Weekly journal-miner., 1910-11-09
VENEZIA MILL IS DROPPING FIVE
 STAMPS
(From Fridays Daily.)

In the Venezia mill five of the twenty stamps are dropping on ore from the main shaft of the Venezia claim. The mill is short of water, but the company Is putting in a long pipe line to run the water from the Mineral Springs guleh to the mill by gravity flow. This will enable ten stamps to be dropped instead of five and the other ten will be swung in to commission immediately after a snow or rain, which is expected soon. Adequate water for every purpose will be supplied from the main shaft of the mine as sinking progresses. There is an increased flow below the 100 foot level and it is proposed to sink the shaft to depth of five hundred feet.
 The Crook Canyon section isI awakening from a torpid condition simply on account of there being a chance for ore treatment. The Ven ezia mill is of daily capacity of fifty tons With ample power and room for additional units to be in stalled when requirements justify. The policy of the management is to give the miners a square deal and encourage mining of the ores of the section for production and profit. Work once well started on the mines, 1 now developed, and situated within a radius of one mile of the Venezia | mill. will readily afford a production | of not less than 100 tons Der day. l There is plenty of good ground now available, where industrious miners, | under the leasing system, can realize | from s to $7 per day. The ore in the veins is persistent and shows un- usual values in gold.
 Venezia Operations
 Present operations at the Venezia | mine consist of cutting a station at the 100 foot level in the Mill shaft | 4On the Venezia claim. From this | point drifting will be started north and south to the limits of the ore shoot. The vein is five feet wide, and as treated in the mill it plates SS per ton and gives a large amount of concentrates, which average $3I to the ton. The test made was from all the material broken in the shaft dur ing sinking.
 In tunnel run from the surface at the collar of the shaft, now in a distance of 110 feet, the ore vein is fully eight feet in width of the same sort of stuff. Stoping will be begun as soon as the drifts have reached point far enough from the line of the shaft to permit. The ore is a sulphide, with streaks of solid iron. which carries four ounces of gold per ton. The latter will be sorted for shipment after drifting begins.
 Mineral Springs.
 R. L. Chubb, leasing on the Min eral Springs claim of the Venezia group, has ready for shipment TO tons of fine milling ore. Values range from $50 to $175 per ton. Ere quently specimens showing free gold are found in taking down the ore streak. During the past few days, MT. Chubb has opened continuation of the same ore shoot at a point fifty feet lower on the hill than where he is mining the ore. The f showing and values are the same as above and the new tunnel on the { vein will increase the available ton mage more than three times. The 1 main ore shoot is now opened l5I feet Tn length, with average width of 1 twenty-two inches. Three miners are employed in breaking ore. with the lower tunnel being under con tract.
 Cross Property.
 Owing to the recent starting of the Venezia mill, Mr Cross, who owns a mine situated about one mile below Palace Station. will send a trial run of fifty tons to the mill. Profitable returns will enable him to put several miners to work extract ing ore for further treatment, as hi. property is well opened
 Picture Values
 Ten tons of sacked ore is being packed for shipment to the Fl Paso smelter by John Coles of Slate Creek. This a very rich lot of ore. It all shows gold in wires and grains with the hard quartz showing in it to such an extent that it is adapted to the manufacture of jewelry. The lot of ore is estimated to run from ,, S4OO to $700 per ton. The milling | ore will be packed and treated at | the Venezia mill.
 Champion Mine.
 At the Champion mine, owned by :: Mrs. Humphreys and son. there is , raedy for the mill 25O tons of good ore. It consists of surface quartz and sulphide of lead and iron. The gold is mostly free and will yield high per cent by plating and addi- tiOnal values will be saved by con centration. Regular sampling indi- eates an average value of one ounce gold per ton. There is a large block of ground opened in the Champion.