Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-08
WHAT EDITOR SAW
in NEVADA HILLS
CAR OF RICH ORE SHOT DOWN
DAILY in TUNNEL
NO.

After visiting the Nevada Hills
last Monday, the editor of the Won
der News wrote as follows: There
We're many surprises. Everything IS
being worked from below now; the
ore house on No. 2 tunnel has been
torn down, and is being erected at
the portal of No. l tunnel, which has
been put in and hereafter everything
will be dropped down to No. 1 and
sacked there.
THE ore house at tunnels Nos. 2
and 4 has been abandoned, and will
be removed to the lower level. No.
4 tunnel has been connected up with
No. 5 at the 140-foot level, and all
the r from this part of the works
will be dropped down to No. 5; the
ore house at No. 5 is to be enlarged
to twice its present size immediate
ly, as it is now c~ongested, and the
workmen r badly hampered. All
these changes facilitate the work,
and reduce the cost of handling the
ores $3.50 per ton, for the new main
roadway passes directly by the plat
forms at tunnels Nos. / and 5, and
the ore is handled but once, being
placed on the platform after sacking,
and the freighters find it easy load
ing there. When the railroad puts
in its spur a train will take it from
these two immense ore houses to
the freight cars.
"The drift in No. 4 has reached
and cut into the demonstration shaft
No. /, when the vein was picked
up last summer, and no further
progress is being attempted there, as
it is but seventy-fve feet to the deep
shaft of the Nevada Hills Leasing
company, and management will be
satisfied with the demonstration to
be made by the leasing company, at
this point. No. 4 has been stopped to
the surface at intervals for its en-
tire length, and a continuous body
of ore blocked out. Careful sampling
has shown some astonishing values
from No. 4, where they lately shot
down nearly a car of high grade per
day. For three shifts the miners
sacked without sorting ore running
forty ounces in gold and 700 ounces
in silver. This beats the record for
production to date.
Tunnel No. 5 has advanced along
the vein directly below No. 4, but
not quite so far. The two have been
connected, and every preparation
made for stopping the ore. At sew
eral points in No. 5, Manager Web
Der crosscut from wall to wall and
developed a vein from nine to four
teen feet from which high grade ore
can be sacked. A Wine is going
down from the level of No. 5 and
Its present depth is sixty-five feet;
at no point for its entire depth has
it been out of solid ore that main
tains the great values common to all
the works.
las the result of the recent dis
covery on this property tunnel No.
l will be continued to a total dis
lance of $50 feet; it is now in 450I
feet from the portal. The three par
allel veins that are plainly traceable
IN the surface of the Boulder claim
are practically determined to run
together and make an enormous ore
body at depth, although this has not
been completely demonstrated.
while working on this theory,
Manager Weber uncovered another
great vein at a point higher up on
Eagle Rock than any discovery of
ore yet made. Fully four feet of
very rich ore is exposed there, and
the vein is beautifully formed, with
a practically perfect porphyry roof
wall, and every indication that the
hanging wall will develop to be as
well outlined with a title additional
work. This discovery is at the sec
ond highest point on Eagle Rock. 1t
has been decided to continue tunnel
No. l.. almost directly below the
point of discovery, for the purpose
of prosecuting this vein; 1t will give
vertical depth Of nearly $50 feet