Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-05-18

~ 4 . NlAS HAh@A| AAN ~ NSAEASNAS3
as they desire to make all necessary
tests within the next few days. It is
their intention to establish an ice
plant here for Fairview just as quick
" as the water is available.
Clipper Is Working Nicely
Superintendent Edward Murphy of
the Fairview Clipper Mining com-
pany reports a depth Of thirty feet
in the inclined shaft going down on
his property. He is following a vein
that dips strongly to the north, on
which big values were taken in a cut
200 feet from the location of the
shaft. This vein is in one of the
strongest cropping Lodges of the dis
trict, and the formation is one to in
vite the most thorough and elaborate
exploration. The Clipper has ore in
place that yields values between 1921
and 1927.
The Ida Mines
A total of thirty-six feet per week
is being maintained in the dead work
of the Ida mines, together with the
drifting that is on the track of ore.
The main tunnel has advanced 245
feet, and has yet fifty-five feet to
cover before the first objective point
will be reaced. The face here is now
advancing three feet per day, and
within three weeks will reach the
fault indicated on the surface. From
there the drifting will turn toward
the intersection of the two great
lodges cropping on the surface. No.
2 shaft is down ninety feet from the
surface. At a depth of ffty-five feet
the vein of quartz pitched out of the
shaft, while the porphyry went on
down with the shaft. At the present
level of ninety feet two crosscuts are
being made in order to cut the vein
CT the pitch at which it left the shaft
above. In this shaft tie assay of $143
was taken, but as yet the high values
have not been maintained; mangan-
ese quartz of excellent character is
plentiful. No. 4 tunnel, the portal
OF which is in the discovery cut of
No. 3 claim, has advanced sixty feet,
1t has vet to go thirty feet before
striking the quartz ledge at which ii
is driving. The force here will be
doubled next week.
Fairview Central
The Fairview Central is working
steadily; the main tunnel has ad-
vanced 1926 feet, and is going straight
ahead for the intersection with the
main ledge of the property, where il
will cut the vein at a vertical depth
Of $50 feet and $50 feet from the
portal of the tunnel. This will be
the greatest depth attained anywhere
in tho district. Several strong quartz
veins have been i~ntersected, but nc
lateral drifting has been undertaken
and none will be until the completion
Of the main crosscut drift.
Gromedary Hump Leasing Company
The Herritt & Stacey lease on the
Dromedary Hump has been incorpor.
ated as Dromedary Hump Leasing
company. The contract under which
the lease is being worked gives the
leasing parties one year from the
time they are ready to begin takins
out ore, and the conditions are mos
favorable in every respect. The pres
ent activity at the lease is prepare
tory to the installation of the gaso
line hoist, which has arrived at Fal
Ion, and will very shortly be in place
Within a radius of $50 feet along the
vein on which this lease is working
there will be three power hoistins
plants operating in a very short time
, The Dromedary Hump Mines com
pany's 40-horsepower hoist is also a
F'allon and will be brought here al
quickly as possible, and the Colder
Boulder is making preparations fol
deep sinking with a similar outfit
The shaft of the leasing company il
now at the 100-foot level. At tn,
J 50-foot level a crosscut was made OIL
: the vein, and it's width determined
at fifteen feet; from this vein at thii
e point values is high as $3.50 wer'
secured. A crosscut is now being rui
at the 100-foot level to ascertain tn
extent of the vein and the values a
y that point, after which the shaft will
be continued to the 300-foot level
From the start it has been a vertica
shaft, and no effort to follow the vel
: has been made, for the reason tina
deep sinking has been planned fror
the start, and it is proposed to worl
the vein at the various levels b
means of drifts from the shaft. Car
able men are behind this lease, an