The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-10-31

$50 feet, all of which is a good grade
of milling ore, with some high grade.
Jim Butler
The work of opening up the veins
encountered on the different levels
from the Stone Cabin shaft continues,
and ms progress is made the ore bodies
are showing up better than ever. This
week work was started on n new vein
on the 2e0-foot level, a few feet south
of the one now being stopped, and the
drift advanced about 20 feet. exposing
an average of 4 feet of milling ore.
Sinking of the Stone Cabin shaft has
been discontinued for the present, as
the proper depth has been reached for
the cutting out of the station at the
700-foot level. 1t is expected this sta
tion will be completed some time next
week, when a south crosscut will be
sent out to tap the veins opened up on
the 100, 200 and 400-foot levels, and
which show an average of 4 feet of ore
in all the upper workings. During the
past week a total of 81 feet of new
ground was broken and go tons of ore
sent to the Belmont mill for treatment.
Tonopah Mining
The opening up of the vast acreage
owned by the Tonopah Mining company
is going ahead with the energy which
has been so characteristic of the man
agement for some time past. During
the week a total of 427 feet of new
ground was broken, which is going at a
pretty lively gait, 25s1a feet of which
were in Mizpah and Red Plume ground
and 1881 in Silver Top territory.
When it is considered that this is in
addition to the work going on in the
slopes which furnish the big bulk of.
the ore sent to the mill, it will give an
idea of the extent of operations. This
new work is nearly all being done to
prospect and develop the ground, and
has resulted in the opening up of sew
eral new ore bodies. No progress was
made in the sinking of the Mizpah
shaft, the time being occupied in the
cutting out of a station at the 1000 foot
point, where it is proposed to install
The air hoist now being operated on the
a00-foot point. 1t is thought that this
work will be completed within the next
two weeks, when sinking to the 1900
foot point will be resumed. The shaft
is now down 1881 feet. The drill
hole, which is being sent down from
the bottom of the Red Plume shaft, was
advanced 10 feet this week and is now
down 344 feet below the 500-foot level.
West End Con.
Another rich ore body was added to
the recent discoveries in this property
this week, and from present appear
ances it bids fair to equal the big find
made in No. 2 shaft a short time ago.
When the cutting of the station at the
400-foot level had been completed, east
and west drifts were sent out into the
big body of quartz which showed spots
of pay ore all the way. At a point IS
feet east of the shaft a ~stringer of rich
ore was exposed, but owing TO the de-
sire of the management to push the
drift ahead as fast as possible to make
connection with the west drift from
the old shaft, no attention was paid to
it. The desired connection was effected
last week and the work of prospecting
the stringer started this week. A raise
was commenced at the most favorable
looking point and is now a little over
Is feet, exposing in the top an excellent
body of ore, filling the top of the raise,
which is 4 feet wide, and how much
wide the ore body is is not yet known,
all of which carries high grade milling
values.