Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-07
SYLVANITE WILL
MAKE SHIPMENT
MINES OPEN HIGH GRADE ORE
BODIES
TWO GROUPS OF CLAIMS SELL
FOR $4,000
Moderate Freight Rates Assure Eco
nomic Handling of outPut-Those
Interested Believe the Camp
Will Rival GoIdfield

SYIVANITE, N. NJ, Dec. 6.-The
Svlvanite mines are now opening bod
les of high grade shipping ore carrying
both telluride of gold and also Tree
gold The size of the pay shoots now
uncovered is sufficiently large to DEM
onstrate that the mines will shortly
be shipping a large tonnage of highly
PAYABLE ore. The pay shoots are stead
iIv increasing in width and values
with every foot of depth obtained.
These pay shoots have been opened
IN on the Wood mine one mile nortn
of the town on the Broken jug ana
Wake-up Charlie in the heart of the
district and in the Clemmie or Hol-
comb property one mile ana nan
southwest of town-a total distance
of two and a half miles across the
mineral belt.
The Clemmie or Holcomb has fifteen
feet of solid ore opened UP for con-
tinuous length of 800 feet on the sur
face. The pay shoot on this properly
is from three feet to five feet VIDE
on November l on the surface II sort
ed for shfnnent an average of SIS a
ton. Now at fifteen feet depth, these
values have increased to an average
of 500 a ton. This ore is rosy quartz
showing telluride of gold and free gold.
hie boulder taken from this pay
shoot on Wednesday assayed 1924 a
ton. Picked specimens have assayed
s9327 S4619 and S2261 a ton. But the
raw shoot will ship 800 a ton. o
The Wood mine, at a depth OF 2OO
feet. shows three feet of ore averaging
over $50 a ton, and one stfeaK ASSAY
ing $967.20 a ton.
$500 Ore at Broken jug
The Broken jug. at forty-five feet
depth. has eighteen inches of ore av-
eraging 5000 a ton. This same streak
in the upper level averaged $50 TON.
The deepest workings are now only
itIst on top of the ore shoot. Samples
can be taken from this mine that WIZ
ASSAY thousands Of dollars ton.
The Wake-up Charlie, on the sixty
five-foot level, has nearly three feet
of ore averaging $40 a ton. IL mas
three veins all showing shipping val
ues. The big ore shoot will be 1olno
where these veins come toselI e 80 +he
workings are now only on top OF the
ore shoot. ga
The great Mohawk mine in Gold
field. New, shipped out $4,0OO,0 600 IN
ninety DAYS from one lease alone; Inc
average value of this ore was sou
TON II was the worlds record. the
indications are that the Sylvanlte
mines will exceed the output OF tne
Goldfield mines in tonnage, gross val val
ues and average values. 1t cost tile
Goldfeld operators SIS ton to mar
ket their ore. Sylvanite ore can De
marketed for $3.50 a ton.
information is received that the tun-
mol in the Handcar mine, now In forty
feet, has struck a big ledge OF pIue
orartz strongly impregnated with SUI
1btdes THE drift is now three feet
in ore with no sign of the other WaI
end ASSAYS taken show values from
$3.50 to SAL so a ton in gold; II Is
thought that this is a parallel ore
body to the main vein ana olslan i,.
from it about six feet. The miners
WORKING in the property are anxious
to take stock in the company Tor their
wages Sells for $4,000
Another important sale of the week
was that made by G. r. JoWell 10 ~.
r. Mattinson, mining man OF bI Iai,srt
Columbia. the consideration bellS
sac mo. The property comprises seven
cIair,s known as Corine Narc1ssus,
Iron King, Eugene, Evants ana NaheS
Maid. located three years ago apoul
one mile northwest of town. II is con- l
snicuous nv the outcropplng or an Nh
,nense gossan dixie $50 feet VIDE IN
,aornhvry. which carries gold values
on the surface and has been explored
nv several shafts. One OF these nearly
90o feet deep has passed through eiIe
gossan and penetrated ,o Lne md in
zone carrying copper Values' anu ~
th,s opinion of experts little more depth
&c REQUIRED TO make a big copper mine.
Nartinson has already started WORK
with a force of twelve men, :.
THE most important sale mace IA
the Sylvanite district was consuIllIIIIi "ss
cd several days ago when Harry Mood
,,aceived a first payment on the WOOD
mine from Guy E. Pierson ana Jall Z,
r. pierson of Ouray Colo, and w. e.
irwin of Bisbee, Ariz. The properly
ss MORE developed than any other IN
the cannp and has a most remarkaple
showing. Harry Wood the locator,
has been known in this sectlon loI
7nanv years, and in 1881 discovered tle
wood mine, but as SylVanite was .nen
unknown, he abandoned 1t ana relo-
cated II in 1905, and has been working
on it intermittently ever since.
Three Claims in Property
The property consists of three claims
known as the Buckhorn, East BUCK
norm and West Buckhorn, and are
traversed by true assure quartz YEN ven,
81 andesite varying in width from IouI
~ 4en feet which has been traced Tor
15oo feet and opened up in many places
III shallow shafts. The chief develop
,,5Anf consists of tunnel 25O feet long
~ which $50 feet are in ore.
The breast of this tunnel giving 4
,7enth of 200 feet shows ten rect OF
civilized ore of which seven rect aver
age s26 a ton and three feet are SNIP
ping grade assaying from gov TO , Sl1y
Z Ton selected pieces assaying as hlgh
70 Sae7 On a ton. on the dumps are
o,ar 1o00 tons of ore averaging S266
TON and about fifty tons assaylns
go, sAa 10 $40 a ton. The ore is free
,,,il1ine and as proved by tests in Den
Ter is also a perfect cyanldlng quartz,
and the vein has persistentiy l II, s,,
IN width and value at depIh. ne new
naners paid s65, 900 for the property