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Show OLD JlOItAX SMITH'S $150,000 ORE HIGHWAY IS CUT TO PIKCKH Almost irreparable damage was done to a portion of the Goods'prings mining district a few days ago when a great cloudburst struck that part of southern Nevada, according to S. S. Arentz, manager of the Ingomar Mining Company, who has just returned re-turned from the state. A great wall of .water came boiling down and took out about seven miles of the great Borax Smith Stateline high- way. This was constructed at a cost of $150,000. The rain isolated the Ingomar, Milford No. 2, Milford Mining, Min-ing, Addison, Tamoshanter and Calico Cali-co ruining properties from their old railroad station at Roach. Now they must take a round-about road, 29 miles. The old Borax Smith highway was only sixteen miles. Mr. Arentz said yesterday that the road will probably never be reconstructed. recon-structed. It would cost too much to fill the big gaps at intervals through the north end of the? highway for a distance of seven miles. This part of the Qoodsprings district was producing produc-ing about twelve carloads of ore a month. The Ingomar is now employing a force of twelve men and the Milford No. 2, under Mr. Arentz's management. manage-ment. Is employing six men. The Ingomar In-gomar is shipping four to six cars of ore a month. The lead is high-grade zinc, 4 2 per cent. The Milford has a shaft down ninety feet and in its sinking there has been extracted about 17 5 tons of mostly high-grade lead and zinc ores. Herald-Rep. ' |
