Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-03
LOCAL MEN BUY
GOLD PASS MINE
BIG VEIN OF FREE-MILLING
GOLD TO BE WORKED
Is HEAVY QUARTZ OF ENORMOUS
WIDTH AND DEPTH
Company to Run Tunnel Below Apex
Of VeIn--ore VIII Be Dropped
Through chutes to
Cars

What is considered one of the largest
has recently been taken up by parties
in Los Angeles and the Gold Pass
Mining company has been organized to
work this immense mine on a large
scale. 1t Is located twenty-four miles
west of Kingman, Ariz., in the San
nine miles north of the Gold Roads
section and In the same range of
mountains. The property is some ten
miles back from the Colorado river. 1t
is considered the same mineralized
zone as that of Southern Nevada, but
the veins are said to be much larger
and can be traced for many miles in
northerly and. southerly course.
1t has a width of $50 feet and has
been developed by tunnels for a depth
of $50 feet, and the vein runs through
the length of two claims of this group,
making g distance of 5000 feet.
The ore is free milling gold, and Is
heavy quartz carrying iron in large
amounts. 1t has a hanging wall oe
rhyolite and foot wall of andesite.
and the ore occurs in shoots running
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runs from 50 to over $40 ton. One
shoot averaged $26.10 for a width of
twenty-seyen feet, while another shoot
three feet in width runs about $25. Two
feet assays $30.53, while many other
shoots varying in width from six to
thirty feet will run from $40 to SIS.
The company proposes to run new
tunnel 500 feet below the apex of the
vein, in on the vein midway between
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points to both walls. The ore above
the 400-foot level of this tunnel will
then be dropped through chutes into
cars, which will be sent to the mill
to be built at a lower point and about
700 feet from the mouth of the tunnel.
The loaded cars will be sent to the
mill over an incline railway, and the
grade is such that no power will be re-
quired to develop the mine or trans
fer the ore to the mill.
This will permit of the handling OF
very low grade ores should the COM
pany decide to treat such bodies, but
1t will require long time to exhaust
the bodies of ore running from Sc to
$50 that is now blocked out.
The Gold Pass Mining company is
planning to begin operations in the
near future on large scale.
N. M. Richardson, one of the former
owners, has been retained as manager.
and will have charge of the mines.
The officers and directors are all men
Of standing In Los Angeles. c. A.
Stutsman of the law firm of Stutsman
& Stutsman is president of the COM
pany; B. r. Huntington Of South Pas
adena is secretary H. W. Ballard is
assistant secretary, with offices at 445
building, and L. Ashmun is
treasurer. Besides these men j. c.
superintendent of the Los
Angeles Interurban Railway company,
Is director.
Plans for New Tunnel
The remarkable vein on this prop
erty was located some eleven years ago,
and over 500 feet of development work
has been done to date, with an immense
amount of ore blocked out. The upper
tunnel is in. ore for $50 feet. The lower
tunnel, which has been driven for 240
feet, has blocked out large amount
ore ore. The new tunnel to be driven
he ore above this point at very low
cost.
Ore running So a ton can be treated
1t profit, but the company has at
east 100000 tons of good ore now in
sight which could be drawn on at any
ime.
The new tunnel will make possible
ne ndnullnB OF d very large daily tom
lage, probably from 600 to 1000 tons
lay.
The San Francisco mining district is
the attention of capital.
ind the time is near by when 1t will
,e one of the important and largest
PRODUCERS of gold in the country. It Is
'nly a days ride on the Santa Fe
abroad to Kingman and two hours
ide from there to the Gold Pass
properties. There Is plenty of water
which is owned by the company for
Milling purposes, and it is expected
hat this company will bring further
anne to this already growing and pro-
uoino Senfinn