The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-22
RAMSEY MINES
VERY HEALTHY
CONDITIONS
RAMSEY-BONANZA SHAFT WILL
RESUME SINKING SHAFT ON
SEPTEMBER FIRST.
SACKING ORE FOR SHIPMENT
All Properties Now Being Success
fully Worked With Comstock-
Ramsey In The Lead.
sACkING ORE FOR SHIPMENT

A Ramsey dispatch says A healthy
improvement in conditions here in
the last few weeks augurs we'll for
the camp this fall, which If it contin-
ues from now on will see the district
experiencing much better and ear
lier season than was expected. This
place mas been visited by all the we'll
known mining men and their repre-
sentatives, number of whom are
now interested here. In consequence
the mines are very we'll known
throughout the state and elsewhere
and the excellent condition of some
of them at this particular time is hav-
ing a good effect. Owners generally
are employing more help; there is a
noticeable influx of outside mining
men and investors lately; several
deals have been made, in which large
sums have changed hands, and con-
sidering the prominence of the prin-
cipals, the liveliest period of devel-
opment yet seen in the district is apt
to prevail.
Shipment of ore by the Ramsey
Comstock Mining company has got
ten down to a steady thing and in
increase the daily tonnage. Every
day the big team is on the road and
will be kejt going all the while. The
company is doing everything possible
to manage the mine in the most pay
ing name rand have purchased their
own teams to haul the ore. The in
vestment will doubtless prove a pay
ing one, considering that from now
-; t, hr do nj
Almost 200 feet of drifting has
been done on the big vein on levels
two and three. This is below water
level in the sulphide ores. The vein
Is showing unusually we'll in the face
of the drifts, particularly those to-
ward the north, and the ore entirely
across the six-foot face is being sack
ed. Quite little progress has been
made in the slopes, but comparative
ly speaking, only a fraction of the
large ore reserve has been taken out
Daily drifting is constantly increas-
ing it.
The company has again COM
menced sinking in the two-compart-
ment shaft and is employing three
shifts to do the work. They are al
ready thirty feet below the third sta
The best time possible will be made
in. prosecuting from the fourth level
With the rich shoots exposed few
more feet deeper the mine will be in
shape for record production.
Following on the heels of the Ram
sey-Comstock, the Walkover mine is
getting out shipping ore and has
large pile on of it sacked ready to be
sent out. The strike recently made is
proving decidedly rich, some of the
ore showing free, coarse gold on all
sides and assays remarkably high
The vein has widened until it is two
feet across and the ore from it will
run close to 5000 to the ton. This
ore body taken in connection with the
three-foot vein of $3.50 ore, uncover
ed a few feet further on, makes a
large area of high grade product for
the mine.
In a short while the company will
commence to sink to the sulphide
ores before stopping and expect, when
the mine is developed to that extent,
to uncover some exceedingly rich ore.
A hoist and other machinery is al
ready purchased with which to do
the work. The mine has the distinc-
grass roots" shippers.
The Ramsey-Ophir company is
making good Roadway with their
shaft. They are lowering on the
hanging wall of the lead and have
n fine grained quartz in the shaft that
mans big strings of gold. About
forty feet below the tunnel level has
been sunk, making the workings 100
feet below surface. They are sinking
after the rich sulphide ores present
in the adjoining Ramsey-Comstock
mine. and indications would tend to
the belief that they will not be dis
appointed. 49,
About the first of next month the
Ramsey-Bonanza company expects
to resume sinking in their two-com-
partment shaft, now down almost l00
feet. With two veins aggregatlng
eight feet, of $50 ore, and an 1888
inch streak of $1,7O0 ore, this prop
erty has a nice prospect to go ahead
on. The coarsest gold in the district
is found at this time.
The Ramsey-Goldfield company mas
exposed a rich shoot of ore on the
hanging wall of the ledge. rms
nronerty is on the west trend OF the
Ramsey-Comstock lead. A deep SHAFT
Is to be sunk, the company having
machinery to do the work; also MIL
ON the Carson river to reduce the
ores.
At the old Garavanta mine they are
running a north drift $50 feet from
the mouth of the main tunnel. they
are following a five-foot vein OF ore
that runs $25 to the ton in gold. Al
of the ores in this mine are sulphlde
in character close to surface, con
dition that is unusual in this district.
over three thousand feet of workings
are dug.
A dozen or more other properties
might be mentioned that are under-
going development, that are scat
tered all over the district Shafts
from SO to 800 feet deep are sunk on
them and several long tunnels nave
been driven. The camp now has de-
veloped mines graduating all the
way from the big low-grade propo-
sition to the surface producer OF nign