| Show EQUIPMENT FOR KEANE WONDER New Mew Owner Expects Credit i r 1 Producing First Bar Ban of Bul But Bullion lion at Bullfrog MOHAWK LEASE LESE DIVIDEND ONE OF POSTED BY FRANCIS COMPANY I Goldfield Nev Nov Sept 22 Homer Wil Wilson eon son who bought the Keane Wonder mine at Bullfrog several sever l weeks ago left this morning for that camp to start vork on a 11 tramway which is to convey the product of the mine to a mill which has been ordered to treat the ores Just before stepping into the benzine buggy which is to convey him across the In Intervening Intervening Intervening stretch of des J rt he declared dC lared that the Wonder would produce produce the first bar of bullion bumon in the Bullfrog district unless some of the theother theother other ther big properties down there get a hig hurry on For the past three months no has been carefully sampling the mine and testing the ore and has adopted a milling process combining Concentration and cyaniding which will cleave little of value in the tailings The 4 plans for tor this structure have been drawn and the th machinery and all aU sup supplies plies ordered and in a a comparatively short time tho mill will be blowing its whistle 4 Mr Wilson is not building his tion ion works on surface prospects while other work has been going on the mine naB lias been developed by means of or tun tunnels nels els to a depth of feet and drifts and raises and crosscuts have bave been run into and through the big hedges exposing about OOOO tons of oC oCoro oro ore Another tunnel has been started which will tap the ore fissures feet deeper and when it Is completed the theore lore I ore reserves will w l be bo sufficient to keep ithe mill going steadily for tor half a score of years Starts Things at Llda Lida Before his departure Mr Wilson went down to Llda Lida and let a contract to sink a a double compartment shaft 1100 oo feet on tho the old Centennial mine was purchased recently by bJ the Mining company of which Mr Wilson is the manager The contract illustrates the style in which the company does business the 1 shaft is already down thirty feet and Mr Wilson made it one of the condi conditions conditions of tho the contract that the work must be completed in three weeks or ora ora ora a forfeit be paid For every day under three weeks the contractors are to re receive receive a bonus q f The Centennial is one of the old pro producers of that old camp The forma formation formation tion Is lime intersected by dykes dyles of porphyry and the lead which was worked from the surface is very wide measuring sixty feet in places From th old workings the took tookA A pry ery rich silver ore and the company Io I F In possession of specimens carrying as aR high hi h as ounces The ores are aren n natly o a n sulphide and carry a consid considerable con erable hIp percentage percenta e of copper The mine UPS lies between the Lido Llda Belle BeHe and the Dick both the once happy home of or the who were wont to roam over that section of the desert country Mohawk Lease Dividend The Mining Leasing L sing company has declared a divi of 5 cents a share or from the proceeds of ore sales from its Mo Io hawk lease After paying this dividend the company will wilt have In its treasury from the ores now unsettled for tor or In transit besides the revenue from a n production amounting to ap proximately a n day The Tho record established by b this com company company company pany is a n fair illustration of the rapid ity with which fortunes are amassed by lessees in this camp But four months have elapsed since ground was first broken for the shaft Since then tIthe the shaft has been put down feet and an drifts extended ended on two levels for a n feet teet in ore The lease Is equipped with a fine hoist and tho the Improvements and facilities for handling the tho ore oro would do credit to an anold anold old ld mine On the level Jevel l I one of the greatest bodies of gold ore ever found underground Samples across six feet teet above this level Jevel in a raise assay and From Prom a near by taken the first three days A of or this week were 2880 and per ton It Is this class of or ore II c that Is fa being hoisted from seven shafts on Mohawk ground from which the company derives in royalties in excess of or 2 a day Only four months have navo rolled by since the first ore was struck and already the Mohawk treasury contains a quarter of a million dollars CLAYTON MUSIC CO Leading Music Dealers So Main St SALT T AKE IKE CITY S iF 9 8 AC KS HOES MAIN STREET |
