The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1921-02-17
THE OLD CON. VIRGINIA
MINE ON THE COMSTOCK
STILL PRODUCTIVE AFTER so
YEARS-lTS MARVELLOUS
RECORD.

More than so years after the date
when its first began to produce high
grade ore the Consolidated Virginia
mine, richest and most famed of all
the old-time silver bonanzas OF the
Comstock lode. is demonstrating that
~ has future as well as a past, says
q san Francisco dispatch. This pio-
neer of the COS which began max
ing mining history i'm the days when
the nations mining industry was
young has been productive ever since.
From then until now it has always
/ been the big producer of the famous
lode and i'm the aggregate had paid
over S7O,OOOO0O in dividends
The discovery of the Comstock was
the strike that attracted men from
the four corners of the earth The
lode has been mined to a depth of
more than 2O00 feet and three-quar-
ters of "a billion dollars worth of ore
produced. Approximately $500 OOO.-
GOO of this vast treasure is credited TO
the Consolidated Virginia mine alone.
FIFTY dollars slugs of bullion bearing
the imprint of the Consolidated Vir-
ginia. We're for years accepted as legal
tender i'm Virginia City San Francis
co and all way points.
Again a Big Producer.
About two years ago this veteran
holdover from Virginia Citys turbu-
lent past was taken over by Zeb eKn-
dali and associates. all OF whom have
for years been identified with the mi
ming industry of Nevada. Under their
direction, the Consolidated Virginia is
again taking rank with the big ore
producers of the state Old ore bod
les have been further developed and
lew ones discovered. Modern ma
'hinery has been installed that makes
{ possible to mine and mill IS ore at
/ profit SiX-dollar ore it is said,
viii be handled at profit just as soon
is the milling facilities are increased.
Following the announcement last
week by the management of the Con-
oldated Virginia mine that a vein of
re. 10 feet wide and averaging $40
ton had been opened in the north
rift on the 225O-foot level comes the
urther announcement that from 10 to
. feet of a S5O-a-ton ore has been
pened on the 165O-foot level at a
oint directly above and directly back
E the lOO-foot stope fill This find
lay develop into very productive
re body
Rediscovery of Old Deposit
The general character of the ore
nd the point of it's location indicate
nat it is the redscovery of a deposit
'om which large tonnage of high
rade ore was mined nearly 40 years
go. At the height Of its productiv-
Y. back in the sos. the miners were
riven from the workings by fire
here is no record of the deposit hav-
~ been worked since that time
The log of the Consolidated Virgin
mine does show however that the
en- were stopping i'm a face of ore -
IT'S wide-about 70 feet-and that
e values averaged better than $50
ton.
Although the newly discovered or
discovered ore body is described as
feet wide, the actual breadth Of the
i'm has not yet been determined.
either wall is in sight and the vein
therefore certain to be consider
ly wider The management is hope
that it will prove to be fully as
de and rich as it was where opened
the 1650-f foot level in the SOS.
Ore Available.
Under the present management ore
s been mined and milled at a pro-
from the 14OO-foot level to the
'O-foot level a portion of the pro-
ct i'm the intermediate or winze
el between the 2150 and 2250-foot
els having a value as high as s2O.69
ton lots. BY judiciously mixing the
yer levels ore with the large tom
ge exposed on the upper levels the
nagement states that it can keep
Mexican mill running at capacity
an indefinite time. A large ton
ge of low grade, but commercially
liable ore is available at nine dis
ct places in the lower levels.
{ is the announced aim Of the man.
ment to mine and mill 1900 tons of
every month at a total monthly
t of $4,000. or at a total mining
milling cost of Sc a ton. Under
und conditions indicate that the
MS of the Consolidated Virginia
nagement will be realized