Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-09-15 | Page 8 | Round Mountain Ore Bodies Opening Well

I ROUND MOUNTAIN ORE J j 1 BODIES OPENING WELL t The clean-up for August, at the con- 1 ccntrating plant of the Round Mountain Mining company, us Indicated Wednesday '1 , y a letter to Dir.cctor Lewis D. Gordon. . ) will reach $30,000, the best results gained ! ' 1 , "V the management for many months. , t The management now has the advantage i M of the Increased capacity of the mill, and J ! the new or sheeted ore zone in the new 1 workings located about 1500 feet east of " j the .original or No. 1 shaft section. This 3heetcd zone, stated Mr. Gordon , yesterday, produced ?20,000 of the August 1 total, the ore averaging between S10 and , $12 gold per ton. which is a much better I average than was anticipated by the 1 previous cold-blooded sampling of the i management. The old workings arc loolc- l ing especially gratifying at this time. The footwall country on the seventy-foot ' . level is producing a line tonnage of $10 1 1 gold ore. and a big tonnage of SS ore is ' being blocked out on the 600 level. Th" li crosscut on the 700 level has encountered threo very good veins, all the work at f l dppth placing as much ore in sight and l I In available form for extraction as at anv 1 Ecylou,s Pe.1.'!od of the mine's history. I I Jhc values Ikewlse are holding up splen- ' flldly. nnd the officials pre delighted with : ' i, the present conditions above and below t ( J the surface.