Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1908-06-04
Mining Under
HIGH PRESSURE
WONDERFUL WORK OF MINERS
UNDER EXCEPTIONAL CIR.
CUMSTANCES.

TWO hundred and twenty tons of
ore that, according to grab samples,
will average 800 per ton, is the rec
ord of the Mohawk Combination
Leasing Company for the first days
work, and that means $4,000. says
the Goldfield Tribune
1t is remarkably good mining to
get that quantity of ore out of a shaft
where the workings have been aban-
doned for some time. Wonders can
be accomplished by miners in a gold
camp under exceptional circumstances
but perhaps never before in the his
tory of mining has lease starting
up for life of only four days been
capable of making such record,
both in regard to tonnage and gross
value of the ore.
Promptly at o'clock Monday
morning work was started and Tues
day morning at the same hour tho
reports showed that 220 tons of high
grade had been hoisted, loaded en-
cars and billed to the sampler.
The tally sheet showed that no
waste was hoisted None will be, but
hundreds of tons of medium grade
ore. as we'll as mill rock, will be lett
in the slopes and drifts. The pay
roll shows that there are IT'S miners
and top men on the list. OF this
number. twelve are working on ma
chine drills. Scores of hand steAl
men are also busy in different places
in the mine, and each one is working
as though his life depended on what
he could accomplish for the company
in the allotted four days. In places
miners are crowded together so that
it is difficult to swing hammer
squarely on the head of the drill, but
they are accurate. II there is an ae-
cidental slip and the body of an adj
Joining workman or the hammer
lands on the hands of the one hold
ing it, no time is lost in idle apollo
gies, and away they are at it again.
The muckers who push the cars and
do the shoveling are working even
harder that the miners in the Slopes,
as there can not be any accumula
ton of ore.
If such picture could be repro
duced in cinematograph it would
make a hit throughout the world. It |
is one that cannot be duplicated III
any gold or silver mining camp in
the world outside of Goldfield Only |
expert miners are employed, under
expert direction. All the ore is COM
ing through one shaft, and the little |
engine is kept up to full capacity all
the time.
Monday morning the first man was |
lowered into the mine and it was only !
twenty minutes later when the first |
car of ore was hoisted to the sur
face. Forty-six men were employed |
on that first shift, and when the other |
three shifts got to work there were
nearly four times that number All |
plans had been carefully prepared by |
Manager Fred Seibert, and as miners
were lowered below they fitted into
their places as though they had been
on the job for months. There
was not single hitch in the first
days work, and there is not liable to
be any during the life of the lease.
Manager Seibert, under whose di-
rection the work is being carried on,
said last night:
From the grab samples taken ia
The first days production of 220 tons,
the assays indicate that the ore will
average 500. Whether this average
can be maintained, | cannot say, but
we will keep trying, and if we fail it
will not be through any fault OF
mine