Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1921-02-12
Virginia Coming Back
BY Villa n De " Oh }

AOuSOnddtrn VII Sllifd, ti4C ptSiiiiSi
mine OF the famous Comstock lode,
enters the new year, alter more than
a half-century OF continuous ore pro-
duction, by disclosing an ore body
at a depth OF 225o feet that promises
to again place the property on the
stellar list OF Nevada mines and to
place the shares of the recently reor-
ganzcd Consolidated Mining Com
pany on div;dend-paying basis.
This roseate prospect accompanied the
announcement of the new discovery as
received yesterday at the Office of the
company in San Francisco.
The message from the mines states
that the orcbody is 10 feet wide, that
it is the downward continuation OF
the bonanza deposit opened few
months ago in the Wine below the
2l50-lcvel, and that values range
| from $50 to $50 ton and average $40
! a ton The vein was entered l20 feet
north o, the Wine sunk from the ESQ
to the 2250-foot level and is officially
stated to hold the same vein in the
winze at a point so feet below the
! 2l50-foot level The importance of
the new discovery takes on added sig
nificance by the statement of the mine
management that it practically assures
from 1000 TO 1900 feet of virgin terri
ritory from which pay ore may ulti-
| rately be mined at a depth of ESQ
feet.
A more complete understanding OF
the pay ore poten.ialities of this latest
discovery is offered by the very salts
factory results that attended develop
ment work on the 50-foot level in the
| winze. There a drift was extended
20 feet TO the north in ore having a
.alue that compared more than favor
ably with the past bonanza yield o.
the mine. Within this circumscrib-
I'd area, across a vein-breadth Of five
feet, $4,000 worth of high grade
ilver-ore was mined and shipped
Although the value OF the ore varied
somewhat from day to day as devel-
,pment work progressed, the general
minimum average was from $500 to
| $1,000 ton.
During the progress OF driving the
! sinze-drift Is tons of ore averaging
$3.50 ton were mined in one day
| SIX one-ton mine cars had an average
| saiue of $l2o8 ton. Six other ears
! averaged 1887 a ton. Yet another
sixNcars averaged $1,000 ton.
On the 2250-toot level development
If this rich orebody is progressing
| directly beneath the point where the
! bonanza ore was mined on the inter
mediate, or winze level, and where
superintendent Alex Wise expresses
confidence that similar values will be
encountered before long With the
! sein-breadth at this point 10 feet as
against breadth of tive feet OH the
intermediate level, and with approx
nately 1900 feet of virgin territory
svailable. it would appear that the
BONANZA ore area on the 2250-foot
evel was infinitely more comprehen-
i've than on the level above
In addition to the bonanza ore
opened on the 2l50, the intermediate
md the 2250-foot levels, there is .
.ery large though unmeasured tonnage
Of milling ores exposed on the other
'evels OF the Consolidated Virginia
mine. With view to determine the
exact value of the milling grade ore, a
est has just been made OF section
100 feet long by approximately 20 feet
wide on the l650-foot level Back OF
he section this ore assays from So to
sl2 ton with an exposed reserve
above and below that point running
INTO hundreds Of thousands of tons.
The mine management states that
with the present equipment ore car
BE mined and milled for So ton and
that with improved milling facilities on
p larger scale that 81 ton can be
mined and milled at a profit. This
means that the Consolidated Virginia
Company has already at hand an I'M
mense tonnage of commercially yaiu-
able low grade ore, exclusive of the
tonnage of bonanza ore that has been
and is now being developed.
Other promising ore showings have
Also been opened up on the 2l50-foo,
level and The levels above. Notably
in stope 405 and on the 2l50-fooi
level, where three feet OF ore was re-
Gently disclosed sampiing better than
500 ton. This ore was entered a,
point fully 200 feet south of the de-
post OF bonanza ore opened on the