Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-07-07

late Monday night of this week and
has widened to 5 feet, and no val
ues have been taken lower than $3.50.
Kalfus began working this lease two
years ago last May and has kept con-
~tinuously at it from that time. At
times he had to part with small inter-
ests to keep the lease going. Himself
and Walter Stone r understood to be
the chief persons interested.
What promises to be a good strike
was made in the Rock lease on the
Qu~artzite No. / claim of the Belmont
Goldfeld Mining company. Two shafts
have been sunk on the ground, one to a
depth of so feet and a second higher
on the hill is down 80 feet. For pur-
poses of better and easier development
it was decided to connect these shafts
and so a crosscut was driven from the
lower shaft. In this workings on Tues
dhy a pay shoot was encountered which
is four feet in width and assays better
than $3.50. This has been explored for
a distance Of 25 feet and the values are
constant. The lessees intend to sink
and raise on it. In the upper shaft
near the surface a ledge which carries
good shipping values in horn silver was
encountered and followed on an incline
for 80 feet after which the shaft was
sent down vertically. This silver ledge
was from one foot to 10 inches wide.
Very favorable reports are had from
the January Jones leases on the Com
bination Fraction and the Cornishman
claim of the Florence Mining company.
The Combination Fraction ground is
being worked through a O-foot shaft
which follows the ore on an incline.
At this depth it returns assays of $72.
The body is being drifted on. The
Cornishman lease shaft is down 225
feet and stopping is going forward on
the 173-foot level, the ore is four feet
wide and averages 500 per ton. Con-
siderable prosecuting, drifting, raising
and Winning has been done. Other
leases OF the Cornishman which show
up we'll are the Lindsay, the Wallace,
the Peer, and Pugh, the Nevada Min
ing company and the Stevens.
A lease on the Great Bend which
gives promise of making good is the
Baldwin and Black lease on block No. 2.
At the very start these lessees took out
from near the surface about two tons
of ore which averaged between $2OC
and $500. These values, however, were
not constant and the shaft has beer
sunk On a ledge about fleet wide which
assays about 500. The shaft is dowr
81 feet and a drift to the east has beer
carried 40 feet. At this point the OK.
ides are giving place to the sulphides
the same values presisting. 1t is in.
tended to sink a winze on this sulphide
body and there is great hope that ship.
ping values will soon be encountered.
The lease of the Frances-Mohaw
company is being developed bya double
compartment shaft which is dowa 2OC
feet. Crosscuts are being run from
the 150-foot and 200-foot levels and the
Hayes and Monnette ledge is looked fol
at any moment. This company is also
well equipped with compressor anc
electric hoist. The Frances-Mohaw
has bought a half interest in the all
compressor plant recently ordered by
the Hayes-M onnette lease, and will
have six of the IL drills. Sinking will
continue to the 30O-foot point. The
new 25-horse power electric hoist is
in commission.
The Truett lease, operated by the Mo.
hawk Leasing and Development com.
pany, is going right after the Hayes
and Monnette bodies which undoubtedly
pass through this ground. From the
150-foot level a crosscut has been start
ed; the ledge will be reached in 20 feet.
AS soon as the shaft now 100 feet deer
reaches the 200-foot mark another will
be started. A 20 h. p. electric hoist is
in use. Work is being prosecuted most