Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
MINING MEN ACTIVE
AFTER COSTLY FIRE
ConfIagration Put Two Score of
Consolidated Stamps Out
of Business
(snecial to The Herald.l

GOLDFIELD, New, April 24.-The
starting of seventy stamps of the Con-
solidated mill within less than eight
days after the disastrous fire is re-
garded by mining men as remarkable
achievement on the part of the man
agement From the first reports given
out it was expected that the plant
would be idle for at least fifty days,
and the resumption of 70 per cent of the
equipment was the result of plans
perfected by j. H Mackenzie, assisted
by John Fleming and Daniel Bosqui.
Officials of the company state that
during the reconstruction period ship
ments of high grade ore from the Cler-
mont and Mohawk workings will be
sent to the smelters in sufficient volume
to return a sum of money equal TO the
additional 80 per cent in production
now prevented by the suspension OF
thirty stamps. The work of repairing
the plant is going forward rapidly, and
within thirty days the entire plant Will
be operating at full capacity.
TREATMENT OF ORE
The Florence-G -Goldfield mine is main
tanning its established daily treatment
of $50 tons, the mill heads ruuuing over
$22 a ton. The main shaft at the mill
to the $50 point, and after that level
is reached and while the upper part
of the shaft is being enlarged to two
compartments and manway by raising,
the mill will be supplied with ore from
the Little Florence shaft and the ore
conveyed over an aerial tramway Wh1ch
has been in use for some time past.
Development in the mine continues to
add largely to the ore reserves at many
points, and upon the completion of the
main shaft to the $50 level several of
the best ore shoots in Florence ground.
which have heretofore been explored
only above the $50 level, will be opened
up at deeper levels to the 800 and 1t
will thereafter be a simple matter to
sink another lift and seek these de-
posits at even greater depth.
Developments on the combination
Fraction are pronounced by the man
agement to be of satisfactory nature
and it is becoming more and more ap-
parent that this property will shortly
resume operations on paying basis.
on the 500-foot level the ore body eX-
posed some time ago has been followed
for some distance, and sill floors are
being prepared in readiness for stoplng
on a large scale.
SHIPMENTS are being made regularly
from the Annex workings on the Pole
verde claim of the Jumbo Extension.
The raise from the SO0-foot level is all
in ore, so that the entire break is
hoisted to the shipping bins and the
average value of the product is around
$50 a ton. This ore has been followed
on the same level in drifts east and
west. and trends directly toward the
claims of the Goldfeld Merger Mines
company, where several leases are
wording actively on the Velvet and st.
Ives claims. c. B. Higginson and as
sociates are working from a shaft
sunk three years ago by lessees and in
a direct line with the strike of the An
mex vein. The Codd lease is equipped
with n high power hoist and will sink
the 55O-shaft to a depth of 1900 feet or
more Shipping ore has been exposed
on the Commonwealth, Blue Bull, Sim
merone, Daisy, Sandstorm, Gold Bar
and Black Butte, and a strong vein,
carrying from two to three feet of $95
ore, has been exposed at depth OF
$50 feet by Weber & Mclaughlin, who
are leasing on the south end of the
Booth