The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-12-28

The ore shipments over the Tonopah
and Goldfeld railroad for the week end
ing Thursday night. as reported to the
Miner by the Western Ore PURCHASERS
company. aggregated 1864 tons, divide !
as follows;
From Tonopah-Tonopah company.
1882 ons Jim Butler. SO tons: Tonc-
pah Extension. IS tons; Midway. 90 tons.
The Tonopah company sent $500 tons,
the Belmont company 200 tons n the
Montana-Tonopah 1.1oo tons to the
mills. making the total shipments for
the week $3.50.
The total output of the Tonopsh
mines was $3.50 tons. Of an estimated
value 1.-THE shipping ore being valued at
$40 a ton and the milling ore at $50 a
toni of ssss,41o.
FoNoYAK Exr3aRcH
General Manager Kirchen OF the Tono-
pah Extension stated yesterday that he
expects to receive early next mont the
plans and specifications for the 40
stamp mill which the company has de-
cided to erect at the mine IN Tonopah.
As scop as the plans are in hand ground
will be broken for the foundations Of
the mill. which will be placed as close
&c the shaft as possible. Ricketts, q
Banks. he leading metallurgists of New
York City. are now experimenting on
Tonopan Extension ores and are evoiv-
ing a process which they are confident
will effect a much higher saving than
has so far been recorded in treating the
ores Of the district. The plant will be
a modification of the tube-mill and
cyanide processes now in use here. The
machinery has already beer purchased
and will be shipped from the East early
next month. The work OF construction
will be lone by well known mill experts.
under company supervision. and II Is
calculated that the new plant will be in
commission by mid summer or by early
fall. at the latest.
The announcement that the Extension
will erect q mill has been accepted In
certain quarters as strong circumstan-
tial evidence that the north crosscut on
the 1850 level has encountered ore. 1t
being argued that there Is not enough
ore above the dacite intrusion. which
cut of the ore bodies at the 900 level,
to justify the building of a mill. While
there is every indication that ore will
be 1Oun0 on the I,VoO, the mdudBcmcu
does not expect to catch the ledge before
the first of February. the date set when
the work was commenced; but whether
or not ore is ever encountered below the
intrusion, there is a SUFFICIENT tonnage
already blocked out above the 500 level
to keep a 40-stamp mill busy for four or
five years, which would insure a hand
some profit over and above the cost of
the mill as compared with the cost Of
shipping and smelling under the present
arrangement.
President Gillies left for New York
this week on company business.
NAcMANAHA
On account of the Injunction imposed
by the court in connection with the
pending litigation between the West End
Consolidated and the MacNamara over
apex rights, no ore has been hoisted
from the MacNamara workings for sew
eral months. In the meantime. however.
development work is going forward In
the mine with most satisfactory results.
In the western portion of the property
upraise has been run 70 feet above
the $50 level. and the top now shows 4
feet of ore assaying from $500 to $500 a
ton, while the entire ledge as far as the
upraise has gone averages better than