Show CUSTOMS APPEAR I F IN LARGE Bid Stocks of Twenty Companies Companie Offered on New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Curb WORKING IN OLD TUNNEL After Ore Bodies in Mine Which Made Millionaires Over OverNight Night New ew York April 14 About About twenty stocks ks of or companies on the Comstock 10 lode e made their appearance upon tho the curb market today These are arc chiefly new companies d which have havo purchased all hc the rights of tho ol old oner once famous during the boom days das when million millionaires aires alres pre ere mad madi- o overnight In Virginia City The n nf nw w companies are all using the Comstock tunnel l to drain their thell mines on a royalty basis of four foul per percent percent percent cent of gross output an and man many of them are aro using the tunnel for the handling of or ores A very ery large amount of mono mone has hos h en expended on these mines the thelast thelast las last t five years ear mo modern ern machinery ry haIr having been installed j fth the f Idea l of ot sinking to get a nl at I tt U. continuation r f the ore bodies from s' s hi li h the bonanza r took out more than han I in gol Sol dand silver er The ore oro values are arc about 55 per cent silver and 15 Hi per sold gold win m u u-o U- U n fJ Total hoisting capacity of tho the compan company com corn pan pan pany now HOW amounts to 1805 tons with will seven of the hoists operated by Ly dee clec There arc are eleven reduction plants Including the Butters plant which cost an and is one of the largest t cyaniding outfits In America Tho The Yellow Jacket which was re recently recently rt- rt purchased by H. H L. L Claronce Mackay and others has put puta a ton OO-ton mill mm Into operation and last las week shipped 1000 worth of concentrates concentrates con con- to the Selby smelter Th he same mine has reduced the cost o of smelting and milling to the lowest 10 on record In the camp It being under 1 four dollars a 0 ton There are aro four tour miles of old ol workings In fn tho the upper levels Je of the lode but from now orthe on or the tho development dc will wm be of tho the lower level cl and for this purpose the Com Com- stock stoel tunnel is being use used by 11 the theSa Sa Savage age Hale laZe and Norcross l the Chollar Chol- Chol tar lar tho the Potosi an and Gould and Curr Curry Tunnel Tumid Repaired In or order cr to accommodate the new work worle tho has hal been r repaired and und will soon loon be equipped an trolley lino line Tho The old Oo en drain pipes have haV ind mU replaced with v a a. 2 Inch 24 steam and nul tight light flume nUme Electric power oel wires S I ca cary carry 2 2200 OO volts and there thero arc also telephone wires 1 connecting with all the mines working through the tunnel The tunnel Is about seven sevell and a half hale miles long IonS including tho the branches Electric power Is brought over from rom the river rl a 0 distance distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance of ot about 35 miles an and tho the use of or air nil compressor plants an and mo modern blowers make malo It possible for or the miners miners min mm- ers to work worl in c comfort a full tull shift shiH of hr hours Instead of a few minutes under a pray spray of cold col water as was wai necessary in the early days das Most c acU and important of or the stocks put lUt on th the curb today were Ophir quoted at 70 O Mexican iO Crown Point 50 cents Yellow Jacket 85 86 cents Consolidated Virginia 60 cents Alta Belcher Deicher Best and Belcher DeIcher Bullion Caledonia Challenge Chollar Confidence Exchequer Gould and Curry Hale and Norcross an and Union Con |