Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-02
FL DORADO STRIKE
GROWS IN VALUE
CroSScut DiSCIoSeS Twenty-Five
Feet of Ore Averaging
SIP a Ton
RICH HILL TO BUILD A MILL
Ten-Stamp Concentration Will Be
Operated in Connection
with SmeIter
RICH HILL TO BUILD A MILL

LAS VEGAS, New, June 1.-Reports
of the strike on the 4O0-foot level of
the Nevada Eagle in the lower portion
of the Eldorado district, are confirmed
IN a most remarkable manner nv tbe
Jews that the ore body has now been
cIoSScut distance of TWENTY-FIVE feet
anu SHOWS an average value of $40
ton. An ore body twentv-tx,,o f11lt
woe li OF this value is rare in Nevada
me Rich Hill, owned by the santa
baroara company, with John Tavlor
Seueral manager, has started work on
the grading for a ten-stamn "o, oonooo, Uil
tidlor plant, to be operated in con-
nectlon with the Nelson sme1ter ounaa
py TINS company. The new mill will
pe installed at q point close To the
SIelter and will treat custom ores ~
a limited extent. The first unit ~ ten
stamps will be followed with ten more
as soon as required and it is probable
that this plant could be kept in on
se f@otoh ono continuously up to a capacity
OF 200 tons daily
Inc capital Mines company has
crosscut to the ore on the 200-foof level
ana e opened a large body of sulphide.
shipments are being forwarded stead
lIy IN ren-ton lots to the Needles plant
1t has been definitely decided 70 in
staIl at once 50-horsepower engine
and hoist at the Capital, and plans are
now being made for the erection of a
teh-stamp mill A recent strike on
the Capital, several hundred feet from
the working shaft on the same vein.
shows high grade in quantity.
,. f. Roberts, working on his claims
near the Eagle, has opened a BODY of
shipping ore and is now hauling to Mel
son, from which plant the ore will be
hauled to the railroad for shipment to
Needles. Mr.. Roberts started work in
a ten-foot hole and uncovered pay
within ten feet.
BUYS THE dolly MILL
Sam Harris, for the Success Mining
company, has purchased the Dolv mill
installed in the Eldorado camp near
the river some twenty-five years ago,
and Will erect the plant with improve
ments and additions on the June Bug
claim. Harris has a lot of ore that
shows free gold and with almost any
kind of mill can be certain of good
pay.
Thomas Brodegee, on the Lucky Dan
has made a good find of lead carbonate
and galena carrying good gold values
Both shafts on the Truax e Martin
claims are in ore of good grade, a gem
eral sampling showing values from $50
H.
thirty feet and the other over forty
feet. The vein shows in place for a
distance of 1900 feet on the surface
The Occidental company is reported
to have made arrangements for an ear
ly resumption of operations. The
property is equipped with a 35-ton
Bryan mill.
The Bergman mill is in steady opera
tion and is turning out a very salts
factory amount of bullion, a shipment
having been made sufficiently large to
meet a large portion of the current in
debtedness.
The Sphinx, owned by the Eldorado-
0xnard company and managed by John
Peake, has resumed. work after two
months shutdown. The shaft will be
sunk to the 500-foot level from the
present 200-foot point.
The Little Black Hawk company,
owning the east extension of the IA
nous old Wall Street mine, has start
ed work after a suspension of nearly
two years. The shaft on the Little
Black Hawk is within 200 feet of the
workings on the Wall Street which
produced nearly $2,000000, and is in
ore that pans we'll across the bottom
of the 100-foot shaft.
The big four-cylinder gasoline trac-
ton engine belonging to the Sandstone
company made its first trip to Las
Vegas a few days ago, The big Dug
seems to work perfectly and is doubt
less a great Improvement over the ole
tvpe of traction engines with large
drive wheels. The machine will make
q speed of four miles an hour over
rough roads and haul load of thirty
TO forty tons. The object of the pres
ent trip is to secure supplies.