The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-11
MINE IS EQUAL
To ANY OUTPUT
GOIdfeld Con. Can Keep Ore
Production at High
Point.
NEW WORK CERTAIN
TO TURN OUT WELL
CIermont Vein Being Given a
Chance at Depth to Show
Merits.
Special 10 The Tribune.

Special 10 The Tribune.
GOLDFIEl1D. Feb. 10.-In recent
visit 10 this camp and after visit OF
examination to the Consolida led mines
II. Foster Balm. editor of the Mining and
Scientific Press and an acknowledged
authority upon mines and metaIlurgy.
expressed the conviction that the Con-
solidated can maintain its production at
almost any figure desired. according 10
the character of tho work carried on,
BY shipping high grade ore and eN-
tractlng that of the better grade from
the proved ore bodies on upper levels
where the orc is exposed AL many points,
the output can be kept up 10 hlgn
figure and this will show correspond :
tensiveiy directed in new territory and
to the extraction of ore from the deeper
levels where there are fewer points OF
contact with paving ore and where the
cost OF extraction is materially increased
Along Established Lines.
Development in the mines proceeds
along established lines and the most in
teresting feature al present Is the new
work Of driving to the ore zone Of the
Clermont vein, as proved above. al a
depth of 1850 feet from the Grizzly Bear
shaft 1900 feet deep and the deepest in
the district. This lease, on the Grizzly
south of the CIermont. was recently sur
rendered. shortly before il would have
expired by limitation. and work from the
deepest Level was at once started by the
Consolidated 10 reach the large ore
shoots opened on the l00O-foot level OF
The company's workings. As soon as the
ore Is exposed at this depth IL will be
hoisted through the Clermont shaft, as
connection has been made some time ago
between the two shafts on two levels. In
Guiding the 1000 level.
Al present there is an excellent show
ing OF ore on the lo00foot level of the
ClerInont. the drifts having exposed large
deposits al three separate points within
n distance OF 500 feet along the strike OF
the vein. in vast quartz body In which
the drifts have been progressing on this
level fer over 500 feet.
Are Not Exhausted
AZ the first point opened this orc body
is twenty five feet wide and is exposed
for over 100 fect In length. Stopping is
now in progress In this ore and IL is
being sought on the 1lI0 level by the lat
erals from the deeper shaft. The largest
on the 750-foot level OF the Clermont,
whence comes the greater part OF the
high grade ore now being produced and
where this character of ore is by no
means exhausted as quantities OF IL re-
main exposed in the Mohawk and olse-
where.
At very few points in these mines can
the high grade ore be distinguished. even
when broken. without the aid OF the fire
test. and every new face requires con-
terTnine the value of the material In
sight. AT a few points. as on the $50
and 1000 C1ermont and In some OF the
Mohawk workings. seams OF the high
grade, dark yellow with free gold and
marked oy the presence Of black telluride
stains are readily traceable through the
main veins and stand out distinctly from
the leaner rock.