Show STRIKE IN CERRO GORDO HILL estella mining company uncovers high grade ore at depth herald bishop calif tunnel at keeler has come in contact with the rich ore body of cerro gordo hill according to reports which reached here this week the significance of this strike is far reaching it means that the ore body of the cerro gordo district reaches a great depth and justifies the assertion that the country around keeler is to become one of the richest mining sections of the west the ore was struck at a depth of about feet approximately 1500 feet below the lower working of the cerro gordo mine the point of contact occurred feet fee t in on the tunnel work on the tunnel was started in 1909 by the estella mining company the purpose being to tap at great depth the ledge of the adorning star claim on cerro gordo hill from which over has been taken from the surface the work has been under the personal supervision of 0 R C who during the past six years has never wavered in his belief that the tunnel was headed straight for the ore body and that the heavy expenditure involved in its construction would ultimately be justified the month of the tunnel lies west and south of the main shaft of the cerro gordo I 1 and the tramway now being constructed by the big producer passes within a short distance of it I 1 the estella mining company is a close corporation and has never placed its stock on the market repeated offers to buy control of the property have been refused and the company has gone steadily forward with the one idea of reaching the ore body by means of the tunnel cerro gordo hill is historic in the mining world the cerro gordo mine many years ago was one of the heaviest producers of gold and silver in the entire west and founded a number of fortunes owing to the crude methods employed at that time and the lack of proper shipping facilities the property was practically abandoned being considered worked out during recent years intermittent intermit tant attempts have neen made to develop the old property but it was not until L D gordon the present manager and superintendent of the mine discovered rich deposits of zinc an and d lead in the workings that the property again became a paying proposition mr gordon secured a lease several years ago and immediately med lately began shipping zinc and lead at a good profit development work showed thattie th that atthe the mine was by no means worked out during the year 1914 approximately one quarter of 0 a million dollars in gold silver copper lead and zinc was produced with the completion of the tramway to the railroad at keeler the production will be greatly increased |