The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-06-20


Fluttering down 600 foot shaft roll of note
paper after had tramped six and onehalf miles
through the underground workings of the Goidfed Con-
soidated Mines company, piloted by superintendent
ANDY Canovan.
Upon this note paper had been carefully and painstak
nsy engrossed statistics without end Here the width
lens the production from sope and both here
and there compass readings assay returns onnages
and a composite ad nfnitum.
Realizing the futty of attempting to describe the Con-
sodated numerals nute notes cast down the
Mohawk shaft to watery grave in the sump below the
600 station.
Romance of the Mohawk
There is romance attached to the old Mohawk 1t IS
by echo of cautious footsteps the slopes
of the Hayes Monnete Curtis Truett and FrancesMo-
hawk traversed.
These are now but succession of bat deep SILENT
cavernous these huge impending masses
and shadowy
Yet these great slopes were swarming with men
reverberatng the gatlng fire of scores of ma
chine drills while half dozen hoss lifting ore to
fullest capacity by day and by night Indeed SO
strenuous activities that when Mr. Monnette
by the writer for permit to visit the workings dur
ing the latter days the leases, he told: 81 would
rather give you $3.50 than permit descend will
prevent the hosting of worth much than that
amount Mr.. Monnete, however, gave the permit
Production Of Leases
As candle CLEANS far into one of the remote
of great stope on TINS latter Vls mehtay
calculated the production of the leases in then in
values and lastly the that had been made of the
turns.
Out of this small block trife of acreage
pared with the extent Mohawk dividends with
in few weeks one-tweth of which built the third ofa-
million dollar Godfeld Hotel Out of it also came office
buildings in Goldfed residences in Chicago and Los An
gee trips to Europe otaon of large business enterprises
and all this addition the fat wage checks to hundreds
miners increased business for merchants and last but
not least huge for railroads and smelters sin
gle of from this lease netted the owners
$3.50.
Including the rich highgraded the leases this
rieted area produced few months not less than
0OO with this vast value withdrawn from
the mine the ore bodies scarcely have been pros
pected
Less than 800 feet was attained by the
vertical depth of and not onetenth of its
trend The continue above below at both ends and
both sides.
Ore to Supply Mill Eleven Years
s.How much have you in sight, asked The News
represe ntative of Superintendent Canovan
"Enough $50 grade to keep the big new mill and the
Combination plant running eleven years, " the ready
response.
Figure that amount for yourself The Combination mill
has dav capacity of nnetyfve TONS The new mill will
handle 600 daily Multiplying 365 by H. then by $50
and finally by $780, the grand product reaches the amazing
6gures ss34275o During the eleven years there will be
an extraction of such high grade that it will be
sacked and shipped adding materially to the foregoing
while at the expiration of that PERIOD the
f ore ranging in value $4 to $50 will be put to mill
Even this calculation fails to take into the
possibilities developments along the trend of the ledge
beneath 600 level where some OF the best values IN
the Mohawk are being encountered
There is only way of summing up, and that is In
.h words. ssThe Consolidated company the great
oct cold mine in the world today in the history of the
world.'
Ledge Is Fifteen Hundred Feet Wide
A. e traversed drifts and crosscuts, climbed slopes and
;s and descended into winzes seemed to be always
:; orc The ring of silica almost invariably heard as
40 tanned the walls workings Rarely came the dull
rd of the dacite inrusons Finally asked Mr. Cano-
van which ledge were than exploring. Inc same one
- - - hoon in all the time As had up to that
~ walked about four miles in many directions, the