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Show NOTED OLD I mm LIVELY UtaK Money Responsible to Great Extent for Boom in Old District. Roy Spraguo, a business man of Aurora, Au-rora, while In Carson a few days ago, gave an interesting account of tho operations oper-ations of the Aurora Consolidated company com-pany and tho big plans this organization has under way. The Aurora Consolidated Consoli-dated is partly a Utah proposition, for It Is to a considerable extent Utah money that has mado posslblo tho big Job of mill installation now under -way. Mr. Spraguo said In part, according to tho Carson News: ' The biggest work boing done In tho camp at this tlmo Is that of tho Aurora Au-rora Consolidated Minos company, which has about a hundred mon upon Its payroll and Is working In several sev-eral mines besides constructing a big sixty-stamp mill with a capacity of 600 tons dally. Tho concreto work has boon finished and the work of erection will bo rushed to an end. It being hoped that the crushing of oro can bo started within tho next six months. Tho bringing In of tho machinery and supplies is a big job and is boing done by big freight teams and motor trucks which keop the dust rising upon tho roads at all times. There was a contract let some months ago for tho delivery of twelve tons of freight per day to tho mining company and the contractors have been kept on tho Jump to llvo up to tho terms of tho contract. This company owns a largo aore-ago aore-ago In the camp and has In Its title some of tho old historic properties prop-erties of which 'Mark Twain wrote when Novada was now. The most famous fa-mous of these is without doubt the Humboldt mine, a mine of massive ledges and good gold values. Thoro Is a ledgo on this property on the 200-foot level which Is at least sixty feet wldo and Is all good milling ore. This will bo quarried out and shipped to tho mill through tho main tunnel which is now being driven as a lateral later-al from the Prospector's Drain tunnel, tun-nel, which Is now in about 170O feet. Tho lateral will havo to bo run about another hundred foet to tap this ledgo at a depth of 400 foot. It is a big double-track tunnel and Is being driven ahead just as rapidly as threo shifts of men and machine drills can do the work. It Is understood that the company plans to continue this tunnel along tho way about 5000 feet, where It will enter the Durand proporty, also owned .by them and which in the early days contained large ledges of pure white quartz which was liberally liber-ally sprinkled with the yellow grains and made the mlno famous in Us day. Improved machinery and modern mod-ern methods of mining will mako all tho ore pay ore, which was not pos- 1 slble in tho days of long ago when the English companies were spending their money in the district and expenses ex-penses woro eating up tho profits. |
