The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-09-12
From the Miner.l

25 cents per share. The work in the
mine is going along very satisfactorily
and much new ground is being broken
in prospecting and developing veins al
ready encountered. During the past
week a total of 1872 feet of new ground
were broken, pa of which were in the
Mizpah claim and las in the Silver Top.
The main three-compartment shaft on
the Mizpah claim is being sent down as
fast as possible, a progress of 10 feet
having been reported for the past week,
making the bottom now down 1,1S0'a
feet. There is no change as yet in the
formation, the workings still being in
rhyolite dacite. This work will be con
tinued until the 1,500-foot point is
reached, when crosscuts will be sent out
and the ground thoroughly prospected
at that depth. Little or no progress
was made by the drill in the Red Plume
shaft, owing to trouble experienced in
the hole. The formation now being cut
is badly broken up, caving and filing
the hole as soon as the rods are re-
moved. The bottom of the drill hole is
down 267 feet below the 500-foot level
of the shaft, and it is the present in
~tention of sending it down 1000 feet
further in order to ascertain the char
acter of the formation at depth.
Belmont
The news from the Belmont mine this
week continues Il be of a most en-
couraging kind and the improvements
noted recently still continue. Some time
ago the Miner predicted that the Bel
mont company was working in the larg-
est body of ore ever discovered in the
district, and as each week goes by the
work is bearing out our predictions.
The WINE on the big vein on the 1000
foot level, which was encountered in the
east drift from No. 4 south crosscut, is
now down 81 feet, and still there is
nothing but ore in sight, though the
workings are z feet wide and 20 feet
long, every pound from which has been
sent to the mill without sorting. 1t will
take but eight or ten days to reach the
l ,100-foot point, when crosscuts will be
sent out and the exact width of the ore
body determined. The fact that this
same ledge has been opened up along
the drift for over 40 feet, and that
these workings have proven the ledge to
be over 20 feet wide for the entire 200
feet, might give out readers an idea of
the immense body of ore that is being
opened up. In addition to this a small
raise has beer sent up and connection
made with the 900-foot level, every foot
of which was in ore, thus proving by
actual work done that if the ledge
should be cut off at the present depth,
and there is as yet no sign of it, they
have at least 200 feet of backs.
MacNamara
The past weeks work in the MacNa-
mara, while devoid of anything in the
sensational line, has been most salts
factory to the management. Through
out the several workings on the 275 and
300-foot levels the ore bodies are show
ing great strength, and the character
of ore extracted is of high enough value
to net the company a neat fgue ON
every carload shipped. The shipments
of ore during the past week are lighter
than of late, owing to the shutting down
of the mine last Sunday in order to
clean out the boiler and make some nee
essary repairs to the machinery, thus
cutting down the working time "a hours.