Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-10
WEST COMSTOCK
DISTRICT MINES

of the east slope OF Mount David
son has for forty years been world
wide. Hundreds of thousands of
gold pieces and specimens of silver
now in circulation throughout the
United States and, in fact, the whole
world, were stamped at the various
minis of the country from more than
5000, 10000 of bullion extracted
from the ores which came direct
from the tunnels and shafts of the
mines on the east slope of Mount
Davidson.
While it has been vaguely be-
lieved that the enormously rich ore
deposits of the east slope of Mount
Davidson extended beneath the sur
face far into the west slope, and
while from the west slope the Barge
mines have already taken out more
than 100000 from a shaft 100 feet
deep, and from the Pandora, thG
Harris and other single shafts like
amounts have been taken, little or
no depth, when compared with the
workings o fthe east slope, has ever
been undertaken until recently.
Now, however, visitors to the ct
i've mining camp of the West Con.
stock formerly jumbo, Immediate
ly become eye witnesses to the rails
ing of a curtain which, a few fears
hence will disclose to view such a
dramatic activity of mining industry
as to dazzle the eyes and confuse the
senses. But a few years ago thou-t
sands of men and miners were work
ing above and burrowing beneath the
surface of Mount Davidson's eastern
slope, which gave up so much gold
and silver, and even at the present
depth of more than 1900 feet the
yield of precious metal ore has not
been exhausted.
So will it be said of the west slope
mines forty years to come, judging
from the present activity of the
mines from the vast surface ore bod
les encountered and the deep devel-
opment work already started by the
Selby Consolidated and the Com
stock Extension mines.
The last expert mining engineers
report gave the Selby Consolidated
mines $2,250.000 worth of milling
ore blocked out in sight with but 1875
feet in depth thus far obtained in
the present working shafts and tun-
nels. What will the report be when
the great 2,000-foot tunnel just
started to tap all the ore of the Red
Top tunnel, the Barge and Other
shafts of the property at a depth of
from ESQ to 300 feet to enable the
company to deliver all the ore of
the mines by gravity to the STANG
mill to be erected on the already pre-
pared site at the mouth Of the main
tunnel.
The powerful hoists of the Selby
Consolidated company, together with
cars, steel buckets, electric trans
formers, cables and other mining
machinery are now in the Virginia
& Truckee yards, having just
reached Carson City from Denver,
the point of shipment, and are await
ing transportation to the company's
property where they will be put N
immediate operation.
The Boston & Bellingham, a leas-
ing company of Milwaukee, Wis, are
now in Carson City awaiting their
machinery to start a 500-foot shaft
on the Empire claim of the Selby
Consolidated property in the West
Comstock district.
The Minerva and other west slope
mines also report the %uncovering or
tapping of ore lodges in place near
the surface carrying high values in
gold and silver.
or all the mining companies de-
%veloping the western slope of Mount
Davidson, zone have shown more
earnest zeal nor accomplished more
during the time operating than the
Gomstock Extension Mining &c Mill
ing company in the development of
the Selby Dyke property. The main
tunnel, N of the finest examples oil
skilled workmanship and engineer
ing in the whole district, is now in
165 feet and will crosscut the five
parallel gold and silver-bearing
lodges of the property at a depth OF
from 400 to 600 feet. The miners
in the main tunnel are now nearly
through the Andesite face wall OF
No. 1 ledge, which assays $3.50 on
the surface 400 feet above, and