Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-27
BONNIE CLARE
IN NEW ROLE
DIRECTORS DECIDE TO EQUIP
PLANT
ONE HUNDRED-ToN MILL WILL
EXTRACT 90 PER CENT
Gold Mountain Property Prepares for
Operations on Large Scale
and Expects to Produce
In a Year

At a meeting of the directors of the
new Bonnie Clare Mining company,
held Saturday in Los Angeles, it was
decided to go ahead at once with the
work of modernizing the milling plant
in accordance with recommendations
made by General Manager Andrew j..
Trumbo and Vice President S. Il.
Owen, both mining men of experience.
When completed the plant will have
capacity of not less than 100 tons a
day, and will make an extraction OF
from 80 to 92 per cent of the assay
value of the ore. 1t is the belief of the
management that the new mill will be
in operation and turning out the gold
bricks from which dividends are de-
rived by January /, 1910.
The property of the company is To-
Gated in the Gold Mountain mining
district midway between Goldfeld and
Bullfrog, and consists of three groups
of claims, namely the Courbett, Hard
Luck and Rattlesnake. The mill,
which was built by the old Bonnie
Clare company, consists of ten stamps
of the Union Iron works pattern, and
two mortars, posts and line shaft
ready for ten additional stamps; Twin
boilers of 70-h. p. capacity each, one
65-h. p. four-valve Atlas engine and a
45-kilowatt generator from which the
electrical power is distributed. Tho
machinery which is to be installed will
overcome the loss which the plant, as
at present constructed, sustains in the
shines, and will also increase the ca
pacity of the mill.
Sustains Report
The report made by Mr.. owen sus-
tains a previous report made to the
stockholders by the general manager
Andrew j. Trumbo, who estimated the
milling ore already blocked out and
available at over $2,000,000. Both are
conservative mining men, and the
statement which each has made is in
keeping with the past performances of
the mines included in the group, which
added their quota to the wealth of Ne
vada when there were no modern mills
to convert raw ore into yellow bullion,
when markets were remote and mining
operations were conducted along the
I crudest of antiquated methods.
Mr.. Trumbo, who has been in charge
%of the mines since July l, is preparing
tan additional report, which will be
mailed to the stockholders. Ample fl
nances for the improvements in the
mill have already been provided, it is
said, and in the meantime the develop
ment of known ore bodies and the
search for new ones goes on in the
Courbett, May Day and Rattlesnake
claims, by leasers and for company ac-
count. BY October 1 three cars of
first class ore will be ready for ship
ment This ore is from the leased
ground, and the value 9f one lot will
be we'll above 500 ton. Officials of
the company brought back samples of
ore recently opened up on the Cour-
bett by Lessees McLain and Link,
where the entire bottom of a winze
which is being sunk from the lower
level is in quartz which assays $50
containing a considerable percentage
of lead and some silver.
On the May Day claim Leaser Sea-
man has opened six feet of ore which
returns $139 for the entire width.
The addition to the mill will consist
of ten stamps. for the reception of
which the mortar blocks are already in
place; four Wiley concentrating
tables, four Diester slime tables, two
Pachuca tanks and an Oliver filter
plant.
The mill is situated ten miles from
the mine, on the Tonopah & Tidewater
and the L. V. & T. railroads, and part
of the rejuyenation plans encompass
the building of a spur to the mines,
which il is said will be undertaken
shortly by one of the two roads, the
mining company having cheerfully and
with alacrity agreed to the condition
imposed by the railroads, namely, a
guarantee of 100 tons of ore daily for a
period of two years.
"That will be easy" said an official
of the New Bonnie Glare, land we will
be mighty glad of the chance to get
our ore transported to the mill"
Both General Manager Ryan and
General Agent Keith of the T. & T.
have visited the property, expressing
the opinion that there will be no OBJ
struction to the plan for spur. J..
Ross Clark vice president of the L. ".
& T., has also ordered an engineer to
the field, and the matter of the spur
is conceded to be settled.
Reach Other Properties
The proposed branch of the road will
penetrate nearly to the heart of the
Gold Mountain district, where there
are half a score of good mines thar
will be able to ship when the line is
completed. There are no engineering
difficulties, the road running along d
wide wash. which needs only to be
leveled off and track laid.
Mr.. Trumbo has been running the
tailings from the mill through the
plant and has netted the company So
a ton, treating so tons daily.
The New Bonnie Clare Mining COM
pany has prepared an exhibit of ore
from it's different mines for the Ameri-
can mining congress, which is in ses-
sion in Goldheld this week, and both
Mr.. Trumbo and W. w. Whitney Of
San Diego, who Is president, win at
tend as delegates.
The Rattlesnake and Courbett mines
of the New Bonnie Glare holdings We're
famous producers forty years ago, and
made regular contributions to the
metal market until five years ago.
when the old Bonnie Glare company
purchased the numerous claims and
built the present mill. Louis Chiato-
witch, who owned the mines, operates Il
small mill of antiquated pattern at
Thorpe's Wells, near where the pres
ent plant stands, ages before the rail-
roads came up across the desert from
the south, and is living retired life
of ease on the fortune which he wrest-
ed from the hills.
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