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Show MO BIG PROPERTIES ROW C1S0LIIED California and Comstock Mines of Park City United in One Organization. TERRITORY IS RICH Company Amply Financed and Will Push Work of Development. The consolidation is announced by the firms of Evans -Morris-Whitney com- , pany and Pern & Thomas of the famous Comstock and California mines of Park City. While lessees are ' now operating in the upper workings of '.he Comstock, the new consolidated company com-pany will begin operations from both the j Comsiock and California tunnels on an ex- trnsive scale immediately, adding these mines to the already large producing 1 :ines of the district. i Shortly prior to the time the two mines u ere closed down several years ago because be-cause of apex litigation concerning their ! ore bodies, the stock of both companies sold at a bove $j on the local exchange. j The properties adjoin the Silver King Coalition and the Crescent. The rich ore beddings of tiie Silver King Coalition, from which the present big shipments are being made, are wi thin 1000 feet of the tide'lines of the Conistock-California, and it is stated by the engineers in charge of the new consolidation that the sinking of a winze feet f torn the 450 -font level cf the Consolidation ground should open up these ore bodies. Besides, there are other large bodies of ore exposed, which were being worked at the time the properties prop-erties closed down. Rich Ore on 450 Level. In the 4.r-0-foot level is a big silver-lead-zine bedding from which 60OC tons 1 of ore, netting $i?,'.on, have already been mined. Another exposed ore body from the 250-foot level has already yielded 1700 j inns of rich silver-lead ore. A body of I silver-lead-zinc ore five feet thick is now exposed in another ur raise in what is knnwn as the Comstock tunnel. The property is thoroughly equipped witlt a hist capable of sinking ?ooo feet, a l"T'fl cubic -foot compressor with seventy-five horsepower motor attached with transformers and all necessary electrical equipment, an up-to-dare mill with crusher, crush-er, tolls, jigs and Wiifley tables, in all 1 ?n ions capacity, with first-cla ss mill buiklincs with steam-power equipment, hoarding house, bunk house, ore house, office of-fice and six miners' cabins. Like Famous Property. The system of ore deposits in the Comstock-California is the same as In the frMher King- Coalition and the Silver King Consolidated and is also typical of the general and usual character of the ore df-p isits of the Crescent and other ad-ja ad-ja ent territory. The property consists of nineteen patented pat-ented claims with an acreage of li'.-u The first 6re found in the Park City district dis-trict was less than a mile from this property prop-erty and since that time the mines of the district have produced over 5 140. 000. i and h:ive paid approximately 545,000,000 : in dividends. The fissur e system in the Corns tock-j tock-j California property consists primarily of j two pttrphyry dikes paralleling each other j for almost all the distance exposed. The westerly one forks or splits, in the Caii-i Caii-i fomia workings, the westerly member po-1 po-1 ing off at an angle of L'O degrees from i the other. Seven secondary fissures j parallel the dikes. The ore makes , in bodies from one of these fissures to an-I an-I other in the direction of the foot wall. There is a three -compartment shaft ! 450 feet deep, well timbered and in first-! first-! class condition, with crosscuts at the j 250 -foot level and on the 450-foot I level. These crosscuts are each ! about 1500 feet long-. On the southerly ! end of the property is a discovery shaft : sunk on the vein. This vein is approNi-; approNi-; mately three feet wide and is believed to be the same one from which a great tonnage of bonanza ore was mined both ; from the California tunnel and the ad-; ad-; joining1 properties. The company owns . about IfiOO feet of this vein to the south-! south-! west, making over 4000 feet of the strike of this system within the company's , property. The lessees now working in the upper ; workings, probably the least productive ; part of the mine, shipped a carload of ore two months ago which assayed t'.0'2 ounce gold, ti.51 ounces silver, 0.72 per cent copper, cop-per, in. 8 per cent lead, 7.15 per cent iron, -rt.4 per cent insoluble, making a net profit prof-it for the car of $1047.20. Three more oars of the same grade of ore shipped by the lessees are now at the smelter awai ting settlement. Assays from the various large ore bodies now exposed in the mine show values all the way from 9 per cent to 32 per cent lead and from 14 per cent to 35 per cent zinc and from 4 to 17 ounces silver. The ore also carries gold values. The consolidated company is well financed fi-nanced and work will be pushed vigorously. vigorous-ly. According to many prominent Park City men, the ground is a part of the richest in the district. 1 TV. T. Snyder is president of the company, com-pany, B. F. Bauer vice president, il. II. Sowles seoretarv and treasurer; these, with E. J. Raddatz, Willard F. Snyder, Sherman Fargo and J. A. Cunningham, constitute the directorate. |