The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1908-03-07
OF MINES
OF TONOPAH
tFrom the Miner.)

CFrom the Miner.)
That no lime is being lost In develop
ment of the Belmont company's prop
erty is evidenced by the fact that 2ss
feet of development work was accom-
plished this week. This Is opening up
the mine at the rate OF nearly three
miles of underground work a year.
hich is going a pretty good pace. Xix
teen machine drills are In constant use.
But little of the waste is hoisted to the
surface. IL being used to I'LL up the old
slopes. Good progress is being made in
the No. IL south crosscut. $50 feet east
OF the shaft on the 70o-foot level. 1t Is
now out about 230 feet. IS feet having
been made this week. This work Is
being done to cut the South. Nevada and
Occidental veins. which were exposed
on the s00-foot level. IL is expected
that the South vein will be caught with
in the next ten days. and no time will
be lost in pushing the crosscut to inter-
sect the Nevada and Occidental veins.
which are about $50 and $50 feet re-
spectively south OF the South vein.
Several ~stringers carrying small values
have already been cut.
TIE AxO
The work Of developing and proving
up the territory of this company runs
along smoothly. and ore is being ex-
tracted for their regular shipments. A
station is now being cut at the bottom
of the winxe for the s35-foot level.
about 500 feet north of the shaft. which
has reached the 2o0-foot point. and
when this is completed a crosscut will
be started to find out the value OF this
ledge at that depth and the winze con-
tinued down to greater depth. This
ledge is 40 feet wide, and should make
into a fine ore body. The east drift on
this vein on the SS5-foot level has been
advanced about 20 feet during the past
week. the face showing no material
change. except that the quartz Is a lit
tie harder and carrying low values. The
south and east crosscut on the 435-foot
level has been advanced about eight feet
since last report in a fine looking forma-
tion. carrying stringers of ore. Stopping
continues on the intermediate lever
north of the shaft, between the 800 and
400 foot levels. on the Brougher vein.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
No time is being lost by the Montana
Tonopah Mining company in thoroughly
developing its ground. In addition 10
the regular extraction of ore much new
work is being done and the showing
made must be very gratifying to the
management. On the second. or $50
foot level, drifting east on the Martina
vein continues, an advance of over 10
feet having been made during the past
week. The face is in milling ore and
the vein averages four feet in width.
Stoping continues on the vein encoun-
tered on this level on the contact, about
o6o feet east of the shaft. This is a
very strong ledge, being W 8 ana
10 feet wide and carrying a pay streak
NJ about 8 feet on the footwall. TIT
stones on the Macdonald vein. 700 feet
west of the shaft. are sending out some
ere ore. The ledge at this point Is :
feet wide and all high grade milling
rock On the third, or 515-foot level, a
dr,ft has been started from the main
crosscut about 200 feet north OF the
shaft on the footwall branch of the Mac
donald vein, and 1t has now followed
,ho ledge for a distance of 10 feet and
shows IS inches of good grade milling
ore.
WEST END
N0fhtnR OF u
developed in the West End this week.
Work on the big ledge is going on con
stant,y on the 400-foot level and the
usual amount of good ore is peihs ca
traeted.
MCNAMARA
The underground workings OF the
MacNamara continue to show up IN me
shane. The big body of ore they nave
been working on for the past month or
two shows no sign OF pinching' IN iao''
II is improving as work progresses nv
company shipped a 5o-ton car OF ore ias.
Monday another one of the same weish'
on Tuesday. and still another one tooas'
making the shipments Tor this ~eeN
total $50 tons. and as the ore VIII run
$40 to the ton. It will place a nice pai-
ance in their treasury.
jim BUTLEH
Considerable work is being done on
tho Fraction and Wandering Boy claims
of this company The east drift on the
ooo- foot level is now out $50 feet from
,he FRACTION shaft, and has followed q
,ein averaging 3 feet in width, carrying
- u,I,ine values. The west drift on
th,s same vein is out 100 feet. Tne
nor.b crosscut on the 400-foot level IL
ont 400 feet from the Fraction sha1t,
ond Is being driven to develop that Sec
t,ion of the territory.
nuxPAH ExTENsIoN
The work of retimbering and nxins
tho shaft from the 500 to the soo-foot
levels on this property has been COM
nlated and IT is the intention or the
company to resume sinking at an early
date. The shaft will be put down until
the lode p~orphyry is reached, then
crosscuts will be sent out both north
and south.
N0RTH STAR
The principal development work is be-
ing carried on on the 1,25O-foot level
where they are following the body OF
quartz encountered on the fault plane.
A distance Of about go feet has been
made. and numerous stringers ana
lunches of ore showing brittle silver
have been encountered The east DRIFT
on the Macdonald vein on the 1.05O-foot
,eve, is now out about 200 feet. This
ledge averages 3 to 4 feet in width. and
some good ore is being taken out. A
sb,nment OF $50 tons Is now being
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