The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-03
NEVADA DOUGLAS
IN FINE POSITION
Company Has Large Tonnage
of Very High-Crade Ore
Blocked Out.
RECENT WORK SURPRISE
Gossan Country Gives Up
Quantities of Rich
Copper Rock.
RECENT WORK SURPRISE

With The Mason Valley custom plant
within few weeks Of operating, the
following report from :. 5. Arcntz SUI
porirtendent OF The Nevada Douglas Cop
per company The largest customer Of
this new plant. will be of interest to
local stockholders as showing the pre-
parcdness OF The mine for production.
Mr. Arenta ssys.
We have now pu; the Ludwig
miro in such shape that II will he
no trouble 10 keep up the tonnage we
intend shipping to ,he smelter. and
keeping this above the grade We ex-
pect 10 ship. We have encountered some
extremely high grade orc sn several
places or the sixth level. where / refer
you particularly 10 survey stations 6OS
and 6ll. The former has an average or
Hf' threo weeks iS and ii sii had about @ 10 per
cent tor the same period. We have eN,
tended the face in tho south sixth level
for some distance, and at the present
time have two faces nj orc in This work
Ing place. We are drifting 10 the north
and south in the vein from the cross
cut
Sixth Level Showing.
"On the sixth level we have twelve
places from which NC expect 10 draw
ore and where we have erected chutcs
and prepared for stopping. The most OF
iDiS IeNel lS III SiIpIlluc ores. We en-
pee, to mine from 100 TO 100 tons of
ore per day from this level and have
lio same OF an average grade OF per
cent, but We Will be compelled TO mine
exposed in three OF the stopes. The
sixth level work preparing FOR mining
has elcallr Increased the value Of TINS
level and is very encouraging in every
WAY. VIC viii not have To do any work |
nm this level until mining commences |
FOR shipments to the smcltcr.
also been very encouraging. especially SO
with the new Wcrs along the level |
Wherever the ore showed in width |
suitable for storing which. hy the way !
upward in width, VIC have put up an
opening preparatory TO stoping, and In |
a few cases has the work failed 10 open |
no the orc 10 a good width and show
fais vaiIauon. As an example where
We bssan our STOPPING on the fifth level
at what We call sol. We had twenty-five
t'an > per cont ann Nc began a crosscut
on the foot wall where An old stope had
been, towards tbs cast. and since run
ming this crosscut matter Of ntteeu feet
We have taken out orr that has ranged |
from per cent 10 1S per cent, and
averaged at least 10 por cent. The |
same can be said Of n number OF other |
places ON this level. This leycl will
produce a good tonnage I"r long time
10 como of excellent grade. The ore *
,, carbonate replacing limestone, Oft
''uF- InuHInS TOT stUlS uiSFdUcc INTO |
The scssan material.
Series of Surprises.
The fourth level has been a series,
Of surprises. especially so in what is
called the III raise. The ore which We
have stripped from tho walls during
= per cent to 80 per cent. OF course
there is not an enormous tonnage of this
class OF material. but there Is enough
or IL 10 make conSide ra bic showing in
l mo IL Sli L.
tho auarlity tina; W" could mine it.
NC arr working OH the second and
first levels, getting same ready for
stopping. and have about completed the
worl; as far as actual STOPPING is cou-
cerne6. since Tho chutes are in and
slopes started where there are ore
present soulh face NJ same. NC have
opened m a series of orc streaks. total
nE u width of fifteen feet. The material
Is = compact MaIachilo. wi,h some cop
terlsl that VIII run from Il 10 20 per
cent. THIS ore has every appears nee of
being, simiar 10 Ill" big stope ON the
tonnage from this point for some time
lo come.
Al tho Douglas HI VIC are quickly
nents and have greatly helped tho ap-
rearance OF tho mine and tho orc in
sigh, by working during the pas, three
n four weeks The condition of the
.
Hill permits us 10 take out ore 10 the
full width OF the vein with little or
40 tiinbcrlne.
Gypsum Shipments.
At the terminus of the railroad aud
IN front OF the Ludwig shaft we are
making large opening or cut i'll the
gypsum, where we will mako uuarry.
SO that 100 10 $50 tons of orc on more
II gypsum may be shipped daily This
luuariy viii be equipped with 4 l50-ton
storage bin. rhain bucket elevator and !
I large. crusner The plant will DE run
~ thirty five and ten horsepower mo-
or the gypsum being crushed To three
nehes before being loaded into tie cars
The cut being made into the gypsum F.
reports that have becn
made on same by high class gypsum {
,cthority. This gypsum will anslyze be
ween as and 10 per cent pure which VIII
sNe II place on the market not held by ;
my OF the gypsum on the coast The !
InlN machinery necessary to install before / /,
equipment is the 150-horse- |
,oWcr electric hoist. which is nov on :,
lat car al Hudson and which we will J
orins To the mine as soon as the rail-