Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-09-17
MINING NEWS
OF THE WEEK
Sale of HOmeSteak at Sill
yer Peak.
Ore Shipments from TOnOpah Steadily
Increasing. Notes Of Many
Mines.

The Mohawk Alpine mining com
pany has temporarily stopped work |
on its Lone Mountain properties and
has purchased the well known Home |
stake group of seven claims, situated
south of and adjoining the famous
Silver Peak mine at Silver Peak. !
owned by the Blair estate of New
Jersey, for which mine one million
dollars in cash has been asked.
The vein which is from two to
twenty feet wide occurs between
walls of granite and schist and ex-
tends through the claims of the com
pany for distance of $500 feet at
intervals, the entire length of the
property averaging in value $l2 per
ton in gold The vein has been opened
to depth of 700 feet from the out
crop by two tunnels which are CON
nected by levels and upraises and
other workings from which several
thousand tons of ore have been mined
and milled of an average value of $40
per ton, and by short tunnels can be
worked to depth OF 1000 feet. The
ore readily yields to treatment by
amalgamation, concentration and cy-
anide at total cost of So per ton and
Chas. Y Fuller OF Utica N. Y. the
president of the company left for San
Francisco this week to purchase a
stamp mill.
A conservative estimate places the
gross tonnage of ore in sight at $780,
/ 000.00 Several ore shoots have been
opened on the property averaging
from Sl5 to $40 per ton This ore
will be mined at once in order to sci
entifcally develop the property and
4 justify an increased capacity of the
mill
The property is only eighteen miles
from the Tonepah railroad and ample
water for milling purposes has been
secured.
The company Is offering limited
amount of treasury stock through II.
Fletcher & Co., the well known Tono-
pah prokers, at Zoe per share.
Ray Consolidated.
Manager Kunze reports that the
drift on the 300 level is now out 235
feet and the ground has changed in
the last fifty feet, the foot wall now
being quartzite and black lime still
remaining for the hanging. String
ers OF rich quartz have been coming
in for the last three days, and last
night the north edge of the big ore
shoot began to come in and the walls
open up beyond the width of the
drift. The ore shoot had pitched
into the mountain at a greater angle
than promised on the upper level, ia
dicating large ore body under the
mountain above BY next issue the
full size and richness Of this ore shoot
will be known.
New England-TonOpah.
The main shaft on this property is
now down 265 feet, as deep as can
be sunk with whim. Charles 7.
Bandman states that the hosting
plant only awaits his final inspection
before being shipped from San Fran
cisco. The whim will then be moved
to the shaft on the Prudhomme claim,
which is now down 80 feet, and the
sinking of that shaft will now be re-
sumed.
Golden Star.
The shaft on this mine at Gold
Mountain is down 1856 feet and sink
ing is rapidly progressing in a most
promising formation, carrying string
ers of quartz and porphyry. Cross
cuts will probably be started at the
200 foot level.
TOnOpah Gold Mountain.
Owen Owens, who has been ap.
pointed superintendent of this mine,
is now looking over the property to
determine plans for its future devel-
opment, which will be on most ex-
tensive scale, as its present showing
iustifies the employment Of large
force Of miners.
TonOpah-NIOnarch.
Superintendent Il. N. Fletcher
states that connection in the tunnel
with the shaft on the Lottie has now
been made and drifts are now being
run on the vein and good shipping
ore is being extracted.