Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1903-01-31
GREATEST NEVADA NINE.
nis Dee Bodies In the Tonopnh--
Other Ninine News.

The steady and systematic work
prosecuted by the Ton0pah Mining
company daily adds Ia the grand ag
sregate II wealth thrown In sight,
The future Weld IT dividends will be-
limited only by the force employed in
the extraction aud reduction Of ores
The Siebert shaft the largest as TO
size and where the heaviest hoist will
be placed is dropping downward to
dav from the $50 level. The drift on
the 300.level, connecting the Siebert
with the Desert Queen, has been
completed. The Queen shaft has cut
through twenty-four feet Of ore of
the value of $50 per ton. A working
station has been cut out at the GA
foot point. On the east 500-level Of
the Mizpah ledge the ore body is
twelve feet wide, all of which goes
over 800 per ton. At the face un-
altered ore is coming in, replacing
the oxidized ores A new winze has
been started on the east 0-level,
which is opening up from six to seven
feet of 500 ore. In the east and
west drifts at the 340-level of the
Valley View the ledge is six feet wide
and forms mass of ore of yet unex-
plored length, which yields 800 to
to the ton.
New YOrkTonOpah.
Resumption of operations In the
New York Tonopah will continue the
work of dropping the big working
shaft from the 550-level. 1t was the
intention OF this company from the
start TO sink 1000 feet before begin
ming the work of prosecuting the
great extent of ledge bearing ground
covered by its claims, whether or
not ore bodies were encountered
The mineralized blue porphyry, com
monty forming the wall rocks of Ton
opah lodges, has been penetrated,
together with inshoots of denser
character, all of which are indca-
tons of the proximity of regular
contact, aside from the quartz inter
spersed.
Silver Ton.
Superintendent Fleming reports
that the shaft on the Silver Top has
reached 10 feet in depth. The com
bined lodges continue in nearly verti
cal position between the contact, the
walls being of hard "Mizpah- por-
phyry' and andesite. The clay
gangue on the hanging wall is strongly
impreguated with iron, while late as
says from the four foot ledge show
marked Improvement in values,
mainly as TO gold The company is
planning for the early erection OF n
steam hoist. Mining investors will
be interested in the fact that some
treasury stock may be sold for the
purpose of completing the mine
equipment.
Indiana-TODOpah.
During the past week the work of
sinking the two compartment shaft
on the Ella claim has progressed
steadily. The formation in the hot,
tom OF the shaft is changing and the
indications are that it is nearly
through the volcanic Gaping and the
possibility Of getting into the miner
allied formation in very short time
seems assured. In prospecting lately
on the claims at the east end of the
group, groupings Of "A ledge were dis
covered which showed small values
on the surface. AS soon as the snow
mets systematic prospecting will be
done on all the claims of the group.
TOnOpah-UniOn.
Progress on the Tonopah- Union
shaft at Gold Mounta is being made
at an average of twenty inches per
dav-good work with windlass, in
very hard ore and ll0-foot hoist.
So far as known as to its width the
ledge ranges from seven to ten feet; |
assays from two to three feet of this
run from S42 to 81 ,251 per ton. At
the bottom of the shaft the ore shows
less oxidation as the work goes
along.
Alpine.
O'Meara & Lynch have returns for
eight car loads of ore shipped from
their mine at Alpine City, Lone
mountain, and have three cars in
transit and three at the mine ready
for shipment The ore nets the lucky
owners $500 per car. The produc
ton has paid the purchase price OF
the property, which is now estimated
to be worth 81 900, 600
MOntana-TOnOpah.
The high grade ore in the bottom