Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-03
RAMSEY-COMSTOCK
IS DEVELOPING

Present operations of the Ramsey
Comstock mine is being confined to
most part to the lower level. Above
that part of the mine a great amount
of drifting and blocking out has been
already done, which has exposed an
immense quantity of both high grade
and what is considered milling ore.
The high grade products run from
$40 up, while what is placed on the
dumps as milling grade runs from
! $40 up to $40 per ton, and averages
about $45 per ton in gold.
For the purpose of further extend
! ing the ore reserves and to get in
readiness for much greater monthly
production than formerly, the COM
pany is at present engaged in driving
long drifts both ways on the ledge.
The work is surely proving up the
great ledge at it's deepest exposed
position. With every shifts end there
is in sight drift full of rich ore
and every day more high grade is ac-
cumulating on the dumps the pile OF
which is beginning to assume very
large proportions, now that the ship
ments have been temporarily sus-
pended
If it required thorough opening W
of the mine on the fourth level to in
sure an optimistic feeling as to the
future of the rich Ramsey Comstock
the results up to date have more thar
fulfilled requirements. 1t would ap
pear in every way in the lower work
ings that the more than 40-foot widt
ledge will go down just as far as
machinery and men can uncover 1t
so extensive and gold-filled are tn
high grade ore bodies down there.
The ores on the fourth level ar
more favorable in character for deep
lying deposits than at any other poin
above Not a shovelful of high grad
: is now obtained but shows the pres
ence of tellurium, that metal so muc
in favor by mining men, who consid
err its presence the very strongest in
dication of deep-lying ore bodies a
we'll as great richness. All thing
\ considered the mine at the presen
stage of it's development is in tn
very best shape for record productio
and generation of profit making fo
d the owners.
Supplies of all kinds are bein
hauled in and piled up around tn
|, mouth of the shaft, so that when tn
- mine is again under full Roadway n
delay need occur because of delaye
! freight arrivals. All this prepar;
7. ton for future activity makes 1t al
! pear that where property is gem
:, inely rich, as this one is, no sore {
:, slump will prevent men from goir
ahead and extracting the rock tn;
Z possesses gold.
While the smelter conditions ha'
stopped the regular revenues fro
shipments it has brought about I
newed energy on the part of the Raj
~
, sey-Comstock owners for the install
ton of their own reduction plant.
!, has merely put this matter ahea
and it will not be long before plal
=, and specifications will be in the han
of the management for stamp M
that will crush the ore as it is TAKE
=, from the mine. A mill under oper
ton at that property will place
second to none of the gold producil
!, mines of the State and will forev
- free it from the exactions of the SIM
:. ter trust
The future of the Ramsey-Col
stock mine is assuredly most brigl
When the present difficulties ha
:. long been past history the great be
= les of ore being extracted from t
~ workings of that property will
- steadily producing shining bricks
gold bullion.-Ramsey Recorder.
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oh A CLEARING HOUSE