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Show '-rP . ::'V:::. ,: , - ... ' HPS 5 - ... ' 7.;H.y rf-i- wv. cfx . V''.' - .--v jt v 1 5 i . - . f-v-v- I i; . . Srr- I. - . T---r:V-: -i - J" i- - jar - , " ,. - .- I- FvKk '",5 v' - ' jv ' 4 "h " - v f , ' few f ' v , f V . , The crew poses in front of Leonora tunnel Front: Wally Fotheringham, Keith Dotson, Kim Dotson, back, Georgi Penev and Rob Chastaln. Grubstaker expects to find ore under this hill . . ' -J . ..... - and several operations continue con-tinue in the area. The Leonora Leo-nora itself produced a quar-1915 quar-1915 from several vertical shafts. The White Elephant part of the Orphan Boy group produced $79,000 of 800 oz. silver, from a 600 ft. vertical shaft. .H..,U .,IWM. Christopherson, formerly of Dallas, Texas, where he owned several printing plants, now makes his home in San Diego, California, when he's not overseeing operations in Milford or beating around the country or Europe promoting capi tal for the operation. But he says most of the money he's sunk into . the Milford operation is his own. Grub-stakers Grub-stakers maintains a sales office in Luxemborg, as well as the offince in Hotel Milford. Mil-ford. He first became interest - Big timbers will support tunnel SEC he opened the European Sales Division inLuxenborg. Besides selling stock in Europe, Eur-ope, he negotiated a contract with Univest, a London Firm to purchase all the concentrates. concen-trates. For a man who once owned 27 printing plants, Christopherson Christo-pherson has a real optimism for mining in the Milford area. Born in Spanish Fork, he likes Utah and welcomes change of pace when he is in Milford. He shares the optimism of old timers who think their is still plenty of good ore in those hills. The price of gold and silver in recent years has made a lot of old properties look pretty good. But its been difficult for small producers to get their ore milled and smelted. If Christopherson gets his Grubstaker properties together, to-gether, and starts custom milling, it could be ti e beginning be-ginning of a lot of new mining min-ing ventures in the Milford area. Miners won't any longer have to just stockpile stock-pile ore, without anyplace to mill it, or a market for the concentrates. You can bet that they are anxious for Grubstaker to succeed. a" mill inTnWM.i.w,. JILUL.. iwi. ,wm . - . .TJ 'l . . .v. . w ' ' ' ' '-O v. :v- f . ' - - ; " ; -...j-- - . - n'vMu; V . T ' ' 'A l " - ' " , : , . , . - . - ; -. i , . - , , . I - s. " .. - 's' J ' -m" '"I (' .'-". i V -rv - -: ; - . . tl , -'. SM ; v r K "''I f ' . 1 .' i ' j - - ' i i ' , . s J ft , - - yr, .t , i . ed in Milford in 1978 when he took an option on the Atlas. Coming to Milford in January of 1979, he drove a shaft in the Atlas claims for 100 feet, but mineralogists mineralo-gists urged him to abandon aban-don the Atlas because of low mineratlization and move to the Leonora, which he had taken an option on along with purchasing and staking other claims in the Star Range and Mineral Mountains. Work at the Leonora started start-ed in the fall of 1980 with assays running nine ounces of silver and 32 percent lead, several drill holes were made to determine the quantity quan-tity and quality of the ore and five geologists have agreed on the location of the ore-body. He has now purchased pur-chased the Leonora Claim. A horizontal shaft was be -gun a few weeks ago, and a couple of maintenance shacks have been built. Grubstakers have bought a mucking machine, compressor, com-pressor, several trucks, including in-cluding a welding truck and water truck and the mining min-ing camp is beginning to take shape. A trailer houses the mechanic mech-anic and his wife, who also serve as night watchmen. The area has been fenced to keep out unauthorized personnel per-sonnel and another trailer is expected to be set up on the property this week to house workers. They've purchased a portable port-able 50 ton mill which they hope to have in operation in 60 days, and are negotiating for a Drill Rig and another 50 ton mill. Christopherson says he would rathr have four 50 ton mills than a 200 ton mill, so that he can handle several different types of one at the same time. Principals in the company Max Christopherson, Chairman Chair-man of the Board, Jerry Kelly, President Wayne Christopherson, Vice-President David Hathcox, Sec-Treas. Sec-Treas. Wally Fotheringham handles public relations locally, loc-ally, Keith Dotson is mining Superintendent, Rob Chas-tine Chas-tine Engineer, and they have two laborers at present, Georgi Penov, and Kim Dot-son, Dot-son, and the mechanic. They expect to be hiring miners and mill operations in the near future. Grubstakers, Inc. was approved ap-proved by the Securities Exchange Ex-change Commission a couple of months ago. The preliminary prelimi-nary issue and the primary issue of stock, both for 50,000 shares, are both sold out. Presently stock is selling, sell-ing, for $3.60 per share, assays show some zinc, and ' tracings of gold ranging from .01 hundredths to .06 hundredths. hund-redths. Shaft 1 at the Leonora will go back 2000 feet to intersect the east -west fissure. However, How-ever, they have already ran into mineralization and expect ex-pect to start milling ore at 300-400 feet. Besides the Leonora, Christopherson has staked six Grubstaker claims nearby, near-by, and has 14 claims in the Mineral Range. Eight Mustangs Mus-tangs and six Abrahams, formerly known as the Sunrise Sun-rise Properties. He is optimistic op-timistic about those claims, and is presently negotiating to purchase several other silver-lead mines in the Star Range. After being admitted to the i : ' , ' y f '&-''' ' 1 " - ' ' '"' ..; . " ' - t i MM f , r? f -"T '. ' t "-1 "", !1 h ' . i LQ. I ; ;j i - - j : t ( ! "I . '- . " j I j . ' . I . , ? ri r " : c. U J I S , ' - , 1 9 rvy - - rf J I' r :v. " .gmm. W -' Keith and Kim place sign over front of Leonora tunnel ' i DRIVING TUNNEL: Keith Dotson, left, and his son, Kim, start a drill hole to blast the tunnel on Leonora Shaft 1 deeper. Grubstaker, Inc., is opening up the lead -silver property. L " ' , ' - ' ' I . i" ' . -rr, . : -. . . j. t - v '''j" ... - . .. .. . - . 4 I - ' . . " . r-v . 1 f' " - ' ' . v "" f f. - ...... j.-.: - ' -- fcwMMtrtafat r i I - . ? - - . . -T -7vl;-':'' i -t-1" '4'. " " - ' . ;? " "I hr -''' - r ' r V - . ... .... .......... -. -'1 i . :.. . . ..... " w. . .. .......... ... .... 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