Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-01-10
RAMSEY Mines
GREAT OUTPUT

Present operations of the Ramsey
Comstock mine is being confined to
most part to the lower level. Above
that part of the mine 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 $40 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 greatest exposed
position. With every shifts end there
is in sight a drift full of rich ore and
every day more high grade is accum-
ulating 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 up
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 than
fulfilled requirements. 1t would APP
pear in every way in the lower work.
ings that the more than 40-foot wide
ledge will go down just as far as
machinery and men can uncover it,
so extensive and gold-filled are the
high grade ore bodies down there.
The ores on the fourth level are
more favorable in character for deep
lying deposits than at any other point
above. Not shovelful of high grade
| is now obtained but shows the pres
ence of tellurium, that metal SO much
in favor by mining men, who consider
| it's presence the very strongest indi-
cation of deep-lying ore bodies as
we'll as great richness. All things
considered the mine at the present
stage of its development is in the very
best shape for record production and
generation of profit-making for the
owners
Supplies of all kinds are being
hauled in and piled up around the
mouth of the shaft, so that when
the mine is again under full head
way no delay need occur because oil
delayed freight arrivals. All this
preparation for future activity makes
it appear that where a property is
genuinely rich, as this one is, no sort
of slump will prevent men from go
ing ahead and extracting the rocl
that possesses the gold.
i While the smelter conditions have
stopped the regular revenues from
shipments, it has brought about re
newed energy on the part of thu
Ramsey Comstock owners for the in
|, stallation of their own reduction
: plant. 1t has merely put this mat
ter ahead, and it will not be long be
fore plans and specifications will b
in the hands of the management TO
stamp mill that will crush the or
as 1t is taken from the mine. A mil
under operation at that property viii
place II second to none OF the gold
bearing mines of the State and vii
forever free 1t from the cxaetions q
the shelter trust
The future OF the Ramsey Com
stock mine Is assuredly most bright
When the present difficulties hay
long been past history. the grea
bodies of ore being extracted froi
thu workings OF that property will b
stendilv DrOducina aiming hrfckE a