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

shipper in Nye county. For the first
six months of 1908 the Tonopah mine
produced $1,662, SO5.02, while the
output of the neutrality-suspicious.
was $~412,232.S1. The Montana-Ton-
opah, $~271,67S.52. The total pro-
duction of Nye county during the six
months was 150,170 tons, the gross
value is placed at $2.906,455.S9.
At the Homestake mine and mill
thirty men are at work. About $10,-
900 a month is the net profit of the
mill, treating ore averaging So per
ton. Between seventy-fve and
eighty tons are handled each day.
The ore treated is principally from
the 900 and 400 foot levels and the
men are opening up bodies 0 the
200 and 400 foot levels, while the
amount in the 500-foot level is in
creasing daily. Superintendent Cad
ogan estimates that sufficient deyel-
opment has been done to keep the
twenty-five stamps busy for the next
six months. The Buffers filter pro-
cess is used.
The milling plant of the Bullfrog-
Pioneer is treating from fifteen to
twenty tons of $50 ore per day. The
main shaft of the mine is down 40
feet and will be sunk to 200 feet.
The Wine about $50 feet from the
shaft is down forty feet, giving a
total depth of $50 feet. As develop
ment proceeds values increase. AS
says are from 1872 to 500. This
property is in the north end of the
Bullfrog district about 5000 feet
north of the Mayfower.
On the Miller and Stevens lease Of
the Diamond Queen property is a
130-foot shaft with a thirty-fve foot
) drift north and two other laterals.
Much Of the material taken out is
3 tale which assays $42 gold. The
breast of the drift on the forty-foot
: level shows eight feet of ore. A cyan,
e ide plant has been installed.
g The Model mill and cyaniding
plant of Raymond Sparkling is halt
e way up the west slope of Laid noun
tain. The plant consists of si'
stamps, run by a twenty-five horse
power gasoline engine, and in thu
e mill is a complete equipment for as
: saying and turning out bullion. Their
s are two cyanide tanks each of eigh
tons capacity. For six months Mr.
Sparkling has been cyaniding screen
e ings from the big dump of the Ma
e tional Bank, on whose ground tn
mill is situated. He has average,
about 100 tons per month.
The highest grade of ore of an
IS of the leases on the National Ban
property is from the one operated b
Jack Logland. The richest come
from a stringer less than two inche
o thick. Some of the ore from tn
lease will go 500 and the remainde
: $40 to $50.
The shaft of the Tramp Cons
ie now down eighty feet and Superb
u tendent Garden states that at 10
le feet he will start lateral work.
re GOLD CIRCLE.
III A rich gold strike was recent
- made on the Great Western mine b
the owners, Storey, REEVES an
ne kHager. In the north drift there
III fourteen inches of rich ore. tt
'hi drift is about thirty feet below Il
surface where rich paintings We
made.
" Riley and Bloss made %connectic
Ae this week with their shaft on the
Isl Esmeralda lease and have a goo
grade of milling ore.
ie' Jones and Avery have complete
IA the ~fifty-foot shaft contract on Il
n Yaden-Esmeralda lease.
ip- Powers and Brennan are sinkii
'ut on their lease, near the Golden Fl
sures.
M Paddy Ryan, of Goldfeld. has q
oe- sumed the management of the Boy
DC and Ryan leases on the Esmerald
er The townsite Of Esmeralda is
ing plated about four miles fire
Ut Midas near the Esmeralda and Que
mines.
SEES On November % eight tons of hi
ing grade ore from the Great Weste
itS mine and eighteen tons from t
ec- Boyle lease was shipped to Salt Lal
Utah.
GOOD SPRINGS.
,ro The Potosi mine has 10000
m tons of S5 per cent zinc ore block
out. Six hundred tons were shipI
in October and 575 tons in Septe
Der.
The Green Monster mine, owl
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