Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-25
GOLD BAR MINE
MAKES SHIPMENT
INITIAL CONSIGNMENT WILL
BE ONE OF MANY
QUICKSILVER PROPERTIES LOOK
PROMISING
Daisy Syndicate Works Three Shifts
on Two Shafts-StrIke In Jack
Pot Is Stratified with
Gold

GOLDFIELD, Jan. "A. - Shipments
started last week from the Gold Bar,
owned by the Goldfield c. o. D. COM
pany, consigned to the Nevada Cold
field reduction works. It is expected
that shipments will be continued stead
lily. as the showing in the upraise at
the 23S-foot level is one Of the best
finds that has been made in the dis
trict. All the ore that is shot down
from five feet of the vein is good pay.
The screenings, according to many
assays, will average $3.50 a ton. The
quartz that is now being shipped IS
that which has accumulated in run
ming drifts, WINES and upraises on the
long shoat on the wide dixie. The pay
proportion of the vein in places mar
rows down to three or four inches, and
necessarily a good deal of waste will
be mixed with the high-grade that the
first shipments will be no criterion Of
values in the new find. When the ore
bins are cleared then high-grade ore
will be hoisted and shipped.
The company has been considering
the erection of a modern mill at the
mine, and scores of tests have been
made on the ore by metallurgists and
in reduction plants throughout the
country. 1t has been found that the ex-
traction can be made, although the rock
carries copper in excess Of 8 per cent.
In places the copper values run as
high as Is per cent, and picked pieces
have been tested that went a great deal
higher.
The copper values are considered evil
dence that the ore will be found at a
great depth and that the shoot will be
continuous. On the Mohawk and Flor
ence copper is also in evidence, but not
of the high-grade character Of that
found on the Gold Bar.
At Quicksilver Mines
w. ]. Davis, who is making a great
success with his quicksilver mines at
lone was in town last week to take
out another shipment of additional
equipment. The plant has been run
ming for two or three months with six
retorts. and something over eight tons
of the liquid metal is already in the
TASKS and ready for marketing. Three
more retortS were taken out last week.
The policy pursued by Mr.. Davis in
the development Of these rich CHINA
bar deposits is to make the enterprise
pay its own way. So far there IS
every reason to believe that the lone
cinnabar deposits are among the rich
est in the country. In the course of
time there will be a furnace erected
on the Davis holdings, after which the
capacity will be greatly increased and
the monthly income in cash correspond
ingly enhanced. Over $4,000 worth Of
the metal is ready now to be shipped.
Jack Banta, who has property in
this same vicinity, came in last week
with the glowing stories of improve
ments incident to the work done dur
ing the past six months. He believes
that the lone quicksilver region will
surpass the record of the Mel Almaden
country in California. He examined
the Davis workings, and something of
the enornity of the deposits can be
realized from his statement that at
the end of an S0-foot tunnel on the
cinnabar ledge crosscuts have been run
both ways aggregating f1fty-two feet
without reaching either wall. A shaft
has been started on the Hiskey-Bruton
quicksilver property, which adjOins the
Davis holdings.
Daisy Works hree Shifts
The Daisy syndicate is working three
shifts on two shafts. Work was start
ed a few days ago on the old shaft, 700
feet east of the main shaft, and where
in a short time last year 5 1000 worth
of ore was taken out in a short time.
This was at a depth Of 210 feet, where
there was plenty of water and swelling
ground that was hard to hold, and it
was thought that with depth the for
nation would become more solid.s
While sinking on the Jack Pot claim,
which lies adjacent to the King Solo
mon claim at Jessup, the first discov-
cry here by Messrs. Murray & Jessup
a ledge was uncovered lying in con-
tact with the huge porphyry dixie which
runs through from the Mary H. claim,
showing specimen quartz saturated
with gold. The ledge as uncovered is
three feet wide, the dixie making it's
hanging wall and andesite for the foot
wall. There have been many appIica-
lions made for leases on the Jack Pot
claim.
Mackedon & Taylor of the Gold King
mine are extracting another carload
shipment with two shifts of miners,
which will go forward in a few days
A foot of ore on the hanging wall car
ries average values Of SIPS a ton, and
from this streak shipping product
running about 5000 a ton is being sort
ed. Accompanying the rich streak is
three feet of milling ore which averages
$4,000 a ton, which is being extracted
and placed on the dump.