Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-03-05
THE BELMONT'S
LATEST STRIKE
Ore Body, Twenty-Eight Feet
Wide, Opened Up.
Entire Ledge Carries Values That
will Make q Handsome
Milling Product.

A representative of the BONANZA,
through the courtesy of General
Manager Oddie, and accompanied by
Foreman Jordan, visited the under
ground workings of the Belmont this
week and inspected the big ledge
which was recently encountered in
the 814 level. The recent strike was
made at a point about 400 feet east
and $50 feet north Of the station at
the 814 level, and on a perpendicular
would lie we'll under and at that
point of Mount Oddie which slopes
away to the east. In the prospect
work which was accomplished prior
to striking the new ledge several
minor veins were encountered and
development on these might lead to
the opening of big bodies of ore. On
one of them, however, drifting is now
proceeding, and at a distance of
about twenty feet east from the
crosscut the drift follows stringer,
fifteen or eighteen inches wide, that
gives high grade values. This drift
is 100 feet north Of the station, and
50 teet farther on in the crOsscut the
footwall OF the big ledge was struck
A twenty eight foot cut was found
necessary to reach the hanging wall
and it exposes one of the finest bodies
of ore ever opened up in the district.
Values permeate the entire ledge,
five feet on the hanging wall carry
ing high shipping values, and the
balance, twenty-three feet, being of
a healthy milling quality. A few
feet from the footwall drift has
been started to the east, ard at a
point twenty-five or thirty feet in a
face of fine looking ore, five feet wide,
shows itself. 1t is the purpose of
the management, when more ground
has been gained in this drift, to start
raise and winze with view of de-
termining its extent. The ledge is
supposed to be the eastern end of
the big and rich ledge which was cut
near the GA foot station in the shaft,
but which apparently badly faulted,
and could not be found when it was
sought for through the crosscut
which runs directly north from the
S14 station.
The ore is somewhat different from
that obtained in the upper levels of
the mine in that it carries more
sulphides and is less oxidized. 1t
closely resembles the Montana
Tonopah, Tonopah Extension and the
North Star and contains approxi-
, mately the same values. The trend
of the ledge is nearly east and west
and the dip is about go degrees to
the north.
Viewed from every point this strike
in the Belmont is the most important
that has taken place in the district
1t has not only added very materially
! to the worth Of the property in which
I it was made, but it proves beyond
the question of doubt that the system
of rich veins which outcrop at the
: foot of and on the southwest slope of
d Mount Oddie do not end where the
groupings cease, but extend at least
a half mile either way under the sur
face, and how much more only de-
q velopment can determine. To satisfy
! himself OF the correctness Of this as
I ertion the reader has only to consult
one OF the maps Of the district, and
: by starting from point 400 feet east
: OF the Desert Queen shaft, and meas.
/. ing back to point 100 feet west oI
the Grand Trunk (Tonopah Exten'
sion company where the same char
;. acter OF ore is being worked on, he
:, will find the distance nearly mile
and as far as opened up, almost every
foot OF the ledge contains ore whose
: lowest values are rich enough tC
make handsome milling product.