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Show GOLDFIELD IS BUSY. Leasers Aro Helping to Swell the Sum Total of Good Done, Special to Tho Tribune. GOLDFTELD, Nov.. July 3. Combination Combi-nation Fraction, Goldfield Consolidated, Florence, .lumbo Extension and St. IvCs arc prominent among the Goldfield mines which these latter days aro swelling swell-ing the weekly production of tho camp to an average of 3500 tons, worth in tho neighborhood of $600,000. Somq of the output goes through tho Combination Combina-tion mill, some through the Novada-Goldlield Novada-Goldlield reduction works and tho balance bal-ance to the plant at filler's or direct to tho smelters. Tt is largely- due to Goldfield that bullion purchases of tho Carson City mint are greater than at any other timo within the last fifteen years. Goldfield Consolidated mines is gough-ing gough-ing into mammoth bodies of picture oro under the old nnyes-Monnotte and Tru-ett Tru-ett lease workings, lifting from the 250-. foot level quantities of dirt from an eight-foot, face that samples $3400 per ton and having stored a heavy woight of rock that ranges in value from $300 lo $5000 tho ton. Both General Man-ager Man-ager J. W. Finch of the Consolidated und Presidont Thomas G. Lockhart of the Jumbo Extension deny that there is any foundation in fact for the rumor ru-mor that an apex suit is pending between be-tween tho two bonauzas, tho Wedgo Fraction of Jumbo Extension and Consolidated Con-solidated 's Mohawk. " Very shortly there will bo four hundred hun-dred men working at the old TshShcets and Kalfus leases, on the Combination and Mohawk possessions of tho Consolidated, Consoli-dated, now operated under one management, manage-ment, that ot the newly organized Mohawk-Combination Lease company. Shafts are sinking and drifts are running run-ning upon oro that daily improves in value, about two-thirds of the product now averaging $125 per ton and the balance $50. When the workings gel; lo operating full blast the daily output should run to $25,000 and the earnings for tnc six mouths' life of the lense should bo not less than $-1,250,000. The Mohawk No. 1 Leasing company, at 110 feet from its shaft, has drifted at 100 feet into four feet of ore that promises to develop into a shipper. A crosscut is running on the 300 level for the same lead. Tho Nevada Pearl louse on the Combination is down 220 feet in a flattering formation. Leasers are doing tho business on the Florence, pending the company's completion com-pletion of its big mill. In the month of June the Mohawk Florence lease sent lo market 1,3-12, 7S5 pounds of ore, for which it received returns of $23(5,-3S0.10, $23(5,-3S0.10, au average of $35.29 per ton. The Little Florence lease shipped 007,-808 007,-808 nounds, the slimmest lot running $02.15 per ton and tho best $933.68. Heturns upon tho last few consignments consign-ments have not been received, but upon the bastilles the returns show an average av-erage valuo of $292.72 per ton. The January Jones lease on the Cornishman claim of the Florence is takiug shipping ship-ping ore from the 175-foot level. Sheriff Ingalls has been appointed receiver of this lnasc upon application of Willard V. Croxall and Marvin Arnold, having a grievance against Jones. The Florence Flor-ence Ledges lease on the Firelight claim has seventeen foot of ore on the 150 level, five feet of it averaging $80 per ton. Tho main shaft, is down 2S0 feet. A winze is sinking on the pay shoot from tho 150. and an upraise is going to meet it from ihe 250. The Pollard lease on Florence has sunk to the 330 aud is drifting oh what appears to be the Little Florence ledge near the Baby Florence line. The A'u-relia A'u-relia lease's double compartment shaft is past the 230-foot on its way to the j 100 level, and has the sume ledge as the Florcucc Ledge. Baby Florence is drifting from shaft No. 2 on the 2S5 foot and is sinking for tho 250 at shaft No. I, adjoining iho Little Florence block. Tho Chicago Florence Mining and Lcating company is sinking on noni iual values at its lease on the Ked King claim. Jumbo Extension has three shipping ship-ping leases and another comiilg up. In ."June tho Iligginson lease shipped 221?, OSS pounds. Ihe ore averaging $147 per . ton. The Mohnwk Jumbo Tease sent out 60S. 74.1 pounds, the banner lot go- ' ing $156 per ton and the booby $22.0-1. Tho Frances Mohawk lease, formerly! the Curtis, has opened