The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-30
FLORENCE FINDS
NEW COLD ORES
Four Feet Discovered Whose
Grade viii Raise Average
at the Mill.
SEVENTH STATION
SOON WILL BE CUT
Combination Fraction Is in
Good Mill Rock Below
Third Level.
Special to Tho Tribune.

Special to Tho Tribune.
GOLDFIELD. New, Jan. 29,-Ou the
Florence Goldfield good progress is be-
ing made In sinking the main shaft below
the 600-foot level and the next station
Will be cut at depth OF 700 feet. In
the meantime lateral development Is GO
ing forward rapidly on the 600-foot level,
100 feet below the deepest workings
opened on this property In the past, and
several OF the ore-shoots which have
been productive on upper levels VIII
soon be opened UP at this depth while
there is now every indication that
much better quality OF ore will soon be
going 10 the mill than that which has
been treated during the past year. In
OF last year the company's mill treated
ore OF a very low grade for this camp
the company's treasury profited by more
than 100000 In net profits during that
period.
An excellent showing Of ore is reported
in new workings on the o00-foot level OF
opened in the main Florence vein at q
point some forty feet from the shaft,
This ore body is said to be from three
to four feet in width and to average
around $40 per ton in gold. Drifts have
been started north and south in this
ore and preparations are being MADE to
same e-shoot Is being sought on the
900 level. Much interest Will necessar-
ily attach to operations In the near
future on the 500 and 700 levels and to
the results OF opening at depth the ter
ritory which has yielded great quanti
ties OF exceedingly rich ore. chiefly to
the lessees. on upper levels.
Continues to Develop.
Combination Fraction continues de-
velopment and the treatment of a COM
ratively small tonnage OF good milling
ore at Its leased mill and the MANAGE
ment has met with some encouragement
ore OF good quality between the third and
fourth levels, where the work has been
centcred of late. The results of de-
yeopment on the deeper levels have been
somewhat dlscouragng for some time
past and even at present IL cannot be
said that there is sufficient tonnage In
sight TO insure, profitable mining opera
has proved to be erratic in quantity and
grade but development is being carried
into territory heretofore unexplored in
the hope OF opening deposits OF greater
volume.
Lessees operating on the Atlanta are
preparing to sink three Of the principal
shafts. from which a considerable amount
OF exploratory work has been done In the
past. to depths of from 1000 to 1900 feet
and one shaft that OF the Queen Con-
to the 1900 foot level. This company has
been working from two shifts. the orig
inal Atlanta or June shaft. which 1t has
Fairview Cherokee shaft, in which some
good assays were obtained at Il depth
Of $40 feet where this company has been
leasing company has also been driving
a long lateral at depth OF 705 feet
from. Its main shaft to orosscut the
country between this tn r., point and the
field, in the hope OF penetrating the
downward extension of ono, Of the Flor
ence ore shoots. The Maloney or, Big
Florence lease workings on the Atlanta
are being unwatered on the lower levels.
below the 600-foot point, and sinking
will be resumed at once with the object
clous Metals company, which has ex-
plored promising vein for a long dis
tanee on ,r the ; ISo-foot level VII also con-
at least 1000 feet depth.
Encouraging Assays,
No work is being done at the present
on the Booth, but 1t is announced that
operations will be resumed shortly on an
extensive scale by the Lind lease. work
ing from the company shaft, Some very
encouraging assays were obtained in
vein opened In these workings on the
36o-foot level and H. B. Lind. who con-
time last year, has not abandoned the
conviction that he will find pay ore in
this territory. The lessees operating on
Booth and Orc, who are reported to have
found Gre of shipping grade. are contn-
uing development but are exceedingly
retlcent regarding the results or tnelr
operations. The Manning lease on the
Oro continues crosscuttlnG the country
on the 350-foot level. west and south
west OF the company shaft and all the
work Is in dacite similar to that of the
adjacent producing mines.
large vein carrying ore OF shipping
grade is exposed in the Wheeler Knick
erbocker lease on the Spearhead. The
ore shoot was first exposed some time
ago on the 200-foot level and has now
been cut on the 250 level, There has
been no effort at production for shipping
as the lessees have a long term OF ten
ure and will continue for the present ex-
ploring the vein and blocking out the
ore in preparation for regular and eX-
tensiVe production On a more economical
basis than would be possible at present.
This discovery has had stimulating ef-
feet upon the adjoining Velvet group of
the Gold(ield Merger Mines company, to
the south and west, and On the Blue Bell.
Grandma and Kewanas. to the north,
and northwest,