The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-19
MORE RICH
FINDS IN RAMSEY
ARE UNCOVERED
THE CAMP IMPROVING WITH
EVERY STROKE OF THE
PICK AND BLAST.
SEVERAL TEAMS HAULING OUTPUT
Nevada Has just Started Up the
Mining Ladder and Will Con-
tinue to Advance.

During Cn6 past week OF ten DAYS
Ramsey district has experienced con-
siderable more activity than has been
noted since the commencement of hot
weather, and everything points to an
earlier and buster fall season than
was anticipated. The occasion for
this no doubt is strikingly improved
condition of the mines, at time with
something out of the ordinary
monthly shipments from the dis.
trict. With consequent betterment
from now on there promises to be a
very busy camp by the time cold
weather sets in
| Every day the big team that is
hauling ore from the Ramsey Com
stock mine makes the trip from there
to the shipping point, and already
has large part of the present ship
ment ready to be forwarded The
team was purchased by the company
last week, as it was found much more
economical to buy the outfit than to
continue paying hauling charges,
considering that the mine from now
ON will be sending out ore regularly.
Continued drifting in all parts of
the mine is resulting in large in
crease of ore, and it appears that re-
| filled the most sanguine expectations
and they find that they can count on
much greater tonnage of shipping
product from the mine. Stopping is
also being done regularly to keep up
the supply of ore necessary for the
daily loads that are sent out. On all
three leves they are are breaking it
down and have a good supply ahead
two-compartment shaft, which will
be lowered several hundred feet be-
lew lie the present level. Three shifts
are engaged, and they propose to
make all possible speed to the fourth
level, and to again crosscut for the
rich shoots, should the mine prove as
rich or richer another 100 feet below
the present workings it will surely
take it's place among the big ones of
the state. There is now nearly 200
feet of drifting done and they are
still sacking from the face of the
drift.
| In a few weeks shipments of ore
will be forwarded from the Walkover
mine. The recent strike made there
is remarkably rich, some of the ore
being literally spattered with gold
and assaying into the thousands. The
entire vein, between two and three
| feet wide, will run several hundred
dollars per ton, and the company is
having all the ore sacked for ship
ment.. Another vein, three feet wide,
which was struck shortly after the
tunnel was started, runs $3.50 per
ton, and quite lot of ore from 1t is
on the dump, to be included in the
| first consignment sent out.
With this mine sacking ore so soon
after active development started,
Ramsey can boast of another grass
roots shipper. They have deter
mined the location of the shoots on
the weatherbeaten outcrop, and will
stope right up to the surface on
them. The veins are now exposed
and high-grade ore being extracted
from them at depth of twenty-five
feet from the surface. The workings
are in the oxide zone. Sinking is to
be commenced at once, the company
having a hoist with which to do 1t,
and they will go down to the sulphide
ores without stopping. The mine Is
about one mile west of the Comstock,
on the same north mineral belt.
The Ramsey Ophir Mining COM
pany is going right after the rich
shoots of the Ramsey Comstock lead
and has sunk forty feet below the
tunnel level, on the hanging side
wall of it. The tunnel cut the
ledge about sixty feet from the sur
face, so that they are now down 1OO
feet. An upraise that was started
and which was driven about
thirty feet, had to be stopped for
lack of timbers AS soon as the lum-
Der arrives they will complete the
upraise and then install machinery
for very deep work. The bottom OF
the shaft has exposed very fine
quartz mine, some of which pans ex-
actly like that in the adjoining mine,
some of which pans big strings OF
gold Depth is developing some very
rich and widening ore shoots, and IL
looks very much as though they
would repeat the performance of the
Ramsey Comstock, when they get out
of the oxide and into the suiph1de
ores.
About $50 feet west from the Com
stock and on the same lead, the Ram.
sey Goldfield company has uncovered
some really high grade ore on the
hanging wall, and are getting shaped
to commence sinking. Several un1n'
terested parties have found rich ore
on this ground, and it is held in nigh
favor by miners generally. The com
pany will put machinery on It's
ground the first of the month, and
continue with their two-compartmen'
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