Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-03-30
live news FROM
CRYSTAL SPRINGS
MayhOwer.

lnbChuCuL IbOUCiL W. OlliLu
of the Mayfower Bullfrog CONSOLE
dated, is highly elated over the way
things are moving at the property.
To the Herald he said:
You bet things are going fine
since the new hoist went into com-
mission a few days ago. After all
the delays in the arrival of the ma
chinery we are thoroughly glad to
get under full sway so that no time
may be lost in sinking the combina-
ton shaft, which is down eighty feet.
Timbers are on the ground to go
100 feet, all framed and ready to
set, and we have two shifts of men
at work, making two feet a day.
discontinued, as all of the hoisting
will be done through the new shaft,
which will penetrate the ledge on its
dip and which will be connected by
a drift with the Starlight workings.
in the original Mayflower shaft we
are expecting to cut the ledge any
day. The crosscut from the 300-foot
level is out twelve feet, and it prob
ably won't take much more work OF
reach the ledge. We have recently
added six men, the combined force
of the Mayiower Consolidated and
Croesus being thirty men,"
CrOesus.
Fourteen feet of sinking was ac-
complished in the Croesus Bullfrog
shaft last week. The shaft has
reached a depth of ia feet, and the
formation is showing a decided
change. The overflow is giving place
to the rhyolite, in which the May
flower ledge occurs. If the Mayfow-
er ledge holds the same dip as it does
in the Mayflower shaft, the Croesus
will cut the ledge at about $50 feet.
BULLFROG GOLD REEF.
Work is being actively pushed on
the Gold Reef property to catch the
extension of the great Mayflower-
Starlight on a line pointing through
the Gold Reef group. The Croesus
is under the same management as
the Mayflower Consolidated, and a
shaft is being sunk on the strike of
the big ledge at a point quite near
the Gold Reef ground. The vein runs
about las and west. A tunnel is
being driven on the southerly slope
of the Gold Reef hill and will cut
the Mayf1ower ledge at about right
angles. This tunnel will also tap the
Gold Reef, a big ros ledge on the
Gold Reef ground.
The tunnel is now in 100 feet and
is being pushed with two shifts. A
blacksmith shop is being built at it's
entrance. 1t is the intention of the
company to use the tunnel for perma-
nent development on both lodges
when the Intersection is reached. The
Gold Reef promises to become one
of the big mines of the Crystal
Springs section.
Valley View.
The tunnel on the east vein of the
Valley View has exposed a width
of twelve feet of vein matter with
out reaching the opposite wall. The
lowest assay secured in the vein was
$2.t0, and better values are expected
when the hanging wall is reached
On the Penn Mutual claim the ore
oil the hanging wall went as high.
as S26.40. This indicates an in
crease in values over the last as
says, and the management has de-
cided to sink on the hanging wall.
Good paintings have been secured in
%trenching on the west vein, which is
from twenty to twenty-five feet in
width on the surface. The company
intends to sink on this ledge.
HinkIe.
The two-compartment shaft on the
Inaugural claim of the Hinkle prop
erty is down thirty-ive feet. While
the management has not expected to
catch the vein in less than seventy
five feet, the bottom of the shaft is