The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1917-04-28

of the Louisiana Consolidated Mining
Company, accompanied by OFT F.
Heller, general manager of that COM
pany, VIM. Rebory, the best and
most careful auto driver in Nevada,
and James F. O'Brien, the mining
writer, arrived in Eureka Wednes-
day evening and left the next after
noon for Ely.
The object of the trip was to look
over the route of the new railroad
which the Louisiana Consolidated
Company intends to. build. which will
have Tonopah for its southern ter
minus and either Eureka or Ely for
the northern terminus. The road
will go by way of Typo, where the
company is now operating the Typo
mine.
Mr.. Trent expressed himself as be-
ing very much pleased with Eureka
and its mines, and the fact that in
building the railroad from this point
to Typo there are only no difficult
engineering problems to be solved
and no expensive construction, points
to Eureka as the logical northern
terminus. The further fact that
there are upwards of 1000, 600 tons
of good ore blocked out in the mines
of Eureka, available for the smelter
which the louisiana Company will
also build, is not being overlooked
by Mr.. Trent and the wealthy east
ern people who are his associates in
this enterprise.
The following article by James F.
O'Brien covers recent developments
at the Typo mine:
That the Louisiana Consolidated
Mining Company picked a live one
when it took over the famous old
Typo mine, and that its operation
with the present high prices of lead
zinc and silver literally means mil
lions for its stockholders,
little further evidence, if, after
learning the authentic past history
of the property. he will watch the ore
sorter at work at the dump near the
main shaft. 1t will need no assayer':
certificate to convince one who knows
anything about minerals that the ore
which is being sacked is high grade
and will pay handsomely even after
heavy transportation and treatment
charges have been deducted.
Some of the ore is almost pure ga
lena which tells its story to the
naked eye, while more of it. though
not so pretty to look at. tells the
story of its value by the weight.
The ore on the dump which is be
ing sorted came almost entirely from
a drift on the vein at the 400-foo
level. The best of the product wa
shipped at the time it was mined ant
the balance. about 1000 TONS. wa
placed on the dump for future con
sideration. Of course at the ther
prevailing prices of the metals ther'
was not near the same value in tn,
ore that there is at this time, but
little closer sorting would have made
much of it a good shipping produc
even in those days.
1t was not the intention of tn,
Louisiana management to do any
thing with this dump until they wer'
in shape to send out steady shipment
from the mine itself. but while wait
ing for material a man was put t.
work with such gratifying result
that it has been decided to continu,
the work and ship the best of thu
product without waiting for under
ground developments.
In the odd times that the singh,
ore sorter has been at work he ha
already sacked eight tons and tn,
hole that he has made in the pill,
seems negligible. The proportion o.
the high grade to all the ore in tn,
dump is as surprising as it Is graft
flying. Assays show that this or,
will run SITS a ton and upwards
leaving a net profit to the company
after all expenses have been paid o.
better than $3.50 per ton.