Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-01-30
MINING NEWS
OF THE WEEK
OhiO-T -TOnOpah Shows Great
Improvement
New Work Begun at Lone Mountain
And Grow SpriDgS---GOOd Reports
From Gold Mountain

Superin tendent Knapp makes the
following report for the past week:
'The south crosscut is out 600 feet.
At a point 58l feet from the shaft we
encountered a strong ledge having
an easterly and westerly course and
dipping to the north at an angle of
85 degrees. The crosscut is being
ontinued to the south and drifting
has been commenced on the vein,
which is a little more than six feet
in width The ore is OF low grade
and the vein has banded structure
similar to that of the principal VEINS
in this district, being composed of
alternate streaks of quartz and min
eralized and altered porphyry. As
says taken from it show the same
relative proportion of gold and silver
as is found in the great veins on the
hill, and the management is Of the
opinion that this ledge will ultimately
be found to be the western extension
of the Mizpah vein Work will be
prosecuted as rapidly as possible to
open it up In east drift No. the
face is now out 340 feet and is pass
ing through fne-grained lode por-
phyry in which streaks and stringers
of quartz are encountered. These
show very high values, assays during
the week having run as high as $45
in gold and 202 ounces of silver The
streaks have a northeasterly and
: southwesterly trend, and the mineral
: is iden tical with that found in the
) Montana -Tonopah and in the new
strike at the Tonopah Extension, be-
ing composed of black sulphide Of
silver, some ruby and carrying chal-
copyrite or copper sulphide. This is
looked upon as important by the
management, and it is expected that
, the system Of important veins re-
J ferred to will be cut in the eastern
workings in this ground The winze
below east drift No. is down "a feet,
: following the vein, in which there
was no material change during the
, past week.
Getting Good Ore.
Roy Ridge was in from Gold Noun
tain Wednesday and exhibited some
: fine looking gold ore He and his
, partner, R. p. Aylward, have a lease
/. . on the Louise fraction, one of the
! Gold Mountain Consolidated com
! pany's claims, and from drift run
: ming on the ledge into the hill they
have taken out four tons of ore Of
good shipping grade, An assay re-
Gently taken of the face gave returns
of $147 in gold, and assays of selected
samples have run as high as $4,000,
all gold.
TOnOpah-AjaX.
: On Thursday work began on the
Tonopah- Ajax company's property,
which lies about 800 feet southwest
of the Tonopah Belcher at Lone
Mountain. under the direction Of ].
. Kirmeen, the well-known mining
r superintendent The Ajax claims,
from the work already done on them.
$ show excellent indications, and will
n very likely become producers
! Preparing for Work.
. E. F. Hoaglin of Albuquerque, N /.
3. NJ, is in town from his camp near
e Grow Springs, where he and his
{ partner, e. L. Washburn, own a
S number of claims adjacent to the
! Iron King group. One of their
Il claims is opened up by twenty foot
r shaft and at the bottom is exposed a
two foot vein that runs 500 in gold,
silver and copper. Mr.. Hoaglin is
getting ready to do considerable de-
r velopment work on their property