Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-08-30
THINKING AND SINKING
GREAT DEVELOPMENTS
An Important Week in the Mines Of
TOnOpah.. Expectations Verified
...faets Accurately Given.

There is great deal Of thinking
of mining thinks in Tonopah just now.
The south cross-cut from the Miz-
pah to the Valley View yesterday
cut through several feet OF very high
grade ore ON one of the Burro led es.
The winze from the 300 level of the
Mizpah has been sunk seventy feet,
and the showing is a five-foot ledge
all the way down, with remarkably
line walls. The regular sample as
says all the way through and down
are of high grade. Drifts on the $50
and 300 levels, both east and west,
are being crowded as rapidly as pos
sible.
The steel cages for the new work
ing shaft arrived yesterday and will
be in operation in about a week.
These are direct from machine works
at Denver, and in their construction
are fitted with the latest and best
spring and clutch movement so far
devised for safety The guides are
now being placed. The company's
inadequate hosting facilities which
retarded development work are thus
supplanted by the modern methods
Of the heaviest class of mi open
ings. In few days all this will
enable the management to effect
more rapid and safe hosting and
thereby the completion of much more
development work. Operations of
the company have been seriously
delayed owing to the fact that the
teams on the road cannot haul all of
the freight from the railroad TO the
camp,
Tonopah Tunnel Co.
The new shaft being sunk on the
east extension of the Mizpah by this
company has encountered fine lode
porphyry in the bottom at little
more than 300 feet. This fact, taken
with the sensa tional strike on the
northeast side of Mt. Oddie of large
ledge striking right for the Mizpah,
makes the future success of the Tun-
mel company an assured fact. 1t
was always supposed by the owners
of this property that the lodges went
through Mt. Oddie at depth. This
has been seriously doubted by many
until the strike which occurred yes
terday, which proves that patience
and perseverance of the owners of
this property has been backed up by
something more than mere con jec-
ture up to this time.
Mr. Arthur Brock of Philadelphia
is to be congratulated on the success
that seems sure to crown the efforts
of this company, as he bought the
controlling interest in it last May
and has been crowding the develop
ment work on it ever since. The
Brougher Bros. and T. l.. Oddie each
hold their interest in the tunnel, be-
lieving in it thoroughly, as they had
gone to considerable expense and
trouble for over a year in the devel-
opment of this property. Messrs.
A. l., Hudgens, k. C. Gordon and p.
Manning each retain part of their
original holdings in this property.
They were the first to own it, as
they made the original location over
eighteen months ago and have always
had the greatest confidence in it. 1t
is only question of time now before
the Lodges will be cut in this prop
erty, as they have been proved on
each side of this valuable property,
which includes the greater part OF
Mt, Oddie.
Fraction.
Shaft No. ! is $40 feet deep Elk
traction Of ore continues right along,
but on account of inadequate surface
room for waste the management will
contine the most active work to the
new working shaft, No, 2. The latter
is IN lode porphyry, depth $50 feet,
and going downward five feet every
twenty.four hours. There are the
best indications of a proximate ore
body. Shaft No, 3 is down 100 feet,
the work progressing under con-
tract.
Salt Lake.
In the big shaft the 375-foot point
is in changing mineralized lode for
nation. Crosscutting will begin at
the 40l level, where complete work :
ing station will be provided. 1t is
mere guess work to say where the
next important find will show up,
but from various favorable appear