| Show rochester 7 troughs and willard SPECIAL correspondence lovel k nev aug 24 the purchase of the big four lease on block 1 of the crown crow claim by the rochester mines company compan which owns the claim is the biggest happening of the week in rochester camp being one of the first steps taken by the company in the inauguration of its campaign of greater activity and development the first move in this era of bigger things for rochester was the ut arting of the friedman tunnel projected to hit the big ledges of the hill at a depth of 1200 feet when it is estimated there will be a million tons of ore in sight the next was the purchase by the company of the four J lease on block 3 of the crown point followed this week by the taking over of the big four the big four has always been the banner lease of the camp and in tile the past two years has produced over it is now turning out fifty tons of ore a day ruu rius ning from 25 to 30 a ton which is being treated at the rochester mines company mill taken with tile the production from the four J tile the company is now mining nearly tons of ore per day on its own account this with about twenty five tons from other leases is pushing the mill to capacity the friedman tunnel is now in feet and making record progress it should be in the ore within fifty days seven troughs coalition owing to the present condition of the mine and the daily bullion cleanups now being made at the mill it is estimated that the output of seven troughs coalition for the month of august will be close to one of the biggest months in the history of that property with 16 hour shifts the mill is now turning out 2500 a day this extraordinary output being made possible by the fact that during the early part of the week they were mining on twenty inches of 2100 ore on the south drift of the 1200 while between the 1300 and 1400 they have two feet of ore running from to the mine has never been in better physical condition and everything points to larger output the company meets its third quarterly dividend on the first of september making a total thus far for 1915 of 7 cents per share the fourth dividend will undoubtedly be met and if conditions continue to improve on the present ratio they will increase in 1916 A new horsepower engine has arrived and will be installed immediately it will be followed by a substantial increase in the working force in tile the mine and will inaugurate a big campaign of development and exploration work particularly a from the south drift on tile the 1400 level to catch I 1 the south extension of ore bodies which from the showings in the upper levels are practically certain to exist the willard consolidated work has been started in two places on the properties recently acquired by the willard consolidated mines company one oile of the biggest corporations to invade the new gold camp they have just taken over the borland healy lease on the honey bee and the borland healy mayer lease on the enterprise ter prise and eight additional claims on both leases they have started new shafts to go feet if necessary the first deep work ever planned for willard both of these shafts are down about fifty feet and both are in ore on the honey bee they have over three feet of a very good milling grade of ore while in the enterprise shaft they are just breaking into a vein that is believed to be of shipping grade the willard consolidated soli dated is backed by san francisco capitalists ita lists its officers being president L wagner vice president R 0 hobson treasurer G C morgan jr of that city and secretary jack borland of lovelock jerry healy and charles mayer of willard with B of san francisco complete the directorate humboldt county antimony from practically nothing it is estimated that the antimony shipments from scattered points in humboldt county nevada have sprung to in the past two months the high price of the metal has stimulated the prospecting for antimony showings to such an extent that at least a dozen new deposits have been found within a radius of twenty miles of lovelock several carloads of ore have left lovelock for new york and los angeles the ore ranging from 50 to 70 per cent and bringing fancy prices new prospects have appeared in bloody canyon wild horse canyon cottonwood creek and in the vicinity of rye patch and the end is not yet other carloads are now being collected here at jungo and at rye patch with a two stamp mill the production of the lincoln hill mining milling company at rochester last month was it is estimated that they will equal if not exceed this production this month the upper and lower tunnels have crosscut a series of four veins in tile the second of these from the lower tunnel they have recently encountered eleven inches of 1248 ore while the bulk of the ore now being mined will go 90 close to a ton with very little sorting people from new york canada and san francisco are said to be negotiating for this property and if a deal is completed the mine will probably be opened 4 on a much larger scale |
