Show live mining news from the coast report of tilley rand company pay divide reports progress new tonopah dividend quartz mountain Argen argentum turn developing mill for united republic by will C higgins los angeles sept 25 A most interesting and beautifully illustrated report has just been issued by the tilley rand mining 6 company of los angeles covering important factors connected with its two groups of gold silver mines in san bernardino county california one of these 6 groups the tilley rand is a kingdom 6 in in itself embracing as it does a square mile of patented mineral ground in a rich mining section and it is proposed to soon construct the first ton unit of a large milling plant for the treatment of the heavy tonnages ton nages of commercial ores blocked out and available in the various workings of the property which the report says should net the company in excess of 10 a ton the tilley rand group has been developed through thirty six shafts from twenty to feet in depth and feet of underground lateral work exposing ore bodies from one to six feet in width and ranging in in value from 10 to in gold and silver to the ton gold predominates in the ore which is largely free milling at the companas comp anys santa paula group of acres of ground five shafts have been sunk to depths ranging from twenty to seventy five feet and six tunnels driven for distances of from fifty to feet this work developing ve two parallel and two cross veins of from eighteen inches to six feet in width exposing large quantities of ore running from to 99 to the ton the report states that the company has already expended in mine development and equipment and a feature unusual in the issuance of similar reports is the fact that this one has been sworn to before a notary public R I 1 shirmer is president and dr paul alexander is secretary and business counselor pay divide reports progress the big working tunnel being driven in the development and operation of the pay divide rich gold old placer holdings in sierra county california is now in in a distance of over 1360 feet according to PI W stotesbury E M general superintendent who reports to the los angeles office of the company that there is still 1040 feet to go before getting under the bedrock of an ancient river channel which has been proven to carry a large and rich gold content in its gravel deposits it is expected this tunnel work will be completed sometime in december the driving of which is being hastened by the recent installation of a most modern power plant to assist in drilling operations upon the completion of the tunnel a twenty four foot upraise will be made from its face to connect with bedrock when regular gold production will begin a mill having already been purchased for the washing of the gravel which will then be sent through sluice boxes and over riffles fiffles in its final treatment mr stotesbury in his report to the company states that bunk houses and other surface buildings have laen bleen completed provisions and supplies have been taken in and arrangements range ments perfected for continuous work during the winter months A force of about forty men is is employed the board of directors of the company have had under tinder consideration an important business matter involving the acquisition of two other gold properties and will soon submit a definite proposition to its stockholders for their consideration the new tonopah dividend it is reported the first seventy five ton unit of the new milling plant of the tonopah belmont development company at camp belmont twenty eight b miles southwest oi wickenburg arizona has been placed ed in commission treating ore from the upper levels of the mine running from 23 25 to 40 a ton in its silver lead gold content and 40 and 60 ore from the lower levels of this bonanza property quite a number of mining companies principally from nevada attracted by the profound and favorable of the district are clustered around the belmont Bel and are developing claims promising to rival near neighbors in the wealth of their ore deposits included in the number is the property of the new tonopah dividend mining company the holdings of the new tonopah dividend are said to adjoin the belmont and are claimed to cover the extension of the big belmont or mcneill lode the main shaft being sunk in its development has been sunk in the hanging wall side of a massive vein this is now down feet and from this level a crosscut cross cut is bein being run to reach the ore body reports from wickenburg stating that the country rock in the face of the crosscut cross cut is heavily mineralized and permeated with copper and lead sulphides sulp hides quartz mountain argentum sinking shaft work is progressing most satisfactorily in the development of the property of the quartz mountain argentum mining company according to reports received in los angeles at the Argen argentum tuni hoisting works have been installed at the two compartment shaft which is being sunk to the foot level having forty feet more to go before crosscutting begins to gain the intersection of three ledges showing prominently on the surface the main vein it is is stated has been superficially prospected through the avenue of an incline shaft the company owns a group of sixteen claims surrounding the old lodi mine said to have been highly productive in its early days mill for united republic the century lead silver mine mine near king kingman irman arizona controlled by the united republic gold mining company of oatman same state may soon be equipped with a good goo sized milling plant according to P L paddy mullen pres beneral en is directing the development develop ident and general eral manager who of thi this s prospective bonanza abal in exposing the ore reserves of the century mr air len says the upper tunnel has followed a body of com cial ore a distance of feet with four feet of shipp material now showing in its face in the continued develop dev r has ment of the mine mr mullen reports a contract 11 on level let for the driving of a crosscut cross cut from the foot lev feet of the lower vein to cut the upper vein at a depth oi vill be suf with this work completed it is believed the mine willa the in pro v developed to justify the construction ot of posed milling plant of good at the companas comp anys oatman gold property ore drifts commercial grade is being broken in three alne different of bottole 0 and further sinking is to be undertaken froni from thed avater the foot shaft to get well below the permanent P 1111 and level where it is expected the ore bodies will be e larger out outlook look richer mr mullen is enthusiastic over the of the company lore |