Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-28
SHELTER BLOWS
IN ON A TRIAL
keller PLANT WILL RUN
TWENTY DAYS
CASA DlABLo MINE INCREASES
ITS FORCE
Monster Property Makes Initial Ship
nent-Greenwater Prospectors
Look for Immediate Re-
VivaI in Camp

BISHOP, Cal, Dec. 27-On a trial
run which is to last twenty days, the
smelter at Keller, owned and operated
| by the -Four Metals company, is turn
ing out 24O eighty five pound bars of
| bullion every day. or 20 400 pounds Of
gold, silver and lead, the three minerals
possessed by the ore which is being
run.
Naturally the large bulk of the bull
| lion is lead, since the ores are largely
lead-silver ores from the mines sur
rounding Keller Some very rich gold
ore, however, is also being run. and
this, while it does not add materially
to the bulk of bullion produced, is add
ing very much to the value of the daily
output
A. NJ. Strong, mining engineer and
surveyor from Bishop, returned from
Keller last week, where he did some
work on the completion of the aerial
tram from the smelter to the Cerro
Gordo mine. He says that the smelter
superintendent is pleased with the re-
suits of the trial run. At the end OF
this run the company hopes to have all
its purchased custom ore cleaned up
and to begin on the Cerro Gordo ores
which will be trammed down by that
time over the new tram line.
increases Its Operations
Operations at the Casa Diablo mine
north of Bishop, in the Chedago dis
trict, have been increased, the full
working force of miners and mill men
now numbering forty-seven. C1eanups
are made every day in the mill. with
a monthly production of over $4,000 in
bullion.
Last week Murray an expert mill
man from the Mother Lode section.
where he had charge of the Kennedy
Gwinn mine, came down to take charge
nc he nil tiaf hi
ir charge the management hopes TO
save even greater values than they
have hitherto.
Mr.. McNeal the superintendent for
the mine, was in town last week. and
spoke very optimistically of the prop
erty.
''The Casa Diablo is opening up into
a great mine" he said. Our opera
tions so far have been devoted to an
exploration rather than an exploitation
of the lodges that we have. The vein
en- which we are now mining, and from
which we are taking over $4,000 a month
in bullion, is the lowest grade ore. We
have, and not the one at all for which
We are driving. We expect to encoun-
ter a vein of high grade ore within a
short time. and when we open up this
ledge the Casa Diablo will turn out a
surprising amount of bullion"
Monster Makes First Shipment
The Monster property recently taken
over by A. A. Stanton and associates,
made it's initial shipment of ore to the
smelter at Keller in the early part of
the week. Four ten-horse teams are
employed on the work. Up to the
present about fifty tons have been
sacked, which is estimated will net
between $50 and 500 a ton Pockets
of ore running considerably higher than
this have been found
in wi <
expected to be increased in the near
future. Practically all the work is be-
ing done in ore, which has every indi-
cation of making great depth. The
Monster is already proved property.
If the present showing continues with
development it has a chance of becom-
ing one of the great silver-lead mines
of the west.
Latest reports from the Greenwater
district on the eastern border of InyO
indicate a gradual Improvement
i'm conditions in that camp and a grow
ing optimism on the part of the resi-
dents there and those who own mining
in the district A recent
visitor at Greenwater and Gold Valley,
which is i'm the same district, reports
activity. Numerous ex-
petitions have been arriving in the dis
trict during the last few weeks to do
the annual assessment work, This eX-
penditure is fully Justified by develop
ments in the shafts of the Greenwater
and Death Valley company
Shaft at Greenwater
This shaft is now down more than
1000 feet and i'm the crosscuts many
stringers of rich copper ore are being
These are sulphides for
the most part, and it is expected that
the ledge may soon be reached. De-
or
Is going on constantly.
At Gold Valley the Baltic group,
which attracted such general attention
some months ago. is showing up well.
the prospects of the entire
district are brighter than they have
been for more than a year and If the
mining market improves through the
winter there will probably be more ex-
-ensive development work started early
IN the spring.
Discovers $40 600 Pocket