The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-14
CONSOLIDATED ORES
ARE RICH At DEPTH
ClcrmOnt and Mohawk Deposits
Develop in Satisfactory
Manner.

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GoLDFIELD New, March l3.-Accord- =
ing to j. r. Finlay. general manager Of
the Consolidated Mines company. the
workings at the 1OO0-foot level Of the
Clermont are now i'm an ore body OF large
proportions and the average Of the con-
tent OF mine cars hoistcd is above $50
per ton with occasional assays running TO
siN ounces gold. The raise from the 1000
foot level is still in ore of good quality at
point sixty feet above the deepest
level. the raise being near tho foot-wall
Of the ore e-shoot. The manager states
that the showing on the 1000 foot level Is
superior even TO that the 500 level
where ore Of good quality is being stopped
for considerable width, but at the lat
ter level il has thus far beer sought to
open only the ore-shoot farthcst 10 the
cast.
Another important announcement is
contained IN Mr Finlay's statement that
the main Mohawk ore channel has been
penetrated on the 750-level by an eH-
tension OF the cross-cut driven from the
Clermont shaft This channel trends
nearly parallel to the great Clermont vein
at distance OF about l50 feet west and
I'm the opinion Of the manager will later
be found TO form junction with the
Moba,yR ,Srsy' shoot @ Is now opened ned At depth
of $50 feet below the former deepest
workings. on the 600 level, although II
has been developed TO some extent on
the latter and at one point. near the
great slopes near the southeast extremity
OF the Mohawk claim. u wnze was sunk
80 feet on good ore below the 500 leygl lev,
the $50 Clermont workings,
Lucky Boy in Ore.
Ore OF medium grade is exposed at
depth OF 500 feet on the Lucky Boy
claim in the northwest lateral from the
Clermont. This work has reached the
downward projection OF the Red Top vein
but is not nj IT'S richest point; In this
vein on the 260 and $50 levels. ore OF
good quality has been exposed almost
continuously for distance OF 100 feet
north and south. Recent work In the
vicinity OF the VIpegeronc fraction, lying
between the Red Top and the Laguna of
the Consolidated, indicates that some ore
OF low grade Will be extracted from this
ground but not at great depth as the
ore bearing vein dips out OF this ground
near the surface. The Consolidated 100
stamp mill continues to treat oyer 500
throughout the mines is being prosecuted
upon a record breaking scale.
The Florence Goldfleld company is now
1900 tons monthly or 100 tons daily. and
the mill heads are maintained at above
$50 per ton The work Of enlarging the
main shaft at the mill TO three compart-
ments is now in progress. This shaft
was OF but one compartment and only
$50 feet deep until last year when the
single compartment was completed TO the
500-level by driving raise from the
cross-cut on that level, driven from the
engineers shaft. Since then laterals
have been driven from several Of the old
lease shafts TO connect with the main
workings and the entire mine VIII here
after be drained from this central point
But little development has been done IN
territory Immediately adjacent TO the
main shaft at n depth greater than $50
feet, although the work of driving lat
erals has proved the continuation OF the
ore at depth.
Florence Treats Low-Grade,
A considerable tonnage of low grade
orc. some running as low as So per ton
has been treated in the Florence min.
Much of this material was. taken out OF
necessity in the course Of development
and was sent through the mill at once
for the reason that a second nSnaiihs Ing
Large bodies Of medium grade ore ard
exposed In the territory formerly en-
braced in the Wngtield lease. the first
to be operated on Florence ground: A.
that time, four years ago. much OF this
ore which was exposed could not he
marketed at q profit In The absence OF
returns to the Florence company with
its excellent equipment for treating the
product, -
For some time past Manager Willis
Lawrence has been storing large guam
titles OF orc in the old slopes near the
Little Florence lease ground and this Will
form the supply for the mill, conveyed
over the aerial tramway. during the pc
riod In which the work Of enlarging the
main shaft Is in progress. The long
drift to the north at the 800 level is now
nearing. the territory OF The famous
Reilly lease and a raise VIII soon be
driven to connect with the old workings
for air. This drift has already exposed
large quantities Of excellent milling ore.
The production OF the Reilly lease, nearly
a million dollars In a period OF ninety
days, came from above a depth OF 26O
feet At the south Of the Florence mill
u drift is being sent into the Rogers
Syndicate lease territory where there is
"a body of good ore twenty feet wide at
the 500 level and where winze was sent
down in good ore sixty feet below this
depth With the main shaft completed
to the 500 level il will be an easy mat
ter 10 drop down another lit and explore
the bonanza engineers vein and others
in this neighborhood in which the ore
shoots hear no indication OF pinching out
near the 500 level