Weekly journal-miner., 1915-05-12
PAY ORE FOUND IN
 NORTH END OF DISTRICT
By William P. DeWoIf.


 month of April the gold bullion out put of the Tom ReedGold Road Mining District had in round num- bers total value of $165000. Dur ing the same period 14,500 tons of ore were mined. The figures show an increase of 500 tons in ore pro- duction and of $5,OOO in bullion ship ments above the record for March
 Honors are about evenly divided between the Tom Reed and Gold Road mines in so far as the increase in tonnage was concerned. The in crease in bullion shipments, however, was for the most part from the shoot of high grade milling ore opened during April in the west drift from the bottom of the 125-foot winze on the 950-foot level
 .Four-Month Record.
 For the first four-month period of the current year the bullion shipment record of the Tom ReedGold Road District totals $6400O0. Eliminating the possibility of an increase in the value of future bullion shipments during 1915, the gold production of the district for the year will yet be approximately $2,OO0,OOO, when fig red on the basis of $640,OO0 fo- the first four-month period.
 Since last New Years day a total of 560O0 tons of ore have been mined here, the tonnage representing only the output from the heaviest pro ducers. Neither the output from the less thoroughly developed mines which are scattered throughout the camp, nor the ve-y large tonnage of high grade milling ore that awaits reduction in the United Eastern mine are included in the summary. The United Eastern tonnage has an estimated value of $1,5OO,0OO.
 Machinery En Route.
 Mining machinery and supplies are being hauled into the camp in in creasing tonnage from railway con nection at Topock, Kingman and Needles, Ten, twelve and twenty team outfits freighted with hoists and compresso-s, challenge the less less heavily loaded auto trucks for right of way along the trails. And each of these in turn is challenged and passed by the swift running pass enger autos. Plodding along amid this scene of modern activity-in, but not of it-are the burro pack trains of the desert prospectors.
 A 12-horse power hoist is being in stalled at the main working shaft on the estate of the Ivanhoe Consolidat- ed Mines Company in the north end Of the district. As soon as it is in place the 9x8 compressor will be set up. Following that the main shaft will be sunk to depth of 800 feet, where will begin the real campaign of development work which has been planned for the property. At the 10-foot point a crosscut will be run to the vein and a drift be sent out along its strike if the mineral con ditions warrant Below the 200-foot level a station will be cut every hun dred feet on the way down to the 500-foot point.
 Prominent Ledges.
 The Ivanhoe Company owns five claims and two fractions, with a prominent and well mineralized ledge passing through three of the first for a length of 5,2O0 feet. The main shaft is being sunk in the hanging wall of the ledge near the center line. About 200 feet west of the shaft it is intersected by two north-south bearing lodges that pan and assay we'll at surface and at varying depths. Manager Ed Carter is confident that shipping ore in large tonnage will be encountered when the points of their intersection is entered by means of the crosscut from the 5O0-foot level of the shaft.
 Where opened on the Ivanhoe No | claim by a tunnel 60 feet in length, the main ledge is carrying finch | streak next to the footwall that sam D1es as high as $342O0 per ton. Pannings show a streak of gold that streams across. the pan like the tail of a comet. About 50 feet ill from the portal there is a 22-inch streak of ore that samples $4300 per ton. Garter has mined about Il tons of ore in this tunnel that he estimates 70 have an average value of $650O ,er ton. In that II tons there are 100 pounds of $6O000 rock; and in ,luded in the lot are several tons of ;2O0OO ore. In addition to this ton lage, Carter has mined in the tunnel bout 40 tons of ore that varies in ,alue from $500 to $4O0O per ton.
 Other Vein Values.
 About 200 feet south of this tunnel nd about 25O feet northwest of the