Los Angeles herald., 1909-03-01
CONSOLIDATED
SHIPS BULLION
STEADY STREAM OF GOLD TO
FOLLOW
WEEKLY OUTPUT OF FRACTION
EXCEEDS $4,000
Berlin viii Work Two Shifts-S5Ooo
ore from Broken Hllls-Ten-
Stamp Mill is Assured
Camp Wonder

GoIDFIELD, Feb. 2s.-From now on
a. steady stream of gold bars VIII IeaVe
from the Consolidated company pis
mill at Goldfeld, shipments havlls a.
readv begun, and others being pre-
-,ored as fast as the metal can be re-
torted and refined
A shipment was taken from its rest
;no Mace in John S. Cook co. S
vaults last week and conveyed by au-
tomobile to the express ONCE con
stoned TO the mint. The exact amount
,.enresented by the bars was not maze
known.
r II Mackenzie of the Consolidated
savs that the bullion now being sent
ont does not represent the result OF any
particular period of mill operation; put
that it is a part of the returns from
continuous running. ~
s.Bullion will be shipped from tile
nlant as fast as it can be turned out,
exnlained MIR. Mackenzie, and 1t is
probable that in the future 1t will leave
Goldfield for either the mint at Car
SIM or San Francisco on about eNer%
second day. The quantity to be shlppeu
is entirely uncertain. and l do not really
know Just what the shipment OF yes
terdav was worth. At the plant there
&c nrobabIv about $4,000 of the gold
in the melting pots, and it is from TINS
source that our shipments Will be sup
piled at about the intervals mentioned.
The two mills of the company are
handling approximately 100000 of ore
a week or about $4,000 day.
SHIPMENTS Increase Weekly
According to the statement of one OF
the officials of the Nevada Goldheld
Reduction works the weekly treatment
and shipment of bullion is each week
exceeding the record Of the week pre-
inc rIa NXnnl<lU
shipment of bullion from the ore OF
the Combination Fraction is exceeding
the $4,000 mark and this is trebled
with the cleanup of the shines and the
cyanide solutions. 1t is also said that
the Fraction ore runs much better than
$50 and that there is mill supply IN
sight at the present time of more than
six months with the plant running at
its full capacity
In a few days the big compressors
in the Fraction will be running and
there is no doubt that the ore supply
will be considerably larger from then on.
While the big companies and the mills
are very reticent concerning thelr
weekly output of gold bullion and there
are no actual figures available on the
amount shipped out of Goldfield every
week the occasional amounts that do
leak out" are of such size that were
the world to be given the total amount
of gold produced by this camp up to
date it would hold it's collective breath
and gasp at the magnitude of the sum.
On the first of the coming month
H B. Lind will place two shifts of
men at work on a lease just secured
on the Shamrock claim at lone, or
Berlin. The Berlin company of New
York, composed of well known men of
means, is behind the property. There
is a shaft 265 feet down, with several
hundred feet of drifts, all in ore. The
average value is about $29, running 60
per cent in silver the balance gold.
Mr. Lind has placed in charge of the
lease B. F. McDevitt, who will start
work in the Wine at the 265-foot level.
The lease is some eighty miles north
of Tonopah.
Specimens of ore from the Broken
Hills Mining company's property at
Helena show the tremendous POSSIBLE
tiles of that camp The ore runs from
$4,000 to $4,000 to the ton in picked
specimens, of which about three-fourths
of the values are in gold. The ledge
is 16 feet in width and the fancy SAM
plies We're taken from the incline at a
depth of only 80 feet. The property is
said to have never looked more prom
Using than at present.
Contracts for Wonder Mill
Contracts have been placed for the
erection of the first unit of ten stamps
for the Nevada Wonder at Wonder
according to a letter received by Wall
ter H Whitmore from ]. w. Sparks e.
Co of Philadelphia. The papers We're
signed on February 10. Preliminary
tests by Francis l.. Bosqui, the en-
gineer who devised the system of treat
ing the ores of the Consolidated Mines
company, warrant the expectation that
at least 80 per cent of the values will
be recovered on the grades running
from $50 to $65.
On the strength of the information
above the Nevada Wonder stock. which
is nominally quoted at from 80 to 40
cents, is now held in PHILADELPHIA at
70 cents share. Those in control of
the Tonopah Mining company are the
main owners of the Nevada Wonder
William Mays is the real discoverer
of the property. He with Lou Savage.
Murray Scott and William Seymour
were grubstaked by Mr.. Whitmore and
their judgment has been amply re-
warded. 1t is estimated that fully
S1,600,000 has been blocked out on the
property. The mine has been opened
up to the 50O-foot level and there are
several thousand feet of the lateral
work done, the average value of the
ore being $50 TO the ton. OF this. 81
per cent is in gold and the rest silver
The property has developed an enor-
nous assure vein which gives values
up to $1,000 to the ton, at a time when
the ore was hauled to Fallon by wagon
route. Two years ago or so the Ne
Vada Wonder stock was held as high
as $4.4O a share In the opinion of Mr..
Whltmore the new mill will be i'm rum
ming order within four months and its
operation will prove to be of decided
stimulating influence upon the entire
Wonder district