Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-02-13
RICHER THAN EVER
IN THE EXTENSION
Drift Shows Full Face Of
High Grade Ore
The Company Is Preparing TO Make
a Good Sized Shipment TO
the SmeIter

1t was the pleasure of a represent
ative OF the BONANZA, through the
courtesy of Manager McKane, to in
spect the underground workings of
the Touopah Extension one night
this week, and while, from reports,
he was prepared to see what prom
ised to be a big thing, he was not
prepared to take in the immensity
and richness of the big ledge of ore
which was presented to his view in
the crosscut and drift OF the 275 foot
level.
As was stated in the BONANZA of
two weeks ago this ledge was cut In
the shaft, where it is presumed to
have apexed, at depth Of 220 feet.
At 230 feet it was crosscut and found
to be ten feet wide. Forty-tive feet
lower down another crosscut was
driven, and from the footwall OF the
ledge, which was entered twenty feet
from the shaft, to the hanging wall,
a distance OF forty feet, solid mass
Of quartz was passed through. The
first thirty feet was OF low grade
material, running $40 or $l2 to the
ton; the next seven feet assayed $54,
aud the two feet on the hanging wall,
constituting the pay streak, went
anywhere from $500 to $1,000 Fol.
lowing this pay streak, drift, six
feet wide, has been carried along the
hanging wall TO the west distance
of seventy feet, at the end OF which
is presented face Of ore that equals
the best ever opened up in the camp
Passing throught it in regular anC
irregular streaks and bespattereC
all over II are MATES of metallic anC
horn silver, and at no spot on the en-
tire face can mans hand be placed
without covering a mass OF shining
metal. From some point near tn,
end OF this drift a winze will be start
ed within the next few days in orde
to determine the depth OF this won
derful shoot. Drifting, however, wi
be continued on to the west.
On this same level drift was ais
started to the east on the foot wall
but after running a short disance i
was turned and made to crosscut tn
ledge, opening up an extensive bod
OF ore, but somewhat lower in valu
than the ore on the west.
From the 400 foot station the mort
crosscut is out between 80 and 10
feet, and at the rate work is bein
prosecuted it will reach the ledge !
less than thirty days. The face {
the crosscut is heavily miueralize
and indicates the nearness OF vel
matter, and the vertical streak
passing through it tend to the beli'
that the ledge has Strengthened W
and il may be cut in considerably les
time than anticipated.
Work was resumed in the sha
Thursday and this will be pushed h
500 feet is reached, when a ne
crosscut to the north will be startet
Since the strike was made in IL
mine, now six weeks ago, about tv
carloads ofihigh grade ore have bee
extracted in the course OF develoI
ment. This is being sacked for shi
ment, and when the smelter return
are received the management pror
ises some startling figures.
The Tonopah Extension is indie,
proving itself a wonderful mine fo
with its area extending to the we
nearly 5000 feet from its prese
workings, and the pay shoot runnii
in the same direction, it makes
possibilities illimitable. The develo
ment Of the property has been al
and intelligently conducted, and {
company is to be congratulated
reason of the economical and pl
gressive methods that have mark
the course of the management.