Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-06-08
THE RAMSEY

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Over at the big dyke on Dago No.
2 claim the Ramsey Consolidated
Mining company is making good
Roadway with the vertical shaft.
From present indications the next
two weeks should make possible low
ering of the workings to the $50
foot level. Sinking will continue to
500 feet or more below the surface,
the present facilities making this sub
stantial depth possible. The frs.
crosscut is made at the 150-foot level
and the next will be driven from the
ESQ mark. Below these stations
there stations will be made at every
100-foot interval. In reality the
commencement of operation with the
new equipment meal systematic
development and working of the
mine. The company has found plen-
ty of ore of high values and has a
quantity of it in that tremendous
ledge to make necessary the extern
sive plans outlined and the present
th~oroughness of operation.
The mine has gone beyond the
guesswork period. Henceforth oper-
ations that mean blocking out and
extraction of ore. To be sure the i'm
mems dyke is not a high grade ship
ping proposition, taken as a whole.
But it is an extraordinary body of
above ordinary milling ore with ore
shoots present that are of high ship
ping value.
Operation of the mine will be pros
ecuted with the idea in view Of get
ting quick returns from these rich
shoots and the eventual reduction of
the whole mass as a great milling
proposition. An idea may be gained
of the amount of ore the mine is
capable of producing when it is
known the dyke or outcrop shows on
the surface from 125 to $50 feet in
width and for the length of the claim.
Right across the ravine from the
easterly end of Dago No. 2 the huge
outcrop appears on Dago No. l claim.
also included in the Incorporation.
That pair of claims represent an ore
body with a possible ore production
that will require a decade to ex-
tract.
Much interest is maintained in the
probable results at the next level.
1t is known the rich cross ledge en-
c%ountered in the crosscut at the first
level will be close to the shaft at the
ESQ station. The hanging wall of the
great dyke itself will also be close.
There is a possibility of the two
lodges forming a junction at or near
the point, and taken altogether there
are a number of things to excite es-
pecial interest in results that are
likely to obtain at the present objec-
tive point. The ledge contains
ore that is cry rich. Assays above
$4,000 per ton were secured and as a
whole the average was high. The
very junction of the two strong ore
bodies suggests fine results so 1t Is no
wonder everybody concerned is pa
tiently awaiting lowering of the
workings to the next level.
There are plenty of mining men
who are predicting the Consolidated
mine is going to develop just such ore
as is found at the Ramsey Comstock
mine. The dry sulphide ores from
both properties are exactly alike in
structure and appearance. The opin-
ion seems to prevail that when water
level is reached at the Dago No. 2
gray copper ore will be found and
that the rich shoots appearing above
will be very rich In consequence.
The mine has surely made marked
Improvement with every foot of de-
velopment and there is every reason
to suppose there are great possibili-
ties ahead at the property. It is on
another belt that the rich Ramsey
Comstock and has made more APP
parent the wide extent of Ramsey's
mineral belt.-Ramsey Recorder.