Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-09-21 | Page 10 | $200,000 to the Ton

. $200,000 TO THE TON. One of the richest pieces of gold ore ever taken from a mine was placed on exhibition in Goldfield, Nev. It weighs twenty pounds, and assays $200,000 a ton, and is a specimen from the rich stope in the Frances-Mohawk lease on the Mohawk, where the leasing company has been sacking a fat streak measuring about one foot across that averages $50,000. This rich deposit is a part f an eight-foot bunch of high-grade ore which is broken and loaded into opun freight ears, from which one -ar was settled for last wet-k,. tlie cimpany receiving re-ceiving a check for $'J0,Ol.I.S0. This phenomenally rich ore has been in evidence in a drift on the 220-foot level for more tha.i seventy feet. On the 270-foot level a drift is being rushed into the s.-me territory, which will afford an additional fifty feet of backs. That the values are there has been demonstrated by sinkinp a winze twenty-five feet, from which averngo samples show almost $900 per ton. The Frances-Mohawk has been most sensational performer. It is onlv about thirty davs since the ore was first struck, and' in that time $200,000 worth of ore has been shipped. It is producing now at the rate of $25,000 per day. The ore body is some sixty feet wide, and every pound is ore. Last Saturday ore was encountered in the Peterson lease on the Silver Pick mine at a depth of seventy feet. Assays As-says from the bottom of the shaft showed average values of $176 per ton. The Silver Pick adjoins the Mohawk on the north, but the Mohawk ledge swings to the east Jsef ore reaching the end lines, and by some Silver Pick was not considered very promising ground.