The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1912-09-06
STAMPS ARE DROPPING
AT GOLDEN GATE MINE

The ten-stamp mill erected at the
Golden Gate mine, just back of Lit
tie Antelope Valley in Mono county,
was started up last Saturday and is
now hammering away on the vast
ore deposits of this mine. The
Golden Gate property was viewed
by representative of this paper
Sunday and was found to be one of
most advanced mines to be develop
ed in this section.
Last February A. B. Hall and
associates took bond on the Golden
Gate from its owners, Ed Donovan
and Joe Brown and for the pas. five
months have have been putting the
property in shape for successful
operation. Besides the installation
of ten-stamp mill, a tramway
1000 feet in length has been built
from the mill to the mine, high en-
the mountain side. Here a tunnel
400 feet in length has just been run
and taps the ledge far below the old
workings. This tunnel is connected
with the one above it by perpen-
dcular ore shoot. This tunnel is
where the greater part of the old
work was done and is bored into the
hill over a thousand feet. This bore
follows the ledge the grter part of
its length and its face shows better
than eight feet of ore between two
well defined walls. In this tunnel
numerous slopes have been started
and the ledge shows up from eight
TO ten feet in width. 1t is from this
level that ore is now being extracted
and milled. Taken from the slopes
it is dropped through the shoot to
the tunnel below. From here it is
dumped into a ear from the hopper
and taken out to the tramway and
from the ore bins is fed into the
tramway buckets and whisked down
down to the mill on the aerial line.
After the ore is taken from the
slopes it is handled entirely by
gravity thus reducing the cost of
handling to the minimum. When
it is known that enoug ore is already
blocked out in these tunnels to keep
the mill running for three years,
some idea can be gained of the
magnitude of the ore reserves OF the
Golden Gate. The ledge averages
in width from eight to ten feet and
carries free milling gold values con-
servatively placed by Mr.. Hall at
$40 ton.
The mill has a capacity of crush
ing fifty tons of ore a day and the
tramway will transport 10 tons per
hour from the mine to the mill, car
rying 1900 pounds to the bucket at
an expense less than 10 cents per
ton. This mill is operated by water
power which was secured by run
ming a pipe line a mile in length,
securing 400 feet fall.
The first work of Mr.. Hall was to
put this property on paying basis,
and under trying conditions, where
great difficulty was met in getting
his freight and machinery on the
ground, he has accomplished THIS
task in less than five months. The
mill building is yet incomplete and
while the stamps are dropping,
carpenters are putting the building
in place.
Twenty-four men are on the pay
roll and under the efficient manage
ment of Mr.. Hall, all work at the
mine and mill is going ahead with a
smoothness that attracts the at
tention of the causal observer.
Over one hundred thousand dollars
have been expended in the Golden
Gate by three former companies to
no advantage whatsoever. A snow
slide completely demolished j.
stamp mill and cabins erected by
Donavon & Brown several years ago.
Near the ruins of this little mill is
portion of a new mill while the
balance of the equipment is held at
Minden under attachment. The
Thompson company started this last
year but became financially en-
barrassed before their work was
well started. Profiting by the ex-