Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1921-02-09
PAST AND FUTURE
OF OLD C0MSTOCK
{ By William De Wopf)

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enters the new year, after more than
half-century of continuous orc pro-
duction, by disclosing an ore body
at depth OF ESQ feet that promises
to again place the, property on the
stellar list of Nevada mines and to
place the shares of the recently reor-
ganized Consolidated Mining Com
pany Oh dividend-paying basis
This roseate prospect accompanied the
encouragement of the new discovery as
received yesterday at the Office OF the
company in San Francisco,
The message from the mines states
that the orebody is 10 feet wide, that
it is the downward continuation OF
the bonanza deposit opened few
months ago in the Wine below the
2l50-level and that values range
from $40 to 500 ton and average SAC
a ton. The vein was entered l2O feet
north OH the Wine sunk from the 2l5C
to the 225O-foot level and is officially
stated to hold the same vein in the
winze at a point 50 feet below the
2l5O-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-
mately be mined at a depth of 225(
feet
A more complete understanding o!
the pay ore potentialities of this latest
discovery is offered by the very salts
factory results that attended develop
ment work on the 50-foot level i'll tht
Winze. There a drift was extended
90 feet to the north i'll oreI having
value that compared more than favor
ably with the past bonanza yield O
the mine. Within this circumscrib
ed area, across a vein-breadth of five
feet. $4,000 worth of high grade
silver-ore was mined and shipped
Although the value on the ore varict
somewhat from day to day as devel-
opment work progressed. the genera
minimum average was from $500 te
$1,000 ton.
During the progress of driving the
winze-drift lS tons of orc averaging
$3.50 ton were mined in one day
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value of $129S ton. Six other car:
averaged 1887 a ton. Yet anothei
six cars averaged $1,000 ton.
/ On the 2250-aoot level development
of this rich orebody is progressing
i directly beneath the point where th'
bonanza ore was mined on the inter
mediate. or Wine level. and where
Superintendent Alex Wise espresso
confidence that similar values will be
encountered before long. With thu
vcin-breadth at this point 10 feet a
against a breadth of live feet on tn
intermediate level. and with approx
matelv 1900 feet of virgin territory
available, it would appear that the
bonanza ore area on the zZoO-toot
level was infinitely more comprehen-
sive than on the level above.
In addition to the bonanza ore
opened on the 2l50, the intermediate
and the 2250-foot levels, there is
very large though unmeasured tonnage
of milling ores exposed on the other
= levels of the Consolidated Virginia
mine With view to determine the
exact value of the milling grade ore,
test has just been made of a section
100 feet long by approximately 20 fee
wide on the l650-foot level. Back OF
the section this ore assays from So to
i SIP ton with an exposed reserve
above and below that point runnInt
into hundreds of thous; nt!s of tors
The mine management states that
with the present equipment ore can
be mined and milled for So a ton and
that with improved milling facilities on
larger scale that 50 a ton can be
mined and milled at a profit. Thl;
means that the Consolidated Virginia
Company has already at hand an i'm
mense tonnage of commercially valu-
able low grade ore, exclusive OF tho
tonnage of bonanza ore that has beer
apd is now being developed
Other promising ore showlngs have
also been opened up on the 2l5O-fooi
level and the levels above. Notably
in stope .405 and on the 2l5OEtoot
level, where three feet of ore was re-
Gently disclosed sampling better than
$500 ton. This ore was entered at
point fully zoo feet south of the de-
: post of bonanza ore opened On the
Wine level and has been proven to
. continue further to the south in the