Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-04-05
MINES And MINING
Bright Prospects for the Mcnamara.
Sinking in the Gold HiI!---The
G. 4 II. Tunnel Work.

The Gold Hill Company has made
connection with the east shaft. and
now that the mine is ventilated pre-
parations are being made to send
down the main working shaft to a
depth of 800 feet. Hosting works of
sufficient capacity will be placed on
the property and just as soon as the
depth contemplated is reached cross
cuts will be run and the ground thor
oughly explored Some fine ore has
been taken from this property and
the management is taking no chances
whatever in deep underground ex-
plorations.
This property has been incorpo-
rated but no effort has been made TO
place stock on the market and none
will be made until the ore bodies are
sufficiently opened to Justify IA reduc-
ton works being built
OF course only few men will be
employed in sinking the shaft. but
drifts will be run from each 100 foot
station and the force of miners grad.
ually increased This is giltedged
property and will ultimately cut an
important figure in the ore output of
Tonopah
&. Il ii. Tunnel.
The contract ON the G. Il H. tunnel
has been completed, but the drift
will be pushed on through the noun
tain, This proposition is now under
"A bond and il the sale now pending
should fall through it is the intention
Of the owners to commence at once
The sinking of 800 foot shaft on the
Silver State claim located in the
tunnel.
That this is the greatest piece Of
property aside from the original dis
coveries is conceded by every mining
man who has visited the camp, and
the day is not far distant when its
Importance and value will be salts
factoriy attcSted
Halifax Company.
The Halifax properties, located
east Of Mount Oddie, are receiving
deserved attention and the results
thus far have been Of the most en-
couraging nature
. They are now engaged in sinking
deep shaft on this combination of
claims, and while no quartz has been
encountered, the porphyry through
which they are passing is strongly
mineralized and the ASSAYS made
demonstrate conclusively that they
are developing the ore zone. No
prosecuting will be inaugurated
until the depth Of 300 feet is reached.
Tonopah Consolidated.
This company owns the Mcnamara
claim, which is tied to the famous
Burro and Blackboard mines, and is
also in direct line with the Mizpah
ore veins A visit to the company's
shaft disclOSeS extensive work being
done, and all preparatory to pcrma-
ncnt mining. The shaft is double
compartment one, timbcrcd from the
surface. One Of the compartments
is used as "A man way, having ladders
and landings at each sixteen feet,
which gives every protection to the
miners and makes the lower levels
easily accessible.
The shaft is now down l2l feet,
with the formation making to the
lead porphyry very rapidly Seams
of clay and quartz are showing
throughout the bottom Of the shaft !
and the entire body is iron-stained, /
proving uestionably the nearness
Of the lode porphyry.
Messrs Joseph and Jackson are
carrying ON their work with an eye
singly to the development of a mine,
and little work will be necessary
when the shaft has reached that
depth from which cross-cuts and
levels will be run. A steam hoist to
suppIant the present within is one of
the immediate improvements contem-
plated.
Success should and assuredIy will
attend the efforts Of these worthy
citizens of our camp. Every surface
indication based upon the mineral
showing and strike of the Mzpah
veins prove conclusively that those
veins extend into the Mcnamara |
ground. We wish that the Tonopah
Consolidated Company may be among
the first, If not altogether first, to |
strike pay ore on the west extension
of the Mizpah ore bodies
At noon to-day at depth of 1875
feet the same character of porphyry |
as in the Mizpah was struck in the
bottom of the shaft. Everybody in /
town is jubilant over this find; it
means much to the camp.