Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-08-29
MONTANA-T0NOPAH
SHIPS 1850 SACKS
North Star Shaft Passing Through Ore
at 1885 Feet Depth.

Inc montana expects 10 make OF
August banner month in the ship
ment of ore. One shipments of 1850
sacks, approximately 40 tons, has
already been made and more would
have been forwarded had teams
been available. As none of the ore
shipped from the Montana to Salt
Lake has fallen much below 5000 to
the ton in value, it can be seen at a
glance what the August product will
amount to in figures. Preparations
for next months shipment are now
being made and it will probably ag-
gregate as much as this. Work in
the mine is progressing favorably
and the west drift at the SIP foot
level has developed a large body Of
high grade oxidized ore. The west
drift from the 512 crosscut is also
showing up splendidly, and indications
back the assertion that one of the
biggest and richest lodges in the
district is being opened up.
The North St..
The main shaft is down. i.035 feet
and during the past week has passed
through lot of oxidized ledge mat
ter. samples of which run into the
hundreds in value In the south
crosscut, forty feet from the shaft,
the same matter has been encoun-
tered, and it is the opinion of the
management that it is the upper
part of the ledge cut in the bottom,
though it shows faulting and is con-
siderably mixed up. The north cross
cut is in eighty feet, and is again
cutting rich stringers. With the
force of men employed at the mine,
about twenty five men, sixty tons of
rock is daily hoisted from and below
the 900 level.
The Lucky Baldwin.
R. T. Brodek, superintendent and
a large owner In the aforementioned
group at Gold Mountain, was in Wed
nesday, and stated that he had
partially suspended operations till
hosting machinery could be obtained
and put at work. He expects to
leave in a few days for San Francisco
to get the desired plant. The prop
erty is opened up by an incline shaft
seventy five feet deep, and was run
under the foot wall. At the bottom
the ledge was crosscut and it's width
was determined to be from three to
four feet, and it carried values of $25
to the ton in gold and silver. His
partners in the property, who are
bankers of Bakersfield, are much
elated over the prospects, and have
advised him to put up machinery at
once.
The Paymaster.
Charles Kielhofel, practical miner
and mining man well known all over
the coast, has recently bought large
interest in the Paymaster property
at Lone Mountain, and on Thursday
started for the camp to take charge
of the work that is being prosecuted.
Before purchasing he made a thor
ough examination of the property,
and said to the BONANZA that the
mine was in first class shape and that
by a little more careful work in the
extraction of ore, regular shipments
to the smelter could be made. He
sampled the ledge from the top of
of the shaft to the bottom-150 feet
and in the drifts, and got assays
running from $40 to $3.50. He pur.
poses putting machinery on the
ground and will contiue sinking and
drifting and will prepare the ground
for STOPPING. He expects to ship one
carload of ore to the smelter the
coming month.
OhiO-TOnOpah.
The east drift in the crosscut of the
no foot level of this property. which
has been running in on ledge matter,
cut quartz this week, selected sam
pies of which gave ASSAYS of 240
ounces in silver and 1877 in gold. The
drift is now in II feet, and the
management is encouraged in the be-
lief that big shoot of ore
is near at hand. In the
south crosscut, which is in POI feet,
the ground shows more naturalization
than ever before, and this is taken as
an augury that ledge matter is not
far distant.
TOnOpah Extension Company.
The management Of this property,
popularity known as the Lockhart,
reports that the new fifty-horse
boiler and hosting engine is being
rapidly installed and in about ten
DAYS will be steamed up for business.
1t is equipped with 900 feet Of cable
and it is the intention TO sink to this
depth as fast as men and means can
do it. The shaft is now down 245
feet and is passing through miner
allied porphyry, containing seams of
quartz and carrying some values.
'l'he Rescue.