Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-04-18
An ACTIVE WEEK
IN TONOPAh MINES
Brief Mention Of Progress at Several
Centers Of Interest.


gether with a brief description OF its
directorate, capitalization and loca-
ton OF its properties, has already
been given by the BONANZA. The
directors, Messrs. w. ]. Douglas, S.
A. Knapp, Geo. w. Richards, Geo.
Winkler and c. M. Hooten, are
amongst the best of Tonopah mining
men, while the prospectus gets di-
rectly to the main facts, and is alto
gether the most successful publica-
ton of the sort that has so far been
submitted to a discriminating public.
Investors looking for ground floor
opportunities should call at the State
Bank and get copy.
Midway.
A working station will be cut at
the 435-foot point of the Midway
shaft, which to-day lacks but five
feet or another set Of timbers Of that
depth. Levels will be run across the
well-stratified formations of the mine
at once, the results of which will at
tract no small amount OF attention.
The Midway joins the Buck board
claim of the Tonopah company and
the Lucky Jim claim, on which is
sunk the Montana Tonopah shaft.
Valley View.
In the Valley View shaft of the
Tonopah company the development
of bonanza ore continues with the
regularity of clockwork. On the east
drift from the 300-level, eighty feet
south of the shaft, a ledge is being
opened which is seven feet in width
between walls. In sampling for as
say the ledge is divided into lateral
sections, the results obtained ranging
from SIS to 81, 900 per ton values in
gold and silver.
OhiO-TOnOpah.
The Ohio. Tonopah shaft at 700 feet
is going through the true lode, or
"pink" porphyry, which is scanned
with well mineralized stringers Of
quartz. The indications are ex-
tremely favorable for the develop
ment OF ore bodies right in the shaft
line, although it was projected to be
entirely in the country rock, and the
management hardly expected to en-
counter ledge matter without cross
cutting 300 feet south.
Molly.
The porphyry was reached in the
Molly shaft at at o depth of 2l0 feet.
Sinking continues at the rate OF three
feet per day, and the present con
tract will be completed in about
twenty days.. which will make the
shaft 300 feet deep. A contract to
sink to the 800 will then be let
New Works.
The great steel gallows-frame being
erected over the Siebert shaft begins
to loom up like an Eilfel tower. To-
gether with the 100-h. p. air com
pressors ana $50 h. p. hosting en-
CINE and steel shaft house, the works
will be by far the finest and most
complete ever erected on this coast.
Desert queen.
The Desert Queen shaft, now the
deepest mine opening in Touopah, at
the depth of 40 feet, exposes the
third ledge which has been encoun-
tered in its descent. 1t is string
err" of about one foot in width, car
rying values approximating $25 per
tnn-Oood free milling ore
Belmont.
At the Belmont shaft the new 40
foot gallowsframe is in position, and
the arrival of the 44-h. p. hosting
engine is expected during the coming
week. In view of the developments
of the last few days, surely no time
will be lost in the resumption of sink
ing.
BOstOn-TOnOpah.
Complete installation of hosting
plant on the Boston Tonopah has
been delayed by the non arrival of
some essential parts of the machin-
cry. These viii soon be on hand,
when sinking will be Immediately re-
sumed.
Alpine Ore.
A recent shipment of 500 sacks of
ore from the Alpine mine, Lone
Noun tain, weighing 80, 400 pounds,
or 600 pounds less than twenty tons,
netted the owners ~, $500 SO, or
cleared 1928 per ton.
TOnOpah City.
Sinking is progressing in lode por-
phyry at the depth of 470 feet, which
will be continued for 100 feet further.
or to the 800 point, before commenc-
ing to crosscut.
Gold Hill.
The shaft is now down 440 feet, in