Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 3 | New Workings in Old Cortez Mine

oo NEW WORKINGS IN OLD CORTEZ MINE While driving its 1,200 foot tunnel A few days ago, and at a point fifty feet back'of the present face, an open air fissure was discovered at the Cor- tez Mining and Exploration company's property in Lander county, thlrty- fhe miles south of Beowawe on the S. P. railroad, according to Tom C. Parker, general manager, who was In Salt Lake City yesterday. This uas at a depth of 500 feet from the surface, and was discovered by Mr. Parker. He noticed that his f candle would flicker when held near the crack. The air came In good and f fresh, a very deslro-blo feature at that t depth A drift was sent in a few 5jg 'eet, when tho Inflow of fresh air jjjSjj :as so great as to extinguish the can- SK lie. In twenty feet it had opened K lut bo a man could almost stand up- ight, blowing delicious fresh air B down Into the tunnel, relieving the 5fl R necessity of pumping air into that m noint, affording peifect ventilation, I Yhere this mysterious current comes I Trora Is still unexplained, but It la J woith thoueauds of dollars to the vm t cine. IE I The main tunnel is being carried m i on the lime footwali along the por- D I phyry fissure, .which varies in width j from four to twenty feet, with quart-E quart-E J zite on the other bide. Tho formation Ej Is broken and the contact, the objec-X objec-X R tlvo point, seems close at hand. Ifur-00: Ifur-00: B ther back In the tunnel, fibsurea were 3 crosscut showing some values In sil-2 sil-2 ver and gold. Rpjl fi In the old workings on tho Bouth, Bjti r which aro credited with a production lJ2 record of ?19,000.000, the orps wero r' P found principally in grc.it chambers jjjj t in the lime. By following borne of tho t streak leads, those big oro bearing g chambers were discovored. This new Mb R ground is showing these samo charac- 1 K torlstlcB, and by following, later, some "U; i of the fissures already cut by this BSBj tunnel such commercial 'bodies may mH be encountered. Some of the old Kl chambers furnished sufficient ore to ' keep tho mill going for several years at a lime. At the Buckthorn mine, seven miles east of Cortez, tho property which George Wingflold of the Goldfleld Consolidated acquired recently, a new 250-foot shaft )is being sunk A largo amount of ore has been blocked ?out above this level. It Is estimated as high as $1,500,000 Everything theie is awaiting the reconstmctlon of the -Palisade & Eureka railroad, which runs close to the Buckthorn mine.