Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-03-06 | Page 12 | Gold Top Company Plans Development

r GOLD TOP GOMPllNir I PLANS DEVELOPMEPJT Compressor and Machine Drills to Be Put in Operation Op-eration Soon. John J. Graf, general manager of the jold Top Mining company, operating near Battle Mountain, stopped in Salt Lake cesterday on the nay from his home in Los Angeles to the mine. He brought ) - .vith him some promising samples of gold nd copper ore recently taken from the iroperty and two small bricks of bullion, . .vhieh represented the first runs of the nill recently Installed on the property. The chief purpose of his visit here was . o take up matters with local Mrms look-' look-' ng to the installation of a compressor nid machine drills at the Gold Top to fa-' fa-' ! -Illtato development and production. 11 r. , ' ?raf reports that the new mill Is doing ' ;ood -work and that sufficient ore has ! een developed to keep it going for sev- i , -ral months, but it is the intention of the J ompanv to enlarge the mill as rapidly as 1 ossible'. and to this end it is desirable i hat machine drills be installed. I Tho Gold Top group was acquired by .Ir. Graf and his associates about a year tgo but the company was not organized I null the mill had been completed and vas In operation. Work on tho mlllwas tarted last September and the 36-ton init was completed about the first of the ear. The company was Incorporated nlv last month. ; Comparatively little new development vork has been done. Tho old workings :' onsisted of incline and crosscuts aggre- ating 586 feet, and a shaft sunk to a epth of 130 feet. A .gold-bearing vein .as been followed from the surface by the 1 ncline. The vein, as far as developed, i verages better than six feet in width ' nd at one point opened up to a width of I hirty feet. Assays from different points ! long tho vein yielded gold values of from j 7.2(1 to $39 to the ton. Another vein was cut by the shaft, this ein averaging about four feet in width. ! 'hat the vein in the shaft was separate rom that opened in the incline is indl-ated indl-ated by a crosscut which has been run ; ; connect the bottom of the shaft with 1 he lower workings of the incline. . Native copper recently encountered in i he lower workings leads Mr. Graf to be- eve that ultimately the Gold Top may evelop into a bigger copper property than ' gold property. Further investigattonss i isclosed a copper outcropping at another ; oint on the property, and this is being ' respected by a shaft which is now down I iventy-two feet. A 12-inch vein of ore irrvlng malachite and azurite has been pened, which yielded average assay alues of 5.1 per cent copper. Further prospecting is being done in ; i le tunnel from the incline, about nfty-i nfty-i ; .vo feet below the surface. A winze is : ' :. eing sunk, and is reported to be all in : re, with gold values steadily increasing I ; p depth is attained. The $39 assay was : i '. plained from samples taken at this oint. i The mill is of the Eeleston Ball type, ; fith a concentrating plant in conjunction. ' is the intention of the management to '., istall additional units as soon as the i Smpressor and machine drills have been . ' tit in.