Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-29

The new 25-horsepower gasoline
hoist for the main vertical shaft OF
the Broken Hills mine at Helena will
arrive at that camp today, and as
the gallows frame and necessary
timber work has been completed, it
will be but a short time before the
engine is putting away. bringing the
rich ore in which the drillers are
now working to the surface. The
vertical shaft is now down 100 feet,
and no stops will be made until it Is
down 300 feet, when drifts and
crosscuts will be started from sta
ton cut at that point, and the shaft
then continued to further depth. The
vertical is now in the same kind of
ore formation as the old incline
shaft, and besides spots Of immense
~ rich high grade, vein of ore
thirty feet in width has been ex-
posed, twenty feet Of which is mill
ing ore running, on samples taken
entirely across its face, SIS to $25
per ton Some ore is being taken
out of the old incline shaft, but the
principal work will now be in driv-
ing down the vertical shaft, which
will be the main working shaft for
the property
HO mol nf hO
leasers at Helena have secured good
ore, and aside from the three big
power hoists now Ap, others have
been contracted for and will be
erected and placed in operation as
soon as they arrive, for several of
the leasers have reached a depth
where the windlass is not at all sat-
isfactory. The Florence, or Johnson
lease, just west of the main Broken
Hills shaft. has big power hoist go
ing, and has cut through some rich
stringers of ore with its shaft, ant
now 1t is daily expected that the
word will go out that the main ledge
from which the Broken Hills min,
has taken out so many tons of phe
nomenally rich ore has been reached
On block four. where the Broker
Hills Consolidated Leasing compan.
is working-this company having
leased both blocks four and five, /;
big ledge of ore has been reached
assays from which run $S7 per tor
in samples taken across the face o
the ledge, and random sample
taken from the center Of the ledg,
gave assay of $1437 per ton Thi
property is south and east of tn
Broken Hills, or Mccormack, work
ings, and is an entirely distinct ledg
from the first big ore bod
from which J. G.. Mccormack is pad
ding out his bank roll. The exten
of the ledge has not been ascertaine
as yet, for instead of crosscuttin
through the ledge, the leasers ar
paying their attention to driving tn
shaft downward. The sides and bot
tom of the shaft are in ore, save i
places on one side where hangin
wall is exposed.
The Putnam and Shay lease
equipped with 25-horsepowe
hoist, and this lease will soon be /
the shipping class, now having som
good ore. A. G. Raycraft, the fol
mer cashier of the Nye and Ormsb
County bank of Tonopah, has beeom
associated with Messrs. Putnam an
Shay, and from his long acquaintanc
with mining properties, Is enthusiast
tic over the prospects for his lease
The Helena Broken Hills lease, 0
blocks 26 and q, has reached stron
ore bodies with its shaft on bloc
20, and big gasoline hoist is goin
up there. As soon as the shaft a
tains depth, prosecuting and stopin
will be commenced and the leasel
will begin to realize on their venture
The Cahill lease is another whic
is making good, having struck al
other distinct and rich ledge. but tn
Bonanza representative was not alb
to get figures from these people Sui
day, later than what has been her,
tofore published in these columns.
All over the district can be see
dump piles, windlasses and viii
or two, and we are informed thi
there will be eight or ten pow'
HOSTS on the properties by sprin
giving the Helena district the appea
ance OF the leasing districts at Col
field and Tonopah in the early day
before the big rushes.
Engineer Lucy is on the grour
and has completed his surveys al
estimates for water pipe line from
point In the Bellehelen canyon
Helena, some seven miles away. III