Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-14
.COMSTOCK MINES SHOW
GENERAL IMPROVEMENT
0phir Runs Eighty Cars Averag-
ing $29-Mexican Continues
to Prospect at 2400 Feet

VIRGINIA CITY, New, July 13.-
Three levels of the Ophir mine have
yielded ore the past ten days. which is
a vast Improvement over recent re-
ports, and the mine is looking better
today than it has for some time past
The ore developed was on the 23O0-foot
level in the asouth drift from west
crosscut No from main south drift
and so cars avera ging $29. SO a ton were
taken out. This drift has been in ore
at several different points in its prog
ress, but each time the values have
been stronger and the vein more clear
ly defined. The face is in ore the full
width of the drift and the outlook as
far as can be determined is most prom
Using at this point over 200 feet in
tervenes before the north line of the
Con. Virginia is reached, giving a big
territory to work. and there is also the
likelihood of the vein extending into
Con. Virginia ground. On the 200-foot
level of Ophir forty-nine cars averag-
ing $44.0S were taken from the under
stope i'm the southwest drift. The 2400-
foot level, in the southwest drift, also
continues to show up well. and sixty
nine cars OF $17.52 ore taken out. Only
eight feet advance was made this week,
as it has been found necessary to tim
Der the drift.
In the Mexican mine, the north drift
on the 2400 level, from east crosscut
No. was advanced seventeen feet and
is still in clay and quartz giving low
assays. Mexican has thus far proved
up over 275 feet of quartz bearing vein
on this level. and the end is not yet in
sight. 1t tells a likelihood of big do
ings on the levels below as they are
opened. The southwest drift from the
west crosscut on the 2400 level has
been discontinued and northeast drift
started opposite the southwest, which
is in porphyry, clay and quartz giving
low assays. On the $500 level the east
crosscut from the winze station was
advanced thirty-two feet and is now
out seventy feet, passing through hard
porphyry. 1t is said that the forma-
ton and character of the country at
the start off is much more favorable
than it has been on the levels above.
AT CONSOLIDATED VIRGINIA
Con Virginia has continued the ex-
traction of ore from the stope on the
$50 level, 149 cars of low grade ore
being placed in the chutes. The south
drift from the crosscut from the raise,
1850 level. was extended and forty-two
cars of $604 rock saved. The main
south drift on this level was ad-
vanced ten feet and the face is in
quartz of low assay value No work
was done in the west crosscut from
the north drift on the 2450 level Pump
ing continued as usual, but work clear
ing the shaft below the 2450 is still
suspended. pending the repairs to the
1850 centrifugal pump.
At the Ward shaft the west cross
cut from the 2O0O station was advanced
four feet and is now out fftY-foUr
feet. Work was also continued on the
2475 station and repairs made in the
shaft On the Sutro tunnel level of
Chollar the south drift from the raise
is still in quartz and porphyry.
The Yellow Jacket mill crushed a
good tonnage of ore in spite of the
short week. and S94 tons were put
through the mills. divided as follows:
Crown Point ore. 375 tons; Jacket mine
ore, 1874 tons: Jacket pump rock. 32f
tons. In the Jacket mine all work on
the 400 level was stopped after the
second of the month on account of
timbering in the shaft to the 100 sta
ton. Five feet Of the incline shaft
was retimhered above the 100 station.
Jacket shipped H. tons of COncen-
trates to the smelter. The output of
the Belcher mine from the 200 and
200-foot levels was above the average
this week and included Isl cars aver
aging 1854 from stope No !, 200 level:
stope No. 2, SO cars averaging $1056
per ton: 300 level of the upraise. .
cars assaying 1929 to the ton. Grown
Points extraction was 23 cars Of $11S0
ore from cast crosscut No. ., $50 level,
and Il cars of 1851 ore from stope No.
l. 80 feet south of the north line, 1900
level. y raise has been started from
the seventh floor of this stopn and the
ore is being stored PENDING the repairs
in the Jacket shaft. Grown Point
shipped twelve tons of concentrates.
The two west crosscuts on the 1900
level of Overman are entering very
interesting country at the present time
and the quartz pow bn"innino to show
in the face Of both indicates that work
is approaching point where some
thing of moment is likely to develop
any day In Caledonia an cast CrosscUt
has been started on the 1900 level,
thirty feet in the south drift which
will cut an uneXplored country a
vein is known to exist in the east colln-
try on the levels above. and as there
is 500 feet of ground in length to crt,
this new work is of the utmost i'm
pOrtanCe.