The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1907-08-17

and assaying better han 3 per cent.
Necessary hoists and equipment are in
stalled and the work of development il
going forward rapidly. A spur will be
run from the nigh line" of the Nevada
Northern railroad direct to the shaft
for the purpose of handling the output.
For uniformity and extent the Ruth
ore body Of the Nevada Consolidated, al
though lower in grade than the Veteran
ore In the cumberiand-Ely. is a most re-
markable showing. The Ruth Is SPLEEN
didly developed. Thousands of feet Of
drifts. crosscuts and Slopes have ex-
posed a large tonnage of ore averaging
rs per cent copper. The Ruth seems to
be a mountain of altered ~porphyry, with
a leached Gaping ranging from 100 to
$50 feet In thickness. There are nc well
defined walls to this immense ore body.
but values gradually decrease as the
outer limits are cached. The ore has
been proved to a depth Of over $50 feet.
The main working tunnel. which con-
meets the Ruth with the Star Pointer
shaft, some 5000 feet distant on the
other side Of the mountain, is a splen-
did piece of engineering. 1t is timbered
throughout with ~ by ~ timbers. IL 8
feet in height. and double tracked for
its entire length. At stations 1t is 16
feet wide. Provision has been made for
an extensive electric train system, with
loops and spurs to all parts of the mine.
The main workings will be lighted by
electricity. both light and power being
furnished from the central station at
the reduction works.
The Ruth ore will be taken out by
the caving system and every process in
handling 1t will be automatic SO far as
possible.
The Star Pointer shaft. from which
the Ruth ore will be shipped to the re-
duction works. is the largest and best
equipped mine shaft in Nevada, al
though 1t will soon be rivaled by the big
shaft now going down at the Veteran.
The Star Pointer Is accompaniment. 25h
by 5h feet inside timbers. 1t has a
hosting plant with a capacity to handle
5000 tons of ore daily. Near the collar
Of the shaft q crushing plant Is being
installed, and the ore Will be run
through this before II is shipped to the
co~ncentrators. After it is broken down
in the inner workings almost every pro-
cess of handling the ore will be entirely
automatic.
Tho Eureka
The mountain of ore in which are the
Eureka workings of the Nevada Con-
solidated, has been thoroughly explored
by thousands of feet of tunnels and
drifts. Millions of tons of ore assaying
better thar IN per cent are in sight.
So we'll developed is this great ore body
that comparatively little work has been
done recently at this point. The Eureka
ore will be mined by steam shovels. and
the management is awaiting the compile
ton of the railroad spur to Copper Flat,
where the Eureka is located. before be-
ginning to take down the ore on a large
scale. This spur will soon be In opera
ton and several steam shovels will be
installed at once. The overburden at
the Eureka is comparatively light. and
will not average more than SO feet This
condition, together with the loose for
nation Of the ore body. lend itself ad-
mirably to the work Of steam-shoveling.
Ths "Kigh Line"
In building the Nevada Northern rail-
road not a pound of blasting powder was
used in the IA miles from Cobre. on the
Southern Pacific. to Ely. rough
this entire distance the heaviest grade
is less than / per cent. and there Is not
a 3-foot cut or fill on the n But the
construction problem changed radically
when the road projected its High Line"
from Ely through the canon to the
mines themselves. Two tunnels had to
be driven through solid rock and several
heavy fills and high ~trestles were neces-
sary in order to reach the various work.
ing of the mines. Practically all OF this
work is now completed, and track-lay-
ing has already begun up the canon.
Everything will be in readiness for
shipping ore in large quantities as soon
as the reduction plant is ready. Ihe
distance from the Veteran mine, which
is the most westerly. to the Steptoe re-
duction works at McGill. is % miles.
The High Line" is being equipped with
80 hopper-bottom steel ore cars OF the
largest size. Powerful locomotives are
under order and on the way for this
service. The capacity of the High
Line" will be increased as rapidly as
necessary.