Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1913-09-12

pine Argus gives an interesting de-
tailed account of mining operations
at the old town of Monitor. nov
known as Loope:
The Curtz Consolidated Mines
company. an incorporation of Cali
fornia and Arizona, has been for the
past five years operating in the Great
Mogul Mining District, of Alpine
county, employing from eight to
twelve men continuously, developing
three immense lodes on a portion of
their mining property, under the di-
rection of Captain Peter Curtz, the
general MANAGER of the company.
The company has secured a grounp
OF p mining locations, together with
a valuable power plant situated On
the Carson river, two miles distant
from the mining property, a 100
stamp qpartz mill, arial tramway and
the gold and silver mines, formerly
the property of the Alpine Mining
Co, which adjoins their holdings.
The gigantic outcrops and lodes
traversing through the various loCa-
tions owned by the company, rises
at points from 100 to 500 feet above
the country formation OF the district
and show the widths of ores varying
from 20 to 400 feet. These outcrops
consist of quartz, iron cap etc. car
rying free gold on the surface and
at a short depth in the lodes the ores
carry gold, silver and copper of va
rious character. From the deep. pre-
cipitious canyons, occurring between
the Carson river and these lodes, per.
mits of short and inexpensive tun-
. nels being driven which have inter
| sected extensive bodies Of ore of this
character and proving that underly-
I ing the gigantic mountains of out
crops of this character mentioned,
: and yet undeveloped, there exists
| very extensive ore bodies of profita-
bic concentrating ore, carrying gold,
silver and copper. very profitable 10
mine and in quantities almost mex
: laustible.
The ores found in tn lodes, alrea-
, dy partially developed by this COM
! pany, occur in a matriX consisting
OF clay quartz and quartz porphyries
OF VARYING character. There are va
rious classes OF copper ores, all of
which carry good values of both gold
, and silver in addition to the copper.
! The massive bodies of sulphides or
pyritec ores occur under iron capped
outcrops at various points on the
lode. These ores are classed as self
iiuxing smelling material and several
thousand tons have been developed.
The company has driven over 5000
! feet of tunnel an cross drifts and a
two compartment shaft 200 feet deep,
Al upraise $50 feet to surface from
the working tunnel, one thousand feet
from portal. The tunnel is sever
feet high, three feet and eight inches
vide at top and seven feet wide at
| the bottom. 1t is equipped with y
pound steel rails, air pipe and cleo
tlical!y driven blower, stationed l.
100 feet in the tunnel.
Three large lodes have been cut
at various points in the tunnel. The
| Gre orgeanna lode is 10 feet or more
in width where crossuct by tunnel.
| The West Star lode is forty feet
vide between walls and the North
Stella lode is sixty feet wide. The
Z! Georgearna lode was cut at a per
pcnGicula1 depth of 2l2 feet under
| the surface. The West Star and the
/ Moth Stella at a depth OF 430 feet.
| These lodes pitch at an angle of -
degrees. The payshoot on the Geor-
by lateral drifts at this time but
where cut by tunnel show very pro-
| fitable concentrating ore. The re-
| sulting concentrates carry very high
values in gold, in addition to silver
and copper.
The West Star lode was cut at
a point 1,2O0 feet from the portal OF
| the tunnel and a pay shoot developed
by crosscuts 600 feet in length. To
, the north OF the first crosscut this
ledge carries gold, silver and OPP
per and is highly mineralized, show
ing deposits of grey copper ore and
| various characters of copper. HE
| whole mass is classed as c~oncentrat-
! ing ore. The backs above tunnel lev
| ell are estimated at 600 feet, the width
| 40 feet, and the average value OF the
; ore at SIS per ton in gold, silver and
| copper. 1t is the intention Of the
company to develop this lode under
the outcrop an additional 1000 feet
in the neal future.
The North Stella has, be@;. -ross-
cut at two points. First at 900 feet
from portal of the tunnel, and second