Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-06-06
MINING UNDER
HIGH PRESSURE
WONDERFUL WORK or MINERS
UNDER EXCEPTIONAL CIR
CUMsTANCEs.

Two ana twenty luis VI
ore that, according to grab samples.
will average 500 per ton, is the re,s-
ord of the Mohawk Combination
Leasing Company for the first days
work, and hat means $4,000, says
the Goldfield Tribune.
1t is remarkably good mining 10
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.
bat perhaps never before liz the his
tory of mining has a lease starting
up for a life of only four days been
capable of making such q 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 the
reports showed that 220 tons of high
grade a been hoisted, loadeu Clr
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 leit
in the slopes and drifts. The pay
roll shows that there are ITS miners
and top men on the list. OF this
number, twelve are working on ma
chine drills. Scores of hand steAI
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
1t is difficult to swing a hammer
squarely on the head of the drill, but
they are accurate. If there is an ac--
cidental slip and the body OF an adj
Joining workman or the hammer
lands on the hands of the one hold
Ling 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 a picture could be repro
! duced in a cin~ematograph it would
make a hit throughout the world. IL
is one that cannot be duplicated m
I any gold or silver mining camp in
the world outside of Goldfeld. Only
expert miners are employed. under
h expert direction. All the ore Is COM
ing through n shaft, and the little
/, engine is kept up to full capacity all
the time.
I Monday morning the first man was
\ lowered into the mine and it was only
! twenty minutes later when the first
q car of ore was hoisted to the sur
= face. Forty-six men were employer
q on that first shift, and when the other
: three shifts got to work there were
nearly four times that number. All
I plans had been carefully prepared BY
Manager Fred 'Seibert, n as miners
4 were lowered below they fitted into
their places as though they had bee1
!. working on the job for months. There
O was not a single hitch in the frs
. days work, and there is not liable to
3 be any during the life OF the lease.
a Manager Seibert. under whose d.
Erection the work is being carried on
said last night:
Il From the grab samples taken in
a the FIRST days production OF 22o tons,
" the assays indicate that the ore will
n average 800. Whether this average
Il can be maintained. I cannot say, but
we will keep trying, and If we fail II
n will not be through any fault OF
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