on the 380 level six to soyen feet of all-over $100 ore, with a big streak good for average samples ot from $1000 to $5000 per ton. At present tho Iligginson lease is getting out about twenty tons of high-grade high-grade daily. An air compressor is being be-ing installed, it being tho purpose lo sink to Iho 300-foot and cvosscut both ways on the 275. The Annex, a Hig- ginson sub-lease, expects to reach tho I pav shoot by the middle of July. ! I Tho daily output of r.ho Mohawk I Jumbo lease on Jumbo Extension has B reached an average of fifty tons, there being three active slopes on the 430 lovol and sinking continuing. This 9 lease is to take ovor the compressor 1 now in U6e at the Loftus-Davis Corabi- 1 nation Fraction lease, soon to expire, I J and will then oporato eight machine j drills. The Mohawk-Ledge on Jumbo ' Extension will soon start sloping in its north drift. A fight is on between Jumbo Extension and the Triangle for possession of a narrow strip at the west J end of Jumbo Extension's ground in j the Diamondficld section of the Gold-field Gold-field district. The St. Ives Leasing t company, operating the Codd lease on tho St. Ives, is turning out an average . of fifty tons weekly "for the market, the produce coming from the 100-foot ) lovol, oxtensive developments being prosecuted on the 311, whero are two handsome ledges, and the shaft dropping drop-ping for the 400. A shaft is being sunk on the St. Ives lease of the Gold- 1 field .Reduction company. Kett Broth- I ors are down 230 feet at their Atlanta lease, tho Junatlanta lenso on the Union Jack claim of the Atlanta group will crosscut on tho 250 and the Nelson Goldfield Mining company has purchased pur-chased from the Bismark Mining and Leasing company four Atlanta leasing blocks, upon which it will sink 500 feet for tho oxtension of the Gold Bar lodge. The Daisy mine is to erect reduction works of its own so soon as experiment experi-ment shall determine the best methods of treatment. Tho main shnft is 260 feot deep, and there has been accomplished accom-plished an enormous nmount of lateral development. A recently cut ledge on tho 210 level runs as high as $400 the ton, and rich samples come from two drifts on the 150-fooL The lease of the Daisy Leasing and Mining conipany, already a shipper, is waging a vigorous campaign on No. 1 claim, its workings lying between the company shaft and the Great Bond, both shippers. Mining Notoa. De Witt B. Lowe, the broker, returned yesterday from a several weeks' visit to Eastern points. J. B. Thompson of tho firm of Thompson Thomp-son & Browning, is back from a visit to tho Pacllic coast cities. , Prof. Milton Moss has returned from the Blncham camp, whero ho inspected several larfie proportlea. Fred Whltmore, mill superintendent of the Columbus Consolidated, is a 4tn of July visitor to his home folks. Socretary G. W. "Lambourne of the Daly-Judge company returned yesterday from tho property at Park City. A. O. Jacobson. superintendent of the Columbus Consolidated company, is In the city to spend tho Fourth, -with home folks. William C. Balrd of the Columbus Consolidated Con-solidated family, is In the city from Alta. to apend a wcok with folks at homer" Davo Lemmon, superintendent of tho Southport Mining company, was in the city yesterday, conferring- with Manager Mana-ger W. C. Alexander. Reports from the property of the Utah and New York property in Beaver coun- 1 ty are that interesting developments aro ! Imminent at any hour in an ore development develop-ment way. Simon Beahan. a member of TIaydcn, Stone & Co.. Is In the city from hie New York headquarters. Before leaving for the East he will make an Inspection of tho Ncwhouse and several large Bingham Bing-ham properties In the Interest of hla company. Mr. Beahan has numerous friends in Salt Lake, who look forward to his coming with much pleasure. Malcolm "L. Macdonald of the great Montgomery-Shoshone Consolidated, was In the city a part of two days, on his return from New York, whore he has been for tho past six weeks. He left for Tonopah yesterday afternoon, where ho will make his headquarters and devote de-vote himself to his ynst Nevada mining and banking Interests for the balance of the year. He expresses tho opinion that mining stocks, which have been influenced influ-enced largoly by railroads and Industrials, Indus-trials, have about struck bottom, and looks for an early and permanent advance. |