Show BIG operations IN KEELER SECTION ARE NOW MAKING THINGS HUM by ray D harris bishop calif april 25 an apparently bamm mammoth ath body of lea lead d copp copper er silver zinc ore is being disclosed on the surface of the bunco billy 6 group one of three properties at darwin twenty five miles southeast of keeler recently acquired and now being aggressively developed by the acme mining company a subsidiary of the continental development and reduction corporation a close enterprise headed by J S tremayne and associates of los angeles according to officials the has thus far been proved up for a depth of feet a length of feet and a width of seventy feet with the full limits yet to be determined it is calculated that the proved area makes immediately available approximately tons of orethal ore that should yield average values of 40 a ton in the metals named through treatment in the leaching plant the parent company is 1 installing 11 on the edge of owens lake two miles aniles south of keeler it is the plans of the acme management to glory hole the deposit by churn drilling and breaking down the ore in 25 foot benches in the bottom of its foot fairbanks no 2 shaft the company it is claimed has exposed twenty inches of ore assaying 30 cpr cent lead and 95 ounces silver to the ton while at a depth of eighty feet in the ada may alay extension shaft there has been disclosed disclose d two feet of a ton silver ore I 1 itis it is officially estimated thattie that the leaching plant will be ready for operation by may M ay 15 mixing the ada may extension silver and the fairbanks no 2 lead silver ores as it sweeteners with the bunco billy glory hole rock the initial tonnage treated by the plant should run around tons daily it is stated officials estimate that from this tonnage the plant will output daily ten tons of white lead 1500 ounces of silver bullion one and a half balf tons of casting copper and twenty tons of zinc oxide ore bins each of tons capacity are being erected at the bunco billy property and at the leaching in plant the ores will be hauled from the mines to the reduction works by a fleet of motor trucks estelle mines and other operations the thre raise from the tunnel level of the estelle mines corporation property adjoining on tile the south the famous cerro gordo mine five miles east cast of keeler is nea nearing ringa a height of feet the management plans to soon extend crosscuts cross cuts from the top of the raise to intersect ore bodies of the cerro gordo vein system which has already been opened up on the estelle tunnel level proper 2000 feet south and ata at a depth of 1400 feet below the deepest workings in the cerro gordo mine ore for current smelter shipments averaging tons monthly is being extracted in development work on the foot level above the foot tunnel the tunnel being extended by W W charles and associates of los angeles on their lease covering three claims of the estelle property now measures nearly feet it is to be advanced atonal a total of 1000 feet and is designed to intersect the southern extensions of five ledges of the cerro gordo mine vein vein system the fifth known as the san felipe at a depth of more than feet thirty miners are at present employed by the company and charles Charle lease at their recent monthly meeting the inyo county supervisors per visors awarded by G W garner C M dixon and white smith all of bishop the lowest bidders a contract for the building of an 11 mile road into the saline valley a region of vast mining potentialities situated just beyond the inyo range of mountains immediately east of owens laks the contract involves and work is already under way the new thoroughfare will connect with tile the keeler darwin road and should be ready for use within sixty days in sinking a less than ten feet below the north drift on the foot level of the pete smith mine of the calivara Ca livada mining company four niiles miles east of keeler the being developed has increased in width from four to seven feet it is stated assays essays across the entire width show chow average values of 46 a ton in silver and lead the same is being entered on ion the foot level A carload of forty tons of ore will be shipped from the property to the midvale utah smelter in the near future bringing in production this year up to more than tons all of aich has been extracted in development work on and above the foot level with no attempt at sloping previous shipments have averaged 45 a ton sloping operations on oil an extensive scale ifil will be started it is stated as soon as the new leaching plant of the recently organized continental development reduction corporation a close los angeles company on the edge of owens lake four miles distant is ready to receive custom ores paul watterson of keeler has purchased from david statts and james lally of darwin the quartz king group of fourteen claims seven miles west weist of darwin the property is traversed by five veins which give good surface as says on one a shaft has been sunk seventy feet exposing an eight foot ore body all the way that gives average values of 40 a ton in silver and lead |