The Modoc Consolidated Mines Co. is now shipping at the rate of from 60 to 75 tons daily. The new orehouse has been completed, the hoisting capacity increased by use of the counterbalance in the three-compartment No. 2 shaft, and track laid to the ore-house to permit loading ore direct.
It is estimated 15,000 tons of ore lies broken in the filled stopes at the 1200-ft. level, and the work of pulling the stope has commenced. The rock will sort, it is estimated, to fully 5000 tons of shipping-grade ore ranging in tenor from one to five ounces gold per ton, the higher tenor obtaining in the screenings.
Deep development and exploration of the Combination claim will, it is reported, soon be commenced, when the labor situation is improved by the return of miners to the district for the winter months.

An additional electric compressor of 10-drlll capacity has been added to the equipment at the No. 2 shaft of the Modoc Consolidated company, preparatory to development of the Combination claim, north-west of the Last Dollar mine, on which the No. 2 shaft is situated.

Development work at the Last Dollar shaft, Modoc Consolidated Mines Co., is centred in the long cross-cut through the Combination claim, to the north-west.
This cross-cut when completed will be 2400 ft. in length with cross-cuts at intervals to exploit this undeveloped territory. The cross-cut should cut every known vein and dike that traverses this claim.
At the 1200-ft. level, three veins are under development in ground south and east of the shaft.

The Modoc Consolidated Mines Co. is making lighter production while cross-cutting at the bottom or 1500-ft. level, to prospect undeveloped territory on the Combination claim of the Last Dollar group.