The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-26
GOLDFIELD ORE
MOVING AGAIN
Many of the Operating and
Leasing Companies Are
Running Full Blast.

Goldfeld, March 25.-The Daisy COM
pany has received a check for the best
lot OF unsorted ore yet shipped from the
mine 1t consists of ten wagon loads con-
tanning 40$4 tons dry weight and con-
tanned $40 ounces gold and 40 ounces sill
Yer to the ton, total of Sl36.32 per ton,
which was scaled down TO xl32.S5 by the
sampler, which pays only sly per cent Of
the gold and 50 per cent of the silver con-
tents. The entire value of the lot was
S0,A5.l6, the treatment and freight 81
1880. leaving $4,2l426 net for the COM
pany.
The company has been making regular
shipments from this part of the mine
since March ! of 81 600 a day, the ore
averaging sl00 a ton. During the week a
raise was put up fifty feet distant from
The western extremity of the proved area
and encountered an ore shoot of which
one foot carried values of $3.50 a ton. The
management is now driving a crosS-cut
from the 400-foot level OF No. 2 shaft to
the middle of the three east and west
veins and will then drift east to the in
1ersection of this vein with the cross
fissure from which the ore is now coming.
This viii give $50 feet greater depth on
an ore shoot which promises to rival the
great bodies Of the Mohawk. The ore is
sulphide and carries small percentage
OF copper in the form known as tetra-
hedrite.
The Mohawk has cleared out its ore
ping 20 tons of ore that averaged a lit
tie more than 500 ton. This is the first
shipment made since last October, and
will be the last for some time to come as
the company is doing nothing but develop
ment work The main shaft is down to
depth of 600 feet and winze has been
sunk for 40 feet on an unbroken body
of ore, the material which COMPRISED this
shipment The Wine will be continued
10 connect with the 600 level of the shaft
At the Combination. the only other of
the Consolidated company's mines which
IS working, the mill is treating IS tons
of ore daily. The concentrates are stored
in the bins and the bullion goes to the
mint The output of the mill is about
$4,000 month. The company is rushing
10 completion the railroad to the site of
Its big 50-tOn mill and the equipment for
the plant viii commence to arrive about
May l.
Salt Lakers in Good Ones.
large number Of leases are working
on Consolidated company's ground and
midsummer should see at least a trim
lty OF heavy producers. John DOnnellan
former Salt Laker. has secured a valu-
able block of ground on, the north end
OF the famous Red Top vein and is sink
ing shaft at the rate of five feet day
a hoist has been installed and no time
VIII be lost when the ore is reached
Harry Mcmillan. another Salt Lake boy
mas resumed work on the Mohawk Red
Top lease. ana expects to commence ship
ping ore within a month. The shaft had
already entered the Red Ton vein when
the panic. followed BIZ labor troubles
stopped work. Sinking was continued to
a depth of AZ feet, which is the common
lever on which all the Consolidated mines
been cut
Mcmillan and his partner, George B..
HOlleran, have joined hands with RaiDb
Waterman and Dick Colburn. who are
old residents of the Utah capital and win
develop their lease on the Red Ton Fv
tension. adjoining. through the Mohawk
Red Top shaft. The dividing line is but
titteen feet from this shaft and the paw
shoot in the big vein will be reached
within three weeks.
These leases are but a stones throw
rom the MOhawk-Jumbo lease. where
Mcmillan and HOleran mined $4,000
worth of ore in five months This Iease
Is now closed down by order of the federal
court. on injunction proceedings brought
Dy the Consolidated company against the
Jumbo extension Mining company the
Consolidated claiming apex rights Roth
sides are preparing for the trial the
samplinS for the plaintiff company baing
conducted by Hugh Trenholm. who was
1or several Years superintendent for the
tate l.. - Ritter at Silver CITY in the Tin
ne district Another Tintic man NJ r
Samnon is SHIFT boss at the Moba u,lr
and many of the miners are from, ParIr
Nty, NINE superintendents say the Utah
miners are the best they have ever had
Three OF the Florence leases the EIor-
ehce Annex. Little Florence and Rogers
syndicate are nearing their end and are
rolling out $4,000 worth of ore every dav
The miners get 81 a day and every man
around the works gets bonus of a dav
ana a half every week. The Little Flor.
ence lease alone has shipped 8. 900 0Oo
worth OF ore since June l of last wear
ana was idle for three months of thai
lline. Last week the company sent 3Og)
pounds of ore to the samnler which
brought Sl.2S a pound. Shipments from
TINS lease average 500 ton.