Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-12-05

work on the old incline shaft which
had been started by the Cliffords.
This was run some further, and at
the same time, after careful exami-
nations had been made, McCormack's
men began sacking and shipping
much of the ore that had been
thrown on the dumps. Ore teams
kept increasing until there vas final
ly a total Of sixty teams continually
on the road between Helena and
Tonopah. Returns from the plant at
Millers afforded another sensation,
for the report that that rock was
giving milling values of over 5000
per ton, nearly all in gold, seemed in
credulous. Then came wild reports
that 1t was running over $1,000 per
ton. This report was promptly de-
MED by the mine people, and it now
divulges that the actual, average
milling value of the rock from the
Broken Hills mine is something over
$3.50 per ton. Some of it goes over
$500, but we prefer to give the low
average. Since the ore teams start
ed hauling, 5000 sacks OF ore, aver
aging 1875 pounds each, or a total of
312 tons, has been shipped to the
mill, and forty tons are now sacked
and waiting to be hauled to the rail-
road. At an average value of $3.50
per ton, ore to the value of $4,000
has already been milled, while ore
worth $4,000 is sacked and wait
ing TO be shipped. How is that in a
little oven a months work?
We carefully examined some OF
the first rock which was shipped
some which is being shipped at pres
ent; the rock on the sides of tn,
shaft. and the rock which is beins
taken from the bottom of the shat
at present, 1t is ali identical. 1t il
a porphyrated quartz, and the gold /
= In the form of chloride of gold, tn,
rock shot here and there with silye
sulphides or carbonates in small
back patches.
The sides, top and bottom of tn
incline shaft, all the way to the yer
ticle. are formed Of this same rock
No walls are visible. Where the in
S cline is tapped by the vertical shat
quite a cavity has been opened nj
: it's roof some eight feet above tn
: general slope of the roof of the il
cline proper. Here a small bit of III
e hanging wall is exposed. The vert
d cal section of the shaft is now dow
forty-fve feet, and the sides and DO
tom are in the chloride rock, no wal
g yet found. The shaft will be eontil
ued straight down, and when Il
II footwall of the ledge is reache
prosecuting will be started and CO..
e tinued TO the westerly edge OF Il
Is company property. TO determine Il
extent of the ledge and to ascerta'
its true and general incline. II Il
+ ledge continues its surface slope, al
le allowing for cutting through it
rs an angle on the vertical shaft, q
ore body now being worked is son
IF thirty feet in thickness-aDd the 70
d. wall not in sight.
S, The shaft begins rear the top
y and on the westerly slope, of the h
I'd above mentioned-which is but
mound, practically, The slope of &
I'd shaft Is to the west, direct, and is
OF about a so degree angle. 1t is TO I
e. west of the Broken Hills mine, or
sn the direction toward which the /
~ ledge is inclinng, that the most
Ms the leasers are working, althou
j. there are two or three working
r. what is now called the back side,
n east side of the little hill. Furth
Is, over to the northwest several PR
er pectors are working, for clear acre
le- the district, from its northwest
le- its southeast corner, is a line
nd small hills much similar TO the q
le- around which the town of Hele
lr- centers, and to the novice giving
Is. impression of a big ledge which
he tends clear across the district.
'as the workings, with the exception
de one or two above mentioned. are
I'm the west of a line drawn along
crest of this seeming line OF hi
TO or along the seeming ledge. MI
to- seams which have been uncovered