Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-08-15 | Page 28 | California-Nevada Co, to Start Work

CILIF0H-I11 CO. TOOT WORK Has Taken Over Day Bns tol Consolidated Mines Property Near Pioche Mm ng operat ons are to start immo diately on what was formerly known as the Day Br stol Consol dated M nes company s propertj located near Pi oche Nev and wb ch has been tal en over by the Callforn a Nevada Mining company George I Bent will leave Salt Lake T esdav for P oche and t Is expected that with n a fow days after h b arr val the n e w 11 be n operation All of the Day Bristol com paoy 6 indebtedness has been cleared up and the necessary cap tal fu n sled for the development of the property There is at present n s gbt about 2o 000 tons of sh pping ore that will return re-turn the new interests a good prof t When the property was worked hero tofore the fre ght charges from thl n ine amounted to approx mately $6 pel ton due to the long wagon haul Then has recently been con pleted an aerial tramway 9800 feet n length that w 11 deliver the ore to the Ja k Rabb t ra 1 road at a cost not to exceed 25 cents per ton The tramway has been n operat on and gave perfect sat sfact on During the early days wh le the prop erty was be ng operate! the treatment charges and freight charges prevented the shipment 6f ore. unless it would a erage cons derably more than $15 per ton and as a result ore runn ng $lo per ton was placed on the dumps and used in f 11 ng the oli stopes In the ne ghborhood of 25,000 tons of th s ma tena is now ava lable a cons derable port on of -which runB better than $15 to the ton The property is equ pped with all necessary mining mach nery and the f rst work to be accompl shed w 11 be the straighten ng of the ma n shaft from the 300 foot level to the surface A connect on will also be n ade as soon as poss ble between the Gjpsj and the Way Day m ne on the 200 foot level wh ch will make access b e the large body of low grade copper s lver ore that has been opened in the May Dry m ne The nan shaft has been sunk on the property to a depth of 500 feet and a w nze has been sunk from the 500 foot level to a depth of 100 feet wh ch en countered an ore body that s five feet in width and which has been opened along its strike for th rty f se feet It averages $35 in copper s lver values to the ton and in the op n on of the man agement, is the continual on of the fa mous Lloyd shoot that produced more than $1500 0 0 The off c als of the new organ za t on are Will am H Hull of New Haven Conn a ret red cap tal st who is pres ident and Franklin Lynch of New York C ty who s secretary and treas urer Among the pr nc pa d rectors are Will am H Hand of Scranton Pa. and E H Sawyer of New York City