Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-10
MANAGER GILLIES
ON THE MONTANA.
Quarterly Report Covering First
Three Months OF This Year
Has Been Received.
DEVELOPMENT ON 765 LEVEL.
Drifting on the Macdonald Ledge
Ready to Sink New Three Com.
partmeut Shaft.

Local shareholders Of the Montana
Tonopah MING company during the
day, received the quarterly report Of
General Manager Donald b. Gillies, In
which the statement is made that dur
ing the first three months of the year
total Of 0i4 feet Of development work
was completed.
on the 7G5.foot level which is the
depth Of the present shaft. the develop
lnent work has not been very active,
due to poor air caused by having no
connection with the upper levels. a
connection was made, however, during
the latter part Of March, and work will
now be pushed on this level as rapidly
as possible
Al present, Mr. Gllies states drifting
Is IN progress east and west on the
Macdonald vein, and that II is only
necessary to say that the grade Of ore
Is the same as has be IN developed else
where In the mine, and that he con-
siders the finding Of the vein with these
conditions on the lower level of the
mine to be OF very great Importance.
Continuing further Manager Gillies
says
HlA Ilulhlitu COpl ltNtl-- VII lllH
level the south vein has never been To-
Gated or worked, and was known as
on called the lost VEIN / am pleased
to ne able to state that same has been
found and crosscut at so feet below the
500 eVel and also on the 600 level and
the ore IS all Of fine shipping grade
We, therefore have a block of ground
nom this level to the ~ on which no
stoplus nas uvrit uUne. The Macdonald
vein on this level shows no particular
change to report other than our ore
bodies are proving much wider than
we expected.
Five Hundred Foot Level" During
the early part Of the month Of January
| new vein was crOssCut which | have
| called the Martha and which varies in
width as far as worked, from three to
| siS feet. Another crossCut was run at
a point 400 feet distant from the first
| one, and the same vein was encountered
within five feet Of where same was
| projected; its width at this point is
| about four feet and the grade-ship-
| ping At this point may mention that
| this same vein has been crossCut on the
| level above called the AGO. This Is the
most important development during the
| quarter The Macdonald and south
veins Of this level are producing the
finest grade Of shipping ore.
Four Hundred Foot Level-"On this,
the first level In the mine, until two
| weeks ago the development consisted
Of short drift to the east to the con-
tact between the later andesite or cap
| ping and the early andesite or lode por-
phyry, and crosscut 90 the Macdonald
| vein. We are now drifting on
the veins crosscut both in an easterly
| n i
! standing the clOscness to the Gaping
the ore bodies are well defined and of
good grade.
In my last report mention was made
of new vein on the 900 level, which
nave called the A. b. X. No work ma,
Deen done on 1t during the quarter due
to the fact that our present equipmen'
Is taxed to It's utmost capacity al
present and this vein can be developed
TO much better advantage through om
proposed new shaft During the quar-,
ter we have installed a new S0-horse
power boiler a new lngersoll compress
sor and four drills, We have sulfere,
severe delays through failure of GU
water supply We are ready to begin
the sinking Of a new three-compart
ment shaft, which Is a necessity.
Al no time during the history of tn
mine has it looked SO we'll as today
and considering the great area o
ground which we own north Of GU
shaft and which we are now develop
ing, together with the great strike II
the Midway adjoining our west line
and which Is now within 100 feet of tn
same, and the equally important an
late strike In the Golden Anchor dot
Of these strikes meaning almost a
much To our company as TO their own