Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-27
HART CUSTOM MILL
PLAN OF BANFIELD
WATER SUPPLY FOR TWENTY
FlVE-TON PLANT
Big Chief still Taking Out Fifty
DoIIar Ore and Has Richer
Stuff at Cut of
Vein
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
HART, Cal. April 26.-H M. Ban
field, manager and superintendent of
the Garavanza Mining and Milling
company, accompanied by f. A. Halins.
an expert mill man, have been in Hart
the past week making arrangements
for the building of . custem: mill.
They are highly pleased with the out
look and intend putting in plant of
twenty-five tons capacity to begin
with, ana announce this will be in
creased from time to time as water is
developed. A sufficient supply of wa
ter has already been arranged for
twenty-five-ton plant. The companies
here are favorable to the enterprise,
and Mr.. Banfield announces that the
mill will be in readiness within ninety
days.
The Big Chief lease on the Orc is
taking out $50 ore in its shaft and
the upper tunnel at a distance of 100
feet has cut the vein, which on the
surface at shallow depth assayed 500
per ton for one foot across the ledge.
the balance being good grade of mill
rock. In the west tunnel, which is
being driven through the mountain,
four feet of low grade ore was uncov-
cred last Saturday. This working will
have a depth of 800 feet. and cut in Its
ersng the leasehold.
The Sloan lease ON the Jumbo is now
working In thirty feet of ore, portions
of which averages $50 per ton. Over
800 sacks of highs grade have been
taken from this lease the past two
weeks.
The Quartette company, owners of
the Jumbo estate, installed a hoist this
week. and three shifts are employed
sinking the shaft. The Jumbo lode is
fifty feet in width, and can be traced
for nearly 1000 feet in length.
Bevers and Barrett owners of the
Rambler. the southern extension of
the Jumbo, are in a good grade of mill
ing ore at a depth of thirty-five feet.
Two leases are also working on the
Rambler. both of which are in ore.
Andrews and Marsh, lessees of block
l, Orc Belle, are in four feet of $50
ore in a crosscut running from the
fifty-foot level. The entire face of
the drift pans colors an inch long.
The tunnel being run by Hart and
Hit on Orc Belle No. / has reached a
distance of $50 feet, and for the pase
fifty feet the working has been in an
immense body of low grade. In the
upper workings at this property an ore
zone sixty feet in width has been
penetrated. portions of which run as
high as 5000 per ton.
Extensive prospecting has been
going on the past week on the Fair
view and Providence groups, owned by
the Hart Consolidated Mining COM
pany. Two good sites have been Sc
lected for the tunneling and active
work at this property will start the
coming week. At frequent places
along the ledge traversing the Fair
view for a distance of 1000 feet or
more good paintings were obtained
this week. The holdings of the Hart
Consolidated are the direct north ex-
tension of Orc Belle No. 1, upon which
claim Hart and HIT made their orig
inal discovery and which resulted in
the great rush to this camp three
months ago. A hoist and compressor
will be installed.
Among the important developments
the past week has been the strike
made by ]. d. Goodwin on the Sunrise.
located mile northwest of camp. At
depth of fifty feet five feet of $40
ore has been uncovered, and the owner
is now drifting in the ledge. which Is
daily showing up greater than when
first encountered. Rock running into
the pictures shows in the face of the
drift, but a conservative average Is
around $50 per ton. The strike was
made in section of the district where
little or no work has been done to date.
and extends the area of the district
one mile farther northeast.
The quartz mill for the Big Chief
company arrived this week and is now
being installed. Ore from the Big
Chief lease and Hart and Hits Orc
Belle No. will be treated. The Quar-
tette company will install a mill of
large capacity as soon as sufficient
water is developed
Two carloads of ore is now on the
dump at the Stamphur lease on block
of the Piute Belle. At a depth of
| fifty feet the lessee is drifting on the
vein. The values average around $2S
per ton, and as work progresses the
ore shoot has every indication of being
an immense one: