Show 2 revealed 0 aled R irh EXTENSION OF THE TRADE TK ADE DOLLAR 2 i principal among the new companies now operating on florida mountain or the silver city camp may be mentioned the trade dollar extension gold mining company composed of salt lake city capitalists and successful mine operators the officers of which are J J corum president J W kidwell vice president W H clark treasurer F M orem secretary and W C orem and J A largent directors this company was only recently organized and incorporated in this city and has so thoroughly prospected its ground that no doubt remains as to its mammoth mineral possessions and it has now commenced permanent development by driving a 4 foot tunnel to reveal the rich veins at the greatest possible depth tb the e company property consists of eight quartz lode lod e mining claims or about acres of ground surveyed for patent and lying on the northeast slope of florida mountain and combines the palmer and holland groups this property lies north and east and adjoins the great trade dol lar con mining company which has a production record of over and whose principal ledge extends into the ground of the extension company already there has been in the neighborhood of feet of development work performed on extension comp companas company anys 3 ground and from which ore carrying values of from a few dollars to 45 per ton and screenings from surface dirt showed values of from 3 to 10 per cubic yard while as says from float picked up on the surface have shown to the ton in the precious gold within the past ninety days there has been a foot tunnel driven on the joseph claim olila cutting a 5 foot vein carrying 52 ore re the permanent foot tunnel will attain a vertical depth of 1700 feet being an 1111 adit tunnel it is intended to drift on the groat great nineteen vein for a distance of about feet the same having been traced on the across the extension ground for more than feet cross cuts from the working tunnel will tap all four parallel ledges on the companas comp anys ground the business manager of the mining review recently spent the greater part of a day on the ground of the extension company and made some test bannings pann ings using a common small tin pie pan and some grimy water from the forge tub of a blacksmith shop and at each pa panning nning secured long strings of fine gold he also went over the placer ground of this company in black rock gulch which has produced from the thesa saving in its placer diggings and was worked up to the close of last year but was never allowed under the conditions of the bond and leaseta leases to work deeper than twelve feet this pla cering has all been done below the high water ditch and the gold thus saved could have come from no no other than the rich veins that penetrate the trade dollar extension ground of which 7 ara J dewey camp dewey mill and dump dewey hotel at the right there are four well defined and true fissures principal of which is the nineteen vein of the trade dollar con mining company owned by standard oil people above this high water ditch lies the great joseph claim in which one ore shoot produced within the past year the ore averaging from 20 to per ton and of which claim particular reference will be made later in this article the description of the formation made elsewhere ini in this issue fully covers the property of this company except in respect to the capping of the granite by a rhyolite flow and in some places a heavy flow of slide rock making it difficult to locate the fissures in the granite beneath the veins are from one foot to ten feet wide the character of the ore free milling millin and the proportion of values four of gold to one of 0 f silver odthe work done to prove the value and presence of the veins there have been several tunnels and dinzes each one of which has demonstrated the presence of mineral or the value of the ground it may interest readers of the mining review to know that one of the principal producing veins of the trade dollar consolidated company is known by name as nineteen and it has been worked to within about feet of the side line of th the eTrue true blue claim of the trade dollar extension company and is known to pass entirely through and across the extension ground for a distance of several thousand feet the trade dollar extension company located its deep tunnel site and commenced the work while the mining review representative tentative senta tive tive was present in the camp and who wishes to congratulate superintendent G F dark clark upon the splendid location both for available dumping ground and splendid mill site directly on jordan creek which always affords an abundance of water all the year round the tunnel is located directly beneath the main line of the electric power company from which it is intended to acquire power for all purposes as needed deeded the installation of power drills being one of the early additions to be made since the co commencement of the tunnel it its is understood work has progressed about 50 feet with three shifts of eight hours each and a vein six feet wide has been cut at a very slight ve vertical depth and which was hidden from surface view by decomposed granite granil te slide rock and vegetable growth regarding the joseph claim of which reference was made the mining review can present its readers with a better knowledge ed ge by quoting from A F stevens mining engineer of silver city as follows the joseph claim better known as the holland mine has been noted for its rich placer dirt from 6 to 20 feet deep covering a large portion of its surface near the top of the mountain too high to be covered with a water ditch many tons of the dirt being hauled down to the creek and washed with hand rockers in the early eighties one lot of tons of surface dirt was screened through a inch mesh and milled at a custom mill giving returns of 1240 per ton this thi property has been owned for sixteen years and worked at various times by one party who has run several surface tunnels cutting small veins in the rhyolite formation that caps the mountain last august silver city parties took a three months lease on the claims discovering a new vein from eight inches to three feet wide and assaying from 25 to per ton for which they gave the owner 1000 in lieu of the royalty agreed upon about fifty tons of the surface dirt covering this vein was hauled to jordan creek find and washed by hand band rockers which gave returns above 12 per ton besides several sacks of richer ore which were put into the milling ore this property in connect connection lo n W with ita the S palmer group with the vast amount of rold i old taken from the placer below with the wonderful surface showing for ore and placer dirt containing free gold together with the famous trade dollar mine adjoining and its 20 miles of tunnels and raises that have produced millions of dollars has one of the brightest prospects in the near future of any gold mine on tho the pacific coast mr stevens states that from tests he has made the surface dirt of the joseph claim carries values averaging 3 to 10 per ton and by aid of a gravity tram the dirt di rt could be conveyed to the river below belov and run through a mill and over plates platen at a cost of not to exceed per ton by using the cheap electric power to be installed within 00 feet of its main line |