Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1902-07-26
MINING OPERATIONS
FOR The PAST WEEK
A Brief Summary Of the Work Being
Done By the Different Companies
in TOnOpah District,


faith supported by capital and
skilled workers, can do is being done
toward the mcovering of riches en-
cased in the gold and silver bearing
porphyry encountered at varying
depths in Tonopah district The
BONANZA reports for the current
week, however, are not as full or
complete as will be given in future.
TOnOpah.
The main shaft of the Tonopah
Company has at this date reached a
depth of $3.50 feet, and the cross-cut
extends 400 feet. The amount of
work done since January LIST alto
gether amounts to 5000 feet. Surface
work proceeds with perfect regu-
larity. The foundation for the new
A h. p. hoist will require but few
days more to complete. At the main
shaft the work of building 4O-foot
galIows frame is being rushed 1t is
constructed of the heaviest Oregon
pine, twelve inches square, but after
while it will be replaced by one
composed of steel. The Chicago iron
works having the order appears to
be overcrowded, and it may be a
matter of months before the material
can be laid down here. However,
Tonopah will in time claim the dis
tinction of having the only steel
head-gear of mining works in Nevada.
North Star.
The Tonopah North Star Tunnel &
Development Co. ON the 23d inst.
awarded u contract for sinking their
shaft further distance of 200 feet
on its way down to a 600-evel The
shaft, already at depth of 100 feet,
is situate on the ground covered by
the Ivanpah mining claim and is only
$50 feet from the Mizpah n, h. cor
ner. A new gasoline hoist has been
received and is in course of place
ment. Same time work ON the long
tunnel TO penetrate Oddie mountain
from the east side is being energeti-
cally prosecuted by the company.
Those most heavily interested are
wel-known local capitalists essrs.
II Ramsey, Frank Golden, Jno SAILS
berry, Walter Harris, F. NJ. lsh,
l.. O. Ray and S. M Blumenthal. 1t
is an interesting and absolutely sure
mining investment and exploit, con-
corning which the BONANZA will have
much more to say as developments
open out. The shaft is 4x7, tim
bered throughout, and the contract
ors are Gresham, Swivel & Donnelly.
Gold Mountain.
Specimens and assay certificates
shown by Wesley Stewart are ire
futable evidence that another bonan-
20 of wealth has been opened in the
mine belonging to c. Runge and r.
Roschel, and under lease to Pohl &
Sara. Since March last they have
driven tunnel 100 feet to connect
with a shaft at 1870 feet from the
surface. A ledge has been struck
and at last accounts broken into for
two feet Qeaving its width yet UNI
known, which shows so much free
gold that assays are unnecessary.
The samples tried showed one-a tale
to carry $lO32 gold and a small
percentage of silver. The ore gave
1864. II in gold and 500. 30 In silver
total of $677 81 per ton,
Fraction.
Our account of the latest ore de-
velopment in the Fraction, given last
week, is more than confirmed by the
present showing in the 270-level OF
the mine. The body of rich gold and
ruby silver ore is increasing as the
work progresses and extraction con
tinues in greater quantity, The rock
breaker is now in operation, enabling
sorters to fill sacks directly,
Mt. Ararat.
Wingfield & Hennessy are 1850 feet
in with their tunnel on the Reptile
claim, which lies some threefourths
of a mile north Of town, between the
North Star aud the Mizpah Exten
sion. The ground shows about five
feet of ledge on the surface, which
the tunnel will intersect at deptf
of 200 feet when extended twenty
five or thirty feet further,
Mcnamara.
The east crosscut from the 200
level is now out 100 feet from thu
shaft. Ore assaying So per ton, o
which $3.50 is gold, has been crossed
1t will require about forty days t.
extend the drift IS to 100 feet, t.
reach ground where ore bodies hav'
been well calculated to exist.