Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-06

on the 150, 200 and 350-foot levels, and
in addition to the ore of shipping quail
itv there is a large tonnage exposed of
excellent free milling ore, which will
be Immediately available for the mill
The lessees are using machine drills
and have a large force Of men at work.
The shaft Of the Grizzly Bear lease,
on the Jumbo group of the Consolldated
has passed the 1000-foOt mark, ana a
station will be cut at the 1850 point,
from which a crosS-cut Will be sent out
to the west to cut the Mohawk VEN Or
as If is known in this ground, the Ger
mont vein. This shaft will soon be the
deenest in the district, exceeding In
denfh even the Clermont shaft OF the
Consolidated
No ore has been found in sinking
the shaft, and none has been expected
but from the dip of the big vein, as
Indicated in the Clermont workings
but a few hundred feet distant the
vein should be penetrated at a point
not far from the shaft at the looo
level Manager Wallace Maegresol
will shortly install a larger hoist III
order 70 permit of extended develop
ment at the deepest levels.
Leasers Boost Atlanta
eoven leases now operating on the
Atlanta make that property one OF lne
busiest scenes in the district. Inc
Garrison or Precious Metals lease IS
developing at depth of 730 feet' ana
has cut promising quartz VEN from
| which small assays have been op-
tained The Maloney lease is cross
cutting at the 675-foot level; the queen
Consolidated lease is sinking the orig
ina1 Atlanta shaft, also known as the
Boom shaft, from the 400 TO $50 lever;
! the Fairview Cherokee lease is about
| to resume operations at the 6oO-loot
mark and will continue sinking anu
| developing; the Century lease mas
| closed down for a short time, but VIII
resume sinking from the 40 leVel' anu
operated by j. A. Houlahan.
on the Daisy several leases are
onerating and occasional shipments are
| sent to the samplers. The. original
Daisv lease was forfeited some time
ago. and Millard e. Jones, VINO were
| oDerating a sub-lease on this GROUND,
| are now negotiating for an extended
lease covering the old Detch Workings
from the slopes of which fortune was
taken early in the camps hiStoIy.
I,essees on the Belmont are shipping
ore. and the Campbell lease on the
Black Butte has been shipping hlgn
grade from a three-foot vein exposed
| in a wnze from the upper adlt. some
shipping ore has been exposed recently
on both the Commonwealth and the
Blue Bull, both being on the same vein,
but the extent OF the deposit is not yet
determined. 1t is announced that work
will be resumed in the 600-foot shaft
If Tho stills lease on the Gold Bar, on
the line of the Victor, and that the {.
O. d. company will further open up the
Victor workings.
On Goldfeld Orc
A new lease has been granted on the
Goldfeld orc, where development VIII
be started by the middle of this month
by George Manning and associates IN
the 275-fOot shaft which Will be con
tinued to a depth of 500 feet. rms
lease embraces tho company workings
which are equipped with a good cleo
trio hoist and other machinery.
The Mineral Wealth company will
start operations under the direction of
Louis Schloss, formerly manager of the
KeWanas on the Cracker Jack con-
siderable amount of work has been
done by Mitchell & Fairfield, who
opened a largo vein carrying low grade
material. The Mining and Ore Reduc-
tion company has moved its hosting
plant to the old shaft on the Golconda
claim of the Consolidated and will
drive for the vein opened by long
crosscut from the later workings.
Two leases are operating on the
Booth. The II. b. Lind lease includes
the old company shaft and equipment
and on a crosccut is being driven to
the east from this shaft through vir-
gin ground toward the northern eX-
tension of the Red Top vein. The
Weber Mclaughlin lease, working
from the old Banner shaft, has driven
toward the vein which it is believed
has been reached and assays up to $11
ton have been secured.
The Lincoln Goldfeld lease on the
Combination No. claim of the Consol
idated is driving toward the Florence
vein at a depth Of 600 feet from the
Moore shaft Some good ore has been
taken from the La Foe lease on the
Gold Coin claim of the Jumbo EXten
sion company. Several shipments have
been made by William MacKay and
associates, who are operating the orig
inal st. Ives shaft and workings and
they are now driving through a mar
row strip of caved area to reach rich
ore shoot opened on the 350-foot level
by former lessees.
The strike on the Annex lease has
had an important bearing on the value
of the st. Ives and Velvet claims of
the Goldfield Merger Mines company,
where leases are now in great demand.
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