Weekly journal-miner., 1915-09-01
THIRTY-FIVE FEET OF
 PAY MILLING ORE STRUCK
(By William P. De Wolff


 the strike recently made in the Blacl; Eagle workings of the Tom Reed Gold Mines Company. The crosscut on the 40O-foot level has intersect- ed the vein from wall to wall and there Is no portion of it which does not sample to a pay milling average Thirty feet of the ore sample an av. craze of $25 per ton, and included in that 30 feet are IA feet of ore that sample $30 per ton. Five feet of ore lying next to the hanging wall sample an average of $7.S0 per ton. The current week drifts were start ed to the east and west in the vein and within a few days this work will be supplemented by the resump- ton of shaft sinking. Shipments will soon go forward to the Tom Reed mill.
 The ore shoot opened several months ago on the 1,O75foot level in the Tom Reed main workings has been explored to the west for length of 225 feet. It has varying breadth of from Is to 20 feet and a varying value of from $225O to $40 per ton. The body of milling grade ore re gently found 700 feet east of the main shaft on the 550-foot level is maintaining its value as the drift is extended in it The discovery was made in territory hitherto but little explored and is of additional impor tance by reason of the fact that it opens prospect of ore-yielding pos abilities in a section of the mine hitherto somewhat neglected.
 United Eastern Shipments.
 About 20 tons of ore are being shipped daily from the United East ern mine to the Gold Road mill, the consignments representing a portion of the ore mined during the regular course of development work on the 46O and 565-foot levels The average grade of this ore is $50 per ton. Last weeks shipment had an aggregate value of $4,2OO. The drive east in the vein on the 460-foot level con tinues to carry high grade milling ore, while the drive west on the 565- foot level is at this time in ore of the highest average grade thus far opened in the mine The break across B feet is nearly $40 per ton.
 A force of men is at work grad ing a road to the Esmeralda group of claims recently. acquired by the Gold Range Mining and Milling Com pany. The property adjoins the valu able Ivanhoe estate on the south | and is crossed by several bold ledges | The Gold Range is a recent ineor- poration. J. Irving McKenna is pres ident; J. Edmund Snow, vice-presi- dent, and J. E. Nelson, secretary treasurer. All are well known Los Angeles business and professional | men. A substantial treasury fund | has been raised and a plant of ma chinery ordered. The latter will bC l installed as soon as the road making l job is finished. A depth of 800 feet | Is the objective and at that point the | paralleling lodges which cross the | acreage are to be crosscut.
 Carter Operations.
 It is expected the drive west or | the 25O-foot level in the shaft Of the Carter Gold Mining Company | will enter an ore shoot within 20 feet of drifting. Values are increas ing as the drive is advanced and now l average about SIP per ton. Recen exploration work on the 150-foot level resulted in the discovery of an ore shoot a few feet east of the shaft | that samples an average of SEQ across a width of four feet. This shoot was evidently overlooked by the leas CTS, who formerly worked the ground. The owning company will thoroughly prospect this shoot and then open it on the 25O-foot level The Carter property is located in the south end of the camp near the Orion and Boundary Cone mines.
 Surveying of the Murdock group | Of claims, owned by Frank Murdocl and s. R. Porter, is practically com pleted and is soon to be followed | by development of the property at depth The numerous ledges that cross the acreage are being prospect ed at surface for the purpose of de- termining the best point at which to sink a main shaft The latter is to be equipped with one of the most efficient plants of machinery ever in stalled in the district. s. R. Porter is rapidly recovering from his pro- tracted illness and will in person ! take charge of mining operations. MT. Porter was formerly in charge of the well known Leland mine which, by the way. is soon to be worked again. Judge Ross, of Los Angeles, owns,