Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-10-03

it will be seen that he was at once
I put on easy street The states
proportion of this sum was $780,
973, which made the present bullion
tax collector sit up and rub his
eyes.
Daring the period when this big
bullion tax was being paid every
three months the leading producing
mines were California and Con-
solidated Virginia, under the
slperintendancy of James G. Fair.
and it will be Of interest to learn
that for the quarter ending March
3l,; 1878, these two mines produced
an output of 112.5 tons ore. the
gross value of which was $1O,O4S,-
$40, and yielded a net return to
the company of $7,426.490. show
ing an expense account of $2,622,-
020. The record book shows that
the biggest production of any one
mine during the years named was
from the Consolidated Virginia
mine for the quarter ending March
81, 1876, when the net returns for
the three months was Sc, $50, 279. 95
on total of So, l18 tons extracted.
1t can be stated in the way of ex-
PLANTATION for this huge output that
the mine sought to make record,
it being centennial year, and there
are many who will remember the
famous shipment of bullion in that
year.
From April l, 1875, to September
80. 1878, the Con. Virginia and
California mines produced total
sum of money in excess of $103,-
$40, 200, which is of course only
small part of the total yield of
these two mines. Recalling the
greatest period of activity at the
northend offers a most satisfactory
explanation of the confidence that
is felt at the present time by the
Management, of these mines in the
possibilities that exist in these
same properties at depth and the
determination to get below the
present water level to explore the
new ground to the east. The
ground being opened up now has
exposed ian entirely new easterly
vein system. and experts believe
that as depth is acquired a big new
ore deposit will be found. In the
Consolidated Virginia much work
is now being done in. the vicinity of
the old slopes, it being possible
now for the first thine to get into
that territory since the big fire.
1t is not necessary to review the
operations of the past two years in
the newly unwatered country at
the northeEd except to say that
Ophir lis making good, Mexican
is getting good ore for the first
time in its history, and Con.
; Virginia is practically paying it's
own way in reopening the old
: bonanza country. On the 2450
= level of the latter property q
promising vein has been cut, but
: cannot be prospected until the
pumping equipment is at a more
advanced stage. On the 1850 of
: the Con. Virginia, which will soon
, be reclaimed, some prospecting
d. was done, but the maps all show
that the work was not carried far
5 enough to the east to enter the
{ new vein system that has been dis
: covered by intelligent mining and
! prospecting. .na#
The desire of all those who have
followed Comstock mining since It's
palmy days has been to get into the
levels below the Sutro tunnel down
, to the 5000, and below and now
, that this big project has been we'll
! launched and is underway through
the C. & C. shaft and will soon be
through the joint Union and
Mexican and Sierra Nevada Wine,
it is we'll to recall the tremendous
results obtained above the tunnel
level. While the state bullion tag