Weekly journal-miner., 1911-05-31

richest face of ore ever uncovered posed in the 700 foot level of the Alaska mine, owned by the United Gold Mines company, in a shoot, con servatively estimated as containing $1 OOO in gold, the extent or size of which has not yet been determ- ined. The paystreak is four feet in thickness carrying on the average 2.44 ounces of gold to the ton, and a large portion of which is iron OK ides, sampling SaO8.35 to the ton. On the 635 and 475 foot levels, in the same shoot, the ore shows the same thickness, samples of the aver ages of the drifts varying from one ounce to 2.16 ounces in gold, the sulphide ores assaying as high as S7O to the ton. The shoot IS exposed a distance of 400 feet in the 400 foot level. 3l4 feet in the 475 foot level, l64 feet in the $50 foot level, 13l feet in the 625 foot level, and l43 feet in the 700 foot level. A peeu- liarity of the phenomenal shoot IS that the values show persistent in crease with depth The ore is in the same geological formation and sim liar in character as that of the fam ous Congress mine, which it parallels
 ha lF- ties of the property can hardly be overestimated when it is considered that the Congress mine continued to a depth of 1000 feet on the in cline. Operators who have had charge of the Congress at different stages in its development positively assert that the showing in the 700 foot level of the Alaska is better than in the Congress at the same depth.
 As a sequel to the recent develop ment the United Gold Mines company is preparing to increase the capacity of its thirty ton plant to one hun dred tons, the tonnage in the mine insuring an ore supply for plant of this capacity for a long period. The drifts are now producing enough ore to supply the mill without any stoping. From fifty-five feet of drifting done last week a ear load of shipping ore was assorted in ad- dit;on to the tonnage treated by the concentration and cyanide processes. Only two miners are employed on day shift and one at night in each drift, so that the amount of ground broken by such a small force is al- most as remarkable as the richness and continuity of the great shoot, | considering that the greater portion 1, is ore.
 The development of this wonderful | property from mere prospect into the high place it now holds among the gold mines of Northern Arizona, was under the management of D. J. 1 Sull1van, former county assessor. Since acquiring the claims n 1896, 1 over s30O,0O0 has been expended in 1 purchase price, development and equipment, under his direct supervis- ion. The company nOws owns 5000 feet of the Alaska vein, some of the claims covering portion of the | town of Congress. The vein has an | easterly and westerly trend, dipping about g degrees to the north, with ] the great ore shoot inelining to the west. MT. Sullivan has always main tained that the property would, with ! development, prove a great gold pro- dueer, and now that his judgment has been vindicated he is naturally iubilant. He financed the operations until he organized the company. of which he is president, general man ager and one of the heaviest stock hilders, and is now arranging with fore. By fare the largest part of the ment and push exploitation on o more pretentiOus plan than ever be
  amount expended was for develop ment, as it was always his policy to prove a mine before erecting plant larger than justifiable by the tonnage in sight and available for treatment.
 "It is better to have too much mine than too much mill" he said, yesterday. "I am satisfied that the amount of ore now in sight would justify a plant of over one hundred tons capacity, but I will confine the installation of additional units to a hundred tons, and continue develop ment of the great ore shoot, prefer
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