $1,000
TreadmiIl mine 5000 tons daily at SO. lo,ooo
GOLDFIELD, May 31.-The big strike
on the Mohawk made at the 6O0-foot
level, in a crosscut driven east ana
where, in a diagonal direction, there
is showing thirty-two feet of ore, is all
that was at firse predicted. There is no
doubt that this is the most important
find made in the history of the camp
The strike also proves that the ore
goes down and that the values, as weii
as the width of the ore body nave not
diminished In driving the crosscut
fifty-one assays were secured on the
ore, lust as it was shot down, that
average s51.5O per ton.
These were mine samples of gener-
Gus size that carried high grade
streak eighteen inches wide. This was
not included in the general samples,
as that ore would run at least $l50
ton.
The crosscut is being continued after
the vein of pay rock for a distance or
forty feet that is all quartz, but not
of a marketable grade. When that
hanging wall is reached it will not be
andesite, dacite, or any other members
of the porphyry family that is looked
for, but good, old-fashioned ore.
The Consolidated is not trying to
make any production, and Will not un-
til that mill on the west slope of Co
lumbia mountain is ready The mill
will require 600 tons a day to keep it
busy and in the meantime Manager j.
H. Mackenzie is hustling to provide the
tonnage to keep 1t going. Only deVel-
| opment is goin- on with every indlca-
| ton that when the mill is ready tc
start there will be ore enough in sight
on the Consolidated to keep the stamps
| busy for years to come.
| In the crosscut at the 600-foot leve
the body of ore was cut diagonally. A
check-up shows that the vein of high
grade is twenty feet wide when cut al
right angles.
| While crossuctting is prosecuted
there is also some work going on ir
the ore bodies that have been opened
up From the bottom of the Winze thai
has been sunk from the 450-foot leve
drift to the north has been extended
all the way on ore. The entire breas
is in ore that assays as it is broker
| from $3.50 to 5000 ton. Assays on thu
ore yesterday taken from clear across
the breast went double that figure.
drift has also been started north OIL
| the wide VEIN AT the ouU-IOOI point, dllt
according to the assays received from
the little work 1t would look as though
the tail end of the rich shoot hat
betn run through in the crosscut al
the values are much higher and th
samples are taken like they were il
| driving the crosscut.
| The main working shaft on the Con
solidated will be on the Claremont
and the work of putting down th
three compartment shaft from the pres
ent depth of $50 feet to depth of S5
feet will be under way by July l. Ac
cording to the surveys, the ore shoot
that have been developed on the Mo
hawk will be entered at this depth ant
not before. While these ore shoots ar
faulty, when one is found 1t is ha
a pitch to the east, and that pitch ha
been proved to be pretty uniform. Con
nections will be made with the Mo
hawk shaft at the 600-foot level. am
the distance between the two is abou
800 feet. The Claremont will b
equipped with $50 horsepower electri
hoist. and all the equipments necessar,
to work big mine as 1t should be
Grading is now in progress for spur
from the company's road to the mill
both to the Claremont and Mohawl
shafts The cost of these Improvement
will not be less than 100000.